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Mark Cuban's Advice for the GOP
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 22, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/22/2014 12:39:35 PM PDT by Kaslin

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RUSH: Mark Cuban has got the answer. "Mark Cuban has some advice for the Republican Party: Drop the social issues. 'If I was going to give guidance to the Republican Party, I'd say, 'Stay completely out of social issues.'" He said it on CNBC today. I've been hearing that since 1992.

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RUSH: I can't tell you how many years, since 1992, that I have been hearing: "The Republican Party better get rid of the social issues or it doesn't have a prayer." And the theory, here's what Mark Cuban says. "If you stay out of social issues, then the conversation from that side will only be about economics, and business, and growing business, and ideas. It should be easy! The generation of sex, drugs, and rock and roll didn't turn out quite like we planned, right? We thought we'd be like, 'Live free. Stay out of the bedroom. Stay out of everybody's lives. Let's just focus on business.' It turned out to be the exact opposite."

By the way, there are plenty of Republicans that have stopped talking about social issues. They still get hammered with 'em. The Republicans are gonna get hammered no matter what they do. The Republicans are gonna get hammered. Look at the War on Women. There wasn't one. There isn't War on Women, other than the one the Democrats conduct. There is not a War on Women. And yet it exists. And it's not because of anything the Republicans do. It's not because of anything the Republicans have said. It was totally made up out of whole cloth.

You know, giving away ammunition is not the solution to your political problems. Abandoning 24 million voters is not the route to victory. But it's amazing how the smart people keep coming up with the same suggestion.

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RUSH: Fairfield, Connecticut. This is Farris. I'm glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us. Hello.

CALLER: I'm glad you took my call, Rush. Thank you so much for keeping our eyes on the balls. The problem is there's so many balls.

RUSH: Yeah, that's true.

CALLER: I use three crystal balls myself and have to decide, you know, between which one has two answers and which one has the single answer. You're the only one, really, who understands the truthfulness of keeping our eyes on these, what you call social issues. I'd like you to call them moral issues. And without morals, we would never, ever had a republic, and we would never have had a Constitution. And that's where we've lost it. And you'd be surprised how many people --

RUSH: Well, that's why a lot of people want to do away with the Constitution, so they can precisely get away from all this judgmentalism they don't like.

CALLER: Yeah, the morality is what's missing, and that is heard loudly by the people that I talk with, and of course the media tends to make most of us think that we're alone in this, but actually this is a winning issue for Republicans. The moral issues are the important ones. Those women who control the mind control in this country want you to think that people are head over heels for homosexual and lesbian marriages, but in fact they're not. And, quite frankly, right now, what you have is a strong push-back, especially in that voting bloc that you refer to so often as the African-American voter. These people understand right from wrong, and there is such an enormous support among my African-American brothers and sisters for traditional marriage. And we've been rolled over. And nobody more than here in the state of Connecticut. We've been rolled over by this freight train --

RUSH: Oh, no, wait. Now, I understand. The Californians have been rolled over twice. They've voted on two different occasions to uphold the morality you're talking about and a judge told them they had no right. Statewide, they have voted two times and had it thrown out.

CALLER: I understand that, but let me explain why you could be mistaken about that, and you might agree with me that we in, Connecticut, were railroaded in a worse fashion. In other words, when this movement started, the first state that was selected by Mary Bonauto, who is president of the GLAD, the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the first state was selected was the weakest state in the country, which is Massachusetts. And she could see in that Supreme Court, 'cause she knows and she knew that no electorate or no legislature would ever vote for homosexual and lesbian marriages. So she went to that Supreme Court, which is populated by seven people who have a special name in Massachusetts. It's called the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

RUSH: I have to step in here. I've got time constraints that I've gotta step in on you here, Farris, but that's exactly right. The Massachusetts court -- he is exactly right about the strategy there. But I don't want to get into an argument over who's had the biggest battle. The people of California, Prop 187, that was thrown out. The people of California, Proposition 8, that was thrown out, after they voted for it. And then people that supported it lost their jobs, even after a majority of people voted for it.

But it's not a battle of which people in which state have taken the biggest hit. Your point here, the social issues, when people stand up and say Republicans should stop bringing 'em up, they're talking about one thing. They're talking about abortion. That's all they're talking about. And they couch that as social issues. Like I say, I've been hearing this since 1992. It doesn't matter what the Republicans do. They're gonna be accused of all this stuff whether they say it, do it, or not. The solution is to not shut up about this.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cuban; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; limbaugh; markcuban; rush; rushlimbaugh; searchcuban
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1 posted on 10/22/2014 12:39:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

What other Democrats have advice for us?


