{"id":10141,"date":"2014-02-17T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:26:51","slug":"caddell_bombshell_gop_establishment_wants_the_irs_to_go_after_the_tea_party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/17\/caddell_bombshell_gop_establishment_wants_the_irs_to_go_after_the_tea_party\/","title":{"rendered":"Caddell Bombshell: GOP Establishment Wants the IRS to Go After the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/55871\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10231\">The Republican Party establishment.<\/a>.. Let me set this up by going back to the 2012 presidential campaign. Remember when you learned that the Romney campaign, along with Republican establishment types, had put the word out that there was to be no criticism of Obama? In fact, I remember&#8230; I think I told you all this. A prospective Republican presidential candidate in 2010 or 2011 visited me.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3217150797001&amp;w=585&amp;h=343\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There was some confab here in Palm Beach, and this man called and wanted to come by and tell me what his plans were. So I said, &#8220;Sure, come on by Sunday morning.&#8221; The guy said, &#8220;Rush, now, I just want to tell you: We can\u2019t go after Obama. That\u2019s instant death. We can go after his policies, but we can\u2019t go after Obama.&#8221; I said, &#8220;Really? How do you separate \u2019em? How do you not go after Obama if you\u2019re going after his policies? How could you go after his policies while not going after Obama?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can\u2019t make it personal, Rush. We just can\u2019t do it.&#8221; And that bled over to the Romney campaign, so much so that in the debates they wouldn\u2019t even bring up Benghazi. So now, the Republican establishment has let everybody in the party know that they will not tolerate, they will not advocate, and they won\u2019t put up with anybody attacking the Clintons\u2019 past. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10139\">If Hillary runs for president, there will be no discussion of Lewinsky and the blue dress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will be no discussion of the Rose Law Firm, the billing records. There will be none of that stuff from the past. &#8220;We\u2019re not gonna dredge it up,&#8221; the Republican establishment says. &#8220;It ain\u2019t gonna happen. We can\u2019t win by going back and being critical of the Clintons. We can\u2019t bring all that stuff up from the past. We\u2019re not gonna do it. We\u2019re gonna stay away from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, they can attack Palin. They can attack Palin\u2019s whole family. They can make movies and talk about how the Republicans were so scared of her lack of intelligence, they wouldn\u2019t even vote for her. They can do all that, but we can\u2019t attack the Clintons. We couldn\u2019t attack Obama, and can\u2019t now attack the Clintons. Pat Caddell was on Fox saying the GOP establishment wants the IRS to go after the Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Caddell said yesterday on Fox News that the reason Republican leadership has not pushed for a higher-level investigation of the IRS for targeting the Tea Party is because they want the IRS to go after the Tea Party. When you have 71% who want an investigation, 64% who believe it is a sign of corruption, including nearly a majority of Democrats, the reason is the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>Got it?<\/p>\n<p>They want them to go after the Tea Party because the Tea Parties are an outside threat to their power hold. I\u2019m telling you, the lobbying-consultant class of the Republican Party and Republican leadership, who have been attacking the Tea Party and alienating them, they want the IRS to do this. That\u2019s why there hasn\u2019t been any establishment Republican pushback on the IRS. It\u2019s almost safe to say the Republican establishment might be willing to lose a couple of elections if it meant getting rid of the Tea Party; because it\u2019s clear, folks, they don\u2019t want to win any elections the Tea Party can claim any credit for.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You gotta hear Pat Caddell. I mentioned this, but I want you to hear Pat Caddell say it. It was last night on the Fox report on the Fox News Channel, talking about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups.<\/p>\n<p>CADDELL: The reason is, the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties. Got it? They want to go after the Tea Parties because the Tea Parties are an outside threat to their power hold, and I\u2019m telling you, the lobbying, consulting class of the Republican Party and Republican leadership who have been attacking the Tea Parties and alienating them, they want the IRS to do this.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That is a serious charge. That is a very, very serious charge, that the Republican establishment is aligned with Obama and is okay with Obama using the IRS to investigate the Tea Party. But it\u2019s believable, because we know the Republican establishment, the political class in Washington, is spreading the word that they are not gonna criticize Hillary, it isn\u2019t gonna happen, and we shouldn\u2019t, either. It shouldn\u2019t happen. It won\u2019t help anybody to criticize the Clintons, at least not from the nineties. Maybe go after her on Benghazi, but if anybody does that they\u2019ll say, &#8220;No, no, no, leave Benghazi alone.&#8221; And pretty soon they\u2019re gonna say no criticism of the Clintons. That\u2019s not gonna help us. You watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The Republican Party establishment&#8230; Let me set this up by going back to the 2012 presidential campaign. Remember when you learned that the Romney campaign, along with Republican establishment types, had put the word out that there was to be no criticism of Obama? 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