{"id":10898,"date":"2013-11-11T17:32:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-11T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:32:33","slug":"the_latest_trick_played_on_the_gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/11\/the_latest_trick_played_on_the_gop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Trick Played on the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: You know, this Pew Center for People and the Press poll also found that Obama is losing independents in droves. Obama is losing the precious independents, and that\u2019s why independents aren\u2019t precious anymore. You independents, your salad days are gone. If you don\u2019t vote for Democrats, you\u2019re not gonna get anything special. You\u2019re just the latest group of dorks. Romney won the independents big. Cuccinelli won the independents big<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Remember that old saw that the Democrat consultants always used to tell the Republicans and they would believe it? You know, folks, this is worth mentioning again. The Republican Party gets tricked so easily. They get tricked into not criticizing Obama, they get tricked into not being for what they should be for, and they even get tricked into campaigning for only 20% of the vote. Ever since I\u2019ve been dabbling in this, I\u2019ve heard every year, “You don\u2019t win unless you get the independents. <\/p>\n

“You got to win the independents. Your base is gonna vote for you, and the Democrat base is gonna vote for it,” and so the consultants go to all these Republican candidates and sell themselves on that ability. “I\u2019m the guy that can get you the independents,” and what do they do? They turn these candidates into squishy, linguine-spined moderates, on the theory that\u2019s how you get the independents. <\/line><\/p>\n

Another thing we\u2019re always told: “Do not criticize Obama! Do not criticize Democrats! Do not raise your voice, the independents don\u2019t like that.” Remember? “If you do that — if you raise your voice, if you criticize Obama — the independents gonna run in droves to the Democrats, because they don\u2019t like all this bickering.” Now, the Democrats can call us terrorists and rapists and murderers and muggers, and it doesn\u2019t ever seem to bother the independents. <\/p>\n

But if we criticize Democrats?<\/line><\/p>\n

So the Republicans have been tricked into shutting up, and every four years they\u2019ve been tricked into campaigning for 20% of the voting public, the independents. They\u2019re winning the independents and they\u2019re losing elections. You know why? Because they are abandoning their base, and the assumption is the base is always gonna be with you, but the Tea Party is not the case. So Obama is losing independents big.<\/p>\n

In this Pew poll, only 32% of independents approve of Obama\u2019s job performance. Sixty-one percent of independents disapprove. He\u2019s losing \u2019em. So you don\u2019t hear about the independents anymore, do you? You don\u2019t hear the media tell Republicans what to do and how to do it, regarding the independents. You don\u2019t hear about \u2019em at all because since they\u2019ve abandoned Obama, they don\u2019t matter anymore.<\/p>\n

The independents — and I know who you are, and you independents know who you are, and you were made to feel special by the media. You were portrayed as the really smart people. You weren\u2019t ideologues. You decided things issue by issue. You had open minds, not closed minds. You weren\u2019t bigots like the Tea Party. Oh, no, no, no! You independents, you were the cream of the crop — until you stopped voting for Democrats. Now you\u2019re dirt. Now you\u2019re scum.<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re not even worth being talked about because you are abandoning Obama. So I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s nothing special about you independents anymore, and the word that will be used to replace independents is “moderates” now, because the trick must continue. Even though the independents are now siding against Obama — and that means usually with Republicans, but not always.<\/p>\n

At least they\u2019re turning on Obama. Well, the trick must continue to be played on the Republicans. So now moderates will replace independents, and the Republicans will be told, “You\u2019re not gonna win anything unless you convince the moderates to vote for you and only way you can do that is come out for amnesty and abortion and getting rid of guns. If you don\u2019t do that, you\u2019ll never win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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