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RUSH: This is Sunday\u2019s This Week with Stephanopoulos and the roundtable discussion. Stephanopoulos says, “This is kind of pile-on time now for the president. I want to show some magazine covers this week as well. You see the New Yorker cover right there. The president is trying to, with a huge cell phone, trying to get HealthCare.gov working. Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, ‘Can Obama Reboot?\u2019 And Forbes — this may be the most interesting one — Vladimir Putin comes up on top of Obama as the most powerful leader in the world. What do we make of this,” Jonathan Karl?<\/p>\n

KARL: The turnaround\u2019s been astounding. Think of where we are just a few weeks ago. The Republicans were blamed for a government shutdown that went on and on and it was all this, you know, “Are the Republicans doomed to, you know, extinction?” Poll numbers low and now it\u2019s all… That\u2019s over. The focus is on the president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no! And that\u2019s exactly what Ted Cruz and the rest of us were saying two weeks ago when Jonathan Karl and all the media were saying the Republicans would be doomed forever by the shutdown. We were all saying, “Oh, no, it\u2019s not gonna work out that way,” and now the 180 has happened, and every one of these people has turned out to be wrong. And Cruz and the boys were right. Move forward to sound bite number four. This is the same show, ABC News This Week during the roundtable. This is Peggy Noonan, columnist in the Wall Street Journal. And Stephanopoulos said, “So, Peggy, is all of this a lesson for the Tea Party?<\/p>\n

NOONAN: I think something big may be coming. A lot of people may be cruising for a bruising here. Big difference between the Tea Party now and say \u201964 and Goldwater or \u201976 and Reagan, \u201964 and \u201976 Goldwater and Reagan both wanted to seize and control and win over the Republican Party. The Tea Party now shows signs of not wanting to win it, but of wanting to topple it over, wanting to do away with it. That is something new in our politics. It\u2019s gonna get fought out over the next few years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, with all due respect here, I\u2019m wondering if Peggy Noonan knows anybody in the Tea Party. I mean, if she\u2019s actually sat down and talked with anybody in the Tea Party, because what the Tea Party will tell you is that they are exactly trying to wrest control of it. They are not trying to destroy it. The people who were trying to destroy anything are Peggy\u2019s friends. The Republican establishment is trying to damage the Tea Party. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening, and of course the Tea Party knows it because they feel it. So obviously they\u2019re fighting back. <\/p>\n

The Tea Party wants to beat Democrats. The Republicans don\u2019t look like they do, and that\u2019s the big dividing line. I can tell you firsthand, the Tea Party wants to beat Democrats. They want to beat back Obamacare. They want to beat back some of this spending. They want to get rid of some of this debt. The Tea Party wants to fix things. The Tea Party knows that in order to do that, Democrats must lose. And that\u2019s what the Tea Party wants. <\/line><\/p>\n

The Tea Party can\u2019t figure out why the Republicans don\u2019t want the Democrats to lose. The Tea Party is scratching their heads collectively and saying, “What is it that makes the Republicans want us to lose and the Democrats win?” That\u2019s what we don\u2019t see. Face it, folks, admit it, we don\u2019t see a Republican Party that seems focused on defeating Democrats. We see Republican after Republican after Republican without any problem trashing other Republicans like Cruz or Mike Lee or take your pick of \u2019em. But they never talk that way of Obama. They never talk that way of any other Democrat. The Tea Party wants to beat Democrats. The Tea Party wants to win. They don\u2019t understand why the Republican Party doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

I said last hour, you know, talking about this stuff with the Dolphins and cohesion and unity in the locker room. I said, “The best thing in the world for cohesion is winning.” And that\u2019s what\u2019s missing from the Republican Party is there isn\u2019t any winning. Furthermore, there doesn\u2019t seem to be any plan to win. And when it looks like some Republicans might win, if they happen to be Tea Party Republicans then other Republicans get into gear and try to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen. <\/p>\n

So everybody in the Tea Party is scratching their heads, but I don\u2019t know where this comes from that the Tea Party wants to destroy the Republican Party. They don\u2019t. They just want to wrest control of it because they want to beat Democrats. I swear, it\u2019s no more complex than that. The real curiosity here, and it\u2019s a real curiosity. I mean, it\u2019s a genuine stumbling block. It\u2019s a real mystery. Why do the Republicans not want to win? ‘Cause it sure doesn\u2019t seem like they do, does it? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Joe in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Hi. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wow, Rush, what an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been with you a long, long time, probably around the same age as you. I\u2019m smart because of you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) That\u2019s good for you. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I was gonna ask you a couple questions but I\u2019ll leave it at one quick one. You know, you say you\u2019re right. We want to see fighters up there, and that\u2019s why I appreciate the Tea Party and considering the fact that the media never gives us a fair shot, exchange of ideas, what about a dramatic strategy of just tuning them out, just completely let the unfriendly media go. Do not respond to them. Don\u2019t give interviews. Don\u2019t give face time, and when it comes to, like the last presidential election, it was so obvious, they\u2019re an arm of the Democratic Party, so why —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I agree with you, but I\u2019m gonna tell you that the inside the Beltway people think that they don\u2019t have a prayer unless they do appear on the mainstream media and unless they\u2019re liked on the mainstream. I\u2019m telling you, they don\u2019t think they have a chance. The media is everything, being liked, not being slimed, appearing on all those Sunday shows, you got to or you don\u2019t have to chance, that\u2019s the way they look at it. I\u2019m like you, I don\u2019t need \u2019em. There\u2019s nothing to be gained. There\u2019s literally nothing. I know that the mainstream media\u2019s not interested in me looking good, they\u2019re not interested in people knowing me for who I am. Why would I go there? It\u2019s simple. I know that where you were going with this is why don\u2019t the Republicans bring up some of these victims of Obamacare and put \u2019em on TV? The media wouldn\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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