{"id":254157,"date":"2017-11-08T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=254157"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:04:54","slug":"the-lesson-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/08\/the-lesson-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson for Republicans in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s another truth, ladies and gentlemen, just gonna fire this out there. There\u2019s nothing inspiring about establishment Republicans, and to win in a blue state like this was, you\u2019re going to have go to war against the establishment. And it\u2019s hard to be seen as that kind of a warrior when you don\u2019t campaign with President Trump or you don\u2019t try embrace what you like of Trumps policies but then you try to make sure that everybody knows you\u2019re not embracing Trump. You might like this idea he has or that idea, but you\u2019re not embracing Trump, that\u2019s not gonna get it done.<\/p>\n

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Now, we\u2019ll never know. Not campaigning with the president may not be the reason that Gillespie lost. But that\u2019s not the right approach. Gillespie held a fundraiser hosted by former President George W. Bush. He was joined by Vice President Pence on the campaign trail, but not Trump. Trump was nowhere. The Republican establishment, when you strip it all away, is made up of conservative intellectuals, media members, you know, flat-line Republicans, and they don\u2019t care for Trump.<\/p>\n

And I think the truth is that several Republican leaders, officials, maybe not names we all know, but my feeling is that some of them are quite happy that this happened. Trump is seen as an outsider, changes the status quo, and the status quo cannot be changed. That\u2019s why it\u2019s the status quo. But at the same time if you run away from Donald Trump, that sends a message. If you run away from Donald Trump, it validates Democrats, it suppresses votes of people that you need if you\u2019re going to make a difference and try to win in a blue state.<\/p>\n

And like Larry Sabato said, Virginia is now a deep blue state<\/a>, it\u2019s a tough place for Republicans to win even though it\u2019s one of these states where the vast majority of the acreage of the state is red! But the urban population centers, suburban areas of Washington, that\u2019s very densely populated, it\u2019s all establishment types that all feed off of government one way or the other. And when you add the fact that Terry McAuliffe, as we just pointed out, legalized felons voting to the tune of 200,000 votes and that Virginia has been basically an open-borders state for 10 years, the demographic makeup of that state has just dwarfed the native population of the state.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s happening in a lot of these Democrat states that are sanctuary cities or sanctuary states as it were. Because there\u2019s one thing, despite this result last night, there\u2019s some things that haven\u2019t changed. America is still sick of Washington. America is still fed up and no longer dazzled or impressed by Hollywood. America remains fed up at what\u2019s happening to American education having been taken over by a bunch of leftist radicals and anti-Americanism sentiment.<\/p>\n

The majority of the American people are still sick of the Washington establishment, and they are still looking for candidates who represent those views. Ed Gillespie does not. Nothing against old Ed. I\u2019ve never had a bad experience with Ed Gillespie. So please don\u2019t misunderstand. But Ed Gillespie is a lifelong Republican establishment. He\u2019s a party man. And these guys believe that Trump is poison to their party.<\/p>\n

\"\"As I pointed out, Gillespie\u2019s original campaign team, his advisers, consultants, everybody, they were all anti or Never Trumpers<\/a>. There was no way he was gonna win in this climate, in that regard. But they, like all the Democrats, have convinced themselves that America hates Trump, not the establishment. They have convinced themselves that America hates Trump, not what Hollywood and entertainment have done to our culture. They have convinced themselves that America hates Donald Trump, not what\u2019s happening to American health care.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t care, what happened in Virginia last night doesn\u2019t matter. A majority of Americans are still sick of the Washington establishment. They are livid over what\u2019s been done to the American health care system. A majority of Americans are still livid over the open borders attitude and mentality of the Washington establishment. The things that elected Donald Trump were not defeated last night, because they weren\u2019t on the ballot. The things that elected Donald Trump were not a factor in many ways last night.<\/p>\n

My point in saying that is that the things that elected Donald Trump are still alive and they\u2019re still kicking, and they\u2019re still the motivating, and they still are inspiring people, despite the outcome of a governor\u2019s race in a blue state. Now, the Democrats, as is patently obvious, are inspired, and they are motivated, and they are energized by one thing, and that is hate.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party is the largest hate group in America today. Their hate spans many boundaries. They have a literal hate for parts of the Constitution. Some of them hate the whole thing and resent that it exists. Many liberal Democrats hate the rule of law. Many of them hate the flag and love demonstrating that hate. They obviously hate people of faith. The Democrats think they can win elections by mocking prayer. The Democrats think they can win election and grow their party and their movement by making fun of prayer and God and religion if it happens to be Christianity.<\/p>\n

\"\"And not just that. Democrats, leftists today, inspired by their hate, also despise and resent what you and I call traditional American values. And so it follows that they would loathe Donald Trump. Donald Trump not only represents all these things that they hate. He loudly promotes them. He vocalizes them. He is unabashedly proud of his country and its potential greatness and what he believes. And that alone is enough to inspire their hate. Then you throw in the fact that they hate his personality. They hate the way he looks. They hate the way he talks. They hate the way they think he treats people.<\/p>\n

