{"id":4479,"date":"2016-01-13T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-13T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:26:06","slug":"what_the_nikki_haley_speech_means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/13\/what_the_nikki_haley_speech_means\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Nikki Haley Speech Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Wow. I look as orange on this Dittocam as Obama did last night during the State of the Union. I may need to white balance this thing at some point. No big deal now. Did you notice the orange makeup that Obama had on last night? Did you watch…? Some birthday. Some birthday to sit there and watch this. It was a replay, a combination of previous Obama speeches mixed with lines that were stolen from the West Wing TV show, which Obama has done before in these speeches. But Obama is not the big news last night.<\/p>\n

There was nothing unexpected from Obama. It was more of the same. Everything I told you was gonna happen, happened. The Limbaugh Theorem was on full display. It\u2019s like he hasn\u2019t been president for seven years. He just totally lied and made up this utopian vision of America that he\u2019s created that currently exists, and it\u2019s threatened only by elections of Republicans and redistricting. It\u2019s not threatened by ISIS. They\u2019re just a bunch of guys in pickups. You know, that ISIS is no big deal. They\u2019re just a bunch of guys running around in pickups.<\/p>\n


\nAnd it\u2019s interesting that Trump goes after Cruz and Cruz goes after Trump, and so did Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley is actually the story today, in a whole bunch of different ways. There\u2019s so much here to say about the Nikki Haley response. It\u2019s the first time in my life I can remember the response to the State of the Union not going after the president but rather going off the front-runner of, in this case, her own party. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen that before. And it is quite telling to note where in the Drive-By Media and in the conservative media today she\u2019s being hailed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite instructive, very informative, and illustrative to find out where it is, particularly on our side of the aisle here. She is being universally praised for giving one of the best responses to the State of the Union ever. I\u2019ll tell you what it was. You know, this is hard for me, because I like Nikki Haley. I\u2019ve never met her. I\u2019ve never met her, but I\u2019ve always admired her from afar. I thought she\u2019s done good jobs when she\u2019s spoken at Republican conventions. I mean, she\u2019s done questionable things. In the aftermath of that shooting in the church South Carolina, the participating in the burning of whatever it was, Confederate flag.<\/p>\n

A little bit questionable, but on balance I haven\u2019t had a whole lot of problems with her. But, boy, last night her response? I think it\u2019s proof and it\u2019s an example of so much. For one thing, it\u2019s almost absolute proof of what I have been saying for last couple years now, that the Republican Party\u2019s trying to drive conservatives out of the party. But I think it\u2019s more than that. It\u2019s certainly that, but her speech last night sort of expanded the theme of who is and who isn\u2019t qualified to be a Republican, and the Republican Party is still anti-conservative.<\/p>\n

While that isn\u2019t anything new, what we learned last night is that they are very comfortable identifying themselves as elites and members of a club and that you can\u2019t get in just by being who you are and doing what you want to do as a Republican and pursuing what you believe in. Going after Trump last night the way she did… She wasn\u2019t going after Trump the same way the party goes after the conservative base, or as Jeb Bush said, famously, that his objective was to win the Republican nomination without the support of the Republican Party base.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s never been done before, and he was very proud saying so. And he said it a number of times, and it became an objective of the party\u2019s: To have a nominee that got the nomination specifically without the support of the base. Now, the way Jeb was gonna do it was by raising more money and spending more money than anybody else, and freezing the opposition out by virtue of all the other conservatives in the race canceling each other out and dividing the support, dividing the money. Jeb was gonna be the last man standing because of the money and the only option Republican voters had when it comes time to vote for president.<\/p>\n