{"id":10920,"date":"2013-11-07T19:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-07T19:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:49:47","slug":"frank_rich_gets_something_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/07\/frank_rich_gets_something_right\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Rich Gets Something Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/53946\" 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:  Grab nine and 10.  These fascinate me.  This is Frank Rich, ex- of the New York Times. By the way do you know&#8230;? You may not know. Frank Rich. In order to relate and understand, he left his family for a year and lived with a gay couple, in order to be able to more accurately understand and write about that condition.  Now, he didn\u2019t marry a lesbian, but he lived with a gay couple, I think for a year. (interruption) Yeah?  When I say he lived with \u2019em&#8230; (interruption)<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>No, I don\u2019t&#8230; (interruption) No, no!  He just was in residence.  He just lived with \u2019em.  That\u2019s where he lived. he left his family, his wife and his kids, and he moved in with a gay couple. (interruption) I don\u2019t know what else happened.  That\u2019s not the point.  It\u2019s just a little aside as to who the guy is.  That\u2019s all.  He\u2019s a New York Times columnist.  He\u2019s left there, he now works at either New York or The New Yorker or the Cosmopolitan, some such place.<\/line><img id=\"eZObject_83461\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/FrankRich.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know where he writes now.  He started out as their theater critic, and then they made him an opinion columnist.  Anyway, he was on Piers Morgan Live last night.  It\u2019s New York Magazine\u2019s where he is. He\u2019s an at-large writer there, and Piers Morgan said, &#8220;You wrote a fascinating piece today, and the headline was, &#8216;Cuccinelli\u2019s Near Win Says More Than Christie\u2019s Landslide.\u2019  What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n<p>RICH:  He had almost everything, according to conventional wisdom, going against him, but he came within three points of Terry McAuliffe, who had the Clintons campaigning for him, he had President Obama campaigning for him, he had a ton of money, and he had a government shutdown to beat over Cuccinelli\u2019s head because northern Virginian government workers were affected by it and, you know, Cuccinelli is part of the right wing that supported the shutdown.  This guy did as well as he could and might have won, frankly, if it hadn\u2019t been for a third-party Libertarian candidate.  I think [that] does not look great for Democrats, and also does not look great for moderate Republicans who take such heart in Chris Christie\u2019s victory in New Jersey because I think the Tea Party is alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  You know, the reason I wanted you to hear this is because that\u2019s now three different Democrat liberal analysts who I think have got this right.  I think <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10930\">Stephanie Cutter was right in her analysis <\/a>of the Christie win, and I think Big Ed over at MSNBC had a point (although he may not have known it), and Rich, Frank Rich is right here in the way he\u2019s analyzing this.  The Cuccinelli loss means far more to the Republicans, and the Democrats, than Christie\u2019s win. <\/p>\n<p>Because in New Jersey, everybody knew he\u2019d win. There really wasn\u2019t an election there.  But in addition to that, the exit polls in New Jersey all show Hillary cleaning up in a presidential race in that state, and believe me: These people live and die by exit polls.  Or any poll.  That is public opinion to them.  So Piers Morgan, after hearing this, was shocked. He said (impression), &#8220;Well, let\u2019s come to Chris Christie, because he\u2019s a hugely popular figure, popular governor, reelected with a thumping margin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RICH:  Contrary to what a lot of people in the pundit profession think, I think Christie\u2019s victory is meaningless in terms of the national Republican Party.  This is not an acceptable candidate for the Republicans who are gonna vote in presidential primaries.  Christie is popular in New Jersey, there\u2019s no question about it. But even in New Jersey, in the exit polls that CNN showed, he lost in a matchup with Hillary Clinton.  He\u2019s a New Jersey phenomenon.  Is he a national phenomenon?  Only if they cancel all the Republican primaries.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Ooh, man! That &#8220;only if they cancel the Republican primaries,&#8221; meaning in Richie\u2019s view Christie\u2019s gonna have a tough time in the primaries against whoever else might seek the nomination, i.e., conservatives.  But again I want to tell you just so you know: The RNC and the Republican establishment doesn\u2019t believe any of this.  They are thrilled because Christie won a majority of Hispanics.  Right now, that is all that matters.  Well, maybe not all, but that\u2019s huge. <\/p>\n<p>You know, the GOP is big on amnesty. They believe this notion that if they don\u2019t do amnesty they\u2019re never gonna win anything \u2019cause they\u2019re never gonna win the Hispanics, and if you don\u2019t win the Hispanics, you\u2019re not gonna win anything, and Christie did.  But then, of course, he\u2019s not gonna win the Hispanics in a presidential race; the Democrats are.  And especially if the Republicans throw it all away and go amnesty, because that would be the official separation of the Republicans and their base, and it seems to be where the Republicans are headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Grab nine and 10. These fascinate me. This is Frank Rich, ex- of the New York Times. By the way do you know&#8230;? You may not know. Frank Rich. 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