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A Warning to the Republican Establishment
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April 10, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 04/10/2012 2:24:26 PM PDT by Kaslin

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RUSH: To the phones we go, Livonia, Michigan. This is Ken. Glad you waited, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.

CALLER: Yeah, thanks for taking my call, Rush.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: I just wanted to comment that the suspension of the campaign by Rick Santorum is really a sad day for America. It's a sad day for those of us that believe in America, believe in the Constitution, and want to get back to the way our country is supposed to be run. What concerns me, Rush... Now, when we look at our economy and how things fell apart, decisions made by Democrats and RINO Republicans -- moderate Republicans -- led to our country's collapse. What is gonna happen now with Mitt Romney? I mean, here's a man that clearly (just look at who has endorsed him) is not a conservative. This is not gonna be good for our country. I hope that Rick Santorum reconsiders, but if we end up having a non-conservative running for president, unfortunately this is not a good thing.

RUSH: Thank you, Ken, very much. This is what I was just talking about. I know a lot of you out there feel this way. I'm still getting e-mails. "You know, I really love you. I really like you. But you really make me mad with your constant harping at Romney." I've tried to not "harp" here. I'm always challenged by the necessity of being honest and not being misleading about anything. But I'm under no illusions here that I'm a kingmaker or any of that. I'm just telling you: I know what the high hopes were coming out of the 2010 midterms and the Tea Party and everything.

The only thing I can tell you, Ken, is that Romney came by here in January. I think it was the 13th, the middle of the month. And I met with him after the show. It was about 4:30. I met with him for almost an hour, and he left here for a huge fundraiser a mile down the road, mile and a half. And during that conversation -- I've mentioned this to you -- he said to me that he wouldn't be surprised if he ended up being a one-term president because he's got to shake things up. This country can't go the direction it's going or his children and grandchildren and nobody else's will have a future. When he was talking about that, he sounds just like you and me.

He sounds just like you and me when we talk about it. He was very affirmative in his acknowledgement to me of the threats posed by Obama and the Democrats to this country. If you had been in that conversation, you would not have doubted his conservatism at that moment. But then you would read where he has said in years past, "Look, I'm not a conservative. I'm not one of these," and you'd scratch your head. I'm not saying it wiped any of those other instances out. I'm just telling you that that day, he sounded like me. He was fairly echoing the fears I have about what's in store for this country if the Democrats are not stopped. This transformation, this belief that our founding was unjust and immoral and we've had a fraudulent country for 200-plus years.

That it's a country that was structured by the rich, for the rich, at the expense of everybody else. And everybody was just left to fend for themselves. And the Founders knew that most people couldn't fend for themselves, and that was the way that the Founders kept all the goodies for themselves and their family and others in their socioeconomic class. It was all part of the plan. (This is what Obama believes.) And that it's finally taken 200-plus years, but the evidence of the failure of the founding of this country is now clear. And Obama is the right man at the right time to finally fix it. And he's doing it by taking away everything he can from the rich that he can.

And ostensibly redistributing it and giving it to all the people that have been shafted and screwed since the founding of the country. And he's gonna do that by growing government and making it the distribution center for all that's fair and just economically and politically and socially. And Romney that day spoke and made it sound like he understood this, agreed with it, and also agreed that it has to stop. Then the other day... (sigh) What was it? I forget this. It's on the tip of my tongue here. Somebody said something offensive and Obama condemned, and Romney in five minutes joined in condemning it, too. I said, "No, no. You don't do that!" It was clearly pandering. I don't remember what it was. It was just last week.

He condemned somebody that Obama condemned because they had done something or said something. I forget what it was now. I'm sure many of you are shouting at your radio now that you remember what it was. So, anyway, now, the establishment? There are no more excuses now. Well, there are. That's why I guess I want to know what the excuses are gonna be if this doesn't go the way they have it planned. If this doesn't pan out to big-time electoral victory the way the establishment has it figured, then what will their excuse be? And I think I know. I think that if this campaign goes on and if it results in Obama winning, I think what the establishment is going to do is blame us. They're gonna blame us conservatives for once again being too rigid and too demanding and too narrow and unrealistic and all this, and telling us that we're the reason that Obama won.

"If we'd-a just got behind it," and so forth... Which, of course, will be bogus.

It was Augusta National not admitting women. That's what it was. Obama hyped on it and Romney joined in. Yeah.

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RUSH: I will just say this: If the Republican establishment is not careful, they are going to destroy themselves in the process of this campaign. If they screw this up... We've never had a better chance to win than this. If they screw this up, folks... I'll develop this more tomorrow.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gope; rush; santorum; santorumsuspends
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To: From The Deer Stand

Shame you cant see the very same disaster that would be mit romney.The only difference is skin tone.Check his record.Its what all the rest of us are judged by.why give him a pass.


61 posted on 04/10/2012 9:02:52 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I didn’t say she was missing only her corn pone pipe.


62 posted on 04/10/2012 9:56:55 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: W. W. SMITH

I would draft Duncan Hunter. the Left did him in. He is a true conservative. If you listen to what he he said he had a real understanding of what was needed here.


63 posted on 04/10/2012 10:01:09 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: chimera
"I've seen election after election where conservatives bemoan the character and quality of the candidates on our side, but I always wonder, why don't we have the perfect, absolutely pure, 100% TrueConservativeTM step up and get on the ballot?"

Because the bipartisan political/regulator class has the time and money to participate in politics for now. But the politicos--nearly all of them socialists and dependent directly or indirectly on government for their incomes--are being paid increasingly from debt.

