{"id":14006,"date":"2012-11-08T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-08T18:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:42:01","slug":"why_did_three_million_republicans_stay_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/08\/why_did_three_million_republicans_stay_home\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Three Million Republicans Stay Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So three million Republican voters stayed home on Election Day. Three million predominantly white voters stayed home. The media is all over the place with the fact that the Republicans lost “the white vote.” They can\u2019t get the white vote. They did lose the white vote, but Democrats didn\u2019t get it. They just didn\u2019t show up, and it wasn\u2019t voter suppression that didn\u2019t turn \u2019em out.<\/p>\n

What would be the reason that three million voters didn\u2019t show up? Let\u2019s go through the possibilities. It could be that there are a number… We\u2019ve talked to \u2019em. We\u2019ve had \u2019em call. We got \u2019em, in fact, on hold. A number of Republicans are tired of moderate nominees. They\u2019ve sent the Republican Party money for years and said, “To hell with it. If you\u2019re gonna eschew conservatism, I\u2019m not giving you any money, and I\u2019m not voting for you.”<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve heard them call here and threaten this, and never believed \u2019em. We could also have some evangelicals in that group that said, “You know what? I\u2019m tired of the Republicans not reaching out to me. I\u2019m tired of making fun of me. I don\u2019t like Mormons.” Who knows what it is? You could have any number of reasons why these three million don\u2019t show up, but they are the difference.<\/p>\n

If these three million had voted, Romney\u2019s popular vote total would have beaten Obama\u2019s by 180,000. I don\u2019t know what it would mean Electoral College yet, that hasn\u2019t been analyzed, but this was not an election lost because of demography. It wasn\u2019t an election lost because we lost the women vote or Hispanic vote. We didn\u2019t turn our vote out. It\u2019s just that simple.<\/p>\n

Could it be, ladies and gentlemen, that three million Republicans sat at home because they didn\u2019t see enough of a conservative campaign? These are the things that have to be pondered while the party beats itself up over amnesty <\/a>and single women and contraception. But I\u2019m just gonna tell the Republican Party right now: If you think that the only reason you\u2019re not winning presidential races is because you\u2019re not for amnesty and \u2019cause you\u2019re not for abortion…<\/p>\n

If you change to that, if you moderate or modify your positions, you\u2019re gonna cease to exist because those who are with you are gonna abandon you. I\u2019m not… (interruption) No, I\u2019m not trying to sound threatening. I\u2019m trying to be helpful. In fact, that\u2019s my middle name. That\u2019s all I ever try to do is help, anybody. I always said this was gonna be a turnout election. Now, I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood, either.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that the Republicans couldn\u2019t do a better job with some of these minority voters, but you better understand why they\u2019re not voting for you. In terms of the Hispanic vote, it is not because of immigration policy. Hispanics are voting for Democrats because of the same reason any other people vote for Democrats. They\u2019re the party of free stuff. They are the party of Santa Claus.<\/a><\/p>\n

Boy, folks, I can\u2019t tell you the grief I\u2019m getting from the left over that comment. It must have hit home. Because everybody understands that. You don\u2019t need a position paper with all kinds of footnotes and stuff to explain the Democrat Party. Just say, “Yeah, Santa Claus. We\u2019re outnumbered by people who vote Santa Claus.” And it\u2019s like a veil has been lifted and they want to close it. They don\u2019t like us to see it that way.<\/p>\n

You think I\u2019m exaggerating? Under Obama, the welfare rolls in this country increased by 32%. Food stamps? There was a 71% increase in the number of people on food stamps. We can\u2019t deny what\u2019s happening here, to and in our country. Bear in mind Barack Obama removed the work requirements from both of these programs. I\u2019m gonna say this again so that nobody thinks I\u2019m just glossing over it, \u2019cause I happen to think that it\u2019s important.<\/line><\/p>\n

