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Limbaugh: Trump Built the ‘Coalition’ the GOP Claims to Want —
Breitbart ^ | February 10,2016 | JEFF POOR

Posted on 02/10/2016 5:38:19 PM PST by Hojczyk

"Trump won, the exit polls were right," Limbaugh continued.

"Trump won men. He won women.

He won every age group.

He won every ideology. Liberal, conservative, moderate, Libertarian.

Every group Trump won a majority of voters. He won among people who had gone to college and people who hadn't. He won among people who only had a high school education; he won among people who did not have a high school education.

He won every single age bracket. He won those groups by huge margins. He won men 3-to-1 over second place finisher. Women he won 2-to-1. Voters under 30 he won 2-to-1. Nearly 40 percent of those who had not attended college voted Trump. A third of those who had attended college voted Trump. This is what the Republican Party's been telling us they need to win. I've had 'em come to my office. I've told you. I've had Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)94% here, Mitt Romney's here.

One thing they've all said in common is that Republican Party can't win with Republican votes alone anymore. We have to branch out, we have to reach out. This is what they were telling me to prepare me for some of the campaign tactics that I was gonna see. That they were gonna have to reach out and immigration was one of the ways of reaching out, supporting amnesty."

But instead of praising Trump for this accomplishment, Limbaugh argues the GOP is criticizing Trump instead.

"Well, all along Trump has built that coalition the Republican Party claims to want and they're out there badgering it and bashing it," he added. "It's exactly what they claim to want.

They could have had it. The Republican Party could have had the Trump coalition. They could have had it at health care.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; elections; newyork; rushlimbaugh; trump; trumprebellion; trumpwasright
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To: Toddsterpatriot
It's been pretty silent since you asked the question. Can't wait to see the reply.

Getting tired of being lectured about the evils of derivatives by people who don't even understand what notional value is.

Government regulation and spending won't crash the monetary system but Goldman Sachs will. Wonder if these guys occupied Wall Street?

81 posted on 02/11/2016 6:56:07 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
He never did tell me if I should worry about my sports bet with a notional value of $2 billion.

I lost track of Ann when she first went cuckoo, I guess she hasn't recovered.

82 posted on 02/11/2016 7:01:36 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
He won't admit it, but your simple question made him realize he doesn't know squat about the subject he's pretending to understand.

I don't get Ann or why she went off the deep end. What compels her to offer an opinion on everything? She's become so focused on selling books that accuracy doesn't matter anymore. With guys like these buying her books and swallowing everything she says, it's no wonder she does what she does. Maybe she swapped spit with PCR.

83 posted on 02/11/2016 7:09:32 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: WTFOVR
Ah, yes, 15-20 year FReeper veterans are the trolls and newbies like you who tout a serial flip-flopper like Trump are the "real" conservatives.

OK, I give up. You caught us. You cracked the code.

Our attempts to point out all of Trump's inconsistencies and character flaws have all been part of a larger decades long effort to secretly help our GOPe overlords take over FreeRepublic.

84 posted on 02/11/2016 7:18:32 AM PST by Sideshow Bob
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To: Hojczyk

“Donald Trump has the exact coalition the Republican Party, to a man, has told me they need to win, that they need to thrive,” Limbaugh said. “And now they’re reduced to bashing it by virtue of bashing Trump. And now they’re reduced to bashing it by virtue of bashing Cruz.

The two people who are showing the Republican Party all they had to do all these past seven years, but they didn’t. They purposely, strategically, tactically refused to push back, refused to make a spectacle of stopping Obama, and they have themselves to blame for this predicament.”

Well said Rush.


85 posted on 02/11/2016 7:26:10 AM PST by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
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To: reaganaut

Cruz is currently polling around 17% nationally. Let’s say that that number holds true in Rush’s audience. Heck I’ll be generous let’s double it, 34%.

How does alienating 66% of his audience promote the cause of conservatism? How does putting himself out of business promote conservatism?


86 posted on 02/11/2016 8:00:25 AM PST by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: oldplayer

Rush is not endorsing Trump, he is just stating his observation.
Trump gathered the harvest with truths no one else wanted to address. (racist, bigot, homophobe, sexist)


87 posted on 02/11/2016 9:22:12 AM PST by steve8714 (Evidently Breitbart.com has changed their name to "not responding".)
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To: Bryanw92
So anyone who builds a coalition is Obama now?

