11/4, "Ruling Class GOP declare war on country class conservatives, " Rush Limbaugh transcript.
Rush explains what we see, the Ruling Class GOP will fight more viciously to defeat conservatives than they will to defeat Democrats. They've even brought back hairdo Trent Lott, a talk radio hater:
- Trent Lott described the enemy in June 2007, per the NY Times:
- “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with
At some point, Mr. Lott said,
- Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in “younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the (immigration) bill.”"...
- Until the Tea Party came along, the GOP was deservedly dead. The Tea Party gave it a gift which the enraged GOP doesn't want.
Great to have you here, folks. It's the Rush Limbaugh program. This is the EIB Network. Great to have you,...
Also, we're gonna replay the full-throated statement, the full-throated treatise for freedom that I mentioned yesterday at the top of the next hour. We're gonna replay it because some of our affiliates covered the Obama press conference yesterday and this needs to be heard by those of you who didn't get a chance to hear it. Those of you who did hear it, I am sure, judging on my e-mail you will want to hear it again. ...
At any rate, here's The Politico story and it's just predictable. I knew this was going to happen. What you need to know about it and what's interesting about it is who is behind this. The Politico story: "GOP Senators Fight Over Failure." That's the headline of The Politico piece. Now, what is the failure?
- Would somebody tell me where the failure was yesterday? Yesterday was a wipeout. Yesterday was an unprecedented wipeout.
"Long-simmering tensions within the Republican Party spilled into public view Wednesday as the pragmatic and conservative --" what do you mean, spilled into public view? Did you see this, Snerdley? Dawn, did you see this? I didn't even hear about it until The Politico called me with the usual, "Hey, Rush, there's some Republicans out there --" I wasn't given any names. "-- they're really saying that it was the Tea Party that blew the chance to win the Senate. This is a contrived, created story, probably created by moderate Republicans, but certainly with the willing accomplices in the media. Failure? Long-simmering tensions spilled into public view? They have been in public view for a long time. It's why there is a Tea Party. They didn't spill into public view yesterday. And I'll tell you, if it weren't for the Tea Party there would not have been anything to talk about yesterday. There would have been reasons to write headlines denoting failure. If it hadn't been for the Tea Party the Republicans would be inconsequential, insignificant, which
- in the case of the establishment Republicans, they are, but just don't know it yet. And they're trying to stave it off.
- Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it is obvious now that the establishment Republicans are in open revolt against the people, and that's what this piece means.
So we have Lindsey Grahamnesty and Trent Lott speaking on the record and there are some anonymous Republicans in the leadership who remain anonymous. And now they sit here a couple days after the election and they whine and they moan and they go crying to the Politico and the media about how sad and how unfortunate and what a big failure Tuesday was. Most of them did not lift a finger in the primaries for conservatives.
In fact, Lindsey Graham originally endorsed Charlie Crist in Florida, as did McCain, as did John Cornyn. So they want to sit here and talk about failure and there's nothing forward looking about the Republican leadership here. This is a circle-the-wagon bunch of people, perfectly
happy being in the minority and cutting deals, and now they're not unhappy they're in the minority, folks, don't misunderstand the headline, "GOP Senators Fight Over Failure." They're not happy they're in the minority. That's not what this is about. We told you it was gonna happen.
This is ruling class versus country class, is all this is. This is all about the ruling class elder statesmen GOP establishment laying down markers here.
Now, Lindsey Graham loves to talk about being on a team, loyalty. Whatever he says, it's amazing, isn't it? This is the guy Obama would call on to cut deals. This is the guy who was in charge of the Gang of 14 undermining Frist and the others who were trying to stop Schumer from filibustering judges. Lindsey Graham is now the anointed leader, the man of reason. It was Trent Lott I think who authored the power-sharing agreement with Tom Daschle when we had 50 seats. "We're not gonna act like winners, we're not gonna rub their noses, genuine power share, we're gonna give an equal number of positions on committees, we're not gonna have a committee chairman, we're not gonna do all this." We just basically gave it all away and then Jumpin' Jim Jeffords changes parties and, bammo, we're in the minority. And these are the people that we're supposed to take advice from. These are the people who are supposed to guide us into the future. These are the people that didn't lift a hand, a finger to help anybody during the primaries. Why is it that Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are not trashed by these same people for their independence?
I mean conservatives are said to be very independent, pragmatic, conservatives get trashed for being incompetent, off the reservation. Why is it that Graham, Collins, Snowe, they're off the reservation constantly, they are never trashed for their, quote, unquote, independence? The idea that these people represent the mainstream of the Republican Party, amnesty, constitutional rights for Al-Qaeda terrorists, I mean this is not the mainstream of the Republican Party. That's what's interesting about all this. Yet here's Graham quoted repeatedly about those nasty conservatives, how they're not the best candidates, Jim DeMint needs to be more of a team player. And now Trent Lott is out there saying that we would have won. We woulda won these remaining three races but for the Tea Party candidates. You see, this is interesting, establishment Republicans never lose races, they never lose. It's always somebody else's fault when these losses happen. They never lose.
Well, they lost the presidency to Obama. They came up with the nominee. They came up with the strategy. They came up with the agenda. They came up with the way it should be done.
They're the people tell us Colin Powell is the ideal Republican. They came up with all these ways that guarantee losing. They lost the presidency to Obama. They lost both houses. They lost the House, they lost the Senate in massive landslides to Pelosi and to Reid. We are trying to climb back from the disaster that they created, the confusion that they created, the model they call principles and all the rest.