The Republican convention.<\/p>\n

You look at every minority that we put in a prominent role at that convention. Every one of them, every one of them had reached a pinnacle of their chosen careers. They were brilliant, articulate. They were dyed-in-the-wool conservatives. They were great representatives of the American way, and they all had a common story. They all achieved what they achieved, and they did it by hard work.<\/p>\n

Every one of them had an up-from-nothing story. I\u2019m sorry if you heard this yesterday and you think it\u2019s repetitive,<\/a> but it needs to be said over and over, because there are lessons to be learned from this. Because after that convention… I heard people on Fox yesterday saying, “Why didn\u2019t it work? Why didn\u2019t the Republican convention work?” Doug Schoen said Republicans didn\u2019t show inclusiveness.<\/p>\n

“Why didn\u2019t it work?” is a great question. Why don\u2019t Republicans…? Marco Rubio, Allen West, Mia Love, Clarence Thomas. The list of highly achieved, accomplished<\/a>, great-moral-character Republicans who are minorities is endless. Why doesn\u2019t it attract any of the black vote? Why doesn\u2019t it attract any of the Hispanic vote? There\u2019s a reason. There are answers to this.<\/p>\n

Why doesn\u2019t it work?<\/p>\n

You gotta have courage to face the truth of the answer. Under Obama, welfare rolls increase by 32%. Food stamp participation shot up 71%. There are 47 million Americans on food stamps. Obama strips the work requirement out of both. We have 23 million people unemployed in this country. They all have, for the most part, a telephone<\/a>, a place to live, a flat screen, a car, and they\u2019re eating.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the way people lived on unemployment, say, in the Great Depression or say in the 1970s, even. You had to find a job if you wanted those things. You don\u2019t have to now. And when a party presents hard work as its route to success and the other party\u2019s presenting Santa Claus, what is going to win? Santa Claus is free stuff. The other side is stuff that you work for and earn. This is where the country is. It\u2019s not sour grapes.<\/p>\n

This is an honest appraisal of where we are, and we are slowly becoming outnumbered in this way by these demographics, which count. As to immigration, again: We are not not getting the Hispanic vote because of our immigration policy, because Hispanics are not voting for Democrats because of their immigration policy. That is not why. Why do the unions not oppose illegal immigration? Because their jobs are not threatened by it.<\/p>\n

And why is that?<\/p>\n

You can answer that yourself.<\/p>\n

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The Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass.<\/a> It needs an underclass of people who aren\u2019t working, who get the benefits from Santa Claus so that the Democrats will continue to get a decent number of votes from that voting bloc. And as people start working and become self-sufficient, they need the Democrat Party less, and so those people — if they abandon the Democrat Party — need to be replaced. Hello, illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

Folks, it is what it is.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t lose the election on Tuesday because we\u2019re pro-choice or pro-life; we did not lose the election because single women hate us and don\u2019t like us. That\u2019s not why we lost. We might not be getting a majority of those votes, but when three million of our own people don\u2019t show up, it doesn\u2019t matter who on the Democrat side we\u2019re not getting. I want to take you back to this program and me on January 6 of this year.<\/a><\/p>\n

We were in the middle of the Republican primary. And, at the time, the Republican\/conservative media was talking about “electability. “Who are we gonna nominate? Who can win?” I raised my hand, and I said, “You know, the Democrats did this. Remember back in 2004, going into Iowa, they thought Howard Dean was the nominee.” He was leading every poll.<\/p>\n

He cleaned it up, and in Iowa he got wiped out. The Democrats panicked, and they went to John Kerry, because they said, “Well, of the people we have left, he\u2019s the only one who\u2019s electable.” And what happened to him? So let\u2019s go back, shall we? Because I want you to listen to this knowing that there are three million Republican voters that stayed home. They didn\u2019t vote. We don\u2019t know why yet. All we can do is speculate.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: It\u2019s time to strip this bare. I have just alluded to this. I\u2019m gonna tell you again. This whole business of “electable,” I\u2019ve been hearing about it for weeks, months. We all have our circle of friends. I too have a circle of friends. Contrary to what you think, my circle of friends are no smarter than you. They\u2019re no smarter than anyone else. Just because they\u2019re my friends doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re smart.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re not stupid, but I\u2019m saying is they\u2019re just like anybody else. This is the point. That\u2019s a good thing. I get frustrated at this “electability” business. That\u2019s how the Democrats chose John Kerry, by the way (who served in Vietnam). When Howard Dean failed in 2004 in Iowa, they panicked. “We\u2019ve gotta get somebody who can win!” They thought Kerry could.<\/p>\n

