Mark Cuban's Advice for the GOP

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

And the concept of the nuclear family won’t be restored by increasing the power of the federal government to encourage or enforce nuclear families. Only decreasing the federal governments role in our lives will force us to live with the consequences of bad decisions.

Only decreasing the federal governments role in our lives will force us to live with the consequences of bad decisions.

Absolutely. And that's where the Sandra Fluke's of the world come from. They want that permissive society and they want government to pay for it.

But let’s say I want to cut all Federal Funding for abortion.

Is that an economic, or a social issue, or both?

Cuban is a fat, liberal punk. Let’s trade his Dallas Mavericks basketball team for a Girl Scout’s cookie table at Wal-Mart.

Clearly it’s both. One of those issues is a question for the government (should the government use its power to force individuals to pay for an individual’s poor choices) and one is question of individual integrity (would I murder my own unborn child). If a large number of individuals are willing to do the latter, your society is so depraved that its destruction will not be stopped by the correct answer to the former. Government can effectively refuse to pay for abortion. The government cannot effectively change an individual’s heart if that individual is willing to murder her own child.

Taxing is the role of the government. Spiritual renewal is the role of the churches, the faithful and the individual.

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