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RUSH: Mark Cuban has got the answer. “Mark Cuban has some advice for the Republican Party: Drop the social issues. ‘If I was going to give guidance to the Republican Party, I\u2019d say, ‘Stay completely out of social issues.'” He said it on CNBC today. I\u2019ve been hearing that since 1992.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I can\u2019t tell you how many years, since 1992, that I have been hearing: “The Republican Party better get rid of the social issues or it doesn\u2019t have a prayer.” And the theory, here\u2019s what Mark Cuban says. “If you stay out of social issues, then the conversation from that side will only be about economics, and business, and growing business, and ideas. It should be easy! The generation of sex, drugs, and rock and roll didn\u2019t turn out quite like we planned, right? We thought we\u2019d be like, ‘Live free. Stay out of the bedroom. Stay out of everybody\u2019s lives. Let\u2019s just focus on business.\u2019 It turned out to be the exact opposite.”<\/p>\n

By the way, there are plenty of Republicans that have stopped talking about social issues. They still get hammered with \u2019em. The Republicans are gonna get hammered no matter what they do. The Republicans are gonna get hammered. Look at the War on Women. There wasn\u2019t one. There isn\u2019t War on Women, other than the one the Democrats conduct. There is not a War on Women. And yet it exists. And it\u2019s not because of anything the Republicans do. It\u2019s not because of anything the Republicans have said. It was totally made up out of whole cloth. <\/p>\n

You know, giving away ammunition is not the solution to your political problems. Abandoning 24 million voters is not the route to victory. But it\u2019s amazing how the smart people keep coming up with the same suggestion. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Fairfield, Connecticut. This is Farris. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m glad you took my call, Rush. Thank you so much for keeping our eyes on the balls. The problem is there\u2019s so many balls.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I use three crystal balls myself and have to decide, you know, between which one has two answers and which one has the single answer. You\u2019re the only one, really, who understands the truthfulness of keeping our eyes on these, what you call social issues. I\u2019d like you to call them moral issues. And without morals, we would never, ever had a republic, and we would never have had a Constitution. And that\u2019s where we\u2019ve lost it. And you\u2019d be surprised how many people —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s why a lot of people want to do away with the Constitution, so they can precisely get away from all this judgmentalism they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the morality is what\u2019s missing, and that is heard loudly by the people that I talk with, and of course the media tends to make most of us think that we\u2019re alone in this, but actually this is a winning issue for Republicans. The moral issues are the important ones. Those women who control the mind control in this country want you to think that people are head over heels for homosexual and lesbian marriages, but in fact they\u2019re not. And, quite frankly, right now, what you have is a strong push-back, especially in that voting bloc that you refer to so often as the African-American voter. These people understand right from wrong, and there is such an enormous support among my African-American brothers and sisters for traditional marriage. And we\u2019ve been rolled over. And nobody more than here in the state of Connecticut. We\u2019ve been rolled over by this freight train —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, no, wait. Now, I understand. The Californians have been rolled over twice. They\u2019ve voted on two different occasions to uphold the morality you\u2019re talking about and a judge told them they had no right. Statewide, they have voted two times and had it thrown out.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand that, but let me explain why you could be mistaken about that, and you might agree with me that we in, Connecticut, were railroaded in a worse fashion. In other words, when this movement started, the first state that was selected by Mary Bonauto, who is president of the GLAD, the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the first state was selected was the weakest state in the country, which is Massachusetts. And she could see in that Supreme Court, \u2019cause she knows and she knew that no electorate or no legislature would ever vote for homosexual and lesbian marriages. So she went to that Supreme Court, which is populated by seven people who have a special name in Massachusetts. It\u2019s called the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have to step in here. I\u2019ve got time constraints that I\u2019ve gotta step in on you here, Farris, but that\u2019s exactly right. The Massachusetts court — he is exactly right about the strategy there. But I don\u2019t want to get into an argument over who\u2019s had the biggest battle. The people of California, Prop 187, that was thrown out. The people of California, Proposition 8, that was thrown out, after they voted for it. And then people that supported it lost their jobs, even after a majority of people voted for it. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not a battle of which people in which state have taken the biggest hit. Your point here, the social issues, when people stand up and say Republicans should stop bringing \u2019em up, they\u2019re talking about one thing. They\u2019re talking about abortion. That\u2019s all they\u2019re talking about. And they couch that as social issues. Like I say, I\u2019ve been hearing this since 1992. It doesn\u2019t matter what the Republicans do. They\u2019re gonna be accused of all this stuff whether they say it, do it, or not. The solution is to not shut up about this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Mike in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, thank you for taking my call. I\u2019ve been calling you for six years. The reason I was calling today is I believe the Republicans may be missing on an issue or two. In North Carolina I\u2019ve been volunteering all the phones every day, calling people, seeing why people are voting, if they\u2019re gonna vote. The two most important issues for the Republicans are the social issues. The Republicans that I talk to say, “Hey, I don\u2019t like the fact that men are gonna be able to marry men and women are gonna be able to marry women. I don\u2019t like the fact that Kay Hagan supports abortion.” And, you know, it\u2019s really surprising because if you turn on the news, you seem to think the Republicans need to run away from these issues because voters don\u2019t care about them. So, you know, I guess it\u2019s really surprising —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you something, Mike. Here\u2019s the thing about this. I\u2019ve been hearing about this — well, the first time was that Hamptons cocktail party or dinner party. I\u2019ve told you about this. This rich financial industry Republican donor comes up to me on the deck after dinner and pokes me in the chest, “What are you gonna do about the Christians?” I\u2019m still new at all this and I am just meeting these people for the first time, and I\u2019m learning they\u2019re not who I\u2019ve always thought they were. They\u2019re not conservatives. They\u2019re Republican; they\u2019re not conservatives. And this guy\u2019s poking me, “What are you gonna do about the Christians?” <\/p>\n

