{"id":9186,"date":"2014-06-11T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-11T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:17:48","slug":"dave_brat_s_controversial_platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Brat\u2019s “Controversial” Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here are the six points that Dave Brat ran on. By the way, Cantor raised $5.4 million. This guy had $200,000 and spent about half of it. He had a staff of two people, and of course Cantor had, what, 23, a staff of 23. I mean, it was full bore what you would expect. I mean, there\u2019s a lot… (interruption) Well, you could say David-Goliath. I mean, that might be an analogy. It would be. Look, I can\u2019t really add to much of what I said in the first hour, and I said that so well, why even try to say it again.<\/p>\n

But this is all bigger than Cantor, and it\u2019s bigger than one issue, immigration reform. This disconnect is major and it is growing. But I think one of the interesting observations to make is here you\u2019ve got a guy, this election was historic. This is the first time a majority leader of a party has lost a primary election, the first time. This is not insignificant. And David Brat is not a wacko. He\u2019s not a kook. He\u2019s an economics professor. He\u2019s an economist. He\u2019s an American. He\u2019s a real guy.<\/p>\n

Here are the six points that he ran on. He posted these six points on his website. He mentioned them in his ads, and there weren\u2019t very many ads \u2019cause a hundred grand doesn\u2019t buy you a whole lot of ads. And Cantor did the typical establishment thing. He\u2019s running negative ads and trying to beat this guy to smithereens and making fun of him, his inexperience, doesn\u2019t know the ways of Washington. He called him a liberal. All backfired.<\/p>\n

Brat posted these six points.<\/p>\n

“That the free enterprise system is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice,<\/p>\n

“That all individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society,<\/p>\n

“That fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government,<\/p>\n

“That the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations,<\/p>\n

“That peace is best preserved through a strong national defense,<\/p>\n

“That faith in God, as recognized by our Founding Fathers is essential to the<\/line>moral fiber of the Nation.”<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear he\u2019s a lunatic, right? Let me explain something and try to put this in some sort of context. When I was growing up — and this is not old fuddy-duddy stuff. Actually, it\u2019s sort of a historical context here that will illustrate just how dramatically things have changed. If somebody even 30 years ago ran for office on this platform, you know what they would have said? “Okay, big deal. Everybody\u2019 for that. What are you gonna do about X?”<\/p>\n

My point is that these six points that he\u2019s posted on his website as his manifesto have become so unusual that they stand out. Thirty years ago it was just assumed that everybody seeking political office believed this. This would not have distinguished anybody. Maybe you\u2019d have to go 40 years ago. I\u2019m not making this up, and I\u2019m not kidding. This would not distinguish anybody not that long ago, because everybody that sought office was assumed to think these things.<\/p>\n

Today he posts these six things and they are unusual. They are radical. That\u2019s how far off the track this country has gotten. Let me read these again, and again, keep in mind, nobody\u2019s embracing this. Nobody\u2019s congratulating him. Nobody\u2019s saying, “Yeah, you know what? That\u2019s the ticket.” Nobody is saying, “Yes, if we just get back to that.” Just like the Republican Party is really making no effort to embrace what Scott Walker has done and is doing in Wisconsin, which is another blueprint. That continues to befuddle me, but it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

“Free enterprise system, the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice.” That\u2019s controversial today. Not only is that controversial. More and more elected officials don\u2019t believe it. They think socialism and Big Government, the benevolence of Big Government, is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice. The free enterprise system, try this. If you\u2019re a college student write a term paper on that and see what you get.<\/p>\n

“All individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities.” Well, that\u2019s okay, but the controversy comes next. “And should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society.” “What right do you have saying what somebody should do? Easy for you to say, assume your responsibilities. You have money. Easy for you to say. You have an education. But what about the single mother, and what about –” whatever concoction the left wants to come up with.<\/line><\/p>\n

All individuals, yep, are entitled to equal rights, yep, and justice, yep, and opportunities, as long as they come from the Democrat Party. But if, it is said, that you must exercise your own responsibility as a citizen toward a free society, that today has become controversial. Radical.<\/p>\n

Dave Brat says fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government. That is considered so trite and so ignorant and so rose-colored glasses and so absent any awareness of the way things really are. That\u2019s just neophyte stuff. This just proves he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. Fiscal responsibility, budgetary restraints, he just doesn\u2019t know how Washington works. He\u2019ll learn, he\u2019ll learn.<\/p>\n