You add all that in addition to the hatred they have for what he stands for, and you have an unhinged, irrational hate that is nearly impossible to deal with it. They loathe Donald Trump. The man who is dragging the economy up from the basement to the first floor is hated and despised. If the Republican… It\u2019s time to start learning some lessons here. It\u2019s time to maybe try to extricate themselves from their own feelings of resentment, hate, what have you.<\/p>\n

The Republicans had better understand that to win elections, they\u2019re going to have to get in sync with voters who are not leftists. The Republicans had better figure out real quick that they don\u2019t win and can\u2019t win by reaching out to these people that make up the largest hate group in America. The Republicans are never gonna get votes from people even if they stand for amnesty. Even if they agree with Antifa on issue after issue, Antifa is never gonna vote Republican.<\/p>\n

The Republicans, likewise, are never, ever going to get the media to like them or to respect them or to treat them fairly no matter what they do, short of changing parties. That\u2019s pretty much what they would have to do — and then they\u2019d have to prove it was real for a number of years afterward. They can\u2019t run the clock out on Trump, which I think has also been an unstated policy on the part of some in the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n

“Well, you know, let\u2019s bide our time. Let\u2019s make sure none of the Trump agenda passes, and let\u2019s not promote much of it. We\u2019ll give it some lip service, maybe. But let\u2019s have most of Trump\u2019s agenda just die, and that\u2019s how we\u2019ll save ourselves and our party.” I actually think there\u2019s some of that thinking going around. “If we just let Trump fail, if we just make sure Trump doesn\u2019t succeed… Let time take its course, and Trump will fade away, and we will still be here standing.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But I don\u2019t think you can run the clock out on Trump. I think that will kill the party, because Trump represents something that\u2019s bigger than Trump. This is what they don\u2019t get. Trump did not start what is going on out there. They did, actually. You can trace this in the most modern era to the Tea Party in 2010 — and to that, we owe Barack Hussein Obama\u2019s rampant, needless, irresponsible spending, his socialistic takeover of the health care system, and the Republican Party not willing to stand up and oppose it.<\/p>\n

People thought they had to take matters into their own hands. Hello, Tea Party. It grew and grew and grew and grew, and Trump tapped into it. It\u2019s bigger than Trump. He represents a movement, a movement that recognizes a declining economy and a declining culture; a weakening of property rights; an obvious weakening, blurring, erasing of borders. Disposable income was on the way down. All of these things Trump is trying to change and reverse. Just look around. I mean, while Trump has been president…<\/p>\n

Whether you want to give Trump credit for this or not, that\u2019s up to you, but while Trump has been president, it is markedly different than what Obama was president. The economy is making a comeback. Regulations have been dialed way back. Food stamp usage is way down. People are working in greater numbers no. Illegal immigration has been not stopped, but it has significantly leveled off. These are not independent facts. These are not coincidental things.<\/p>\n

They have happened because of serious, legitimate changes at the top — and if they\u2019re ignored, the Republicans are only damaging themselves. After what happened in Virginia, it\u2019s time to bold up. It\u2019s time to be bold and embrace the change and — I say it again — present a picture of unification on the advancement of a Republican agenda, and, Katy, bar the doors. While that happened, the Democrats are gonna win their states. They\u2019re gonna win Virginia. They\u2019re gonna win New Jersey. That doesn\u2019t mean that all is lost.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Michael in Bellmore, New York. Welcome, sir. I appreciate your call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a… like a concern. You know, I voted for Trump. I am a Trumpster. I have friends that are Trumpsters. And when we heard the governor, Ed Gillespie — well, he wanted to be governor, Ed Gillespie. He wouldn\u2019t even mention the word Trump on his campaign until the very, what, day or end of the day? We say he\u2019s gonna lose \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t get voters like us. You do not have it both ways. And this is my concern.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m worried that the Republicans are gonna be… Like, the playbook that the Democrats are taking is, “How do we beat these guys? We take away those Trump voters that go out in rain, snow.” We\u2019re the guys that are gonna bring you over the top in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Maybe, you know, we didn\u2019t make a difference in Virginia. But in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, they\u2019re gonna need us, and you can\u2019t not mention the word “Trump” or not embrace Trump and expect our vote. We\u2019re just not gonna do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me translate this for people who may not quite know what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll take a stab at it. You\u2019re saying that people like you are not gonna vote for an establishment guy like Gillespie and help him win because you don\u2019t want the establishment to get the wrong idea that they can count on you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Because let\u2019s say he would have won yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You can bet today — and you know this — they would have turned around and said, “Hey, look, see? We distanced ourselves from Trump and now we won!” We know that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think Trump voters are sophisticated enough to realize that would happen and so not vote for Gillespie?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, for two reasons. One, he wouldn\u2019t even mention the word “President Trump” during the campaign.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So you can\u2019t get my vote. You can\u2019t have your cake and eat it too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I get that. I get that. What I\u2019m asking you is if this is a conscious reason people like you don\u2019t vote for establishment Republican candidates because you don\u2019t want to give them the chance to say, “See? We can win with these Trump people.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Sharon in Fairfax, Virginia. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I\u2019m so surprised I got through to you. I was listening to your last caller from northern Virginia, and I had to disagree with him just a little bit. But like I told your screener here: We knew almost from the very beginning that Ed Gillespie was not going to win. He was not our favorite to run. We like Corey Stewart, who is a major Trumper, and the reason that I really disagree with your last caller — I see this with Republicans a lot — is if the candidate isn\u2019t perfect, they stay home. As far as I\u2019m concerned, that\u2019s how we got Barack Obama and that\u2019s how we got all of these other Democrats, because the Republicans just say, “Well, you know, he\u2019s not exactly what I want so I\u2019m not gonna vote,” and in strolls the Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re right about certain elections, certainly. We do have or have had our series, our share of single-issue voters. No question about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This guy\u2019s point was a little different, and that\u2019s why I try to translate. Here, essentially, is what he was saying. It\u2019s everything you said. You didn\u2019t want Gillespie —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and this guy said that the reason Trump voters are not gonna vote for people like Gillespie is because they don\u2019t want \u2019em to win, because if they do, the Republican establishment in Washington is going to say: See? We can win. We can get Trump voters. We don\u2019t have to change.<\/p>\n

