{"id":17442,"date":"2011-11-10T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:32:53","slug":"gop_eyes_senate_not_wh_in_2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/10\/gop_eyes_senate_not_wh_in_2012\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Eyes Senate, Not WH, in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m questioned about this every day. For example, I\u2019ve been inundated with questions from people, why did Karl Rove grant Gloria Allred credibility in this Herman Cain business? And the answer to me on something like that is obviously that Herman Cain\u2019s <\/a>not Karl Rove\u2019s guy and this is a primary, an election, it\u2019s a nominating process, and Karl wants his guy to win whoever it is. <\/p>\n

Karl is probably opposed to Herman Cain for a bunch of reasons like he was opposed to Christine O\u2019Donnell and Sharron Angle, not thinking they can win. He probably doesn\u2019t think Herman Cain can win, if you want me to honestly analyze it. But I think that what inspires them here is that they\u2019re still ticked off. I think some of these guys on our side, do you remember Mike Murphy? He was a campaign consultant and he was livid over Christine O\u2019Donnell beating Mike Castle. He was just livid that Christine O\u2019Donnell won that primary and that Castle didn\u2019t have a prayer because Castle was the only guy that could win, and these guys — this is where it gets important — these guys are obsessed with being the ones to tell their candidates what to do to win and it\u2019s basically get independents, get the middle of the road guys. <\/p>\n

They make their money there. They tell their candidates for whom they work, “The Democrats are gonna get 40%, you\u2019re gonna get 40% of the Republicans, and who gets that bunch in the middle? I\u2019m the one that can get \u2019em. I\u2019m the one that can tell you how to get the independents.” And they just look at candidates like Sharron Angle or Christine O\u2019Donnell and say the independents are never gonna go for \u2019em, no matter you do, it\u2019s impossible, can\u2019t win, we don\u2019t want to be part of it, and if you think you know more than I do, you run the campaign. I guarantee you they were happy that O\u2019Donnell lost because it made \u2019em look good, and they\u2019re still, I think some of them — and I don\u2019t mean Murphy specifically here, it\u2019s the whole group of them — I think they still have ego drive here to prove they were right about O\u2019Donnell and Angle, and that\u2019s one of the reasons why they\u2019re doing what they\u2019re doing to oppose people they think are going to lose and people they don\u2019t want to win. <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also that aspect of it. That\u2019s the thing. H.R. just said, “Don\u2019t they want to win at the end of the day?” I think that you\u2019ve hit the nail on the head with the question, and you have actually provided what a good caller does: Make the host look good. I think they are more concerned, our consultants, with holding the House and winning the Senate. I think they believe (deep down in the depths of their souls) that Obama can\u2019t be beat. I think they look at Mitt Romney<\/a> as the single only hope we have of taking the Senate even if he loses the presidential race. Snerdley, you stop and think about this and you\u2019re gonna realize I\u2019m right again — and I wish I\u2019d thought of this months ago.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell and Angle were opposed because they wanted to win the Senate. They didn\u2019t care about anything else. Remember, it was the midterms, and they wanted to win the Senate. They wanted their committee chairmanships. They wanted to be in charge of the money. When you\u2019re a Senator, it can be said that you\u2019re in charge of one one-hundredth of $3 trillioni or $4 trillion, whatever amount we\u2019re gonna spend that year. It\u2019s a lot of power; and you run committees, that\u2019s even more power, and they were ticked off \u2019cause they didn\u2019t think that the Senate was gonna go our way with those two candidates. So I really believe that they\u2019re looking at Romney not because he can beat Obama, but because he can limit the damage in the Senate and House races, which is what they really want.<\/p>\n