2 posted on 10/22/2014 12:41:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Kaslin

Please tell me why we should not have a voice on social issues, Mark?

While you’re at it, please tell me why Republicans should keep out of social issues, but Democrats apparently have every right to bombard our culture with their rot.


3 posted on 10/22/2014 12:43:31 PM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: Kaslin

Our primary focus should be responsible spending and reducing the size of the Federal Government.
I think Conservatism and doing what is right is inner-linked. On the federal level we can focus on spending, taxation and regulation reduction. It will strengthen local leaders who will do what is right when the power is returned to them.

Leave social issues to mostly local governments and people, and focus on reducing the power and waste of the federal monster.


4 posted on 10/22/2014 12:45:38 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Obadiah

Democrats run entirely on social issues, most of them false.


5 posted on 10/22/2014 12:47:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t it be refreshing for our representatives to say, “that is a local issue, We are just hear to follow the constitution”?


6 posted on 10/22/2014 12:47:48 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Leave social issues to mostly local governments and people, and focus on reducing the power and waste of the federal monster.

Thanks for the worthless advice.

I'll bet you think Mitt Romney was a great presidential candidate as well, right?

We just watched the state constitutions of multiple states get invalidated by our judiciary where Gay Marriage is concerned and you'd have us surrender?

I wonder, do you consider yourself a Christian?
7 posted on 10/22/2014 12:48:53 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Leave social issues to mostly local governments and people, and focus on reducing the power and waste of the federal monster.

I guess it all depends on what you classify as a Social Issue, right?

Do you consider Murder a "Social Issue"?

Because Abortion is generally both considered Murder AND A "Social Issue".
8 posted on 10/22/2014 12:50:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Our primary focus should be responsible spending and reducing the size of the Federal Government.

The important point is that if we were to do this, the social issues will take care of themselves. Only a government flush with excess cash and steeped in the overweening arrogance of limitless power has the time and unmitigated gall to push a liberal social agenda.

9 posted on 10/22/2014 12:51:49 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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To: Kaslin

Cuban would be the go to guy for advice from a scumbag POS.


10 posted on 10/22/2014 12:53:26 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Kaslin

Hey Mark, I’m out!!!


11 posted on 10/22/2014 12:54:15 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Kaslin

I have advice for the GOP: Stop supporting liberals who pose as Republicans.


12 posted on 10/22/2014 12:55:20 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: jospehm20

Yeah but he has money therefore he knows everything.


13 posted on 10/22/2014 12:56:42 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: Kaslin

The abandonment of the nuclear family concept and so-called “family values” is the single largest contributing factor to the growth of government over the last 50 years.

You simply cannot separate social and economic issues, they are forever joined at the hip.


14 posted on 10/22/2014 12:57:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves; SoConPubbie

SoConPubbie, Mr. Jeeves restates what I am trying to say. We really have to get the excess out of Washington, if we are going to regain control of society. If there are some corrupt and wicked states, but a lot of really good states that we can relocate to, that is a better option than having the whole nation be corrupt and wicked.


15 posted on 10/22/2014 1:01:25 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Kaslin

Anytime a whacko leftard like Cuban brings “advice” for the GOP, the immediate reaction should be to ignore him.


16 posted on 10/22/2014 1:02:09 PM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Leave social issues to mostly local governments and people, and focus on reducing the power and waste of the federal monster.

Yeah, that really worked with the 'Gay Marriage' social issue, didn't it?................

17 posted on 10/22/2014 1:02:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Obadiah

Exactly, exactly, exactly. The left has fought a culture war against this nation for decades using the courts, but they tell us-their opponents-that we need to just surrender? Suuurrreee. I’ll take advice from my enemy, any time.


18 posted on 10/22/2014 1:02:51 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Kaslin

Got it.

We are supposed to pretend that a candidate the supports ripping the heads off babies as a civil right disqualified him or her from office.

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/photosassorted/index.htm


19 posted on 10/22/2014 1:03:57 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: garjog

Got it.

We are supposed to pretend that a candidate who supports ripping the heads off babies as a civil right does not disqualified him or her from office.

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/photosassorted/index.htm


20 posted on 10/22/2014 1:05:36 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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