{"id":36113,"date":"2010-08-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:40:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:40:31","slug":"the_fix_for_gop_conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/08\/12\/the_fix_for_gop_conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fix for GOP? Conservatism!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: From Reuters: ‘Americans Grim Over Economy Before Elections.\u2019 This is a poll. It\u2019s a Reuters report on the NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll released yesterday. ‘Pessimism over the economy is rising and the grim mood could hurt both parties in the November 2 congressional elections.\u2019 Sixty-six percent of Americans believe the economy will worsen before it gets better. That\u2019s up from 53% who felt that way in January. Nearly 60% of those surveyed said the country is headed in the wrong direction. More than half of the respondents said they disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy. Seventy-two percent of respondents disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And Reuters, hopefully pointing out here: ‘a finding that could bode ill for incumbents of both major parties seeking re-election.\u2019 They wish. Everybody\u2019s conceding the Republicans are gonna win the House. Now the focus is on the Senate, will they win there? If the Republicans are going to be hurt, Reuters, why is anybody talking about all these Republican gains? <\/p>\n

Even if — and I don\u2019t like this talk, by the way, of taking back the House, taking back the Senate, it\u2019s too early, too premature — but even if that doesn\u2019t happen, we know that the Republicans are going to score huge gains and not for any reason other than they are not Democrats. Because they\u2019re not really putting forth any agenda. So how can Reuters sit here and say that the NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll bodes ill for both parties when everybody concedes the Republicans are going to have sincere, massive gains? ‘Only 24% of those polled expressed positive feelings about the Republican Party. That\u2019s a new low in the 21-year history of the survey. Democrats were only slightly more popular, but also near an all-time low.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s interesting. Granted, this is partisan political operative media, and therefore a partisan political operative poll. But let\u2019s just assume this is true for a second, only 24% expressed positive feelings about the Republican Party. How could they change that? What is the Republican Party doing that has people down on it? In this day and age. In fact, they\u2019re benefiting tremendously from not being Democrats, so what are they not doing or doing that\u2019s causing this problem? And what\u2019s the fix? And you and I both know the fix. <\/p>\n

The fix is start standing for something and make what you\u2019re standing for conservatism. You want to raise that 24% to over 50? Then get in line with a majority of people in the country. Republicans need to forget about being part of the ruling class. And remember what the purpose of their existence in government is. This is in the Wall Street Journal, this word ‘grim\u2019 is in their own story of their own poll, ‘Grim Voter Mood Turns Grimmer,\u2019 is the Wall Street Journal report on their own poll. ‘Pessimism Rises on Economy and War; Bad Reviews for Both Democrats and GOP.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing the Democrats can do. They\u2019re in charge. The Democrats can\u2019t do diddly-squat to help themselves. By their very existence, with total unchecked power, they are doing themselves damage that can\u2019t be stopped and can\u2019t be reversed. The only option they have — Karl Rove points this out in his column today in the Wall Street Journal — the only option they have is bashing Bush, and that\u2019s not a good one, but it\u2019s the best one they\u2019ve got. They cannot point to anything they\u2019ve done with pride. In fact, they\u2019re being told not to brag. They\u2019re being told not to run on their accomplishments. Why is that? Because they know that nobody wants them! <\/p>\n

Nobody wanted health care as we have it; nobody wanted the Porkulus; nobody wants the financial regulatory reform bill; nobody wants the way Democrats are doing things. So there remains a huge opportunity for Republicans to contrast who they are, and all they\u2019d have to do is start espousing the values and principles of our founding. And keep in mind as is in the case with every poll, every poll they oversampled Democrats. So there are far more Democrats in this poll than there are Democrats in the country. And that happens practically with every pollster. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama told the Democrats: run on health care, vote for health care, vote for it. Remember Clinton running around telling these guys at meetings, (imitating Clinton) ‘Hey, you know, I lost Congress in 1994, you know why? We lost it \u2019cause we did not pass health care. If I had stuck with that, if we\u2019d passed that, then that Newt Gingrich revolution wouldn\u2019t have happened. Now, you sit out there and you don\u2019t fall for this notion of voting for this is gonna hurt you. Voting for health care is the only thing, the best thing you can do to help yourself.\u2019 And now what? <\/p>\n

Now they voted for it. And is Clinton out there saying, ‘Now, stand up for yourselves, go out there and run for reelection. It\u2019s like I told you, I told you this the only way to save yourself, you vote for health care, you run out there and you tell everybody you did\u2019? No. They\u2019re getting letters from Clinton and Hillary and Begala and everybody else. (imitating Clinton) ‘By the way, when you\u2019re on our campaign, don\u2019t start bragging about your support for health care, don\u2019t even mention you voted for it. It\u2019s not something we want to talk about right now. And don\u2019t talk about financial regulatory reform bill. In fact, just don\u2019t say one thing about anything you\u2019ve done. Just bash Bush.\u2019 It\u2019s all they got. Golden opportunity here for the Republicans. But they sit there and they\u2019re just gonna try to take what comes their way by not doing anything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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