{"id":9145,"date":"2014-06-16T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-16T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T19:02:30","slug":"new_republic_smears_scott_walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/16\/new_republic_smears_scott_walker\/","title":{"rendered":"New Republic Smears Scott Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The New Republic<\/a> has a cover story on Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. Now, as you know if you are regular listeners to this program, I think what Scott Walker has done in Wisconsin is a blueprint. It\u2019s a road map for the Republican Party to win. It\u2019s a road map for the Republican Party to fix the country, to change the direction we\u2019re going. <\/p>\n

Scott Walker has taken everything that the Democrat machine has thrown at him and his family. He has beaten back two recall efforts. He has implemented his policies. He has created a budget surplus with tax cuts and tax refunds. He has cleaned up a corrupt union school system in Wisconsin. It is stunning what he has done there. It is so stunning, I can\u2019t believe that he\u2019s not…<\/p>\n

Well, he is actually in the mix for the Republican presidential nomination, but he\u2019s not being touted by the Republican Party the way he should be. I mean, to me, it is what is necessary, exactly what is necessary. In terms of economic policy, government philosophy, it\u2019s just amazing what he\u2019s done. Therefore he has become a target. If the Republicans don\u2019t want to tout him, the Democrats nevertheless want to continue to destroy him. <\/p>\n

<\/a>New Republic cover story: “Scott Walker Is So Hot Right Now,” and then you get to the bottom line of the cover: “Too bad he owes his success to a toxic strain of racial politics.” Now, wait. All of this I present to you in context with the story from the woman Looney Toon at the bookstore who says that she will not sell books not written by people of color. <\/p>\n

And then in the next sound bite, C-SPAN2\u2019s BookTV last night <\/a>she\u2019s complaining and whining that they can\u2019t even break even. She will not sell my book. She proudly says that you will not find my book in her store. No way, no how. And then she begs people to donate to this store (it\u2019s a nonprofit) or buy books there, because they\u2019re not even breaking even. <\/p>\n

Yet she\u2019s engaged in social justice and tolerance and fairness and equality and all the things that Peter Beinart says that the Democrats are really optimistic about \u2019cause they see that\u2019s where the country\u2019s headed: People like that woman in positions of power. Okay? Then we add Beinart saying the Republicans look at this demographic shift, and they are not optimistic. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t see what the Democrats see. The Democrats are optimistic because they see a “growing percentage of Latinos, African Americans, and young people, they see a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice,” like gay marriage, you name it, anything. Legalize marijuana, whatever anybody wants to do, the Democrats are optimistic.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where they\u2019re headed because that\u2019s what the demographic shift means. Beinart says Republicans are pessimistic because they look at that demographic shift and all they see is “a growing constituency of takers, who want to turn America away from its exceptional nature.” He says it\u2019s that view… He says, “It\u2019s because Republican activists are more fearful of the future that they demand politicians willing to take extraordinary, Ted Cruz-like measures to reverse history\u2019s course.”<\/p>\n

Beinart says, “The irony is that by preventing the GOP from adjusting to a younger, less white, less Anglo country, grassroots Republicans,” i.e., you and the Tea Party and the Republican base, “are hastening the very liberal dominance they fear,” because you are preventing your Republican elected officials from embracing the same view the Democrats embrace. Now, doesn\u2019t that sound familiar? <\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t that sound like exactly what the Republican consultants are selling? Doesn\u2019t that sound exactly like what the Republican establishment wants to do? Because people like Beinart have been bending their ear for years, telling them, “If you don\u2019t do this, you\u2019re never gonna win the White House again,” as though they care about us winning the White House. <\/p>\n

So, in other words, what the Republicans are being told is that unless you start seeing the world we do, you\u2019re never gonna win anything. You\u2019re gonna be perpetual losers. Unless you start seeing the world the way we see it, then we\u2019re gonna be so dominant you\u2019ll never be a political factory again. Right? So what happens when we have a person of color prominent in our party? Let me give you a name: Clarence Thomas. <\/line><\/p>\n

