{"id":17172,"date":"2011-12-08T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-08T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:48:19","slug":"my_advice_to_mitt_run_to_the_right_of_newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/12\/08\/my_advice_to_mitt_run_to_the_right_of_newt\/","title":{"rendered":"My Advice to Mitt: Run to the Right of Newt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So. Now, here\u2019s AP, headline: &#8220;Gingrich Surge Unnerves Some Republican Lawmakers &#8212; Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich\u00c2\u2019s stunning surge toward the top of the Republican presidential field has unnerved some Republicans in Congress who remember too well the tumult of nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;I\u00c2\u2019d rather have steady,\u2019 said Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio, who just this week made it known that he was backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney instead of the resurgent Gingrich, the man who led the 1994 &#8216;revolution\u2019 in which LaTourette was first elected. Personally, LaTourette said, he has a &#8216;hangover\u2019 from the days of Gingrich\u00c2\u2019s speakership, when &#8216;everything always seemed to be on fire'&#8221; back then. &#8220;In interviews this week, more than a dozen Republican members of the House and Senate wouldn\u00c2\u2019t say &#8212; when given repeated chances &#8212; that they are confident that Gingrich has the discipline and stamina to outlast Romney and, down the road, face President Barack Obama in a grueling general election.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushPelosiNewt_large.png\"\/><BR\/>&#8220;Gingrich has had trouble marshaling support from Congress\u00c2\u2019 mass of political insiders. The 1994 &#8216;revolutionaries\u2019 who turned Democrats out of power for the first time in 40 years as well as more senior lawmakers waver on the question of whether Gingrich would be good for the GOP and the country given his rocky past.&#8221; Now, keep in mind &#8212; don\u2019t lose perspective here. And as you know, I\u2019ve not endorsed anybody; this is not an endorsement. Running commentary. On the other side of this is Barack Obama. We are listening to Republicans tell us about Newt\u2019s lack of discipline, whether he has the stamina, whether he would be good for the Republican Party.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, who credited Gingrich with helping push through a transformative farm bill, is among those unsure whether Gingrich-as-nominee would be helpful. &#8216;It depends on what he does,\u2019 said Roberts, who has not committed to a candidate for the party\u00c2\u2019s nomination.&#8221; From TheHill.com: &#8220;Poll: Gingrich Holds Double-digit Lead In Three Of First Four Voting States &#8212; Newt Gingrich holds double-digit leads over the rest of the Republican presidential field in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida &#8212; three of the first four states that will vote in primaries or caucuses this January, according to a CNN-Time-ORC poll released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Iowa, Gingrich leads Mitt Romney 33 percent to 20 percent, in South Carolina he leads Romney 43 percent to 20 percent, and Gingrich performs best in Florida, where he leads Romney 48 percent to 25 percent. Romney still leads the field in New Hampshire, where some say his time as governor of neighboring Massachusetts gives him a significant home-field advantage&#8230;&#8221; So while the establishment of the Republican Party is doing their best to take Gingrich out, people who are being polled are vaulting Gingrich way ahead of everybody. You know what\u2019s happening here. What\u2019s happening here, ladies and gentlemen, I think, is that Republican primary voters are finally saying to the establishment, &#8220;We\u2019re not doing it your way this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019ve given us loser after loser after noncombatant every four years. You\u2019ve given us people that won\u2019t fight for us. You\u2019ve given us people who won\u2019t go after Obama. You\u2019ve given us people who won\u2019t go after the Democrats. You\u2019ve given us people who are not conservative! We\u2019ve supported you, we\u2019ve given you money, but no more.&#8221; Quinnipiac University, same polling numbers in Florida. Well, this is presidential polling data, but Gingrich &#8220;has big GOP lead in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania.&#8221; There\u2019s more polling data to talk about. These are significant leads, folks, significant poll leads. This is not just within the margin of error or just slightly outside the margin of error. These are huge polling leads.