The next one. “That the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations.” Ah, ah, ah, ah. Today the Constitution is the problem, precisely because it limits the government. The biggest obstacle Barack Obama has is not the Republican Party. It isn\u2019t talk radio. It isn\u2019t anything other than the Constitution. That\u2019s the biggest obstacle in his way. And everything he can do to get around it, he\u2019s doing. And there\u2019s no push-back.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I talked to Andy McCarthy after the program yesterday for the interview in the next Limbaugh Letter about his book on impeachment. It\u2019s so perfectly timed. It could not have come out at a better time. It is so well assembled, so well crafted, Andy McCarthy\u2019s book on impeachment. He makes the point that, hey, the legalities are all there. If you get this to a court of law, which in the constitutional sense is the Senate, just in strict, objective, legal terms, it\u2019s a slam dunk.<\/p>\n

The problem is that impeachment makes the Senate the jury. So there\u2019s no way. (interruption) No, you cannot peremptory challenge, get rid of certain senators from the jury. They are the jury. And Andy makes the point that the American people actually need to be the jury. Until the American people are demanding it in a political way, nothing is gonna happen. But the legal case is clear. Obama is clearly impeachable. There have been wanton high crimes and misdemeanors, violations of the Constitution. They\u2019re all over the place, precisely because the Constitution is his biggest obstacle.<\/p>\n

Dave Brat says, “The Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations.” Every one of them swears to do that when they take their oath of office. “Peace is best preserved through a strong national defense.” Oh, no, no, no, no. That\u2019s that Reagan crap again. There we go. And the era of Reagan is over. That\u2019s silly. Peace is best preserved through a strong national defense? No. Doctors, nurses, clean water, Hillary Clinton, the State Department, that\u2019s how you preserve the peace. Negotiating with the enemy. Appeasing the enemy. Apologizing for America. Accepting blame for what\u2019s wrong in the world. That\u2019s how you get peace and preserve it today.<\/p>\n

“That faith in God, as recognized by our Founding Fathers is essential to the moral fiber –” Oh man, this could get him seriously threatened. That is exclusionary language, that\u2019s discriminatorily language, that\u2019s insulting language, that\u2019s zealotry, bigotry. Whose God? The Founding Fathers are a bunch of racist themselves, slave owners. The Founding Fathers, original 1%. Founding Fathers are unjust and immoral. What God? Moral fiber, what gives you the right to determine the morality of this country? Who are you, Brat? What do you mean, moral fiber of the nation? What right do you have to say what morality is? Because morality today is defined by individual choice.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, this six-item list, 30 years ago would have been met with, “Yeah, fine, big deal. Now, what are you gonna do when you get elected?” People would have demanded specifics. Today these six things result in a landslide election victory and have people standing up and cheering. And the fact that the seat of our government finds these six things threatening is all you need to know about why Eric Cantor lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here are the six points that Dave Brat ran on. By the way, Cantor raised $5.4 million. This guy had $200,000 and spent about half of it. He had a staff of two people, and of course Cantor had, what, 23, a staff of 23. I mean, it was full bore what you would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDave Brat's "Controversial" Platform - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dave Brat's "Controversial" Platform - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Here are the six points that Dave Brat ran on. By the way, Cantor raised $5.4 million. This guy had $200,000 and spent about half of it. He had a staff of two people, and of course Cantor had, what, 23, a staff of 23. I mean, it was full bore what you would […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GeorgePrayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/\",\"name\":\"Dave Brat's \\\"Controversial\\\" Platform - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-11T17:17:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-06-11T17:17:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dave Brat\\u2019s “Controversial” Platform\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\",\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GeorgePrayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dave Brat's \"Controversial\" Platform - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Dave Brat's \"Controversial\" Platform - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: Here are the six points that Dave Brat ran on. By the way, Cantor raised $5.4 million. This guy had $200,000 and spent about half of it. He had a staff of two people, and of course Cantor had, what, 23, a staff of 23. I mean, it was full bore what you would […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GeorgePrayias","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/","name":"Dave Brat's \"Controversial\" Platform - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2014-06-11T17:17:48+00:00","dateModified":"2014-06-11T17:17:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/11\/dave_brat_s_controversial_platform\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dave Brat\u2019s “Controversial” Platform"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4","name":"GeorgePrayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GeorgePrayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}