{"id":11288,"date":"2013-09-26T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-26T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T18:24:29","slug":"the_lesson_of_scott_brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/26\/the_lesson_of_scott_brown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson of Scott Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: What do you bet that a lot of Peter King\u2019s constituents are calling his office asking him to support Ted Cruz, and what do you bet that irritates Peter King? Here\u2019s the thing about this, folks. Well, one of many things, actually. Have you noticed that the Republican Party has a — oh, I don\u2019t know — call it a weapon, if you will, that it wields against its own voters. What they say to the base is, “If you guys do this, we\u2019re gonna lose in 2014,” or, “We\u2019re gonna lose in 2016, if you don\u2019t help us support us or help support us on amnesty or whatever it is.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re gonna lose.” They always put it on us, and my opinion is, we\u2019re the only reasons they win when they do. This is what they either don\u2019t appreciate or don\u2019t like or don\u2019t even understand. But the Republican establishment not liking its conservative base isn\u2019t new. They didn\u2019t appreciate or like Reagan in the eighties. Now, when he won big, you know, success has many fathers. Everybody wanted to be in that light. Everybody wanted to be in that aura.<\/p>\n

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But behind the scenes, they couldn\u2019t wait for Reagan\u2019s term to end so they could get their hands back on the levers of power. The establishment\u2019s the establishment. Conservatives are small government, limited government. The establishment\u2019s pro-big government, no matter what party. It\u2019s where the money is, it\u2019s where the power is, and they don\u2019t want any part of limiting it. They just want to trade running it with the Democrats now and then. I\u2019m sure they understand this, but they reject it. <\/p>\n

This is where they don\u2019t take us seriously. Remember Scott Brown? Scott Brown was, for a brief moment in time, a Republican hero to the conservative base when he had a legitimate shot at winning the Senate seat that been held by Ted Kennedy for decades. The reason he was a Republican hero was that he was campaigning very effectively and very persuasively against Obamacare. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party base has opposed any form of socialized medicine forever, no matter whose it was, no matter what name. Whether it was Hillarycare or Obamacare, the Republican Party has always opposed it, wanted no part of it. The Republican Party was unified in defeating Hillarycare. The Republican majority in the House was a conservative majority that swept to victory for the first time in 40 years in 1994. It came off 40 years of Democrat control and a bunch of scandals that the Democrats were in charge of and benefiting from. <\/p>\n

There were a lot of things that came together and the Republicans ended up winning the House for the first time in 40 years. They had a conservative speaker, Newt Gingrich, and a conservative leadership. But they kinda got off track because they assumed that their victory meant the country had gone totally conservative. It\u2019s not what their victory meant alone. It was not just that. So they “stopped teaching it,” is the way I put it. <\/p>\n

They stopped explaining principles as the reason they were doing things, and thus the education, the ideological education of the American voter ceased. And that allowed the Democrats to exploit what they considered to be weak or weird personality aspects of the leadership. Gingrich, Boehner, and these guys, they were all kooks and freaks and so forth, because they created a vacuum by stopping, refusing to — not refusing. <\/p>\n

As each legislative effort was made — balancing the budget, whatever it was — they failed to explain the principle behind it, thus educating the voters. And slowly but surely, they got swept up and sucked in by the establishment, and it\u2019s very seductive there, to be part of it. Slowly but surely, the conservative majority in the House eroded. Joe Scarborough used to be one of them. Now look what\u2019s happened. Joe thinks he\u2019s still a conservative, but he\u2019s nowhere near the conservative he was when he was a member of the freshman class in 1994. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to Scott Brown. Scott Brown, a moderate Republican, was nevertheless a Republican hero because it was understood that his election represented the one necessary vote to stopping Obamacare. Scott Brown prevented the Democrats from getting 60 votes in the Senate. As a result of this, or because of this, people all over this country were sending campaign contributions to Scott Brown, money. <\/p>\n

People were sending their money to Scott Brown because they judged him to be on their side, not just on Obamacare, but on pretty much everything else, many other things. The Republican base has been united on this anti-Obamacare pedestal for five years. From the first day Obama talked about it, the Republican base has been unified. It is no more opposed to it today than it was five years ago. The Republican Party base has been full-fledged, 150% against it from the first day. <\/p>\n