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason this is important is because the Ruling Class, government class, political class, whatever you want to call \u2019em, they live and die by polls. The polls are the Ten Commandments to these people. They base everything they did on these polls, and they\u2019re scared. They\u2019re scared, they\u2019re angry, surprised. They\u2019re shocked. They don\u2019t like it. &#8220;Newt\u2019s Squeeze on Mitt&#8221; is the headline of a National Journal piece by Ron Brownstein, and here\u2019s a pull quote from that piece: &#8220;But these state polls underscore the sense from the latest national surveys that the conservative elements of the party most skeptical of Romney, have at least settled on Gingrich as the horse they\u2019ll ride against him. At the same time, given his inroads among less ideological and more secular Republicans, Gingrich is appealing to a much wider range of voters in the party than is Romney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Romney originally hoped to consolidate the Republican center and watch the right divide. Unless Romney can reverse the dynamic, he faces the risk that Gingrich will achieve the opposite maneuver by consolidating the right and dividing the center.&#8221; Brownstein\u2019s exactly right here. It is the right &#8212; the primary voters, conservatives &#8212; who are making the news here. It is. It\u2019s like 2010. I have a question. If months ago&#8230;? This is a think piece question. If months ago Romney had said Romneycare was a mistake, would he be leading in the polls today? If he had owned up to it. I\u2019m just asking. I don\u2019t know yet myself, but if he had said that Romneycare was a mistake, would he be leading in the polls? Okay, so we just had Brownstein piece.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romney.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: Okay, so if Romney had denounced Romneycare, if he would have just said it was a mistake, would he be leading in the polls today?  I have some advice.  Since <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17175\">Newt <\/a>is coalescing the conservative vote and Romney\u2019s plan was to get the middle or the moderate vote, split the conservative vote, it\u2019s 180 degrees out of phase the way the establishment had this planned.  Once again, folks, the establishment had hoped to split all of your votes and render all of us powerless in this nomination.  And something\u2019s going wrong here. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>So, I have some advice from a proud non-establishment Republican to Mitt Romney, and that would be me.  Mitt, if you want the nomination, get together with your people and think about trying to run to the right of Newt.  You know you can get there.  You\u2019ve got Newt making all kinds of crazy statements over his career, sitting on the couch with Pelosi. There\u2019s any number of ways you can get to the right of Gingrich.  Now, you and Newt are both guilty of flip-flops.  So, Mitt, why not flip to full conservative and see what happens.  You won\u2019t have to resort to tearing down an opponent.  You can tear down Obama.  What do you think got Newt where he is, Mitt?  What do you think got Trump where he was before he pulled out?  Tear down Obama!  That\u2019s the problem we face.  Eric Holder.  Jon Corzine.  It\u2019s target rich.  Where our real opponents are. <\/p>\n<p>Our real opponents are not fellow Republicans.  Our real opponents are Barack Obama, Corzine, Eric Holder, everybody in the regime.  Tear down crony donorism, crony capitalism. Tear down Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Saul Alinsky. Tear down Obama\u2019s tax hiking regulation. They should tear down that <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17189\">speech in Osawatomie<\/a>. Embrace the Tea Party movement.  Energize the base.  Don\u2019t try to split it.  Mitt, energize the base, get to the right of Newt, beat Obama going away.  The 2010 election should have been the strongest clue you could get as to the mood of the voters of everybody in this country. The 2010 election should have been the big tip-off for the entire Republican Party how to do this.  But, no, we have to rely on our old formulas, and our old formulas mean we can\u2019t have a conservative nominee in the Republican Party, can\u2019t have that.  We have to split the conservative vote. <\/p>\n<p>Well, Newt, the conservative vote is the ticket.  Mitt, the conservative vote\u2019s the ticket.  I wonder if anybody in the Romney camp ever considered doing what conservatives have begged their candidate to do months, if not years ago.  I just wonder if admitting Romneycare &#8212; I mean can\u2019t now, because he\u2019s got so many months, days, weeks defending it.  I\u2019m just thinking on an open-ended basis here.  But governments ought not be in the business, and Newt went out the other day, he was with Beck or something, he slipped up and said he was for the individual mandate again?  Mitt, look, I know I\u2019m not an accredited consultant and I know that I, as a result of that, don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about.  So I\u2019ll just shut up and we\u2019ll go to phone calls when we get back.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Back on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=19146\">June 7th<\/a>, for those of you that weren\u2019t listening in the summer, just now tuning in and catching up, I just asked Cookie to go to our archives, get the bite.  