Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Rush Limbaugh about Scott Brown: The day you decide to go after Democrats and not the Tea Party I'll be on your side

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1/10/14, "If GOP Moderates Target Democrats Instead of the Tea Party, They'll Have an Ally in Me," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"RUSH: This is Neil Cavuto.  He was on Fox yesterday (1/9) on his own show with former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown, and they were talking about Christie's press conference yesterday on the bridge lane closure, and this is how that went...

CAVUTO:  Rush Limbaugh is not a fan of his (Christie), Mark Levin. You know all these characters --

BROWN: (chuckles) Yeah-ah.

CAVUTO: -- and they almost seem to be, you know, feeding off of this as much as the left."...

[Ed. note: Cavuto is quite wrong that Limbaugh and Levin are happy about Christie events. Establishment media's first reaction to anything is to bash conservatives. Limbaugh addresses this elsewhere within Friday's show.]

(continuing): "BROWN: Well, they're not fans of mine, either, vise-a... You know, I understand their vim and vigor against us.  Politics is a blood sport. The sad part is -- is there's gonna be room for people like me and Chris Christie and Rand Paul and Rush Limbaugh and everybody else. Because if we don't start to band together and show that we have great ideas and convince the American people that we can actually move forward and solve problems together, then we're gonna be an irrelevant party.  So I'm hopeful that they'll find it in their bailiwick that we're, in fact, going to find work together to take on the people that are causing the problems, which are the Democrats.

RUSH:  Now, that is interesting.

That's Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts, who I supported to the max when he was seeking the Senate seat for the first time in Massachusetts.  He's on with Cavuto, and his point here is that these RINOs, the moderate Republicans, want us to help them in going after the Democrats. Scott, the day you decide to go after the Democrats and not the Tea Party, I'll be by your side. 

But the way I see it, sitting where I sit, moderate Republicans are trying to wipe out their own conservative base! I don't see you guys going after Democrats -- and, by the way, I didn't see any of you defending Christie yesterday, either....

Nevertheless if you guys ever, you moderate Republicans, to actually go after Obama, to actually go after Harry Reid, you're gonna have an ally in me like you've never had.  But I'm not gonna join you as you try to wipe out the Tea Party or the conservative base."...

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Limbaugh liked Christie until he chose the biggest national moment before the 2012 presidential election to be all over Obama and couldn't be bothered about the GOP candidate:

(Rush) "There was a time I was big behind Governor Christie -- and for me, that boardwalk with Obama? (sigh)

That contained a lot.

I don't know that that's something I'm gonna ever really forget.  That was the biggie.  I even thought the speech for Romney was a little curious, but the embracing of Obama one week before the election gave me a different perspective. That's just me. Although I happen to think that's a big deal for a lot of people, and the people inside the Beltway do not know that, get that, understand that. They think that's something people like me will forget, and they're worried the bridge thing is gonna be the big deal.

They need to get out of there. They need to get out of that Beltway environment now and then just a little."

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1/10/14, "The Republican Wise Men are Confused," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"Some of the Republican intelligentsia believe that Christie's biggest problem now is -- wait for it -- talk radio.  Some Republicans actually think that the biggest problem Christie has is right here, talk radio.  I'm not the one, and nobody else I know on talk radio is spending all this time trying to destroy Christie. It is their buddies in the Drive-By Media who are trying to do that.  It is their buddies who will not let go of this.  It is their buddies who, you know, when Rahm Emanuel engages in typical Chicago thug behavior, they call it tough politics, sharp elbows. With Christie, they call him a bully and worse....

If you go to anything published, if you go to anything on the air, TV or radio, the left is just salivating now.  And, in fact, Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner and the Media Research Center did some studies, and they found out that the Big Three networks covered Christie's story at a rate of 17 times more coverage in one day than they covered Obama's IRS scandal in six months, just the three broadcast networks, their nightly newscasts and their cable affiliates.  Seventeen times in one day, more coverage of Christie, and none of it favorable. Seventeen times more coverage than they gave the IRS scandal in six months....

But that is a startling stat....17 times the coverage the media spent on Obama and the IRS scandal in six months. And the second part of the observation on the inside-the-Beltway Republican establishment types...thought that Christie hit a home run in the press conference, they were then shocked. They were surprised the coverage kept going. 

That's what gets me....If our political people inside the Beltway still to this day cannot predict what the left is gonna do with a scandal like this, if they do not understand, if they really think that a Republican could go out and end a scandal with a press conference, it tells me that they still don't know the nature of the enemy and what we're really up against.  And that's a shocking but true, sad reality."...

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1/12/14, "Ex-NFL Great Dryer: GOP Establishment Afraid MSM Will Call Them Bigots," Breitbart News, Tony Lee

"Fred Dryer, the former All-Pro NFL defensive end and Hollywood actor of shows like Hunter and Cheers, is furious at the Republican establishment for waging war against the Tea Party.

He sees the establishment as surrendering to the mainstream media and accepting its stereotypes about conservatives." via Mark Levin twitter

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Comment: Rush Limbaugh is at heart a member of the establishment. He'll stand with them when it matters most. On the other hand he articulates views of conservatives quite well and has always been a fan of the Tea Party. He correctly understands the Tea Party is merely the Silent Majority stunned that the country was sold out by the GOP. He's not going to do more than that. He's not an activist. I read his transcripts for his best assets: critiquing the media on any topic, explaining the breakdown of the Republican Party, and combining the two. He has said he could make his whole show about the media but doesn't want to.

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