{"id":13152,"date":"2013-02-21T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-21T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:33:09","slug":"i_m_not_your_problem_gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/21\/i_m_not_your_problem_gop\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Not Your Problem, GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: There\u2019s this ongoing battle about me being too conservative for the Republican Party and too powerful, and the Republican Party is scared of me, and nobody will stand up to me, and they\u2019re not gonna get anywhere until they have the guts to stand up to me because I\u2019m too conservative and they need to be more moderate. They need to move to the center, but I won\u2019t let them. But really, how powerful am I? How good am I? And then people are out there saying, “Look at Limbaugh\u2019s track record in presidential races. He\u2019s 1-for-6.”<\/p>\n

In the first place I\u2019m 3-for-6, but the whole premise is flawed because I don\u2019t pick a single candidate. I am not in charge of any candidate anywhere and his campaign. I don\u2019t choose the consultants. I don\u2019t choose the ad people. I\u2019ve got nothing to do — and never have had anything to do — with one election in this country. Zilch, zero, nada. So this is the kind of thing I\u2019m talking about. This is the kind of stuff that is just infantile, and it\u2019s insulting, and it\u2019s insulting to everybody\u2019s intelligence, like this whole debate on the sequester.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all being played for fools here.<\/line><\/p>\n

Once again, they\u2019re throwing the fearmongering and crisis cards at us. It\u2019s embarrassing, and it\u2019s embarrassing anymore to get caught up in it and play in the game. Now, all these people not in the Republican Party say, “It needs a big tent.” No, that\u2019s not what they mean. They mean a smaller tent. They want the party to be nothing but moderates. They want to get rid of the conservatives and they put out this nonsense that the conservatives are the reason that we lose. We haven\u2019t nominated any conservatives!<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know if conservatives would win or lose because the party hasn\u2019t nominated any. Not for president, anyway. But, my friends, let me tell you: It\u2019s just another testament to my overall, powerful impact and effectiveness that somehow the Republican Party is discredited by the fact that I am 1-for-6 in presidential races, or that the party is too afraid of me and as long as they remain too afraid of me, they\u2019re never gonna go anywhere. They say that the Republican Party…<\/p>\n

Notice it\u2019s always media people — with whom I am in competition, by the way. At least that\u2019s how they view it. I don\u2019t think I have any, but they view it as competition. They stand up and say, “Yeah, \u2019til the Republican Party ditches Limbaugh, why, they\u2019re never gonna go anywhere!” I\u2019m not in charge of the Republican Party. I don\u2019t have anything to do with what decisions that they make. I\u2019ve never even met the chairman of the Republican National Committee. I don\u2019t even know how to pronounce his name! I wouldn\u2019t know where to call him if I wanted to talk to him, and yet it\u2019s all on me.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all my fault.<\/p>\n

This is what media people say who, if they had their druthers, would just have me swept out of the way.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: St. Joseph, Michigan. This is Robert. Thank you for waiting, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, loyal student since 1988 with a near perfect attendance record.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. I appreciate that. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d like to tell you my theory as to why the Democrats and liberals circle wagons while the Republicans throw people overboard so quickly. The liberals are all about the big picture. They\u2019re all about the greater good, you know, reaching utopia is the most important thing and nothing else matters. So little things like scandals and lies and facts, those aren\u2019t important because getting to the big picture, the greater good, that beats all else. Republicans and conservatives, on the other hand, are completely driven by their ideology, by truth, by the message, by character. And when somebody comes along who steps outside of the rules, the laws, the message, they have to distance themselves from them because the press knows this about conservatives and are always waiting to pounce —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Robert, a lot of what you say is true, but there\u2019s some key things in that that I disagree with a bit, and they may be small things, and they may just be semantic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I know what you mean, the liberals, it is their ideology that they are being loyal to. Liberalism must never suffer slings and arrows. Liberalism cannot be seen as the reason for anything going wrong. Liberalism can\u2019t be seen as a failure. Dan Rather, as a liberal, cannot be seen as forging documents and running a phony story. That cannot be allowed to taint liberalism. They are protecting liberalism. It is the ideology. It is the road map. It\u2019s how they want to get to this place you describe, which is total power. <\/p>\n

On the Republican side, it\u2019s not just truth. Sarah Palin wasn\u2019t wrong about anything. She didn\u2019t lie about anything. Sarah Palin embarrassed some people. So they had to get rid of her. The point is, the Republicans will not circle the wagons and defend very many. Conservatives will not circle the wagons and defend. Now, I defended Clarence Thomas not even knowing who he was \u2019cause I knew what happened. I knew the libs were lying about him because I know the libs. <\/p>\n

There are some conservatives today, if Clarence Thomas was accused today about Anita Hill, would throw him overboard. Not because she was maybe lying or telling the truth, but because he would be tainted. They would throw him overboard, and they wouldn\u2019t even bother to defend him \u2019cause he\u2019s making them look bad, by supporting him. It\u2019s a far different thing. The number of conservatives when they pop up and defend each other, doesn\u2019t happen. We\u2019re quick to throw everybody because we don\u2019t want the media saying bad things about the rest of us. It\u2019s really a big difference. The left will circle the wagons and protect their reprobates and they promote them. They promote their failures. It\u2019s a huge, huge difference. But I know what you\u2019re trying to say and your instincts are right on the money with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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