I do believe that in some cases (and I\u2019m not prepared to name names right now) on our side they would rather Obama win than a full-throated conservative beat him, because they don\u2019t control the conservatives. They don\u2019t control the Tea Party; they don\u2019t control where that victorious conservative candidate would come from. (interruption) Well, I do, too, but the thing to remember about 2010 was that a lot of the seats that we picked up that got us to a majority number were marginal districts. They\u2019re not guaranteed reelects. They\u2019re not these so-called safe seats; it\u2019s gonna take a lot of work to keep winning them in perpetuity — and if the base ends up being suppressed, depressed? If something happens in the energy, the can\u2019t-wait-to-get-out-there-and-vote aspect?<\/p>\n

If that declines all and if the unions are able to get-out-the-vote on the left and they\u2019re able to get their energy back up, then some of those seats that we won in 2010 are not guaranteed. They\u2019re marginal and we might lose them, and if the Democrats are out there fielidng good candidates…? I\u2019m just telling you how the inside the Beltway consultants think on our side. These are not my thoughts right now. I\u2019m telling you how our guys are thinking. So they\u2019re thinking we could lose the House. I guarantee you they are thinking, “With the wrong presidential candidate we could lose the House, not to mention lose the White House race.” Well, they don\u2019t want to lose the House. They want to win the Senate. They think Obama\u2019s gonna get reelected and that\u2019s the best way to stop him is to have both houses: House and Senate.<\/p>\n

And they look at Romney as, “Eh, cool. He\u2019s a moderate; he\u2019s not total ribald conservative,” but they think because sounds intelligent and he\u2019s smooth talker now (he doesn\u2019t have many gaffes), that he can, while losing the race for the presidency, still bring off a number of victorious Senate and House raises. Now, I think the only way to pull it off with Romney is if sufficient and consistent pressure is brought on him to run on conservative policies. Like Daniel Henninger said in the Wall Street Journal about three weeks or a month ago: “You\u2019re gonna have to constantly push Romney to the right. That\u2019s not where he naturally lives,” and so you\u2019re gonna have to push him to run on conservative policies and produce and project a distinguishable contrast with Obama.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The official program observer has a question. What\u2019s the question? Hm-hm. Right. Both parties have had trifectas and both have lost. You mean consultants, why they try go be more moderate or candidates in general? No, I think it\u2019s a business. I think they really believe that the 20%\u2019s where every election\u2019s won. And I think they believe that they are moderates, that they\u2019re not wacko conservatives or wacko leftists, and that most people are like them. Snerdley is so disturbed of my analysis of a half hour ago, of why the Republican establishment is ripping into all of our conservative candidates. He\u2019s really disturbed by it. What, for the first time you\u2019re figuring out that they\u2019re not team players? That they\u2019re businesspeople first? I know this is a tough thing for a lot of people to accept. <\/p>\n

You always think Republicans are all on the same side, same objectives. No way. No way. They want to win certain things. Some of our guys, I\u2019m telling you, do not think Obama\u2019s beatable. Now, I know it makes no sense. They live in Washington. It makes sense if you live in Washington. It makes sense if all your friends are the liberal media. It makes sense if that\u2019s your life, that Obama can\u2019t lose. Obama\u2019s God! If you live in Washington, if that\u2019s your life, it makes total sense. If you don\u2019t think that any of these conservatives can beat him, then you\u2019re gonna go pick the guy who can help your candidates for the Senate and the House win so that you can chalk up some victories for your business. <\/p>\n

You are assuming that everybody\u2019s on the same team here. I have observed that with the death of Ronald Reagan and with the death of William Buckley, it\u2019s wide open. There\u2019s no discipline on the team. There is nobody that sets the agenda. Everybody is trying to be the smartest kid in the room or the power broker or what have you. It\u2019s patently obvious. And Snerdley, this gonna really destroy you, but they don\u2019t all agree. A lot of them don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s destroying the country. They don\u2019t think that this is anything out of the ordinary; it\u2019s the United States of America. We just print money. We\u2019ve always run deficits since the founding. It isn\u2019t any big deal. I\u2019ve been saying this for years. You ought to have learned it by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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