Here\u2019s Marco Rubio. This is Saturday night, Altoona, Iowa, a fundraiser for Governor Terry Branstad.<\/p>\n
RUBIO: For so many people on my side of the aisle and my party and the governor\u2019s party, a lot of frustration about the outcome of the election. I\u2019ve heard people say things like, “I\u2019m not getting involved anymore. I\u2019m just gonna focus on my family and my community and leave politics to others.” Others have suggested that maybe the American electorate has changed, that what people want from government now is they\u2019re just gonna vote for whoever promises them more. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s true. I can\u2019t believe that\u2019s true. Because if it\u2019s true, then the very nature of our country is changed forever.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, has it? That\u2019s the question. Thomas B. Edsall, the New York Times yesterday, “Is Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Country Gone?” <\/a>Rubio has been not happy with the Santa Claus thing that Romney has said. Here\u2019s Bobby Jindal, Sunday morning, Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said, “Governor, what was stupid about what Romney said?”<\/p>\n JINDAL: I absolutely reject what he said. Look, we as a Republican Party have to campaign for every single vote. If we want people to like us, we have to like them first. And you don\u2019t start to like people by insulting them by saying their votes were bought.<\/p>\n GINGRICH: I just think it\u2019s nuts. I mean, first of all, it\u2019s insulting. This would be like Walmart having a bad week and going, “The customers have really been unruly.” I mean, the job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can\u2019t offer a better future that is believable to more people, we\u2019re not gonna win.<\/p>\n RUSH: And George Will, also on the roundtable, was asked by Martha Raddatz, “George, how do you do that?”<\/p>\n WILL: Quit despising the American people, particularly because a lot of what they\u2019re despising them for are Republican policies. When Mitt Romney said, “So many Americans aren\u2019t paying taxes.” Yeah, because the Republicans doubled the child tax credit for conservative reasons. Yes, because they expanded the earned income tax credit, as Ronald Reagan did, because they thought it was an effective anti-poverty program.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, you know, there is some truth here to what George Will is saying. The fact that so many Americans are not paying taxes can be traced in part to certain Republican policies. But therein lies the rub. And that is, every time the Republicans try to be Democrat-lite, it doesn\u2019t work. By the way, I would remind Newt that he\u2019s the same guy that TIME Magazine put a big picture of him on the cover with the headline — one word — “Scrooge.” Okay. So why, folks, is this Santa Claus thing so upsetting to these guys? <\/p>\n It\u2019s a very simple and easy to understand explanation of redistributionist policy, and especially when you got 8% unemployment, Obama made that happen.<\/a> You go out, you attack the private sector. You say the private sector\u2019s inherently unfair, capitalism is unfair, unjust, immoral, and then you go show how it is, and then what do you propose is the opposite? Government picking up the slack. What is that? <\/p>\n So here\u2019s my theory on this. These politicians have to assess the world in which they live. And when they do that, they can do one of two things. They all want to either be reelected or they want to position themselves for higher office, or stay in office. Now, this is the world they live in. They have to assess what\u2019s happening and then ask themselves questions. Do I want to get in on that and be seen by voters that way, or do I want to take a different approach, educate, inform, what have you? What I think is happening here is that an assessment of reality has been made, and I think this is the world they live in. They have concluded that they do not want to upset the people who are getting freebies. They want their votes. <\/p>\n It\u2019s their business, folks. Their business is to get votes. Their business is to get elected. That\u2019s what the old argument rages about every election, how do you it? Do you tackle the problems and try to fix \u2019em or do you simply say I can continue what you like, no matter what you think of it policy-wise. So I would say that they have made a calculation, just like I said about people in California<\/a>, they\u2019re voting for what they want. How sensible would it be for the Republicans to go to California and say, “You know, you guys, we\u2019re gonna have to change the way you\u2019re voting and we\u2019re gonna have to reclaim this state because we\u2019re heading toward collapse.”<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a Republican alive that would want to go out there and campaign on that basis. And that slowly and surely is becoming what\u2019s happening in national campaigns as well. So 47%, whatever the number, make it 53%, whatever vote Obama got, they\u2019re voting for a reason. They do vote for reasons. And they may be assessing that they can\u2019t win office or hold office if they oppose this or if they don\u2019t join this movement, train, what have you. <\/p>\n So, talk about generalities and platitudes. You still support the essence of the welfare state. They don\u2019t want to be seen as disagreeing with the welfare state. I hate to say it, but that\u2019s what\u2019s happened. They don\u2019t want to be seen as having any animus toward this. They don\u2019t think they can get elected or higher office if they are seen in opposition. They\u2019re reading the tea leaves. They\u2019re reading the election results.<\/p>\n So they have to position themselves so the people who aren\u2019t voting for them, not the people who are. Milton Friedman said there\u2019s no such thing as a free lunch. What does that mean? What does it mean? World famous economist. It means there\u2019s no Santa Claus.<\/a> And when government pretends to be Santa Claus, somebody pays. So does Newt believe what Friedman said? Do Bobby Jindal or Marco Rubio, do they believe what Friedman said or not? Do they believe there\u2019s a free lunch or no free lunch? And if they don\u2019t believe that there\u2019s a free lunch, then how can any of this be effectively addressed? <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGOPMediaMont111912.jpg\"\/)
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