{"id":32735,"date":"2009-06-18T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:27","slug":"why_does_gop_want_to_get_along2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/18\/why_does_gop_want_to_get_along2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does GOP Want to Get Along?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: To the phones! Justin, 18 years old, in Las Vegas. Welcome. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, Justin. Hi, Rush. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: All right, now. I\u2019ll just get to my question. I\u2019m just a little aggravated on why aren\u2019t Republican representatives standing up for conservative values against Democrats? Because the way I see it, the people who elected them elected them for the reason to speak for us. And what amazes me is no one is. No one is standing up for what I believe in or what anyone else who I talk to believes in. They\u2019re all just being quiet because I guess.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There are some who are standing up. I could give you some names. Most are in the <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125115.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignright\"\/>House of Representatives. But I know the Republican Party does not have a single figure that stands up and represents the values, things that you think are important. I agree with you. And your question is one that a lot of people have asked. You\u2019re 18 years old, and you have called the right place to have your question answered, why don\u2019t&#8230;? You\u2019re essentially saying, &#8216;Why are the Republicans so eager? Why does it appear they want to get along with the Democrats, right?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, the Republican Party right now is divided into (let\u2019s just make it simple) two groups. It\u2019s a little bit more complicated but we\u2019ll make it two groups.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The one group, the people you\u2019re talking about, the moderate Republicans. They\u2019re called country club or blue-blood Republican, liberal Republicans. They\u2019re not conservatives. And the other group is the conservatives in the Republican Party, and the conservatives now are fractured. In the conservative media, there\u2019s an argument going on over what conservatism is among people. We\u2019ve even got some of our conservatives joining the blue-bloods in trying to gain the approval and get along with Democrats, and the Democrats and the liberals in the immediate media. Now, the answers to this are psychological. They\u2019re not political except in one way. There is a political attachment here in this answer but the main thing, it\u2019s just psychological. Washington is a town, Justin, run entirely by Democrats in business, political and (very importantly) social. It\u2019s being invited places, being considered part of the in crowd, not being considered an outsider. They are the dominate party, they are the people that lead and we have some weak-kneed and some linguini-spined people that want to get along with them simply because it\u2019s easier.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the political aspect of this, even when&#8230; You\u2019re too young to remember, but Ronald Reagan was conservative. He won two landslides. He got 58.8% of the vote in his reelection in 1984. Even then the Republicans that you are noticing today didn\u2019t like Reagan. They didn\u2019t have the courage to stand up and say so because they had no way&#8230; I mean, it would have been foolhardy. But they were embarrassed of him. They were embarrassed of him, thought he was a dunce and everything else. These people are more interested in losing but still sharing power than they are doing what it takes to win, because winning requires confrontation, and they don\u2019t want that. But the real political thing here, Justin &#8212; and I\u2019m not exaggerating this. The thing that causes the biggest fissure in the Republican Party between these blue-bloods I\u2019m talking about and the conservatives you wish would stand up and represent you, is the issue of abortion. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the issue of abortion is referred to as &#8216;social issues.\u2019 The blue-bloods will say, &#8216;We\u2019ve gotta get rid of these people who care about the social issues. The social issues are killing our party,\u2019 they think. The translation of that is they think that the pro-life voter, the evangelical Christian, is the death knell of the party, and they\u2019re embarrassed by them. They don\u2019t like going to the Republican convention and having so many of them there. Their wives are constantly nagging them about this, and they wish their wives would shut up about abortion, just get rid of the Christians. Just get rid of the &#8216;social issues\u2019 is the code word there for getting abortion out of the Republican Party platform. And that\u2019s, in a political sense. That\u2019s one of the primary reasons that the party is divided, and it\u2019s considered enlightened to be a pro-choicer and understand that it\u2019s a woman\u2019s right to choose. And Republicans can gain a lot of friends and a lot of respect in Washington from Democrats by occupying that position. So there\u2019s your answer. I\u2019m happy to have been able to provide it for you. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: To the phones! Justin, 18 years old, in Las Vegas. Welcome. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, Justin. Hi, Rush. 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