We're trying to climb out of the soup that they created and now it's our fault. It's your fault, the great unwashed, many of you who take two showers a day, by the way, still considered the great unwashed. They don't acknowledge because they can't acknowledge that but for the energy of conservatives across this country, the massive electoral gains on Tuesday would not have happened. Left to Lindsey Graham and Trent Lott, Tuesday would have not happened, no way, shape, manner, or form. And it did happen, and all of a sudden it's a failure. It's a failure because they didn't win their precious Senate. And they don't have their precious chairmanships of the committees.
Let's look at Las Vegas. Look at Nevada. Harry Reid spent tens of millions of dollars trashing all the Republicans. In fact, I would venture to say that the Democrats have a slush fund of over half a billion dollars. What do you think the stimulus bill really was? Didn't create jobs, did it? It was out there to fund Democrat campaigns. Harry Reid spent tens of millions of dollars trashing all of the Republicans in Nevada. He dragged down Sue Lowden. Sue Lowden was one of the leading Republicans in the primary race out there, her numbers get dragged down because Reid thought that she was gonna be the nominee so he simply trained his guns on Angle after she won the primary. It wasn't anything to do with anything other than Reid was gonna trash any Republican who got the nominee, didn't matter if it was Angle, didn't matter if it was Sue Lowden. He trained his ammo on Sue Lowden first. Are any of these people wondering why in the hell did Sue Lowden lose?
You can sit here and say that Sharron Angle wasn't your favorite candidate but why did Sue Lowden lose? Where were all of you establishment types helping her? Where was your on the ground money during the primaries helping Sue Lowden while Harry Reid is trashing her? The Democrats trash everybody with an R beside their name. It's not just Sharron Angle, it wasn't just Christine O'Donnell. Castle would not have won in Delaware. So there's Reid training his guns and all of his money and all of his union thuggery on Angle after he takes care of Sue Lowden, but to say that Sue Lowden would have won is nonsense. She could have just as easily have lost as so many more moderate Republicans always do, and then what would they have said? If Sue Lowden had been the nominee and lost we would not even get this story today. We're only getting a story about failure here because conservatives ended up on the ballot and
- the ruling class of the Republican Party doesn't want conservatives having any kind of a foothold, any success or any leadership in the party.
Let's look at Alaska. No, let's don't. If I get started on Alaska I'll run through what I must do and that's stop for an obscene EIB profit center time-out. Back and looking at Alaska after this.
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RUSH: Look, folks, I don't like doing this any more than you like hearing it. I was minding my own business today. I was in a great mood and I get up and I see this headline: "GOP Senators Fight Over Failure," and I'm asking myself, "How many crazy Tea Party people sought Senate seats?" How many? What did we have? How many Senate seats were up? Thirty-seven Senate seats were up for election. How many Tea Party crazies ran? How can you blame three or four Tea Party types when you have that many seats up for election? Fifteen were in play, and all of a sudden it's the Tea Party.
- James Carville said the Democrats -- after 2008, James Carville said the Democrats -- would be in charge for 40 years. Two generations. That's what James Carville said.
| What he didn't figure on was conservatism. James Carville was looking at the existing Republican leadership and saying (impression), "We got those boys. We got 'em now! They're gonna be -- they're gonna be -- they're gonna be in the minority there for 40 years," because he was looking at Lindsey Graham and he was looking at Trent Lott. He was looking at all these architects of two landslide losses. He was happy. "We gonna have a 40 year majority for the Democratic Party. Where my gumbo?" Because he was looking at the wrong people. Now what happened? The 40-year majority is down the tubes in a massive landslide defeat -- Rushslide, if you will. It was a wipeout, and I get up today, and I see a headline: "Republican Senators Fight Over Failure." Now, let's take a look at Alaska. There's a video out there: Lisa Murkowski said that she would not support repealing Obamacare. She made that comment before the primary. That is one of the reasons she lost the Republican apparently in Alaska. Every poll shows the public strongly against Obamacare, and the Republican Party publicly is saying that they are committed to repealing it but not Murkowski. Not Murkowski! Yet Murkowski is supported by Graham. Murkowski is supported by Lindsey Graham -- who also, by the way, said that he wanted to work with Obama to pass cap and trade. Even the Democrat senator-elect from West Virginia says ain't no way we're passing cap and trade. But Lindsey Graham is all for it. And, by the way, Obama has now said, "You know what? We're gonna drop cap and trade," but don't be fooled. He's not forgetting his agenda. He's just dropping cap and trade as the way to get there. Murkowski is supported by Graham and others. She's a team player, she's out of the mainstream, great candidate. What will she do to the future of the GOP and the nation, right? This is how we win? |
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| (break) RUSH: "GOP Senators Fight Over Failure." That's the most exciting story the Drive-By Media has today. They're so excited about Republicans fighting over failure, when there wasn't any. How do you look at yesterday and see failure? Admittedly there are some Republicans who do, and of course since they're moderates -- and reasonable, ruling class Republicans -- the media's only happy to give them all kinds of ink. Far be it for a bunch of Republicans to talk about success after 63 seats in the House. After picking up six Senate seats, a total of 69 seats in both houses, far be it for the moderates to be interested in success. Two years after James Carville said the Democrats are gonna have the majority and be in power for 40 years -- two years after The Messiah was elected president, two years after a man unlike any we have ever seen -- was elected. One month after he was immaculated, the Republican Party was in the throes of a massive depression. The Republican Party thought, "Oh, my gosh, the only way outta this is to agree with Obama and support him and make people think we're nice people." Lo and behold, where are we? A greater pickup of seats than any since the thirties, whatever it is: 63 in the House, six seats in the Senate. Let's look at Delaware. A flawed candidate, they say, Christine O'Donnell. Was she as flawed as McCain? Let me just ask the question. Was she as flawed as Senator McCain? I mean, he's got temperament issues, among other things. Everybody talked about 'em. Was she as flawed as some of the candidates running who have cheated on their spouses?
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