Posted on 06/19/2013 4:04:24 PM PDT by drewh
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh revisited his earlier remark about the Republican Party being embarrassed of its base. In an argument pegged off the immigration reform debate, Limbaugh said the GOP is “hanging by a thread,” willing to sacrifice a few more elections due to losing its base.
“People have said the country is hanging by a thread,” Limbaugh noted. “Well so is the party. The Republican Party is hanging by a thread.”
Some do realize it, he added, pointing to the idea that “they’re embarrassed of their base and wouldn’t mind at all if the base left the Republican Party, even if it meant losing a couple of elections.” It’s either embarrassment or dislike, he said, describing the “caricature” of the “gun-toting, shotgun-shooting, tobacco-spitting crowd.”
They wouldn’t be bothered if that crowd that makes up the base left them, the radio host reiterated. But there’s one problem with that: Who will make up for them? If they think the Gang of Eight immigration bill will pick up the slack, Limbaugh said, “they have got another thing coming.”
“You cannot out-liberal a liberal,” he stated emphatically.
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You’re correct about people within the Republican Party working to destroy him.
The Rockefellers and the Romneys all worked towards Goldwater’s defeat in 1964.
I disagree. I don't hear that from him at all.
Now, I don't always agree with Krauthammer -- his economics are completely conventional and, therefore, wrong -- but I find him pretty copacetic with the base.
I think I’m technically still listed as a Republican, since I voted in my state’s primary as one last year. But, the spirit is no longer there. When the 2012 GOP convention came on tv, I no longer felt the slightest connection or allegiance to the proceedings. Only distance. And even a bit of disgust.
For nearly three decades I used to anxiously tune in and watch the whole thing. But after Bush pushing amnesty, the backstabbing treatment of Palin, and the nominations of characters like McCain and Romney, my longstanding support and enthusiasm for the GOP became something of a dead spot in me.
“about the Republican Party being embarrassed of its base..”
I’m embarrassed that RINO traitors are infesting my country. How about you maggots leave now. It’s better that you do it than leaving the arrangements to me.
I think the real last gasp of conservatives in the GOP was the 1994 elections. We even had Clinton running scared back then declaring the “era of big government was over.”
I think the conservative chemotherapy only put the cancer of liberalism into temporary remission. It came back with a vengeance.
Then you hunker down... some of us will stand for Liberty should we need to.
LLS
I agree. People like Pat Robertson and Huckabee should stick to the pulpit and stay out of politcs. Throw in James Dobson too.
They'll lose more than a couple of elections. That is, after all, what "base" means. The truth of the matter is that party leaders have become entirely intimidated by and besotted with the all-pervasive liberal culture within the Beltway-Boston-Chicago axis and personally identify more with the wealthy, ruling-class, East Coast mentality than with the citizens they purportedly represent. Given a choice they vote liberal themselves. Why try to hide it?
The caricature has so taken hold on that weird groupthink that appears to possess the Republican party "experts" that John F. Kerry's "kin ah git me a huntin' lahcense heah?" level of condescension passed by without a hint of the derision it thoroughly deserved because that's just how fatally out of touch Republican party leadership really is as well, and has been for a very long time now.
Time for a flush.
It disgusts me that clowns like McCain and Graham complain about us “extremists” while democrat policies are leading to young children being kicked out of school for pointing their fingers like guns. Nancy Pelosi is calling late term abortion “Sacred”. And McCain himself is acting as the spokesman for Obama and Al Qeada at the same time he’s supporting a border erasure bill that will cost us trillions.
-- It's either embarrassment or dislike --It's dislike. The sentiment is mutual.
Pat Robertson, and his ilk, are disgusting.
But are you suggesting that there is no place in the political process for Christians—That we’re supposed to sit humbly on the sidelines and accept what others decide?
Slavery wasn’t a social issue?
Ann Coulter told Sean Hannity (Tuesday I think) that she is behind crispie creme for 2016. Even with everything that bastard has done to the gop... she loves the guy. Just like romney. Sean told her crispie was DOA to the base... but she is a very deluded woman. Use her like a paper towel and when she goes all progressive... throw her back in the water.
LLS
LOL!
NO. It was a constitutional issue.
I have no problem with them being vocal about politics, but I don’t want them in politics making policy even when I agree.
Damned well put.
LLS
No GHWB killed it.
I like Charles too but remember... he was born into a dim family... he was raised a dim... he was a dim activist and a speech writer for mondull and jimmuh catah... and he wrote speeches for catah that trashed Reagan. He has come a long way but he does have an inner progressive.
LLS
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