{"id":213757,"date":"2016-06-14T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/14\/the_gop_s_abandonment_issues\/"},"modified":"2016-06-14T19:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T23:07:59","slug":"the_gop_s_abandonment_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/14\/the_gop_s_abandonment_issues\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\u2019s Abandonment Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  You know, you\u2019re right, I haven\u2019t.  Well, I played hardly any sound bites today \u2019cause had a lot of stuff to catch up on, but I just told the broadcast engineer to keep sound bites 52, 53.  It\u2019s Trump on American exceptionalism.  Somebody\u2019s gotta talk to him about this.  And Snerdley says, “You said there\u2019s a lot of sound bites even mentioning you when you were gone, you haven\u2019t played those.”  I\u2019m going through them.  I tell you what, it\u2019s people like Haley Barbour saying that all this anger at the Republican Party\u2019s my fault. (imitating Barbour) “I used to be a big time supporter. When he ran the RNC and I was on the radio it was great going, it was great guns. Rush was conservative and the party, but the last three or four years something\u2019s gone wrong and Rush is off the reservation.”  Blaming me and the Rush Limbaughs. <\/p>\n

And then Mitch McConnell: “Talk show hosts have misled the GOP base.”  And NPR media analyst:  “Trump learned how to manipulate media by studying Rush Limbaugh.”  Journalism professor:  “Rush Limbaugh\u2019s right media attacks have no impact on Trump because his supporters have been yearning for somebody who fights back.”  “Obama insulted us,” a vet here, “when he said all we do is sit around in VFW halls and listen to Rush Limbaugh, watching Fox News.”  And then there\u2019s the one Carl Bernstein saying that what Trump is saying is literally abhorrent, but it\u2019s effective.  That\u2019s the problem. <\/line><\/p>\n

So, yeah, I guess we\u2019ll save all those.  ‘Cause I\u2019m not gonna have time to get to those today.  Look, I didn\u2019t listen to these, so I don\u2019t know how big the knife Haley had.  I know what he\u2019s talking about.  I ran into Haley one night. I was at 21 with Roger Ailes and Haley Barbour walked in and came over, “Hey, Rush, hey, what\u2019s happening, I just got in from Yazoo City,” and he had an idea that we could do a joint thing with RNC or sharing data, website subscription lists or some such thing.  But he was always a nice. He came by my house once when he was thinking about running for president and said, “Rush, we can\u2019t oppose Obama, gotta oppose his policies, but not him.”  Fine, fine, fine. He\u2019s a nice guy. <\/p>\n

I understand all this.  If I were these guys I\u2019d be concerned about it, too.  What they don\u2019t understand is — well, I\u2019ll save all this \u2019til tomorrow.  But don\u2019t even expect me to go banshee on Haley Barbour.  That\u2019s not what\u2019s gonna happen.  I don\u2019t go banshee on these guys.  I don\u2019t go banshee on anybody. (interruption) Well, I mean everybody needs a scapegoat.  Look, they relied on us for how many years to spread their message when they didn\u2019t want to say it themselves, and then they lose it, I can understand feeling abandoned.  Everybody has abandonment issues.  Whenever you\u2019re abandoned, I mean, you blame the people that abandon you.  You don\u2019t blame yourself. <\/p>\n

Anyway, but I don\u2019t want to get ahead of myself.  I\u2019m not gonna try to prejudge anything.  I haven\u2019t even heard the sound bites.  I\u2019m just reading the transcript, summary of them to share with you.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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