This “electability” reason to nominate somebody is flawed from the get-go because the reasons that people think somebody can win are flawed, as evidenced by what I just told you. Let me tell you something, folks: I wouldn\u2019t have one ounce of doubt about Rick Perry. I\u2019ve been hoping Rick Perry would catch fire, but I have people in my sphere who don\u2019t want to vote for Perry (and largely they\u2019re women) because he sounds too much like Bush. He\u2019s too stupid. He\u2019s too hesitating in his speech and Obama will clean his clock in a debate.<\/p>\n

I look at \u2019em and I scratch my head.<\/p>\n

“Have you looked at what he\u2019s done as governor? Do you looked at what his tax policy is?”<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t care! He embarrasses me.”<\/p>\n

“Okay, fine. Let\u2019s move on. What about Santorum?”<\/p>\n

“Too extreme. Cares too much about abortion.”<\/p>\n

“Okay, let\u2019s see… How about Cain?”<\/p>\n

“He can\u2019t talk, either.” This what people around me say. “He can\u2019t talk either.”<\/p>\n

“Okay, what about Bachmann?”<\/p>\n

“She\u2019s too shrill, she\u2019s too short, she\u2019s a woman! She\u2019s only been in Congress for five years. She doesn\u2019t have a prayer.”<\/p>\n

“Okay, write her off. What about…? Let\u2019s see… How about Huntsman?”<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

“He\u2019s a phony! Plus the guy worked for Obama. He was ambassador to China! Come on. Let\u2019s be serious. This guy\u2019s not a conservative!” You get to Romney and these people all said, “Now, there\u2019s a guy who sounds smart. He\u2019s seasoned. He\u2019s been at this for a number of years. He\u2019s composed, he looks good and he could beat Obama in a debate.”<\/p>\n

And in every one of these instances, folks, what\u2019s been frustrating to me is not one reason rooted in policy has been cited as a reason to support or not support somebody. It has been very frustrating to me to see how surface — how “undeep,” if I may use that term — people are about this. I know why it\u2019s the case, but it still burns me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s January 6th of this year. I was recounting my frustration listening to my friends tell me why none of the Republican nominees had a prayer, why they wouldn\u2019t support them, and in no instance was anybody rejected because of policy. And in no instance was anybody supported because of policy. It was all about who they thought could and could not win.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Livonia, Michigan, here on the Rush Limbaugh program. Ken, great to have you back. I know you\u2019ve been on the program before. You\u2019re the only guy — no, there\u2019s a woman from Livonia that calls, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I know you\u2019ve been here before.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And I appreciate it. I appreciate you took my call. Rush, the establishment Republicans just don\u2019t understand us voters out here. Now, I\u2019m a conservative, I\u2019m a constitutionalist, I believe in the traditional view of marriage, and I\u2019m also pro-life. I\u2019ve always voted, up until now, Republican. But I\u2019m telling you, Rush, and I\u2019m telling all those Republicans out there that don\u2019t get it, I will not vote for another moderate. If you want to lose my vote, all you have to say is, “I\u2019m willing to reach across the aisle.” <\/p>\n

RUSH: Can I ask you a question? I want you to be very honest with me on this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is not a trick. This is for my own edification. I noticed, I pointed out to Kathryn, the last two weeks of this campaign — it might have been the last three weeks — but Romney started focusing on and using that phrase, “Reaching across the aisle.” Now, were you with Romney at any point in this campaign and then decided not to vote, or were you always opposed after Romney got the nomination?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was opposed to Romney because I knew he was a moderate from the beginning. I knew not only Romney, but other Republicans —<\/p>\n

