Posted on 11/08/2012 12:48:05 PM PST by NYer
RUSH: So three million Republican voters stayed home on Election Day. Three million predominantly white voters stayed home. The media is all over the place with the fact that the Republicans lost "the white vote." They can't get the white vote. They did lose the white vote, but Democrats didn't get it. They just didn't show up, and it wasn't voter suppression that didn't turn 'em out.
What would be the reason that three million voters didn't show up? Let's go through the possibilities. It could be that there are a number... We've talked to 'em. We've had 'em call. We got 'em, in fact, on hold. A number of Republicans are tired of moderate nominees. They've sent the Republican Party money for years and said, "To hell with it. If you're gonna eschew conservatism, I'm not giving you any money, and I'm not voting for you."
We've heard them call here and threaten this, and never believed 'em. May be. We could also have some evangelicals in that group that said, "You know what? I'm tired of the Republicans not reaching out to me. I'm tired of making fun of me. I don't like Mormons." Who knows what it is? You could have any number of reasons why these three million don't show up, but they are the difference.
If these three million had voted, Romney's popular vote total would have beaten Obama's by 180,000. I don't know what it would mean Electoral College yet, that hasn't been analyzed, but this was not an election lost because of demography. It wasn't an election lost because we lost the women vote or Hispanic vote. We didn't turn our vote out. It's just that simple.
Could it be, ladies and gentlemen, that three million Republicans sat at home because they didn't see enough of a conservative campaign? These are the things that have to be pondered while the party beats itself up over amnesty and single women and contraception. But I'm just gonna tell the Republican Party right now: If you think that the only reason you're not winning presidential races is because you're not for amnesty and 'cause you're not for abortion...
If you change to that, if you moderate or modify your positions, you're gonna cease to exist because those who are with you are gonna abandon you. I'm not... (interruption) No, I'm not trying to sound threatening. I'm trying to be helpful. In fact, that's my middle name. That's all I ever try to do is help, anybody. I always said this was gonna be a turnout election. Now, I don't want to be misunderstood, either.
I'm not saying that the Republicans couldn't do a better job with some of these minority voters, but you better understand why they're not voting for you. In terms of the Hispanic vote, it is not because of immigration policy. Hispanics are voting for Democrats because of the same reason any other people vote for Democrats. They're the party of free stuff. They are the party of Santa Claus.
Boy, folks, I can't tell you the grief I'm getting from the left over that comment. It must have hit home. Because everybody understands that. You don't need a position paper with all kinds of footnotes and stuff to explain the Democrat Party. Just say, "Yeah, Santa Claus. We're outnumbered by people who vote Santa Claus." And it's like a veil has been lifted and they want to close it. They don't like us to see it that way.
You think I'm exaggerating? Under Obama, the welfare rolls in this country increased by 32%. Food stamps? There was a 71% increase in the number of people on food stamps. We can't deny what's happening here, to and in our country. Bear in mind Barack Obama removed the work requirements from both of these programs. I'm gonna say this again so that nobody thinks I'm just glossing over it, 'cause I happen to think that it's important.
The Republican convention.
You look at every minority that we put in a prominent role at that convention. Every one of them, every one of them had reached a pinnacle of their chosen careers. They were brilliant, articulate. They were dyed-in-the-wool conservatives. They were great representatives of the American way, and they all had a common story. They all achieved what they achieved, and they did it by hard work.
Every one of them had an up-from-nothing story. I'm sorry if you heard this yesterday and you think it's repetitive, but it needs to be said over and over, because there are lessons to be learned from this. Because after that convention... I heard people on Fox yesterday saying, "Why didn't it work? Why didn't the Republican convention work?" Doug Schoen said Republicans didn't show inclusiveness.
"Why didn't it work?" is a great question. Why don't Republicans...? Marco Rubio, Allen West, Mia Love, Clarence Thomas. The list of highly achieved, accomplished, great-moral-character Republicans who are minorities is endless. Why doesn't it attract any of the black vote? Why doesn't it attract any of the Hispanic vote? There's a reason. There are answers to this.
Why doesn't it work?
You gotta have courage to face the truth of the answer. Under Obama, welfare rolls increase by 32%. Food stamp participation shot up 71%. There are 47 million Americans on food stamps. Obama strips the work requirement out of both. We have 23 million people unemployed in this country. They all have, for the most part, a telephone, a place to live, a flat screen, a car, and they're eating.
That's not the way people lived on unemployment, say, in the Great Depression or say in the 1970s, even. You had to find a job if you wanted those things. You don't have to now. And when a party presents hard work as its route to success and the other party's presenting Santa Claus, what is going to win? Santa Claus is free stuff. The other side is stuff that you work for and earn. This is where the country is. It's not sour grapes.