Trump voters will vote for the establishment and so forth, and this guy was saying we don\u2019t want them to think they can win by not putting up the right kind of candidate. So he was saying that Trump voters in Virginia were very sophisticated, and they were not gonna let the Republican establishment win no matter what, if the credit went to Trump voters. It wasn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I do understand that. I really do. But now look what we\u2019ve got. We have a McAuliffe wannabe. And that, to me — like, we are right in the heart of northern Virginia. As a matter of fact, from my husband\u2019s office we can see Virginia — I mean, we can see D.C. That\u2019s how close we are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you can see Virginia from your husband\u2019s office, you can see the Russians.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yeah. I was just gonna say we can\u2019t see Russia, but we can definitely see some of the monuments and whatever from my husband\u2019s office. And I don\u2019t like the establishment any more than anyone else. But I hate — I shouldn\u2019t use the word “hate,” but I do — the policies of the Democrats, Terry McAuliffe in general is just too much for me. But we knew that Ed Gillespie was gonna lose, and it\u2019s always, always northern Virginia —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: If you knew Gillespie was gonna lose, then all the rest is academic. It doesn\u2019t matter. You shouldn\u2019t be mad at the guy if Gillespie was gonna lose. I\u2019ll tell you what the guy was talking about. Do you remember Jeb Bush, Jeb with the exclamation mark after his name. Do you remember what Jeb Bush\u2019s premise was going into the Republican presidential primaries? This is before Trump is announced. Jeb has explained his strategy for winning, and his strategy specifically was he was going to win the Republican nomination without the base.<\/p>\n

He was very open about it. He wasn\u2019t trying to hide it. And he was saying this almost as a bragging kind of point, that we can win this without the base. I\u2019m not sure if he actually used the words “the base,” but it was clear that he had a strategy for getting the nomination by ignoring the base or not needing them.<\/p>\n

The formula says, when you\u2019re running for president, you go out in the primaries, you have to be, you know, pedal-to-the-metal conservative, you\u2019ve gotta get the base. And after you\u2019ve got them, then you moderate and you move to the center, and that\u2019s when you pick up people that are not your base. That\u2019s where you expand, pick up maybe some Democrats, moderates, independents, or what have you. Jeb was saying (imitating Jeb), “I\u2019m gonna start with the moderates and independents, and I\u2019m gonna not even get to the base. I\u2019m gonna win this without having to go to the base.” And he got three delegates. But that strategy belied and demonstrated exactly what the Republican establishment\u2019s view of its own base was and still is.<\/p>\n

And I think that the previous caller that you referenced probably has not forgotten that. His point was, we\u2019re not gonna let these guys win with our votes. We\u2019re not gonna give them the chance to say that we will help them. The divide is big and it\u2019s great, is the point, the disconnect, and it\u2019s not shrinking any at all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the fact remains here, folks — all this talk about the base — Trump can\u2019t win with only his base. Much as you might not want to hear it, I mean, you know damn well Trump needs more than his base to win. He needed all those Democrats in those blue states that he got. The problem is, Trump\u2019s the only guy on our side, quote, unquote, that can do that.<\/p>\n

I mean, every establishment Republican tries to reach out and get Democrat votes, do they not, by supporting amnesty or embracing this or that other cockamamie thing, but none of \u2019em can do it. Romney couldn\u2019t do it. George W. Bush lost the popular vote. He didn\u2019t really reach out. Trump\u2019s the only guy that has, and they don\u2019t want to be Trump.<\/p>\n

So what are they gonna do? Rand Paul has told me, “We can\u2019t win with just Republican votes.” It\u2019s another way of saying we can\u2019t win with just our base. Well, Trump has proven he can win by expanding his base, but no other Republican I know of can. I may be forgetting somebody here. I\u2019m talking about current, active candidates. I don\u2019t know of one who did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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