Won\u2019t be long.  Mitt was somewhere on June 7th, forget exactly where, but we played the sound bite on the program.  He said, &#8220;I firmly believe that it\u2019s getting warmer, and from everything I read, humans are causing it.&#8221;  And when I played the sound bite and it was over, I said, &#8220;Bye-bye nomination.&#8221;  Do you remember?  Bye-bye nomination.  Why did I say bye-bye nomination?  June 7th, what the hell did I know?  I know what the conservative base knows.  I know who they are, and I know what ticks them off. <\/p>\n<p>Now, my suggestion, perfectly reasonable, is flip to the full right of Gingrich.  Just do it.  There\u2019s plenty of room there.  Won\u2019t do it.  And you know why?  I\u2019ll tell you exactly why.  Romney and his consultants and the establishment believe that anything he does, anything he says that will please conservatives will poison him with the independents and the swing voters.  Don\u2019t doubt me on this.  You know this, too.  You know that the Republican establishment is scared out of their gourd of losing independents, losing the moderates, and they think conservatives cause that to happen.  And that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want a conservative nominee.  That\u2019s why they don\u2019t want anybody even close to being a conservative nominee, and who do we thank for this? Have these people paid no attention to what happened in 2010?  Fifty-five to 39 independents went to the GOP in 2010, the midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I know.  There wasn\u2019t a singular Republican on any ticket.  It was an anti-Obama vote.  Hello!  Nothing\u2019s changed.  It\u2019s only gotten worse.  Obama hasn\u2019t given independents a reason to run back to him, and a conservative nominee will not make that happen.  But that\u2019s the reason we are where we are.  Because for the longest time &#8212; I mean predating Reagan, the Republican Party &#8212; I\u2019ll tell you what you can trace it to.  I\u2019ll tell you what the Republican Party still lives by, what still scares \u2019em, what they think is destined to be repeated every election is Goldwater.  Don\u2019t doubt me.  Don\u2019t doubt me, 1964.  Snerdley, it\u2019s in their DNA.  That\u2019s what conservatives will do to a Republican presidential candidate.  If you run a conservative, you\u2019re gonna get Goldwatered.  That\u2019s what they believe.  That is why they didn\u2019t like Reagan. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve told you this.  You know damn well the conservative establishment didn\u2019t like Reagan.  They wanted Ford, they wanted Bush, it didn\u2019t matter who.  And even after Reagan got the presidency, hey were still running around worried every minute of every day that Reagan was gonna do something to embarrass them.  Republicans also were making jokes about, &#8220;Oh, my God, the old man\u2019s finger is on the nuke button, oh, my God, Reagan\u2019s gonna kill us. Oh, my God, he\u2019s a wild cowboy, oh, oh.&#8221;  It\u2019s Goldwater.  I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s the 1964 election that the Republican establishment still fears being repeated.  And we have had consultants who have built careers since 1964 on that premise, and we\u2019ve had consultants who\u2019ve built careers telling candidates like Romney, you can\u2019t win without the independents, and if you go too far to the right you\u2019re gonna scare \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_57027\" class=\"alignleft\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mitt-Right.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Folks, it was just this week that some <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17195\">idiot in the RNC sent out a notice to somebody at Yahoo News<\/a>, of all places, Yahoo News ends up listening to a conference call between the RNC and a polling group, I think it was Tarrance, the RNC does this, and they listen to advice from the polling.  And this group happened to say don\u2019t go after Obama personally, don\u2019t attack Obama, people love Obama, his personals are very high and people feel sorry for him.  Well, I\u2019m sorry, Obama is his policies.  But where do you think that comes from?  Where do you think that whole &#8220;don\u2019t go after Obama personally,&#8221; it\u2019s what they told McCain, and McCain dutifully followed along, and where did we end up?  And it\u2019s traceable back to Goldwater.  That was a landslide loss. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Snerdley, now, listen to me on this, and the rest of you.  You\u2019ve heard me talk about my dad and the formative experience the Great Depression was in his life.  It shaped everything about the way he lived and the way he raised me and my brother.  It was that powerful.  If you\u2019re in the business of politics and if your business is winning elections and you &#8212; I was only 13 at the time.  But I have since learned how embarrassing and humiliating that loss was to the Republican hierarchy.  That is their Great Depression.  That is their World War II that they lost.  