This is an honest appraisal of where we are, and we are slowly becoming outnumbered in this way by these demographics, which count. As to immigration, again: We are not not getting the Hispanic vote because of our immigration policy, because Hispanics are not voting for Democrats because of their immigration policy. That is not why. Why do the unions not oppose illegal immigration? Because their jobs are not threatened by it.
And why is that?
You can answer that yourself.
The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass. It needs an underclass of people who aren't working, who get the benefits from Santa Claus so that the Democrats will continue to get a decent number of votes from that voting bloc. And as people start working and become self-sufficient, they need the Democrat Party less, and so those people -- if they abandon the Democrat Party -- need to be replaced. Hello, illegal immigration.
Folks, it is what it is.
We didn't lose the election on Tuesday because we're pro-choice or pro-life; we did not lose the election because single women hate us and don't like us. That's not why we lost. We might not be getting a majority of those votes, but when three million of our own people don't show up, it doesn't matter who on the Democrat side we're not getting. I want to take you back to this program and me on January 6 of this year.
We were in the middle of the Republican primary. And at the time, the Republican/conservative media was talking about "electability. "Who are we gonna nominate? Who can win?" I raised my hand, and I said, "You know, the Democrats did this. Remember back in 2004, going into Iowa, they thought Howard Dean was the nominee." He was leading every poll.
He clean it up, and in Iowa he got wiped out. The Democrats panicked, and they went to John Kerry, because they said, "Well, of the people we have left, he's the only one who's electable." And what happened to him? So let's go back, shall we? Because I want you to listen to this knowing that there are three million Republican voters that stayed home. They didn't vote. We don't know why yet. All we can do is speculate.
RUSH ARCHIVE: It's time to strip this bare. I have just alluded to this. I'm gonna tell you again. This whole business of "electable," I've been hearing about it for weeks, months. We all have our circle of friends. I too have a circle of friends. Contrary to what you think, my circle of friends are no smarter than you. They're no smarter than anyone else. Just because they're my friends doesn't mean they're smart.
They're not stupid, but I'm saying is they're just like anybody else. This is the point. That's a good thing. I get frustrated at this "electability" business. That's how the Democrats chose John Kerry, by the way (who served in Vietnam). When Howard Dean failed in 2004 in Iowa, they panicked. "We've gotta get somebody who can win!" They thought Kerry could.
This "electability" reason to nominate somebody is flawed from the get-go because the reasons that people think somebody can win are flawed, as evidenced by what I just told you. Let me tell you something, folks: I wouldn't have one ounce of doubt about Rick Perry. I've been hoping Rick Perry would catch fire, but I have people in my sphere who don't want to vote for Perry (and largely they're women) because he sounds too much like Bush. He's too stupid. He's too hesitating in his speech and Obama will clean his clock in a debate.
I look at 'em and I scratch my head.
"Have you looked at what he's done as governor? Do you looked at what his tax policy is?"
"I don't care! He embarrasses me."
"Okay, fine. Let's move on. What about Santorum?"
"Too extreme. Cares too much about abortion."
"Okay, let's see... How about Cain?"
"He can't talk, either." This what people around me say. "He can't talk either."
"Okay, what about Bachmann?"
"She's too shrill, she's too short, she's a woman! She's only been in Congress for five years. She doesn't have a prayer."
"Okay, write her off. What about...? Let's see... How about Huntsman?"
"He's a phony! Plus the guy worked for Obama. He was ambassador to China! Come on. Let's be serious. This guy's not a conservative!" You get to Romney and these people all said, "Now, there's a guy who sounds smart. He's seasoned. He's been at this for a number of years. He's composed, he looks good and he could beat Obama in a debate."
And in every one of these instances, folks, what's been frustrating to me is not one reason rooted in policy has been cited as a reason to support or not support somebody. It has been very frustrating to me to see how surface -- how "undeep," if I may use that term -- people are about this. I know why it's the case, but it still burns me.
RUSH: That's January 6th of this year. I was recounting my frustration listening to my friends tell me why none of the Republican nominees had a prayer, why they wouldn't support them, and in no instance was anybody rejected because of policy. And in no instance was anybody supported because of policy. It was all about who they thought could and could not win.
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RUSH: Livonia, Michigan, here on the Rush Limbaugh program. Ken, great to have you back. I know you've been on the program before. You're the only guy -- no, there's a woman from Livonia that calls, too.
CALLER: Well, Rush --
RUSH: So I know you've been here before.