RUSH: How could you do this, though, knowing full well what the alternative was. Mitt Romney isn\u2019t the problem. Mitt Romney would not have been the problem. How could you essentially vote for Barack Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did not vote directly for Barack Obama, but I understand what you\u2019re saying. I cast a vote, Rush, I knew my candidate couldn\u2019t win for the Constitution Party candidate only because there again, what do the Democrats have to offer? The destruction of our country because they\u2019re statists. Now, if you\u2019re gonna tell me you\u2019re a Republican candidate, that you want to reach across the aisle, you, like John Boehner, want to go and play golf with the president, I can\u2019t support you in that case, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No matter what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. Because we\u2019ve seen the destruction to our country that has occurred, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. We have and you know, you know now, we got four more years of it, or at least two. This could have been arrested. There is no comparison, Mitt Romney to Barack Obama. Look, I know you\u2019re part of the three million that stayed home, and I understand the principle involved. I do. Let me ask you, and there\u2019s no way you can know, I just want your opinion. Of the three million Republican voters that stayed home, do you think most of them are like you, that they are just dissatisfied that the Republicans nominated what you thought was another moderate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I really believe, since from our point of view, the moderate is not going to fix the problems that our country needs to have fixed, but continue along the same lines. Yes, I think that as long as —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Romney did not want to continue these policies on jobs, government spending, and all this sort of stuff. Did you not believe him when he said what he said about creating jobs and reducing government and so forth? You didn\u2019t believe him?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Well, Rush, the last four years, for example, every time the debt ceiling was hit, the Republicans, unfortunately, voted to raise it again. We need to get conservative Republicans in Washington. And if the Republican Party wants the vote, the support of conservatives like myself, they\u2019ve gotta get conservatives to run. If they don\u2019t want to win the White House, if they don\u2019t want to control Washington, then just keep doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you engaged in a protest vote, essentially, and you did so in sufficient numbers that you have secured the reelection of somebody truly destructive of the traditional, as founded, American way of life. How do you live with that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because I feel —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because you\u2019re making the perfect — it wasn\u2019t on the ballot this year, the perfect one wasn\u2019t on the ballot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, I think that the way the three million people looked at it, a moderate Republican will still lead our country over the cliff. Not as quickly, not as fast, but over the cliff. If we\u2019re gonna be going over the cliff at a hundred miles an hour, which is under Obama, or 70 miles an hour, which is under a moderate Republican, we\u2019re still going over the cliff.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you just want to get it over with?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I want us to get the Republican leadership to wake up, and we\u2019ve gotta get conservatives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ken, I hate to tell you, but that\u2019s not the message they\u2019re taking from this election, as you know, if you\u2019ve been listening to the program today. They know that three million didn\u2019t show up. If they come to believe that the three million didn\u2019t show up because they don\u2019t like moderates, they\u2019re just gonna get mad at you like the Democrats get mad. At least what I\u2019ve seen so far on TV, and read, and is coming from the so-called conservative media, the Republicans think they goofed up by failing to get the Hispanic vote and the single women vote. They think they goofed up on the demography side, which tells me that you\u2019re gonna continue to be pretty unhappy with the direction they go.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the establishment of the Republican Party has unfortunately been in Washington too long —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m just gonna tell you, look, I understand what you\u2019re doing, but you gave us Bill Clinton, and now Barack Obama. Your vote is your vote. I understand. I saw this figure, I saw this three million didn\u2019t show up. I saw it yesterday morning. It didn\u2019t register. I even mentioned it at the beginning of this program. It didn\u2019t register \u2019til last night when I compared it. Had you guys all shown up, Romney would have beat Obama, popular vote, by 180 thousand. Those are hard numbers, real hard numbers. I don\u2019t know what it would have meant Electoral College-wise. Anyway, I gotta go. Ken, thanks for the call. Back after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If there\u2019s a 70% chance of curing your cancer, but you hold out for a hundred percent, is that what you would do? Or would you go for the 70% chance? Takes all kinds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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