As such, conservatism equals landslide defeat.  They won\u2019t give it up; they can\u2019t set it aside.  And that\u2019s why whoever surfaces that appears to be conservative, they\u2019re gonna take \u2019em out or they\u2019re gonna try.  It\u2019s just that simple.  I don\u2019t care what the circumstances were. I don\u2019t care that JFK was dead and Johnson\u2019s running on his legacy, the media was all against Goldwater, doesn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t see that \u201964 gave birth to something.  They see \u201964 as the ultimate defeat. They see \u201964 as the ultimate humiliation, not the birth of something wonderful and great.  They don\u2019t see it that way, and they never will, not this generation.  They never will.  The people in this audience who will someday be political consultants are gonna be the ones who will change this.  I\u2019m sure the consultants have said, &#8220;Don\u2019t you dare, Mitt, you just stay right where you are.  We\u2019re gonna split the conservative vote.  We love Ron Paul being in there.  We love anybody that makes conservatives look like kooks.  Keep \u2019em in this race, keep \u2019em in the debates, split the conservative vote, and, Mitt, you\u2019ll get the nomination with the great moderates.  You won\u2019t have to go to the right to get the nomination.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This was their big secret.  This is why they think they\u2019ve got it all wrapped up in Romney.  The normal procedure is in a primary, the nomination fight, you run to get your base.  Then in the general is where you move to the center.  They thought, their brilliant stroke was to run to the center to get to the nomination, and in doing so, prove to every other moderate and independent. Romney, whoever the nominee was doing that strategy was not some crackpot conservative and would therefore win big over Obama by getting nowhere near conservatism. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RomneyGlobalWarming.jpg\"\/><BR\/>These people believe that Republican nominees who win by coalescing the right wing vote during the nomination process are destined to lose because the moderates and the independent swing voters are watching it and they get scared to death because they think that everybody else looks at conservatives the way they do, racist, extremist, kook, wacko, bigots, homophobes, all that.  This is why there\u2019s such panic, because they thought they had finally upset the applecart.  They had finally redefined the terms.  They finally found a guy who was gonna win the nomination as a moderate, not a conservative.  They were having orgasms.  And now their guy, who was gonna pull this off, is down 20 points in three of the first four states.  That\u2019s where we are. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we\u2019re where we are. There is no team, there is no conservative movement that includes establishment types in the media or in elective office in Washington. I hate to tell you, folks, but there just isn\u2019t &#8212; and instinctively you know it. Instinctively you know it and that is why the polls are showing the results they\u2019re showing. That is why there has always better than the Anybody But Romney candidate. Perry for a while, then Bachmann for a while, and Trump for a while; and there\u2019s a reason. There\u2019s a reason that no matter where you go at any time in this process, Romney can\u2019t get above 30 in a national poll of Republicans. There\u2019s a reason why 70% &#8212; now, people have sent me notes, &#8220;But, Rush! But, Rush! Everybody wanted Romney in \u201908! Everybody wanted Romney.&#8221; Well, we had different options then. We had an open-borders guy! (snorts)<\/p>\n<p>Every election\u2019s different and every set of choices is different. The things that make other things relevant change with every election. The establishment is in utter defiance of what\u2019s happening. Stop and think of this, though &#8212; because this is key, folks. For the first time they were attempting to secure the nomination with a moderate, not a conservative. That goes totally against the rule of thumb and how you win nominations and then how you win the general. Anyway, I have to take a break &#8212; and, frankly, I\u2019m tired. I\u2019m worn out. These shows feel like five hours instead of three, and you know why? Is because it\u2019s us, folks. There\u2019s nobody else out there. The people that represent us are not lifting a finger to defeat Barack Obama. The people working for us &#8212; the people we vote for, leaders &#8212; they\u2019re not running against Obama. It\u2019s up to us to do it. It\u2019s just the way it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So. Now, here\u2019s AP, headline: &#8220;Gingrich Surge Unnerves Some Republican Lawmakers &#8212; Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich\u00c2\u2019s stunning surge toward the top of the Republican presidential field has unnerved some Republicans in Congress who remember too well the tumult of nearly two decades ago. &#8220;&#8216;I\u00c2\u2019d rather have steady,\u2019 said Rep. 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