CALLER: Yes. And I appreciate it. I appreciate you took my call. Rush, the establishment Republicans just don't understand us voters out here. Now, I'm a conservative, I'm a constitutionalist, I believe in the traditional view of marriage, and I'm also pro-life. I've always voted, up until now, Republican. But I'm telling you, Rush, and I'm telling all those Republicans out there that don't get it, I will not vote for another moderate. If you want to lose my vote, all you have to say is, "I'm willing to reach across the aisle."
RUSH: Can I ask you a question? I want you to be very honest with me on this.
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: This is not a trick. This is for my own edification. I noticed, I pointed out to Kathryn, the last two weeks of this campaign -- it might have been the last three weeks -- but Romney started focusing on and using that phrase, "Reaching across the aisle." Now, were you with Romney at any point in this campaign and then decided not to vote, or were you always opposed after Romney got the nomination?
CALLER: I was opposed to Romney because I knew he was a moderate from the beginning. I knew not only Romney, but other Republicans --
RUSH: How could you do this, though, knowing full well what the alternative was. Mitt Romney isn't the problem. Mitt Romney would not have been the problem. How could you essentially vote for Barack Obama?
CALLER: I did not vote directly for Barack Obama, but I understand what you're saying. I cast a vote, Rush, I knew my candidate couldn't win for the Constitution Party candidate only because there again, what do the Democrats have to offer? The destruction of our country because they're statists. Now, if you're gonna tell me you're a Republican candidate, that you want to reach across the aisle, you, like John Boehner, want to go and play golf with the president, I can't support you in that case, Rush.
RUSH: No matter what?
CALLER: No. Because we've seen the destruction to our country that has occurred, and --
RUSH: Yeah. We have and you know, you know now, we got four more years of it, or at least two. This could have been arrested. There is no comparison, Mitt Romney to Barack Obama. Look, I know you're part of the three million that stayed home, and I understand the principle involved. I do. Let me ask you, and there's no way you can know, I just want your opinion. Of the three million Republican voters that stayed home, do you think most of them are like you, that they are just dissatisfied that the Republicans nominated what you thought was another moderate?
CALLER: Yes. I really believe, since from our point of view, the moderate is not going to fix the problems that our country needs to have fixed, but continue along the same lines. Yes, I think that as long as --
RUSH: Romney did not want to continue these policies on jobs, government spending, and all this sort of stuff. Did you not believe him when he said what he said about creating jobs and reducing government and so forth? You didn't believe him?
CALLER: Well, Rush, the last four years, for example, every time the debt ceiling was hit, the Republicans, unfortunately, voted to raise it again. We need to get conservative Republicans in Washington. And if the Republican Party wants the vote, the support of conservatives like myself, they've gotta get conservatives to run. If they don't want to win the White House, if they don't want to control Washington, then just keep doing what they're doing.
RUSH: So you engaged in a protest vote, essentially, and you did so in sufficient numbers that you have secured the reelection of somebody truly destructive of the traditional, as founded, American way of life. How do you live with that?
CALLER: Well, because I feel --
RUSH: Because you're you making the perfect -- it wasn't on the ballot this year, the perfect wasn't on the ballot.
CALLER: Well, Rush, I think that the way the three million people looked at it, a moderate Republican will still lead our country over the cliff. Not as quickly, not as fast, but over the cliff. If we're gonna be going over the cliff at a hundred miles an hour, which is under Obama, or 70 miles an hour, which is under a moderate Republican, we're still going over the cliff.
RUSH: So you just want to get it over with?
CALLER: Well, I want us to get the Republican leadership to wake up, and we've gotta get conservatives.
RUSH: Ken, I hate to tell you, but that's not the message they're taking from this election, as you know, if you've been listening to the program today. They know that three million didn't show up. If they come to believe that the three million didn't show up because they don't like moderates, they're just gonna get mad at you like the Democrats get mad. At least what I've seen so far on TV, and read, and is coming from the so-called conservative media, the Republicans think they goofed up by failing to get the Hispanic vote and the single women vote. They think they goofed up on the demography side, which tells me that you're gonna continue to be pretty unhappy with the direction they go.
CALLER: Well, the establishment of the Republican Party has unfortunately been in Washington too long --
RUSH: Well, I'm just gonna tell you, look, I understand what you're doing, but you gave us Bill Clinton, and now Barack Obama. Your vote is your vote. I understand. I saw this figure, I saw this three million didn't show up. I saw it yesterday morning. It didn't register. I even mentioned it at the beginning of this program. It didn't register 'til last night when I compared it. Had you guys all shown up, Romney would have beat Obama, popular vote, by 180 thousand. Those are hard numbers, real hard numbers. I don't know what it would have meant Electoral College-wise. Anyway, I gotta go. Ken, thanks for the call. Back after this.