What happens? Well, they set out to destroy him! Can I give you another name? Alberto Gonzales. What\u2019d they do every time the Republicans try to get in on this identity politics business? In fact, but that\u2019s not what they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s an even bigger crying shame. Clarence Thomas gets nominated to be on the Supreme Court, and what does the left do? <\/p>\n

While they\u2019re clamoring that we better do just that kind of thing — we had better start seeing the country the way they do, we\u2019d better start playing identity politics, we better start including people of color — the minute we do it, they set out and destroy him! It can be a woman. It can be an Hispanic. It can be an African-American. What\u2019s his first name in South Carolina? Tim Scott. They\u2019re trying to destroy him.<\/p>\n

J.C. Watts? The game goes on and on. Allen West? What did they do to Allen West? What\u2019d they do to Miguel Estrada and the African-American woman in Utah, Mia Love? What\u2019d they do to her? See, this is the great irony. So here\u2019s Peter Beinart telling us and the Republicans, “You are helping us achieve what we want to achieve by opposing us.” What a great trick they\u2019re perpetuating here! <\/p>\n

It\u2019s working, just like the trick that you now need to focus on independents every presidential race. That\u2019s another successful trick. This trick is, “You better start seeing the world the way we do, and you better start talking about the world the way we do, and you better support amnesty, and you better support whatever immigration reform we want, or you\u2019re going to lose, and you\u2019re just gonna make what we want happen even faster.” <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, the Republicans have bought it. Okay, so, given those two things, here comes the Scott Walker cover: “Too bad he owes his success to a toxic strain of racial politics.” So, ladies and gentlemen, Ann Althouse, who lives in Wisconsin, waited and waited until the New Republic put that story out. Not just the picture of the cover but the actual text of the story up on their website.<\/p>\n

She has called it a smear, “a racial smear.” There are phrases in this story like,<\/p>\n

“When Is it Considered Acceptable, in Polite Company, to Refer to the Excessive ‘Whiteness\u2019 of a Public Figure? — Why did the editors of The New Republic — that venerable journal — think it was acceptable to title an article ‘ The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker\u2019?” That is the title. You don\u2019t see that on the cover. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the title of the story. “The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker.” So when you read the story, the only thing in it that even relates to race is the fact that he is in favor of voter ID. That\u2019s it. Scott Walker is in favor of photo ID to be able to vote, and the New Republic has tarred him as, “Too bad he owes his success to a toxic strain of racial politics.” <\/p>\n

“The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker.” So, from the bookstore, to Peter Beinart, to this. We see the way the left views the country, and even if a move is made to accommodate them, they then begin their search-and-destroy mission on whatever people of color we have. Why in the world would we want to pay any attention or give any credibility to a news media that would do a story about one of our governors this way? <\/p>\n

This is not just a smear. That it is, but it is a huge hit piece. The title: “The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker.” He only got elected and survived two recalls in the blue state of Wisconsin. It\u2019s time to destroy him again. See, the left will always tell us who they fear. They will always tell us what they\u2019re most worried about by who they try to destroy. But I think this is kind of fascinating. <\/p>\n

I want to go back to Beinart here and the Democrats “optimistic, growing percentage of Latinos, African-Americans, young people is seen as a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice.” It is, and “social justice” is just another term for statism or Marxism. Social justice is not liberty and freedom or anything like that. It\u2019s not even justice. It\u2019s nothing that it implies. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s racial politics, reverse racism, whatever you want to call it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hideous. <\/p>\n

So another trick is being played on the Republican leadership. “Unless you see the world the way we do, you\u2019re never gonna win anything — and, of course, we do want you to win! We Democrats hope you win the White House someday.” Right. So the Republican Party will fail because its base, the Tea Party — a bunch of racist, bigot, sexist homophobes — will not adopt Democrat Party policy. <\/p>\n

And they wonder why Ted Cruz is so popular. <\/p>\n

They wonder why anybody standing up to this bilge and this drivel is so popular. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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