They'll only see their vanities and continue robbing the real producers more hysterically, until they're paid only from debt (no more revenues for them). They're the favored constituents for now, but they're deposing themselves. We'll see small government after the collapse.


64 posted on 04/10/2012 10:31:58 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: sergeantdave

Funny, I seem to remember about 2 million conservatives making their way over long long distances to show up on the Mall to protest with Glen Beck.

I seem to remember conservatives turning out in droves in 2010 to take back Congress and State Houses.

Conservatives have choices at the local level:

+They can attend Church activities.
+They can attend activities with their children.
+They can stay home, blog and increase their political awareness.
+They can go to the gym or some athletic activity that increases the health of themselves and their loved ones.
+And so many other choices other than attend a local government meeting filled with mentally impaired liberals with values that are repugnant.

I went to a fair number of local government meetings and proposed modest changes to the community like bike lanes and an upgrade to the park playground. Liberals listened, smiled and did squat. They would vote year after year to send money to the local public school, not knowing if it was needed or not. Whenever anyone suggested one year that something slightly different be done, there would always be some liberal in attendance that would find a way to say ‘No’ because they could.

LIBERALS SAY NO BECAUSE THEY CAN.

In my short time in government service the safest course of action to preserve your job is to ‘do nothing’ and say ‘no’; never take a risk, never propose a change.

A government bureaucrat is a person that looks back over 30 years and says “I never once made a mistake”. Of course they never did anything either.

Attend a local government meeting filled with creepy liberal government bureaucrats who have never done anything and have mastered the art of saying “no”? Forget it.


65 posted on 04/11/2012 5:24:25 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: af_vet_rr

Good, glad to hear!


66 posted on 04/11/2012 6:42:24 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: Kaslin

Karl Rove has a pac for Romney.

What does that tell us?


67 posted on 04/12/2012 2:56:51 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Bronzy

Paul would get us killed faster than O if he became commander in chief.


68 posted on 04/12/2012 3:05:27 AM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org: Have mustard seed & I'm not afraid to use it. 2 men inherited a Bush economy.)
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To: joe fonebone

Way to build coalition, there.
Remember the compromises the founding fathers made on slavery? Over and over?


69 posted on 04/12/2012 3:10:46 AM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org: Have mustard seed & I'm not afraid to use it. 2 men inherited a Bush economy.)
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To: servantboy777

I’ve heard plenty from Texas leaders, especially the Governor and AG. Our Congressmen and Senators backed our defense of law, too.

What would you have done?


70 posted on 04/12/2012 3:16:06 AM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org: Have mustard seed & I'm not afraid to use it. 2 men inherited a Bush economy.)
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To: hocndoc

I am trying to build a coalition... a coalition that refuses to back and sponsor socialism in any and all forms.... regardless of political party... I guess you can live with socialism as long as a person with an r after their name administers it, eeehhhh????


71 posted on 04/12/2012 4:13:33 AM PDT by joe fonebone (If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil.)
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To: joe fonebone
While I disagree with you on Santorum, I agree with you on Romney.
A Primary election is still a "Primary" and should be treated as such.
As long as there is another choice, other than "TROJAN HORSE" Romney, I'll support the other choice.
That choice now is Newt.
If we nominate Romney, Romney will lose.

On another thread, WhiskeyX's analysis is very good on
If we nominate Romney, Romney will lose, intentionally!


Read this article.


The only way Conservatives will lose to the Kenyan Turd is IF the "Establishment Republicans" REFUSE to support the Republican Nominee.
Now the "Republican Establishment's" hatred for conservatives is well known.
Jon Bershad wrote about Rush's analysis of their PANIC.


How many times has the "Republican Establishment" treated us to one lecture after the other on the need for “compromise” and “patience.”?
After we elect and RE-elect the "Republican Establishment", they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail.
It may be worth it for the GOP to lose some elections - if it means that conservatives—and the country—will ultimately win.

If we didn’t know it before, WE ... the Tea Partiers, now knows that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics.

Ironically, we can thank the "Republican Establishment" for impressing this so indelibly upon us!!!
I'm fresh out of "patience", and I'm not in the mood for "compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me is a dirty word.
Let the RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.

My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none.
But my ... LOATHING ... for the "Establishment Republicans" ... is even stronger!
The "Establishment Republicans" can go to hell!

Right now, I'm supporting Newt!
72 posted on 04/12/2012 4:34:29 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: hocndoc

>>What would you have done?<<

Immediately call on the Lt. Gov./Gov along with Texas state reps to formulate legislation that would move our primary election front and center of the primary process.

Talk is cheap and frankly, talk is all I ever hear out of Rick Perry. Never again should Texas take a back seat.

It is no wonder we keep getting the Bush family politics, McCain, Romney and the like. Texas holds a huge share of delegates.


73 posted on 04/12/2012 5:43:27 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Kaslin

Presidents come and Presidents go. What we need to work for is a TEA Party Congress; especially the Senate.


74 posted on 04/12/2012 5:54:12 AM PDT by csmusaret (I have kleptomania, but when it gets too bad I take something.)
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To: joe fonebone

Do not presume that that you know what I “can live with.”

As I’ve said before, I wish that I’d had to spend the last 3 years holding McCain to his promises rather than watching Obama keep his.


75 posted on 04/12/2012 6:57:42 AM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org: Have mustard seed & I'm not afraid to use it. 2 men inherited a Bush economy.)
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