{"id":28485,"date":"2008-02-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:15:07","slug":"gop_afraid_to_attack_obama_or_hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/02\/25\/gop_afraid_to_attack_obama_or_hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Afraid to Attack Obama or Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: In The Politico today, David Paul Kuhn. Here\u2019s the headline: &#8221;GOP Fears Charges of Racism, Sexism\u2019 &#8212; Top Republican strategists are working on plans to protect the [Republican Party] from charges of racism or sexism in the general election, as they prepare for a presidential campaign against the first-ever [black guy or woman] Democratic nominee. The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups&#8230;\u2019 (snorts) I only read the first paragraph. What I just read came from the second. But the bile is starting to go north from my stomach. &#8216;The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate&#8230; The secretive effort underscores the enormous risk senior [Republican] operatives see for a party often criticized for its&#8230;\u2019 See, here we go. We accept their premise, and then we act on it. We will accept some of their agenda, we believe what they tell people about us, and we then accept it and have to go out and try to prove that we\u2019re not that. In the meantime, we lose. We pick up little crumbs of their agenda and then we run around and say, &#8216;Conservatism doesn\u2019t work; conservative ideas don\u2019t work,\u2019 when nobody even tries them. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The RNC project is viewed as so sensitive that those involved in the work were reluctant to discuss the findings in detail. But one Republican strategist, who asked that his name be withheld to speak candidly, said the research shows the daunting and delicate task ahead. Republicans will be told to &#8216;be sensitive to tone and stick to the substance of the discussion\u2019 and that &#8216;the key is that you have to be sensitive to the fact that you are running against historic firsts,\u2019&#8230;\u2019 So what do we have? The Republicans are planning here on getting the black and liberal white vote, by not attacking the liberal candidate in the campaign. If this guy wins it, it\u2019s McGovern all over in terms of policy! I think this is bogus. I was talking to a reporter last week. &#8216;Are you going to criticize Obama?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hell, yes, I\u2019m going to criticize him!\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How are you going to do it?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fearlessly! I\u2019m going to do it on the issues.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOP_Afraid_to_Fight_Obama__Hillary_-02_25_08.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>I\u2019ve got Snerdley here as the Official Obama Criticizer. When the situation is warranted, he will be brought in also to assist in the project. I just don\u2019t want to accept that this is a problem. We\u2019re already allowing them to tie one hand behind our back with all of this. The policy difference between even McCain and Obama is stark enough &#8212; it\u2019s night and day &#8212; that race and gender are incidental to it. But this is the reason Hillary\u2019s having trouble, because there are no distinctions in their ideas. So Clinton had to go after him. He had to play the race card. We are not going to have to play the race card. We\u2019re running against Karl Marx, for crying out loud! <\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: In The Politico today, David Paul Kuhn. 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