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RUSH: Here\u2019s Paul in Charlotte, North Carolina. Hi, Paul. Thank you for calling. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush 24\/7 dittos<\/a>, Rush. In line with your Battered Wife Syndrome, I have decided this election to vote straight Democrat and Libertarian to punish the GOP because they have treated conservatives so harshly for the last God knows what. Eight years? I\u2019m done. I\u2019m out. I\u2019m leaving the relationship \u2019cause if I don\u2019t leave it, as that other caller said, I have no right to complain about it. I won\u2019t just not vote, \u2019cause that\u2019s apathy. I\u2019m gonna vote the other party, and Libertarian wherever there are those candidates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. I didn\u2019t say that Republican voters are exhibiting symptoms of the battered wife. I said elected Republicans are exhibiting those symptoms. You realize you\u2019re not gonna teach \u2019em a lesson. All you\u2019re gonna do is allow liberals to continue their swath of destruction on the country. If you actually do that, that\u2019s the end result of what you\u2019re gonna do. They\u2019re not gonna learn any lessons from it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If Republicans win, they are liberal anyway.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I understand that, but you\u2019ve got to vote about what you\u2019re against. You can\u2019t vote for what you\u2019re against. This stuff has got to stop. We are the last line of defense, here. We have to do what we can do. Giving up like this to teach these guys a lesson? We\u2019ve had people doing this, and it\u2019s one of the reasons we\u2019re in this mess. We had four million people who sat home in November of 2012.<\/p>\n

Four million Republicans who voted in \u201908 didn\u2019t vote in 2012, and had they, Romney would have been elected. I don\u2019t care what you think of Romney, he would have been much better than what we\u2019ve got. Without question. I mean, that\u2019s not even up for debate. But you\u2019re not gonna show \u2019em a lesson. They\u2019re not gonna get that. That\u2019s not what\u2019s gonna change their minds. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have time to get into a full explanation of what happens next, but doing that is not how conservatives can gain dominance of the Republican Party, which is what needs to happen here. You\u2019re not gonna do that by electing the enemy. (sigh) I understand the temptation. I know how frustrated everybody is. I know you want them to find out how livid you are at how they\u2019ve let you down. That\u2019s not gonna do it. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think they have the ability to recognize that kind of thing, folks. They don\u2019t. They haven\u2019t seen what happened to them in 2012. They\u2019re lying to themselves about what happened in 2012. Their own base stayed home! If anything was gonna shape \u2019em up and teach \u2019em the truth, that fact alone would. Four million of their own voters didn\u2019t vote in 2012! If that doesn\u2019t teach \u2019em anything, you voting liberal Democrat certainly isn\u2019t going to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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