No, just progressive populists who build coalitions of people who claim to be conservative, but in actuality are closet big government statists themselves.

88 posted on 02/11/2016 9:53:38 AM PST by LouD
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To: LouD

>>No, just progressive populists who build coalitions of people who claim to be conservative, but in actuality are closet big government statists themselves.

it amazes me how your and your fellow Cruztians see everyone as a closet big government statist. If we are deep cover moles who hid out on FR for 10+ years just for this moment, then our infiltration was done so well and so thoroughly that you can’t possibly win.

It’s not 1988 anymore. The world changed. America changed. Smart people adapt principles to the existing conditions. You just keep closing your eyes, covering your ears, and chanting “yayaya” and hoping that when you open them again, it will be 1989.


89 posted on 02/11/2016 10:09:42 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92
We don't think you're moles. We think you're delusional.

And I am not necessarily a Cruz supporter. I will support the most conservative candidate who can win. That is not Trump, who fails on both counts.

90 posted on 02/11/2016 10:17:18 AM PST by LouD
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To: LouD

>>And I am not necessarily a Cruz supporter.

LOL. I read your posts on other threads. You are a Cruztian.

The fact that you alternate between accusing us of being “closet big government statists” ( and since I’ve been here for more than a decade would definitely mean that I am a deep cover mole) or calling us stupid or delusional is the mark of a full bore Cruztian.

Your guy offers nothing to change our mind so you just make silly claims. His accomplishments are just a list of windmills he tilted at.


91 posted on 02/11/2016 10:40:04 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92
LOL. I read your posts on other threads. You are a Cruztian.

I am not so much pro-Cruz (although of those still in the race, I believe he is one of the better choices) as I am anti-Trump.

Trump is not a conservative. Trump is not a Republican. Trump is not the antidote to Obama's big government excess, and government encroachment on our lives. Trump is more of the same. Trump is hope and change, with a fence.


92 posted on 02/11/2016 10:55:46 AM PST by LouD
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To: LouD

dear louD,

I am a Nativist, proud and strong.
Alas, I cannot be a ‘white’ anything, because I am a half-breed.
I did espouse some of the Libertarian ideology, and was a registered Libertarian here in Louisiana, which lumped Libertarians into the ‘other’ can, between the R can, the D can, and the ‘other’ can.
I do believe the ‘war on drugs’ is being handled inefficiently, since no drug dealers caught on the street with the stuff on their person or possession are immediately shot and dispatched.
I do not espouse the Ron-Rand Paul foreign policy of isolationism/9-11 happened because of our involvement.

Now, if you cannot swallow that, too bad.


93 posted on 02/11/2016 11:09:38 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: LouD

>>Trump is hope and change, with a fence.

A fence is the necessary first step. Without serious immigration control, the demographic shift will end any hope for a conservative future.

Old people on SS are “big government statists”
Millennials are “big government statists”
Kids are taught to be “big government statists”
People who owe huge college debts are “big government statists”
People who are underemployed due to outsourcing are “big government statists”
The unemployed are “big government statists”

Can you see the problem here?

The government has become their livelihood, their safety net, and the only consistent thing they can see.

Now we are adding millions of poor, uneducated foreigners to the mix to compete for their welfare and for the low-paying crappy jobs that are all they can get.

Cloward -Piven has been underway for decades and is almost done. How do you plan to fix all that with a guy that mumbles and whines and can’t even write a bill that passes and is signed into law? Yes, he is a Great Conservative. But he cannot lead and never has.


94 posted on 02/11/2016 11:22:04 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: WTFOVR

Not you, not me either, but a lot of the ‘Cruzers’ did roll over.


95 posted on 02/11/2016 1:04:41 PM PST by reaganaut (Insert tagline here)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Rush has always chased ratings, to stay on top, and I don't blame him for doing so, but don't hold him up as some kind of iron-willed no-compromises conservative spokesperson -- he's in show business. He's merely saying something that is right once in a while, and much more often than Bill Maher.
96 posted on 02/11/2016 1:30:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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