{"id":10573,"date":"2013-12-18T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-18T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:43:15","slug":"will_republicans_run_this_ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/12\/18\/will_republicans_run_this_ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Republicans Run This Ad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/54841\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There is an ad running out there.  John Fund sent me a story today.  He said, &#8220;Rush, this is so great, and I know the Democrats are worried \u2019cause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2013\/12\/17\/the-ad-every-democrat-should-be-scared-of-in-2014\/\">Chris Cillizza wrote about it in the Washington Post.<\/a>&#8221;  Apparently &#8212; and this is key to understand &#8212; the Republicans are not running this ad in question.  A Republican consultant amazingly put it together, but an outside group is buying and paying for it. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>It uses footage of New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen where she says, like Obama said, &#8220;If you like your insurance, you can keep it.&#8221;  And on the screen while she\u2019s saying that, graphics note that Obama was awarded the Lie of the Year by PolitiFact for saying the same thing.  But then where the ad hits the home run is, it ends with this line:  &#8220;Next November, if you like your senator, you can keep her.  If not, you know what to do.&#8221; <\/line><BR\/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hYyMMs-WO4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/line><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great ad and I wrote Fund back and I said, &#8220;John, don\u2019t get excited.  The Republicans aren\u2019t gonna run this ad.  It\u2019s too confrontational.  It\u2019s not bipartisan.  It\u2019s not respectful.  The Republicans aren\u2019t gonna cause problems. They\u2019re not gonna say these kind of mean things.  Outside groups will.&#8221;  I\u2019m being facetious.  But I\u2019m saying I\u2019ll be shocked if the Republicans actually run this ad.  I can see outside groups doing it.  It\u2019s a great ad. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Jeanne Shaheen, she\u2019s one of these Democrats that was echoing Obama, &#8220;If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan, you get to keep it.&#8221;  And on the screen Obama was given the award of Lie of the Year by PolitiFact for saying the same thing. And it ends up, &#8220;If you like your senator next November, you can keep her.  If not, you know what to do.&#8221;  It\u2019s a great ad.  But the Republicans might decide it\u2019s not bipartisan.  It\u2019s too confrontational.  It doesn\u2019t represent crossing the aisle.  There\u2019s no compromise in this ad.  It might irritate women.  It might upset Hispanics and blacks.  And women and minorities might be hardest hit. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10669\"><img id=\"eZObject_85238\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamacareQuoteDoctor2Lies2.jpg\"\/><\/a>I was being facetious, but I wanted to send Fund a message, \u2019cause that\u2019s the impression. This woman, the caller from San Jose was making the point, the Republicans just don\u2019t have the guts to stand up for themselves and run ads like this. &#8220;Too confrontational, oh, my gosh, might make people mad.  We don\u2019t want to make people mad.  We\u2019re not trying to be partisan here or anything.&#8221;  There\u2019s a gold mine of ads that could be running now.  There\u2019s a gold mine of things Republicans could be saying now to take advantage.  And they are not. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to play you the audio of that Jeanne Shaheen ad, because I have it here.  It\u2019s in New Hampshire.  This is an outside conservative group running the ad, not the GOP.  The GOP is not running the ad.  John Fund sent me this note about this ad. He\u2019s all excited about it. &#8220;Ah, Democrats are scared to death.&#8221;  Why?  Republicans are never gonna run this.  It\u2019s too mean, too mean-spirited, too extreme. The Tea Party would like it too much.  So it\u2019s an outside conservative group that did the ad.<\/p>\n<p>EndingSpending.com is the PAC.  Republicans don\u2019t believe in that. It\u2019s based on the latest budget: EndingSpending.com. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s entitled, &#8220;Like Your Senator?&#8221;  Here is the audio of the ad.<\/p>\n<p>ANNOUNCER:  On health care, Jeanne Shaheen didn\u2019t tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>SHAHEEN:  You can keep your insurance if you like it!  It will increase choices for families! It will promote competition!<\/p>\n<p>ANNOUNCER:  The facts: More than 20,000 New Hampshire patients have had their coverage cancelled, and Obamacare offers only one insurer on New Hampshire\u2019s individual market.  So next November, if you like your senator, you can keep her.  If you don\u2019t, you know what to do.  (Ending Spending, Inc., is responsible for the content of this advertising.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11017\"><img id=\"eZObject_85240\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamacareQuoteDoctorPIX.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH:  Now, Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post (&#8220;War-shington&#8221; if you\u2019re Newt Gingrich or from Rio Linda) writes that every Democrat should fear this ad, and they should.  I mean, the ad is great, poignant. It\u2019s a home run. It\u2019s a grand slam, and the Democrats are freaking out over it.  But the saving grace is &#8212; and I am not being facetious.  I\u2019m not trying to be funny.  I would not be surprised if the Republicans find this ad too confrontational, too mean-spirited.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll call it an &#8220;attack ad.&#8221;  Remember, the Republicans still believe that the way to win elections is to show that they\u2019re willing to cross the aisle and work hand in hand with the Democrats in a bipartisan, non-confrontational way, and when the Republicans learn that an outside conservative group did this &#8212; one that maybe has ties to the Tea Party &#8212; that\u2019ll turn \u2019em off on it.  Now, I\u2019m not predicting that, \u2019cause I\u2019m hoping nobody could be that stupid.  But I won\u2019t be surprised if they end up being that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There is an ad running out there. John Fund sent me a story today. He said, &#8220;Rush, this is so great, and I know the Democrats are worried \u2019cause Chris Cillizza wrote about it in the Washington Post.&#8221; Apparently &#8212; and this is key to understand &#8212; the Republicans are not running this ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will Republicans Run This Ad? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/12\/18\/will_republicans_run_this_ad\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Will Republicans Run This Ad? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: There is an ad running out there. 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