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RUSH: This is one of my pet peeves. I talk about it frequently. Now, The Economist is a British magazine. The title of this story is called “The Right Republican.” And the point of this story is, “Although the presidency is theirs for the taking, America\u00c2\u2019s Republicans are in danger of throwing it away.” And you know what the point of the story is? The Republicans aren\u2019t moderate enough. No matter who they are, no matter who the Republican is. They\u2019re too extreme. It talks about every famous Republican to come down the pike and how even Eisenhower one way or another, too extreme. <\/p>\n
You know, it\u2019s finally struck me. I constantly lament on this program that it\u2019s a trick that has been fostered on the Republicans that they believe (I\u2019m talking about establishment Republicans), for example: Conservatism is extremism and that therefore conservatism is going to force independents — the precious independents! — to run away from the Republicans and back into the arms of Democrats. It\u2019s widespread all over the place. It\u2019s what\u2019s dominating the Republican presidential nomination from the Republican establishment point of view. This outright fear of any conservative. But what puzzles me is: Where is this notion that the Democrats are moderates?<\/p>\n
This is such a one-way street, and it\u2019s really frustrating how the Republican establishment has bought into this — and the reason they have because of his Goldwater. I\u2019m gonna say this over and over again until it becomes accepted fact because what animates the Republican Party today is the Goldwater landslide defeat of \u201964. That\u2019s what they associate with conservatism. They don\u2019t associate Reagan\u2019s 1980 triumphs. They associate the Goldwater landslide. That is what they think will happen any time an unabashed, full-fledged conservative is nominated. Therefore that\u2019s why the Democrats are able to get away (and the media able to get away) with this trick of telling Republicans and their media types, “We gotta be conscious of the independents! We can\u2019t be critical of Obama. We can\u2019t be outspoken. We — we — we can\u2019t be in it \u2019cause all that\u2019s mean-spirited and it\u2019s extreme.<\/p>\n
“The moderates, they don\u2019t like that. They don\u2019t like confrontation. They\u2019ll run right back to the Democrats.” We own the moderates right now! We own the independents. They voted with the Republicans in the 2010 midterms and we own them now — and I don\u2019t mean in an actual ownership way. They\u2019re fed up with the Democrats, the independents are fed up with Obamaism, the independents are fed up with what the Democrats have done to the country. There\u2019s no reason to be defensive about this, no reason to lack confidence here. There\u2019s no reason to think that we are the continual problem!<\/p>\n
So here comes this latest gunk in The Economist: “The Right Republican — Although the presidency is theirs for the taking, America\u2019s Republicans are in danger of throwing it away” by nominating a conservative is what the point of this story is. I\u2019m just waiting. I want somebody… I may get to the point where I will pay somebody to write a story in the mainstream media suggesting the Democrats better tone it down or else they\u2019re gonna tick off the independents. I just want to see that story one time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: This is one of my pet peeves. I talk about it frequently. Now, The Economist is a British magazine. The title of this story is called “The Right Republican.” And the point of this story is, “Although the presidency is theirs for the taking, America\u00c2\u2019s Republicans are in danger of throwing it away.” And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n