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RUSH: If there's a 70% chance of curing your cancer, but you hold out for a hundred percent, is that what you would do? Or would you go for the 70% chance? Takes all kinds.
I get where you’re coming from. I voted for Romney and I wanted him to win, but at the same time I wasn’t expecting much from him even if he won.
The way I see it we’re headed off a fiscal cliff at 80 MPH. Romney might have slowed it down to about 40-50 MPH, but we’d still be headed off the cliff. Now that Obama has won and has more flexibility he’ll probably speed it up to 120.
The ETA may be in doubt, but the destination is not.
“Oh sure. Marco Rubio who thinks Republicans should address illegal immigration?”
How does he think it should be addressed? We need to close the border with Mexico. No border, no country.
If Rubio supported that, I would support him.
If Rush Limbaugh is correct, the border jumpers are coming here to hop on the gravy train, not to carve out a better life in the “Land of Opportunity”. The ones who are already here need to understand that continuous unfettered illegal immigration will cause the welfare ship to sink and eventually cost them their own government benefits. Rubio would make a good messenger of truth to the Hispanic voters (legal and probably illegal as well) who went 75% for Obama.
The RNC is just waiting to get lucky so they can have another turn at the helm.
And that's not just my Opinion!
However, I do have an important question. Do we really know for certain that the conservatives didn't show up? Because I suspect cheating more than no-showing. Too many reports of long lines to vote. Most of us have a great deal more sense than the caller who's tired of moderates.
This is what happens when in 4 years you add 13 million to food stamps and a couple of million more to disabilty rolls. 15 million votes is alot of a headstart to overcome.The House must defund the welfare funding or no amount of tv ads and organizing will win.
The answer to me seems pretty obvious. You are looking at a real lost generation. You don’t smile a 40 million dollar smile and flash your shiny successes to inspire your troops. You go out and offer solutions, not a hearty supply side pep talk about making us great again. The core of the Republican party is full of walking wounded taxpayers. Go out and tell them you aren’t forgotten - over and over. Tell them Obama put them in chains, but instead of lavishly-paid bureaucrats getting all the perks paid for with every red cent left in the land, you’ll do a little redistribution of your own - out of their hands and back into the States where the conditions for production is being met, not to States like Illinois who steal votes and cash alike, overtax their businesses and reward failure. Speak to the essence of the hatreds that must be boiling under the skin of the forgotten ones. Speak to the hot center that must be there.
I carefully listened to the debates. HOW MANY TIMES did Romney say “I agree with the President” or “The President was right when he...(fill in the blank).
How many times?
When you can’t tell a “moderate” republican from an ultra liberal democrat, then that republican is NOT going to get m
my vote.
If I vote for someone in a party other than democrat or republican, than that individual just isn’t going to win due to how our voting system is structured. It’s worse than wasting a vote as the effect is the same as not voting at all.
I’ve been a registered republican for over 30 years. This year I registered as an independent. Why?
I can’t tell a republican from a democrat on enough key issues to actually make a difference.
Presidents don’t seem to know what their job is any more. Presidents don’t make jobs, business people do! So when a president or contender stands there and tells me he’s going to create XYZ jobs, he’s lying. I don’t vote for known liars.
When a president or contender says HE’s going to raise taxes on this group or that, he’s stepped out of bounds. It’s CONGRESS’s job to initiate taxes, not a president’s job. So when a president or contender tells me that he rules congress and controls [i]their[/i] vote, he’s telling me he’s corrupt. And so is congress for buying into it, abiding by it and not doing THEIR jobs.
Anymore, both parties are globalists. That means that American sovereignty is down the tubes. It means that BOTH parties are nothing more than sock puppets. Each is controlled by the global agenda. I expected the Democrat party to be that corrupt as it’s the party of amoralism. But now that the Republican party has lost it’s nerve and sidled up to the democratic agenda, there is absolutely NO point in voting for a republican any more.
They sold us out by not adhering to what they preached over the last several years. Putting a wishy-washy, stammering man in the republican slot, a man who couldn’t answer the tough questions with specifics and in detail, who could not and would not level with those whose support he was requesting was the icing on the cake for me.
The republican contender lost my vote during those debates because it was painfully obvious to me that he was not, and is not, a republican or a leader. He might be a very nice man, a wonderful husband and father, but from my eyes, he’s not a president.
And that’s just the beginning.
I don’t like the platform of the democrat party, or it’s idologies, but I will give this to them: They adhere to it. By comparison, Republicans lack commitment to the nation, and to the people.
