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RUSH: Last night on CNN, Joe Johns, the correspondent, had a report about me and my criticism of Eric Holder<\/a>. Now, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m surprised about. What I\u2019m surprised about is it took so long — his report basically says establishment Republicans are worried about Sarah Palin and me, because we\u2019re too partisan, and they are worried that we are scaring off potential Republican voters and potential Republican donors. Here is Joe Johns\u2019 report.<\/p>\n

JOHNS: Radio host Rush Limbaugh slammed Holder for the comments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: President of the United States, attorney general of the United States. Oh, poor guys! Poor victims of a mean, racist America.<\/p>\n

JOHNS: But not all Republicans are in attack mode. The combative tone, much like Sarah Palin\u2019s call for impeachment of the president —<\/p>\n

PALIN: …so it\u2019s time to impeach…<\/p>\n

JOHNS: — has some Republicans saying, it\u2019s all playing into the Democrats\u2019 hands in a midterm election year.<\/line><\/p>\n

ROVE: Impeachment is exactly what the president wants to talk about. Just like he liked the Republicans and conservatives to talk about him being born in Kenya for five or six years, he\u2019s happy to have Republicans talk about impeaching. Bad thing to do. The politics of that are all wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know where I fall on the Rove meter here, but I haven\u2019t spoken in favor of impeachment, although under certain circumstances and if the political will for it could be developed… I mean, it\u2019s all dependent on that. I\u2019m not in this. I never talked about him being born in Kenya but I get lumped in with it. But the point here is, notice I “slammed Holder for the comments.” <\/p>\n

Holder didn\u2019t “slam” us. Holder never “slams” the people he\u2019s really slamming or insulting or criticizing. Here\u2019s an African-American attorney general of the United States basically whining about all the racism that\u2019s out there, and it\u2019s just a cover that they hide behind, and I dealt with it the other day. By the way, CNN, Mr. Snerdley, CNN brought Sunny Hostin back on to discuss my quite erudite response to her yesterday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

They brought her and Greg Anthony back to discuss what I had said in reaction, and then they brought on The Forehead as a bonus. It was on Erin Burnett\u2019s show, and I\u2019ve got the sound bites, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m gonna use them. I probably will but I don\u2019t know when. But, anyway, here is this story that CNN has out there. Again, it\u2019s CNN so it\u2019s suspect.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The theme is that Republican establishment Republicans are very worried about Sarah Palin and me, very worried that we and our “partisanship” are going to scare off moderates and independents, future potential Republican voters. It\u2019s the same thing as, “Don\u2019t criticize the president! Oh, God, don\u2019t do that. No, no, no, no! That only angers the independents. <\/p>\n

“The independents, they don\u2019t like partisanship. The independents do not like criticism. The independents don\u2019t like it! No, no, no, no, no. If you do that, they\u2019re gonna go running right back to the Democrats,” who are as mean-spirited and extremist as any bunch of people in American politics in my lifetime! Somehow, the independents and moderates do not mind the mean-spiritedness — the genuine mean spiritedness.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about partisanship. I\u2019m not mean. I\u2019m one of the nicest, most self-effacing guys on the planet. I\u2019m also a harmless, lovable fuzzball. These people on the left are genuine mean-spirited, ill-mannered extremists. Somehow the independents and moderates don\u2019t have a problem with any of that. But whenever the Republicans even dare to criticize a Democrat.<\/p>\n

Why, we\u2019re told that this does not serve well the premise of bipartisanship, and the Republicans will get blamed, and therefore the Democrats will emerge victorious. Meanwhile, with talk radio in full bloom during the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney won independents going away, not the Democrats. Companion story to this from the Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/a>“Is a Fear of ‘Getting Koch\u2019ed\u2019 Hurting Republican Super PACs?” Get this. “Democratic super PACs [Political Action Committees] have outraised their Republican counterparts by millions, a factor attributed in part to GOP donors\u2019 fear of being targeted by the Internal Revenue Service — or ‘getting Koch\u2019ed,'” and the headline is: “Is a Fear of ‘Getting Koch\u2019ed\u2019 Hurting Republican Super PACs?”<\/p>\n

The point of this is (the Washington Examiner\u2019s David Drucker with the story), Republican super PAC donations are way down because donors do not want anything like the Koch brother treatment. They want the IRS being sicked on \u2019em — and now you know exactly why that was done. The IRS being sicked on Tea Party sends a message. It\u2019s also what they did to one of the huge Romney donors. <\/p>\n

I can never remember this guy\u2019s name up in the Great Northwest. But they audited this guy twice. His name will come to me in mere moments. And they\u2019ve gone after Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas Sands. They do, they target people. Harry Reid, who… (sigh) If Harry Reid were in your family, you and everybody would be having quiet discussions about whether to commit him. <\/p>\n

I mean, really, it\u2019s getting into the area of derangement here, delusional derangement, psychosis. But nevertheless this unrelenting, insane blaming of the Koch brothers for everything is having an impact, apparently, because other big-time Republican donors don\u2019t want that treatment, and they\u2019re withholding their donations. <\/p>\n

Frank VanderSloot<\/a>. That\u2019s the guy. I can never remember the guy\u2019s name. Frank VanderSloot. They audited the guy, too. He was just a big-time donor to Romney in 2012. The Koch brothers, of course, are excoriated multiple times a day simply because they\u2019re alive. And this it\u2019s all part of the real Democrat agenda. The real Democrat agenda is the limitation of any opposition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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