{"id":13541,"date":"2013-01-10T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-10T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T19:06:13","slug":"moderate_gop_will_wilt_on_guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/10\/moderate_gop_will_wilt_on_guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate GOP Will Wilt on Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/43953\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Charlotte, North Carolina. This is Melanie. I am so glad you waited. Welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thanks a bunch, Rush, for taking my call. I\u2019m a proud gun owner and NRA member. My comment is, I don\u2019t think the Obama administration is really interested in protecting people from gun violence. I think their real agenda is to bully conservatives and the NRA. You know, put the screws to the bitter clingers. That certainly seems to fit their template of political revenge.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_71429\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaNRAPIX.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: You know, I think you are on to something. I remember back in the Clinton years, Wayne LaPierre was on This Week with David Brinkley. And it was after an event such as Sandy Hook. It was after some mass shooting. Wayne LaPierre went on the ABC Sunday show, and he said &#8212; paraphrasing, this is very close &#8212; he thought President Clinton was comfortable with a certain level of violence because it allowed him to pontificate against guns. He was comfortable with the level of violence \u2019cause it allowed him to advance his agenda blaming the gun.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You essentially would agree with that, right? Because you\u2019re saying the same thing. They don\u2019t care about gun safety. They\u2019re using this as an opportunity to get rid of a group that opposes Obama.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s correct. It\u2019s a political opportunity. You wouldn\u2019t want to waste a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. It\u2019s a political opportunity to negate a political opponent.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: In this case, the NRA.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. Probably one of their greatest adversaries in the last two elections.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No question about it. Obama is not running anything again, we think, but the Democrats surely will be. And despite what they say, we know that there is a deep resentment for the NRA. And, you\u2019re right: Obama and his bitter-clinger comment when he was in San Francisco: They cling to guns and their religion during periods of change that they don\u2019t like or can\u2019t explain. I think you\u2019re on to something. I really do. I know it sounds harsh to say that the president is really not primarily concerned with gun safety so much as he sees a political opportunity, but I do. I think you\u2019re on to something. I think that\u2019s really smart.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right, Melanie, I appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>I just got a note from Erick Erickson. He has an occasional guest spot on <a target=\"_blank\" view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13550\">CNN.<\/a> He\u2019s at RedState.com. And he\u2019s right about something here. He said (paraphrasing), &#8220;Mark the date, it isn\u2019t gonna be long before moderate Republicans start going on television to push the notion that guns are hurting Republicans with independent voters and women.&#8221; Just like abortion, just like the pro-lifers are hurting Republicans with independents. Just like immigration. The moderate linguine-spined Republicans, it isn\u2019t gonna be long as this controversy heats up, you know, they wilt with a little heat. It doesn\u2019t take the moderate Republicans long to slink away. They don\u2019t like having to stand up and defend what they believe. They\u2019d rather give away a core belief. They\u2019d rather annunciate something that would make them friends with their enemies.<\/p>\n<p>So you watch. It won\u2019t be long before the same bunch of Republicans that tell us we\u2019ve gotta get amnesty, we\u2019ve gotta go after the Spanish vote, and we\u2019ve gotta relax our position on abortion, we cannot keep up this War on Women. We are ruining ourselves. Never mind the fact that Romney won independents in five out of the eight battleground states. In fact, the thing to take away from this election &#8212; if I may make a brief departure &#8212; it\u2019s the first election in I don\u2019t know how long that the candidate who won a vast majority of independents lost the election. The reason Romney lost is the Republican base didn\u2019t show up, and the reason the Republican base didn\u2019t show up is precisely because Republican moderates ran the show.<\/p>\n<p>If the Republican moderates nominate another northeasterner moderate Republican they\u2019re gonna lose again because the base is gonna sit home. The base does not want to hear that they are the problem in the Republican Party. So the NRA, members of the NRA &#8212; you see, you gun owners, I have to tell you, you are seen in exactly the same light as pro-lifers are seen, a bunch of pickup-truck-driving hayseed hicks who get to church on Saturday night to get a close parking space for services on Sunday. And you go to things like ice cream socials, and you do all this old-fashioned, embarrassing stuff while wearing those weird orange hunting uniforms, and you\u2019re embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>The guns and the NRA, they\u2019re gonna be tossed in with the stack of other things that embarrass Republican moderates, and that is, &#8220;We\u2019ve gotta relax our stance on amnesty, Rush. Rush, what are you gonna do about the Christians? You\u2019ve got to get this abortion issue off the table.&#8221; Well, add guns to it. It\u2019s coming. And the left knows this, by the way. They\u2019ve got years of experience of learning exactly how to make Republican moderates buckle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Charlotte, North Carolina. This is Melanie. I am so glad you waited. Welcome to the program. Hi. CALLER: Thanks a bunch, Rush, for taking my call. I\u2019m a proud gun owner and NRA member. My comment is, I don\u2019t think the Obama administration is really interested in protecting people from gun violence. 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