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10/16/13, "We've Learned That We Have Leaders," Rush Limbaugh
"RUSH: Dan in northern Michigan, as we go back to the phones. Greetings, sir, and welcome.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just have to forgo the polite
amenities. I am just so mad today that just beside myself about that
these people are doing to us in Washington, the Republican Party.
I
have been a registered Republican for years, my entire family is
Democrats, and after today there's no need for me to continue on being a
Republican because we have nobody to follow. We have no leaders. We
have a team out here trying to find somebody to be behind, and every
time we think that there's someone there, they cave. It's discouraging. I know a lot of people are in the same mind-set
as I am, and we are on so disgusted that, Rush, who do we follow? Who
is our leader? Who? Who are we supposed to mass behind? You know, if
we can't play the game, then get the hell off the field. Because it's
almost like the Democrats are out on the field with the ref, who is the
media, and we're on the sidelines talking to the cheerleaders trying to
figure out how to play the game. It's really a disgrace to what we're
trying to do. We are becoming one party, so why not be a Democrat? At
least they're loyal.
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RUSH: Let me answer your question without... I'm not trying to be a
shill here. But what we learned in this is that there are people
willing to try to lead. There are people willing to take the arrows.
We do have pioneers. There are people; I'll mention the names. Ted
Cruz is at the top of the list. Mike Lee. These people were out taking
every shot the media had. They were taking every shot the Republican
Party had, they were taking every shot that Sarah Palin got -- and they
were unflappable, and they persevered.
They were doing it on your behalf. There were even some Republicans,
even some conservative Republicans going after them. There was a battle
between the delay Obamacare group and the defund Obamacare group, and
they're both groups of conservative activists. The delay group, I mean,
I would hear from both of 'em because everybody wants me to promote
their point of view. I hear from these people.
You wouldn'ta believe it. The delay people were sending me caustic
notes, saying, "This Ted Cruz, I can't believe you're falling for it.
He's using everybody! This doesn't have a chance. There's no way we're
gonna defund Obamacare. This is an objective that can't possibly
happen. It's a waste of time. He's just using you to fund-raise." If I
thought that was the case, I wouldn't have given Ted Cruz two looks. These internecine battles are going on all over the place.
Believe me: The battle for money is huge, sadly, but it is.
Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the
mother's milk of politics. It just is. Now, I noticed that when Ted
Cruz sent his various e-mail blasts out to people, he didn't ask for
money. He'd asked for people sign a petition, and when you go there to
sign a petition, there was not a place to give money, that I saw. I
don't deny that everybody in politics fundraise and so forth, but I'm
just telling you this to illustrate that even within the conservative
universe, there's the Tea Party conservatives.
Then you got people who think they're mainstream, old-line Reaganites
-- who really aren't, but they think they are. And then you've got
moderate conservatives, typified by what is most of the conservative
media, sadly. And then you've got the establishment Republicans, which
are RINOs and liberals and moderates. But you did see people that were
able to get news coverage, were able to get their message out. They
took every shot that was sent their way, and they remained unflappable.
I think this is gonna be a pay off in the future. I spent a lot of
time talking about this yesterday. I think the people who fought for
the American people in this and never gave up, no matter the odds, are
going to be rewarded in future years. They're going to have a future.
The people who bailed, the people who said, "Well, this is a waste of
time. Why, you can't even achieve this! Defund Obamacare? That's not
gonna happen. Why are we even doing this?" There was a classic two or
three great reasons for doing it."...
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Comment: Yes, we have leaders. Unless Rush Limbaugh wants to help us get rid of McConnell and Boehner it's just conversation. He doesn't and he won't.
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