{"id":12919,"date":"2013-03-19T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:52:07","slug":"the_simple_answer_is_conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/19\/the_simple_answer_is_conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simple Answer is Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/48489\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Paul in Fargo, North Dakota. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: Rush!<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Hey!<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: My God, you have made this my birthday now, sir. I\u2019ve been participating with you for about 20 years now, and one of the things that strikes as far as what a conservative mind is, is just simply simplicity. Any complication is just a window for like ten other distractions, and I think that\u2019s where we\u2019ve gotten to with this whole navel-gazing over why we lost this election with Romney and what is a Republican these days. I think the lesson that we haven\u2019t learned is that this is what happens when you compromise. Nobody liked the guy. So, I mean, it was quite simply said that &#8212;<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Wait. When you said, &#8220;Nobody liked the guy,&#8221; you mean as somebody to vote for?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: Yes. Oh, he was a nice guy! Yes, but I see him as he wasn\u2019t establishment Republican, and he definitely was no Tea Party Republican. What he was is, you know, a compromise. So, of course, I mean, everyone of any stripe had reason to sit home&#8230; I almost feel like any vote that he got was almost a pity vote.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: Yeah. Does that make sense, sir?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Almost any vote he got was a pity vote? They felt sorry for him?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_74249\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushReestablishConserveCongrss.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: Well, either one of those extremes. Look at what we\u2019re up against? Liberalism is no small creature. I think it was very much demanded of us to get almost as extreme. I think we just totally kissed that away with trying to draw lines between the extremes, to compromise.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Well, in the sense that Romney was a compromise candidate, what do you mean?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: He wasn\u2019t a conservative. He wasn\u2019t somebody that the Tea Party stood behind. I guess I even kind of used that word &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; a little too much. I don\u2019t know if I like it because we\u2019re all people. But he wasn\u2019t of a conservative mind-set &#8212; and he definitely wasn\u2019t of, like, a Rockefeller or McCain mind-set, either.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: No. Now, it\u2019s interesting. The Republican establishment didn\u2019t view him this way. You go back to 2008.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: The Republican establishment was firmly behind McCain and were gonna do whatever it took to make sure that McCain got the nomination. He was guaranteed to lose &#8212; even though McCain, prior to the &#8220;fiscal crisis,&#8221; quote\/unquote, was actually leading marginally in the polls. But I think McCain was destined to lose. The Republican Party is hell-bent on not nominating a conservative.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: What it comes down to is the Republican Party has lost sense of what it was that we stand for. I don\u2019t understand what a Republican is these days, if all they are is just another version of a liberal.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: Well, now you\u2019re navel-gazing.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER: Am I?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.  I\u2019m just kidding you.  Look, I\u2019ve gotta take a break here. I just looked at the clock.  But I know what you\u2019re saying.  It all combines into a losing proposition, is the bottom line, and it\u2019s so simple.  You\u2019re right, the simple answer is conservatism.  It does win, every time.  The American people, we talked about this earlier in the program.  If you weren\u2019t with us, folks, it\u2019s amazing. There\u2019s a story in PJ Media today. It\u2019s actually a poll taken at TheHill.com.  They ran a bunch of policy and solutions to problems by people that were conservative ideas and conservative solutions, and by 55 to 60% in these polls people overwhelmingly supported \u2019em. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Then they found out, then they were told that the ideas were supported by Republicans, and they ran the other way.  They outlined a Democrat senator\u2019s proposal, Patty Murray, they outlined her proposal, it drew 28%.  The liberal idea got 28%, the conservative solution, 55 to 58%, but when people found out that it was Republican, they ran the other way.  So it\u2019s not the ideas, is the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Paul in Fargo, North Dakota. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Rush! RUSH: Hey! CALLER: My God, you have made this my birthday now, sir. 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