Just my opinion, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there are a few million others who share similar sentiments, and who either did not vote, or voted for an alternate party.
Big talk, but we still lost our frigging country.... and we may NEVER get it back.
While you may take pride in thinking that you didn’t lick a boot, you are now eating the enemies filthy socks.
NOBODY with ANY argument is going to convince me that giving Obama the election and thus the ability to continue to wreck our country and ruin our lives, was a good thing, period.
Zactly!!!!
I posted my thoughts on this last night and had to listen to all the intellectually hollow posters claim there was this national scam and theft of our votes.
Not one ever considered just how friggin massive that fraud would have to and the sheer number of people who would have to be involved.
People get giddy when they think they’ve pulled off some great scam and they open their mouths.
Where are those people and who were their leaders?
Consider that the vote is not some amorphous thing that happens automatically. There are very real human beings in the checks and balance of this process and many last night were asking me to think thousands and thousands did this???
Really??? Across what 5,6 states??? there are that many dishonest people and everyone knew better than to talk?
1. To all those who couldn’t vote for a Mormon: You reelected an incompetent muslim America-hating commie. Feel better now? Romney would have been a weak president but far better than what we are stuck with. You also reelected Holder, Big Sis, Clueless Joe and the whole hee haw gang. The Supreme Court will be dominated by leftists (although we may not notice the change on that one). Once the boomers start retiring in droves, SS and Medicare will be destroyed. Taxes will be raised on all of us - the rich will shelter their wealth, guys like me will be taxed into poverty. Thanks.
2. Don’t underestimate the effect of the Obama-led twitter noise about riots if he lost - a lot of weak people who live near black communities were afraid to vote so they stayed home. They were afraid for their families and homes, so it’s somewhat understandable, and it cost Romney thousands of votes as a minimum. It cost Obama nothing to set up.
3. Vote fraud in the inner cities was rampant and turned the tide in the big cities in the swing states. They can generate as many votes as they need in these precincts. The only way to stop it is voter ID laws, enforcement, and enough real live Americans voting that cheating won’t be enough.
Rush and the rest here seem to be going off election night totals which are incomplete. There are still votes being counted. Romney is going to end up surpassing McCain’s 2008 popular vote number and Obama will end up under-performing 2008 by about 2M votes. Still enough for about a 3% margin of victory. Some 2008 Obama voters sat out, but the Dem turn out machine replaced them with new voters from their core demos.
I’m right there with you and this whole business of the election being stolen is just so Al Gore.
Bottom line is GOPe and RNC gave us a crap product and I can see how
People would decide “Yea, I ain’t buying. You need to do some R&D and improve the product. This rev. Sucks”.
And I wanted him/her to explain the comment.
Fair enough?
Sure is.
Extremely well said.
Also very true.
The entire Paul agenda does not have to be taken wholesale, but there are a lot of votes to be had by taking the stuff he is correct about and trumpeting it.
The youth vote is out there for the taking. All the cool kids are Paulians. We need to figure out how to tap into that pool of voters. Taking some of the Paul stuff and crediting him for it would go a long way.
The 'discouragement' was happening here - for almost a year. It may have worked and worked well.
This makes me really upset. Romney was not my first choice, not even my fifth choice. But he was still a far sight better than Barack Hussein Obama (mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm). I have a disability. It is painful to walk on both of my knees, and there was a very long walk from the parking lot into the gymnasium where I had to vote. But doggone it, I took my cane and I kept stopping and resting all the way in and all the way back, and I cast my vote. And these people stayed HOME?????
Anyone who voted for Obama, and anyone who didn’t vote, deserves the government we end up with. But the rest of us don’t. Yet, we’re being flushed down the toilet right along with them.
>Christian conservatives are the Republican base and they are not going to vote for a liberal and some included being a Mormon in their decision.
I’m sure they are very proud of themselves...just like the muslim scum are so proud and ready to die for “the cause”.
The only difference between an islamist enforcing their religious beliefs and the Christian conservatives enforcing theirs is death by action and death by inaction.
Common sense isn’t.
Once. Now tell me how many times Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor have voted with Roberts.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/91013/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-liberal-voice?page=0,1
Sotomayor has exhibited a similar style in her written opinions. Last term, for the first time ever in a Supreme Court opinion, she used the phrase “undocumented immigrant,” rather than the term “illegal immigrant,” which the Court had used many times previously. Lest that be perceived as an accident, Sotomayor used “undocumented immigrant” several times again during oral arguments in a later case, even while her colleagues used “illegal immigrant.”
It is still early in her tenure, but these are all good reasons for liberal constitutionalists to feel encouraged by Sotomayor.
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