[greene66]

Amazing, finally seeing all these “behind the curtain” types who called the shots for the GOP establishment the past decade or so, and the obvious hatred they have for conservatism and mid-American values. All these scurrying creeps... Schmidt, Madden, Mehlman, Wallace. A bunch of condescending, liberal, elitist maggots who represent a whole “fifth column” of backstabbing saboteurs.

It’s astonishing how rife the GOP is with them, populating the whole corrupt beltway class, and in such positions of power, calling the shots. Just look at Rove, and his PAC designed to obliterate any opposition to his “ruling class” buddies. Never remotely thought that the Party I’ve exclusively supported and voted for my entire life would one day instill such revulsion as it does now. But it all started when I saw the backstabbing treatment given Palin. No longer have any faith or trust in the GOP whatsoever.

[cripplecreek]

December 2012 Rush Limbaugh.

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.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren