{"id":314874,"date":"2019-07-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=314874"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:04:43","slug":"mona-charen-advises-dems-on-how-to-woo-never-trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/09\/mona-charen-advises-dems-on-how-to-woo-never-trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Charen Advises Dems on How to Woo Never Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Mona Charen, who is former National Review, may still be there, I don\u2019t know, has written a piece in Politico. She\u2019s a Never Trumper, very famous conservative writer. “How a Democrat Can Win Over a Never-Trumper.”<\/a><\/p>\n

She has a piece in Politico advising Democrats how to get the votes of Never Trumpers because the most important thing for conservatism and for America is getting rid of Donald Trump. She knows how to do it. She says the Democrats can win with the Never Trumpers. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s more than 25 or 30 of these people in the intellectual sphere. There may be more.<\/p>\n

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But, anyway, we\u2019ll go through some of this and I\u2019ll let you decide whether her advice to the Democrats — Mona, why do you need to tell them how to get — it sounds like you\u2019re ready to vote for \u2019em whatever they\u2019re doing. You\u2019re gonna vote for \u2019em simply because they\u2019re not Trump, so why do they need to do anything to get your vote?<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s this piece really about? This piece is to tell Democrats how to win, because the Never Trumpers know they can\u2019t do it by themselves. They can\u2019t get rid of Trump. They\u2019ve tried. They\u2019re at their wits\u2019 end. So the only hope is to tell the Democrats — and I guess the theory is that if they can convince the Democrats to go out and win Never Trumper Republicans, that the Democrats can broaden their base and actually win. So I will run this by you and let you react to it if you want.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mona Charen: \u201cHow a Democrat Can Win Over a Never-Trumper.\u201d Now, again, Mona Charen is a conservative — well, she would think of herself as a conservative writer, National Review, syndicated columnist, has written books. And a very, very proud, very, very energetic, shall we say, very, very involved Never Trumper, despises Donald Trump. Despite the fact that much of what she has devoted her life, issues-wise, to implementing, despite seeing many of those things implemented, she hates him.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not alone. There are several of these types, these conservative literary intellectuals who simply are repulsed by Trump and his personality and his mannerisms, his way of speaking, his existence. And she wants to get rid of Trump. It is the most important thing in the world, not just to her, but to every conservative Republican Never Trumper.<\/p>\n

So she has written a piece in Politico advising the Democrats how to get her vote in order to beat Trump.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Mona, there\u2019s only 22 of \u2019em now, not 23. \u201cYou are itching to be rid of Donald Trump. Who can blame you? Of course, if this were a normal Republican presidency, I would not share your feelings. Not remotely. As a lifelong conservative,\u201d she writes here, Mona Charen, \u201cI think your policy ideas are ill-advised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mona, I\u2019m sure you\u2019re making \u2019em quake in their boots out there with that line. Imagine you\u2019re Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and you\u2019re reading this column and you read, \u201cI think your policy ideas are ill-advised.\u201d Hey, can somebody pour me another pina colada real quick? I need to finish this. Mona, they\u2019re not quaking in their boots yet. Let\u2019s see what\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

\"\"“But this cycle,” writes Mona Charen, “other Trump-disgusted Republicans and I can contemplate voting Democrat. We could do so not because we\u2019ve become progressives, but because we think it\u2019s in the long-term interests of conservatism and the country to be rid of Trump. If he gains a second term, conservatism may well be irredeemably tarnished. Still, much will depend upon whether the Democratic Party can resist its own drift toward Trumpiness. I\u2019ll explain, but first, let me make the case that you should court Republican refugees like me in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

So if Trump gets elected, it\u2019s the end up of conservatism. That\u2019s not what\u2019s going on here. I know exactly what\u2019s gone on here, and I know why these Never Trumpers are feeling abandoned and unnecessary. Their lives no longer have meaning. People are no longer forking over $1,200 bucks to go hear \u2019em speak on cruise ships.<\/p>\n

People got tired of listening to speeches for 25 years and policy dictates on what should happen, we\u2019re the people to make it happen, we\u2019re the ones that have the contacts, but all the cruises and all the speeches and all the donations and all the pleas to keep the publication going, nothing ever happened. No conservatism was ever implemented!<\/p>\n

And then here comes this ogre right out of the ogre movie. Donald Trump gets elected, starts implementing conservatism! Maybe not even knowing it but still doing it. And here are people who have devoted their lives telling everybody that they are the only ones who can get it done because they\u2019re the only ones that fully understand it, they\u2019re the only ones with the contacts to make it happen. Here\u2019s this ogre getting it done, and he\u2019s never given a speech on a cruise ship in his life, after losing an election, by the way, is when those cruises happen.<\/p>\n

Yeah, we go out and soak our sore feelings in whatever they serve us at the bar on the cruise ship and listening to all these bright intellectuals tell us how to win the next time. And then after we lose the next time we\u2019ll head out to new cruise ship to a different part of the world and do it all over again. And then we\u2019ll be asked to subscribe to a magazine that won\u2019t change diddly-squat, and it\u2019ll go broke and some other donor will come along like a fool and fund another one, and still nothing changes, and rinse and repeat for 25 or 30 years.<\/p>\n

\"\"The ogre comes along, wins, starts implementing things, we\u2019ve now got a roaring economy, we got low tax rates, we\u2019ve got the lowest unemployment numbers in decades, and they want to get rid of the guy who did it because it\u2019s embarrassing the way this guy talks. It\u2019s embarrassing the way he looks. Who would ever comb their hair that way and color it orange? This is just not who we are. Besides, the guy doesn\u2019t even drink. You can\u2019t trust a guy that doesn\u2019t drink. Every conservative intellectual has drinks: port wine, cigars in the war room after the speech on the cruise ship. It always happens. But Trump\u2019s never there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we\u2019re on the subject of the midterms, remember that your 2018 victories were not a left-wing triumph. Your 40-seat pickup was due in no small measure to Republicans and independents who voted Democrat. In other words: Voters like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

So she\u2019s admitting — Mona, really, seriously, with all due respect, why do you need to advise them on how to get your vote when you have already given it to them no matter what they do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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