And I said, “What do you mean, what am I gonna do?”<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re killing us! This abortion stuff, my wife won\u2019t leave me alone about it! We don\u2019t want to go to convention with these people. They embarrass us!” <\/p>\n

I said, “Wow. Well, you know, there\u2019s 24 million. You\u2019re not gonna win anything without \u2019em.” <\/p>\n

And then he lightened up and started laugh, “Hey, man, I\u2019m just kidding you. I\u2019m just teasing you.” But he wasn\u2019t. And the reason this has come up is because Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, was on CNBC today, and he said, as though he\u2019s the first to ever come up with it (paraphrasing), “I think the Republican Party needs to just jettison these social issues. If you do that, the only thing on the table\u2019s gonna be business and economics and we can win big on that,” or they can win. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s one of these. He said they can win. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s a Republican or not. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, you can count on this business of social issues killing the Republican Party. A lot of Republicans think so. And the social issues, to most people when they use the term, they\u2019re really talking about abortion. But I think even now it\u2019s gay marriage. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happening. Of course, I\u2019ve seen this happen, too. A lot of Millennials, the 18- to 30-year-old age-group, something has happened, and they are almost hundred percent, I mean, if not it\u2019s really close, totally supportive of gay marriage, gay rights, lesbian marriage. I mean, they are, period. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened that explains it. I just know they are. I mean it\u2019s big. It\u2019s in their top three things that matters to them. <\/line><\/p>\n

So now it\u2019s not just abortion, but it\u2019s gay rights, gay marriage, and I think it has to do with love and who are we to say that people shouldn\u2019t, you know, what\u2019s wrong with who you love. We need more love in the world and da-da-da-da-da and equal rights and so forth. And the cultural rot that\u2019s taking place is because of a watering down of the whole notion of right and wrong and morality and so forth, and the Republican Party\u2019s always been seen, that\u2019s what this caller is saying, the Republican Party\u2019s always been seen as the stop, you know, the stopgap, the last best hope, what have you. <\/p>\n

I have no idea what the real manifestation of this is gonna be end up being. To me it\u2019s the latest in a long line of people who are suggesting it, but I do know this. If the Republican Party does something in the wrong way, they\u2019re gonna force 24 million people to sit home, not four. And they\u2019re never gonna win a thing. You can black vote, female vote all you want, but they\u2019re never gonna win diddly-squat. I mean, they already lost four million voters in 2012 from 2008, four million who voted for McCain didn\u2019t vote for Romney, up for grabs as to why, bunch of different theories, but if that four million becomes five, 10, 15, 24 million, you can write off whatever else the Democrats do, it isn\u2019t gonna matter. I think that just really irritates, that fact, a lot of moderate or liberal Republicans who wish it weren\u2019t the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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