The Republican base has not changed. The Republican base is who is consistent here. The Tea Party, the Republican base, you can count on who they are and what they believe and what they support and what they oppose. They have not changed. They have been very consistent, very reliable. The Republican Party\u2019s base has been united for five years in opposition to Obamacare — and in those five years, the Republican base elected people who promised them that they would get rid of or at least try to stop it. <\/p>\n

They gave them their money. <\/p>\n

They gave every elected official who promised to stop Obamacare their money. <\/p>\n

People all over this country donated to Scott Brown, not just Massachusetts residents, all over the country. It was the same for any other Republican running for office who convinced the Republican base that they were as opposed to Obamacare as the people are. The people supported them with money, with time, with get-out-the-vote efforts. So it eventuates that the people who empower Republicans by electing them have taken these Republicans at their word. <\/p>\n

They have given them money, they have supported them, they\u2019ve gone out and campaigned for them, they\u2019ve manned phone banks for \u2019em. They have voted for them. They\u2019ve done everything to get them elected. And today, many of those people who were the beneficiaries of that money, the beneficiaries of all of that time and effort, have now gone soft. They are personified by John McCain, Peter King, you name it. All of the people the last five years who engendered the trust and the support of the voters, a lot of them have faded away, and it turns out that they weren\u2019t what the voters thought they were. <\/p>\n

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And so now the base, which has been consistent, which is filled with support for people who promise one thing and then follow through on it. The reason Ted Cruz is so manifestly popular right now in the Republican Party is because he is doing exactly what he was elected to do. The people in Texas who elected him see him go to Washington and do exactly what he told them he was gonna do when he asked them for their support. But not every Republican, of course, can say this anymore, and as such they have lost support. <\/p>\n

So what has happened now is that those Republicans are turning on the base and calling them extremists or wacko birds, whatever term McCain used. And now, after all of this love and support based on trust, the Republicans continue to hold over their heads defeat if they don\u2019t change, if the base doesn\u2019t change, if the base doesn\u2019t modify, if the base doesn\u2019t moderate, if the base doesn\u2019t get less, if the base doesn\u2019t become less demanding, the Republicans are gonna lose. And, meanwhile, all these people saw most of the candidates they supported win. And now defeat is an anvil being held over their heads unless they change. <\/p>\n

This is why, within the base and within the Republican Party there\u2019s this, whatever you want to call it, lack of trust, diminishing support, what have you. And it\u2019s why whenever anybody like a Ted Cruz or a Mike Lee stands up, they\u2019re supported. It\u2019s substantive. It\u2019s not personality. The base is not interested in personalities or pop culture. These are issue oriented people who give their money and time to people they think are like-minded. This anvil of defeat that they keep holding over the Republican base head, I think it\u2019s just the exact opposite. I don\u2019t think we win — and history bears this out, recent history — I don\u2019t think we win the next election if this continues. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party cannot successfully win by moving in the direction of the Democrat Party and then demanding its voters to do the same thing. That\u2019s when voters stay home and they stop writing donation checks. Now, I really don\u2019t know if the Republican Party doesn\u2019t know this or does know it and maybe they\u2019re tired of this base, they don\u2019t like this group of people as their base. Maybe the Republican establishment does not want a base that\u2019s conservative. <\/p>\n

Maybe they\u2019re willing to lose a couple of elections in order to come up with what they think would be a new base, you know, comprised of some African-Americans and some Hispanics and some malcontent women. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. I don\u2019t know what base they want to trade us in for, but to some people it appears that\u2019s what they want to do. <\/p>\n

But this is not complicated. And the Scott Brown case is a great example. Here\u2019s a man that the entire Republican Party base was willing to support, all over this country. And he ended up losing his reelection effort, didn\u2019t he? To a genuine wacko, Elizabeth whatever her name is, Warren. He ends up losing to a genuine, legitimate wacko. “You didn\u2019t build that” Elizabeth Warren, all because people who originally invested in him thought it wasn\u2019t worth it to do it again, \u2019cause once he got there, he moderated, which is what the leadership, of course, wanted him to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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