{"id":12837,"date":"2013-03-28T17:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:55:38","slug":"focus_on_the_economy_republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/28\/focus_on_the_economy_republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Economy, Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you something, folks: If the Republican Party bases its principles and vision on what kids in college or recent college graduates think after they\u2019ve been indoctrinated by left-wing teachers and professors, then they\u2019re gonna have big problem, the Republicans are. <\/p>\n

This notion that you win the youth vote by endorsing whatever the youths support is like parents running their households based on what their kids demand. Parents can\u2019t do that, and neither can a party. Maturation, experience, and knowledge gained outside of classroom all combine to turn people away from leftist professors. You have to have principles rock sold that you stand for that people can gravitate toward after you constantly explain them and make them available. It\u2019s just like you can\u2019t get the Hispanic vote by all of a sudden saying, “You know what? We\u2019re for amnesty!”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not gonna work. You can\u2019t make your kids love you by doing stuff like that. <\/p>\n

You can only hope to buy them, and what good is that? <\/p>\n

‘Cause that doesn\u2019t last, then you have to keep buying them after that. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a disaster.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you what — if the Republicans are gonna win — it\u2019s gonna be on the economy. That\u2019s what needs not be forgotten here. All this other stuff is passing, social stuff, and it is what it is. This economy is where this election will be won.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: CBS News: “Eighty Percent of Americans are Unhappy with Washington,” and this is a second article on this poll from CBS. Also found that support for gun control is waning. That was yesterday, and that was big. And that\u2019s why Obama is out big-time today trying to move the public opinion back to majority gun control position, which he hasn\u2019t been able to pull off.<\/p>\n

But yesterday CBS did have a poll that found support for gun control is waning. You know what they found? As gun control is talked about less, so is support for it. So the less it\u2019s talked about, the less there is support for it, which makes total sense. That\u2019s why Obama\u2019s back out there today. But the second part of the poll is that 80% of Americans are unhappy with Washington. It\u2019s actually more than two-thirds are unhappy and 30% are angry. So if you add the two quintiles, you come up with 80% total. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the highest number recorded since they began polling this question in 2010. And across the board, Obama\u2019s numbers have plummeted since February. At CBS they\u2019re chalking that up to the sequester gambit not having worked. But there\u2019s also troubling news for the country here. “Most Americans do not see a clear connection between a lower deficit and an improved economy.” So 80% are unhappy with Washington, but they were asked, “Well, do you think lowering the deficit would help?” Nope. <\/p>\n

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“Fewer than half believe cutting the deficit will make the economy better. Thirty-nine percent say they weren\u2019t sure about that. On the other hand, just 6% say it would make things worse.” It\u2019s fascinating stuff if you happen to be a political party that wants to win elections on the basis of the economy. I, frankly, believe that that\u2019s where the Republican Party is gonna have to end up succeeding. I don\u2019t care what else is out there, that is where the Democrat Party\u2019s a sitting duck, and there\u2019s no question they\u2019re a sitting duck. <\/p>\n

The challenge here is to find a way to beat the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a>. There has to be a way to attach Obama to what\u2019s happening to the country. Now, the way Obama continues to escape that attachment is by always campaigning, never appearing to govern, and thereby he never seems to be in charge of anything that\u2019s gone wrong. Of course, we\u2019ve talked about what\u2019s happening to news business and who accesses news and how they\u2019re being informed in the first hour of the program. <\/p>\n

The simple fact of the matter is that Obama has an agenda and people disagree with it but they do not associate it with Obama. They do not link Obama\u2019s agenda with the bad things happening in the economy. They hear Obama say, “Health care premiums are gonna come down 2500 bucks!” They hear Obama say, “I care what I do, I\u2019m not raising the deficit by a dime and if a program does I\u2019m not gonna do it.” <\/p>\n

So they hear Obama say all these things; because he\u2019s president, they believe him; and, as such, they\u2019re not attaching or associating any of his agenda items, policies, with the direction of the country which they don\u2019t like by a total of 80%. So it\u2019s clear what the Republicans\u2019 job is here. They have got to find a way to overcome the Limbaugh Theorem. They have got to find a way to attach Obama to his parties.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gonna be very tough for them because they don\u2019t really want to be critical of Obama because they think that that\u2019s not gonna work. They think that they\u2019ll only be criticized. They think they\u2019ll be called racists or bigots or what have you. I know that the gay marriage argument has a lot of people worked up, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as many as you would be led to believe. I think the economy is what has people really, really concerned. Back pocket. There\u2019s no question. You can have gay marriage all day long. <\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t buy gasoline or food or if you\u2019re not confident that you\u2019re gonna be able to hold onto your house — or worse than that, if you\u2019re not confident that the government\u2019s not gonna come and take the money out of your bank account — you don\u2019t care who\u2019s marrying who. If you see what\u2019s happening in Cyprus… Now we don\u2019t know how many people are; probably very few. Until ESPN does a story on it, the sports crowd won\u2019t know. Until TMZ does a story on it, the Kardashian crowd won\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

‘Til E! Entertainment network does it, the Justin Bieber crowd won\u2019t know. Until Roger Friedman does a piece on it, the Justin Timberlake crowd won\u2019t know. So we don\u2019t know how many Americans know what\u2019s happening in Cyprus. But those who do are scared to death that it could happen here and they\u2019re running around asking if it could. The answer is, yes. A statist is a statist, no matter where the statist is. An elitist, or a series of them who have run their own countries into the ground, are gonna do everything they can to avoid the blame for it. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re also gonna make a beeline for the money and wherever it is, and if it\u2019s yours, they\u2019re gonna come for it. It\u2019s a legitimate fear to have. I\u2019m telling you that there are some very wealthy and powerful money-manager types that I know, banking people that I know. They\u2019re terrified that what\u2019s happening in Cyprus could in fact happen here, and that in fact we have in place the very kind of people who would do it — and would get away with it, with their voters, the low-information crowd. <\/p>\n

Try this: “The US economy grew at a moderately faster rate at the end of last year than previously reported, but the pace of growth remains sluggish, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. In the final quarter of 2013, the US economy expanded at an annual rate of 0.4%. That was slightly better than the previous estimate of 0.1% growth.” Do you believe this? We\u2019re actually… This is AP trying to make good news out of economic growth of less than 1\/2 of 1%. “Oh, 0.4%! Hey, it\u2019s better than what they predicted at 0.1%.” <\/p>\n

Jobless claims: “The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, but probably not enough to suggest that the labor market recovery was taking a step back.” No, of course not! Because the new normal is 8% unemployment. We have an absolute economic disaster on our hands, and it doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s happening with gay marriage or DOMA or any of that. Those things are bad, and I\u2019m not trying to distinguish them. Like the Boy Scouts are being bullied by gay rights activists, story on that here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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