RUSH: Now, here\u2019s a story at USA Today. Headline: \u201cDemocrat Presidential Candidates Are Scaring Off Never Trumpers. Big Mistake.\u201d Now, what this story is attempting to say, and it\u2019s reported by somebody named Robert Robb, an editorial columnist for the Arizona Republic. I guess it\u2019s a guest op-ed in USA Today by an Arizona Republic columnist.<\/p>\n
What it is attempting to say here is that the Democrats are scaring off the middle. Here\u2019s the thing about elections. And this is pretty much bankable. You can win elections by gaining votes from the so-called independents and the so-called moderates. And I know they think they exist, and so they do, in their minds, they exist. But I frankly think it\u2019s much ado about nothing.<\/p>\n
You know, the moderates, the independents, they love to tell themselves, “We\u2019re not partisan. We go issue by issue. We are not ideological. We are refined. And we are not at all straight ticket people, and we study it issue by issue.” And they are, “We\u2019re not closed-minded. We\u2019re very open-minded.” That\u2019s what they tell themselves, and this is how they\u2019re cast. And in every election the independents are portrayed as the win or lose constituency.<\/p>\n
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Now, I will happily admit that elections can be won by getting votes from this group of people. But there\u2019s something of greater truth than the fact that you have to get some moderates or independents. That is, if you don\u2019t get your base, it doesn\u2019t matter what else you get. You are going to lose. If you can\u2019t shore up your base, if you can\u2019t turn out your base, all the rest of it\u2019s academic.<\/p>\n
Now, in this scenario, the Democrats right now are holding on to their far-left, very radical, wacko, vagina hat wearing, basement dwelling, overeducated radical base. But that is all they\u2019re getting. The question is, then, are there enough of them? I had Mitt Romney tell me and I had — who was it? — there was one other Republican during a primary season some years ago. “Rush, we can\u2019t win with Republican votes alone. We\u2019re gonna have to go out there and get votes from Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n
So standard operating procedure, the conventional wisdom has always been that the Republicans are the ones who can\u2019t win with just their base. I\u2019m telling you, that is more applicable to the Democrats right now than it\u2019s ever been applicable to the Republicans.<\/p>\n
Are there enough — this is the question — are there enough of these radical, wacko, leftist, vagina wearing hat, all these other group wacko leftists, are there enough of them who, if they all show up in unison on Election Day, are there enough of them to elect a Democrat nominee?<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m gonna submit to you they\u2019re not because you know what\u2019s gonna happen? A bunch of these people are gonna splinter. If their person, if their candidate doesn\u2019t win the nomination, they\u2019re gonna sit it out. Some of Crazy Bernie\u2019s people have even said they\u2019ll vote for Trump if Crazy Bernie doesn\u2019t get it this time.<\/p>\n
So now into this column, all of a sudden the Never Trumpers are said to be of key importance? All of a sudden these historically conservative, right-wing Never Trumpers are suddenly the new moderate base? That\u2019s what this guy claims in the piece. For the Democrats. The Democrats have to win some Never Trumpers. Has anybody done a poll?<\/p>\n
Mr. Snerdley, has anybody done a poll? Does anybody know how many Never Trumpers there are? I\u2019ve counted about 15 to 20. How many of them are there? Are there enough of them to actually add to the Democrat base to secure a Democrat? Come on! But this is the conventional wisdom. It\u2019s another area where the media simply cannot tell itself the truth!<\/p>\n
The media makes the mistake of assuming everybody is like them. So the Never Trumpers, there\u2019s gazillions of \u2019em to go along with the gazillions of leftists who hate Trump. Here\u2019s a pull quote from this piece.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of creeping or trotting liberalism, the Democratic candidates for president are virtually all running on galloping liberalism bent on fundamentally and permanently changing the basic structure of the American system of democratic capitalism. That raises the stakes on ousting Trump tremendously.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAll of this illustrates the economic blind spot of liberal Democrats, a lack of understanding and appreciation for the importance of private investment capital in sustainable private-sector growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the European-style social democracy the Democrats are pledging to transform the United States into can\u2019t be financed just by taxing the rich.\u201d This guy gets it. \u201cA European-style social democracy will require a European-style value added tax, although none of the candidates will openly acknowledge that.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe Biden, the frontrunner, was vice president during the trotting liberalism of the Obama years. But he seems prepared to break out in a gallop as well. At present, how high the Democrats are raising the stakes in this election isn\u2019t clear to the Never Trumpers. As the election approaches, it will become clearer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democrat presidential candidates are scaring off the Never Trumpers because they\u2019re galloping liberals now. The Never Trumpers, they hate Trump, but they\u2019re not liberals. The Democrats need the Never Trumpers. They need to form a coalition with people who also hate Trump. But they\u2019re galloping so fast into extreme liberalism that they\u2019re leaving the Never Trumpers behind, in which case the Never Trumpers are gonna be an isolated voting bloc that doesn\u2019t have the power to make or destroy anybody. Which is about what it ought to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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