(continued because part of this wasn't in the RushLimbaugh.com article, so I transcribed it.) Because they'd [the Tea Party] embarrass them ["Establishment Repoublicans"] , or … something.
That, to many Republicans,
- the Tea Party is made up of the same KIND of ... UNSOPHISTICATED ...
and they don't really ... know WHAT we do here.
They don't really ... know HOW we do it.
They don't really ... UNDERSTAND the issues.
They're just ... EMOTIONAL ... and a ... little out of control.
We somehow got to ... find a way to CONTAIN THEM.
And I think members of the Tea Party understand this.
I know they do.
I know they understand it.
So it's now manifested itself
it's not only the Republican Party in 2010
it's not...
- Can you imagine if the Republican Party in 2010 had embraced this group?
If the Republican party had seen …
I uh … It is …
Even though I understand why, it's still amazing to me:
- A political party ACTIVELY REJECTING millions of people who WANT TO support it!
In fact, the problem is
- the Republican Party is LESS COMMITTED on things than the Tea Party is.
- if the Republican Party had embraced that group and sought to bring them in the tent
and use all that energy ... and desire ... and inspiration.
So my ...
- I always thought there was a way to replicate that 2010 turnout in 2012.
I thought it would happen.
That's why I rejected the polls in the 2012 campaign
- because I thought the 2010 electorate would come out again.
I thought they would be even angrier than they were in 2010
- 'cause things had gotten only worse.
Health care was now the law of the land,
and the debt was greater
and jobs were being lost in great numbers,
and the economy was shrinking.
What I FAILED to see was … that THEY KNEW they'd been rejected.
The party in any number of ways had let them know that … they weren't interested.
So they sat home.
- A number of them sat home.
(continued)
Now, go to 2014, midterms coming up.
There will not be a singular Republican nominee for anything on the ballot,
- which bodes well for the Republican Party,
- which means that Tea Party types will be less constrained in turning out.
- stopping Obama from totally controlling all the branches of the government.
- the Democrats are right to fear it.
The Democrats are very wise to fear a 2010-like turnout in 2014.
And that's WHY Obama has delayed by one year the implementation of the employer mandate,
- because it's nothing but albatross.
It's nothing but a negative.
They sold this bill as the panacea.
They sold it as utopia.
They sold it as the final solution,
- all anybody would ever need for finally getting affordable, cheap, plentiful health care.
and yet from the first day it was signed into law, we had to grant certain people waivers because it was actually so bad.
And now it is so bad and so punitive and so damaging,
- we have to keep delaying the implementation of it so that it does not harm the people who are responsible for it becoming law,
- i.e., the Democrats.
In a sane world, this alone,
in a sane and informed world, this act alone would lead the Democrat Party down this road to becoming a minority party.
People would see the fraud and the deceit for what it is.
- But they don't yet.
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