{"id":30978,"date":"2008-11-24T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:05:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:05:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:05:18","slug":"kondracke_gop_should_fire_rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/11\/24\/kondracke_gop_should_fire_rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Kondracke: GOP Should Fire Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, I\u2019m now persona non grata, or should be. I should be persona non grata in the Republican Party. Morton Kondracke has instructed the Republican Party to fire me. We go to Saturday night\u2019s Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel. Mort Kondracke and Fred Barnes have this exchange.<\/p>\n<p>BARNES: I read that excellent column of yours in Roll Call about what Republicans need to do, and except for the vicious attack on Rush Limbaugh, it made a lot of sense, particularly that Republicans &#8212; or Democrats for that matter &#8212; if they\u2019re in the minority, need to present alternative policies.<\/p>\n<p>KONDRACKE: It wasn\u2019t &#8216;a vicious attack on Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 All I said was that Republicans should not allow them to be their intellectual bosses, as in immigration, where they lost the Hispanic vote, right? What &#8212; the Republicans &#8212; it\u2019s gonna be very hard, they\u2019re down to 170-odd members of whom &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>BARNES: Odd?<\/p>\n<p>KONDRACKE: &#8212; 165 are from the most conservative districts in the United States. And they\u2019re very subject in those districts to haranguing from the likes of Rush Limbaugh. And the result of that is the tendency will be not to think but to just go right, right, right, right, right and say, &#8216;No, no, no, no, no.\u2019 That is not the road back.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mort Kondracke, a moderate centrist liberal advising the Republican Party to ignore me. You know, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, the Hot Air blog wrote about this last week. It\u2019s a stretch of the imagination and it\u2019s a stretch of the facts to blame me for McCain\u2019s loss. Mort, I would tell you what I\u2019ve told everybody: &#8216;You got the candidate you wanted.\u2019 All of you guys in the Fox All Stars, when you started talking about the Republican presidential nomination, you wanted McCain. McCain was a guy who could get the Hispanic vote. McCain was the guy who could get Democrats. (Hello, Colin Powell.) He could get independents and moderates. (Hello, Colin Powell.) He could get all these groups that the right-wing Republicans couldn\u2019t get &#8212; and McCain went out there and he gave it his best shot, didn\u2019t he? You guys like Schwarzenegger, you got the campaign you wanted. Conservatism wasn\u2019t on the ballot. Conservatism didn\u2019t <emphasize>lose <\/emphasize>anything. When conservatism was on the ballot, Prop 8, California and some tax cut propositions in other states, bammo! It won. What do you think is the alternative, Mort, to liberalism? <\/p>\n<p>Mort said the Republicans need alternative policies. Yeah, and yet you suggested McCain, who had no alternative policies. McCain (this is not possible, but he did it ) lost the tax cut vote to a collectivist! That\u2019s not my fault, Mort, and that\u2019s not any conservative\u2019s fault. When the Republican Party loses the tax cut vote, you gotta start looking at people in the party, and you gotta start looking at the candidates. &#8216;These people listening to Rush Limbaugh harangues\u2019? The dirty little secret is Obama could have been defeated. But Mort\u2019s like all these other people here trying to blame me for what is happening and saying if the Republicans gonna win, like on immigration, they really think that I and others of my, quote, unquote, &#8216;ilk\u2019 destroyed the Hispanic vote? What more could McCain do to get it than what he did? He went out there and was the author, the visible author with Ted Kennedy of the amnesty bill. The dirty little secret is, Mort, that the Republicans should not look at the electorate as, &#8216;They gotta get the Hispanic vote,\u2019 and then, &#8216;We gotta get some of the black vote. We gotta get the female vote, and we gotta get the Wal-Mart vote and we-foot get the NASCAR vote.\u2019 We don\u2019t Balkanize the electorate. <\/p>\n<p>Conservatism looks at people and sees people, sees human beings, sees Americans. We think that our ideas lift everybody regardless of their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or what have you. The sad thing is, Mort, the blueprint\u2019s there. It\u2019s been used three times since 1980, and it\u2019s been victorious each time it\u2019s been tried. The problem is the Republican Party is listening to people like you who think it needs to go moderate. You got the candidate you loved; you got the candidate you thought could win. It was just predictable. Everybody that I know knew for a fact once Senator McCain got the nomination, what the outcome of this election was going to be. The idea that we can go out and get the Hispanic votes by being &#8216;right\u2019 on immigration, you\u2019re just telling everybody, &#8216;Forget principles! Forget core beliefs. Go pander. Go tell this group what they want to hear, and then go tell the corn farmers in Iowa that you love ethanol, and then you go tell the women whatever you think they want to hear.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what it is, \u2019cause they don\u2019t even know half the time. Then we\u2019re supposed to go to the Wal-Mart middle-class people and we\u2019re supposed to promise government programs to help them. Why in the world are we supposed to get into a competition with liberal Democrats, who are the professionals at growing government and offering programs to get votes? Why should we enter that competition? That\u2019s not who we are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: By the way, I\u2019m now persona non grata, or should be. 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