{"id":36274,"date":"2010-08-26T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:35:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:35:33","slug":"lisa_murkowski_ruling_class_rino5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/08\/26\/lisa_murkowski_ruling_class_rino5\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Murkowski: Ruling Class RINO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: From the New York Times: ‘New Forecast Shows Democrats Losing Six to Seven Senate Seats,\u2019 and there\u2019s a 20% chance of losing ten or more seats in the Senate. I think it\u2019s going to be more six or seven. <\/p>\n

By the way, Lisa Murkowski, who is trailing by 1688 votes in Alaska, has just asked for the National Republican Senatorial Committee to send a lawyer to oversee the recount and the whatever — and they\u2019re gonna do it. A lot of tea party people are asking why. There\u2019s a tea party candidate up there that beat Lisa Murkowski and I want to prepare a lot of you in the tea party movement you\u2019re gonna wonder, ‘Why? Why, the Republicans gonna try to sabotage our guy?\u2019 You have to understand here: She is a ruling class Republican, and it\u2019s just like you didn\u2019t understand why Bush would endorse Specter — you didn\u2019t understand why the Republican Party would endorse Specter — over Pat Toomey? Politics is politics. It is a business; it has requirements. Lisa Murkowski is the Republican. <\/p>\n

I have had so many people ask me why the Republican Party is not so embracing of the tea party, and I\u2019m glad I got the question because it\u2019s a good way to be educational and informative to people about what we\u2019re dealing with. The tea party is about overthrowing the establishment. The tea party… Folks, here\u2019s the thing about the tea party. If we\u2019re going to be consistent… and I must say this. A lot of us (and I\u2019ll include myself in this) elect Republicans and they head to Washington and, in one way or another, they let us down. They join the ruling class or fail to govern as they promised they would when they campaigned. Their conservatism sort of fades away — and when this happens, we always say, ‘We\u2019re not going to vote for these people again. We\u2019re going to vote for real conservatives.\u2019<\/p>\n

What this has done with the combination of the tea party being created and evolving, is a lot of people who have no previous ties to politics and are not at all ‘sophisticated\u2019 in the world of party politics have decided that it\u2019s worth running for office and enduring the media anal exam and all of the insulting criticism they\u2019re gonna get because they\u2019ve heard the call. They themselves have complained about Republicans getting to Washington and failing to govern as they had promised and so they said, ‘Okay, I\u2019m going to do it,\u2019 and it\u2019s at that point that they need to be supported — and especially because it\u2019s at that point that the establishment, including the media, starts ripping these people as neophytes and inexperienced goombahs. <\/p>\n

‘They have no clue what they\u2019re doing,\u2019 and so forth. They try to besmirch them. They try to make it embarrassing to publicly support these people, and unfortunately it works with some people who are embarrassed. What do you think the Palin business is? You know, Palin is a great example of what I\u2019m talking about. They tried to embarrass as many Republicans as possible into not supporting Palin from the moment she was named the vice presidential running mate by McCain, and it continues to this day. They\u2019re insulting her, attacking her, making it embarrassing to support her — and it works with people. I can\u2019t tell you the number of Republicans who on the one hand complain, whine and moan to me about all the Republican sellouts in Washington and who then start complaining that Palin doesn\u2019t have the smarts.<\/p>\n

‘She doesn\u2019t have the experience! She needs to go to policy school!\u2019<\/p>\n

I have lost my temper a couple of times with people in my own home, because I\u2019m listening to people complain about Democrats, complain about Obama, complain about liberals — that they fully understand Obama is the worst thing that could happen to America in terms of our economy, traditions and so forth — and then Palin\u2019s name comes up and they say, ‘Well! (snort) We can\u2019t have her! She\u2019s not smart enough, she\u2019s not bright enough.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I look at them and say, ‘Compared to WHO? Compared to Joe Biden? Compared to Harry Reid? Who\u2019s she dumber than? Would you rather have Obama?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, no, but I want somebody that can win.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, tell me who it is. You tell me who packs arenas more than Palin does right now.\u2019 At the time we\u2019re having these discussions it\u2019s last summer and after the Convention and so forth and after the election. ‘Who\u2019s creating more excitement among Republicans, in an electoral sense, than Palin is?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, she still embarrasses me.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, who the hell are you? What do you know about ‘the Indian subcontinent\u2019?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, I just don\u2019t think she\u2019s…\u2019<\/p>\n

‘How do you even know what she knows or doesn\u2019t know? You\u2019re falling full prey to what media critics and the Democrats are saying about her. Why do you want to be so easily swayed? Why…?\u2019 I asked these people, and on a couple of occasions, I was really shouting. ‘Why do you want to echo the very people that on every other day of the week you rip: People like the media, people like Democrats, people you know you can\u2019t trust? You know they lie. Why all of a sudden do you start talking about Palin and now any of the other tea party people like Sharron Angle? Why do you want to believe \u2019em?\u2019 <\/p>\n

So the dichotomy is people want outsiders and they want challengers and they want people who have not been part of the system, and then when some people show up who are outsiders and not part of the system, some of our people that want that then say, ‘Weeeell, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re good. They\u2019re not polished enough.\u2019 What do you mean ‘not polished enough\u2019? If we\u2019re gonna fix this, it\u2019s going to have to be made up of people who have enough passion and care enough to run the gauntlet of having their personal lives exposed, running the risk of having the political establishment — both Republican and Democrat in the media — destroy them and their lives, their families and so forth, with never-ending criticism publicly. <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t on the one hand sit here and ask, ‘Well, where are the good people? How come the same old people run?\u2019 and then some new people pop up and then we start savaging \u2019em. I\u2019m just saying this because it ought to come as no surprise that the Republican establishment is going to go out there and do whatever they can to protect Lisa Murkowski. She is an incumbent. They raised a lot of money on her behalf. Let it open your eyes if you are among those who don\u2019t quite understand it. If you think that party loyalty is based on issues (snorts) don\u2019t make that mistake. It is with a lot but not all. I remember getting mad. I got so mad that I had to apologize to once guy, \u2019cause I literally lost it. I\u2019m listening to this guy who I don\u2019t think he could find the Indian subcontinent on a map. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think he could have found half the stuff we talked about or knew about it, but he was convinced Palin was a dolt and would be an embarrassing thing for the Republican Party, and would be a guaranteed loser. I said, ‘What do you want? Do you want to win with somebody you\u2019re gonna end up criticizing as being unfaithful and so forth?\u2019 It\u2019s something that if you really, really mean it that you want challengers from outside the system — true outsiders — when they show up, then you know what it takes. If you enter the political arena, and you\u2019re not a liberal Democrat, you know that the moment you show any potential of rallying people or winning an election, they\u2019re gonna come out and destroy you. Palin is a classic example of that. They\u2019ll always tell us who they fear. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s another thing I said to this guy: ‘If they really thought Palin was the blithering idiot that they say she is, they wouldn\u2019t be worried about her.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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