{"id":11266,"date":"2013-09-30T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-30T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:12:34","slug":"if_the_percentage_of_conservatives_in_america_is_at_an_all_time_high_since_1952_how_is_liberalism_on_the_march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/30\/if_the_percentage_of_conservatives_in_america_is_at_an_all_time_high_since_1952_how_is_liberalism_on_the_march\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Percentage of Conservatives in America is at an All-Time High Since 1952, How is Liberalism on the March?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I have a story here from the Washington Post<\/a>. I know when I pass the contents on you\u2019re not gonna believe it. Or, if you believe it you\u2019re gonna say it\u2019s meaningless because it has no practical application in reality. <\/p>\n

But the headline of the story: “Americans Are More Conservative Than They Have Been in Decades.” I\u2019ve got two stories here. I\u2019m wondering if they\u2019re both using the same poll. The second one, the Washington Examiner<\/a>, does use Public Policy Polling, and that bunch has just been totally discredited. Public Policy Polling polled the Colorado recall election over guns three weeks ago now, whenever it was. This is this outfit, this liberal polling unit out of North Carolina, and they\u2019re polling on the Colorado recall election had it pegged. They were dead right. But they never released the poll because they couldn\u2019t believe it. They\u2019re a Democrat liberal polling unit, and their poll indicated that the Democrat in the safe district would lose big time. <\/p>\n

Their poll predicted exactly what would happen, but they thought it wasn\u2019t possible. They thought their poll was flawed and they never released it. Which led to a number of discussions about, well, if these people won\u2019t release their own data just \u2019cause they don\u2019t like the results, should we trust them on anything? I\u2019ve held Public Policy Polling up for ridicule oftentimes on this program. <\/p>\n

Now, they happen to be the source for one of the stories on this. Washington Post: “Americans Are More Conservative Than They Have Been in Decades — James Stimson knows as much about public opinion as anyone in America. He has been tracking the nation\u00c2\u2019s policy preferences for more than 20 years using a ‘policy mood\u2019 index derived from responses to a wide variety of opinion surveys involving hundreds of specific policy questions on topics ranging from taxes and spending to environmental regulation to gun control. The latest update of Stimson\u00c2\u2019s policy mood series suggests that the American public in 2012 was more conservative than at any point since 1952.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, again to our previous caller<\/a>, who gave up, announced that it\u2019s pointless. His wife\u2019s the low-information voter. I would ask him, what do you think the election returns of 2010 meant? He said, “We can\u2019t go back, Rush, it\u2019s over. The Republicans, we can never roll this back. We can never go back to the way it was. We can never go back to the America we used to have. It\u2019s over.” His point was the socialists have won, the Republicans are powerless, the Republicans are gutless, whatever the point he was making, we can never go back. <\/p>\n

In 2010, don\u2019t forget, the Republicans retook control of the House because the vast majority of voters that turned out hated Obamacare. And no matter what poll you look at, a majority of Americans still oppose Obamacare and don\u2019t want any part of it. There was a New York Times poll that was shown up today, or discussed yesterday on Meet the Press, which I had never heard of, which said that 56% say go ahead and let it implement, which that was a new one. That\u2019s the only one I\u2019ve seen. This guy has a poll here, James Stimson, that Americans in 2012 are more conservative than they\u2019ve ever been since 1952. <\/p>\n

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Okay, so you might look at that and say what good is it doing anybody? And you might hear this, can\u2019t possibly be true. If the American population was more conservative in 2012 than it\u2019s been since 1952, then how the hell did Obama win? And those would be logical questions. If the American public is more conservative today than it\u2019s been at any time since 1952, how is any of this happening? And that would be a legitimate question you could ask.<\/p>\n

I guess the question would come down, if this is true, if the American population is more conservative now than it has been even since 1952, then what explains Obama being reelected and what explains the Democrats dominating? What explains all these conservatives just sitting out there and taking it? Why aren\u2019t they doing anything about it? And the answers to that I think would get pretty intricate, because then party politics comes into play. You know, they say the guy\u2019s right. If the Republican Party is not representing that, how many of these conservatives are actually showing up to vote and participate? We know that four million of \u2019em didn\u2019t in 2012. Four million Republican voters who did vote in \u201908 did not vote in 2012, because they were dissatisfied with Romney or who knows whatever else. <\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner story: 76% of the GOP is now conservative, and in a poll by Public Policy Polling they have identified Ted Cruz <\/a>as the person they would choose for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. According to this PPP poll, which has Cruz as the top choice for the Republican nomination 2016, those who describe themselves as very conservative make up 39% of the GOP. Add in those who consider themselves somewhat conservative and conservative voters comprise 76% of the party. Now, if that happens to be true, well, then, you\u2019ve got a recipe there for real disgust, because the Republican establishment is not 76% conservative. The Republican establishment in Washington is not conservative at all, yet most Republican voters are?<\/p>\n

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Now, I understand people are gonna look at this and say, “Doesn\u2019t mean anything, Rush.” I\u2019m not trying to be phony positive with you and I\u2019m not trying to say it means anything that you can grab onto, put your arms around and make predictions for the future about, not that at all. ‘Cause it\u2019s a disconnect. It doesn\u2019t make any sense. For some guy that polls the American people to say the American population is more conservative today than at any time since 1952, where\u2019s the evidence? It\u2019s a legitimate question. I happen to think it\u2019s true, particularly in how people live their lives, particularly in the moral foundations of most people. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I continue to have faith in the future. It\u2019s why I have not given up. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve lost the country yet. It\u2019s hard to point to such things as election results or what\u2019s going on in Washington for the evidence of it. But the fact is there\u2019s a disconnect. We\u2019ve discussed this, too, ruling class versus country class, and there\u2019s a huge disconnect between both parties. Ruling class, both party establishments and the American population at large. It\u2019s huge. It\u2019s a great disconnect. And it leads to so many people having so much frustration. And most people feel powerless to do anything about it. <\/p>\n

Conservatives by nature are not gonna take to the streets and protest like Occupy Wall Street does or any of that, even when they\u2019re asked to. It\u2019s just not who they are. It\u2019s not the kind of things they do. And, absent that, the Washington establishment doesn\u2019t think that there\u2019s anything to worry about. Despite the 2010 midterms, they don\u2019t think that there\u2019s really anything to worry about from the people. They think most of you have signed on to big government, amnesty, gun control, whatever it is, gay marriage, and even if you haven\u2019t, there\u2019s nothing you can do about it.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so really, what would explain it? Let\u2019s take this story at its word, just for the sake of it. Let\u2019s accept, for the hypothetical discussion that follows, that the percentage of Americans who are conservative is at an all-time high since 1952 and that that is most Americans. Most Americans. So what, then, would explain Obama being reelected? What would explain Obama getting so much of his agenda, if the people of this country are more conservative than they\u2019ve been since 1952? <\/p>\n

Well, dare I mention it, there\u2019s two possibilities here. <\/p>\n

One is the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a> — and maybe just because somebody\u2019s conservative doesn\u2019t mean that they automatically understand a liberal when they see one. The Limbaugh Theorem is the explanation for Obama not having any accountability for the policies that are his. Obama constantly positions himself as an outsider, campaigning to fix what\u2019s wrong, when he\u2019s the guy that\u2019s broken everything.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s never seen that way. It\u2019s never reported that these are Obama policies. He is constantly running against evil Republican. He had a little statement today. Grab sound bite 25. It\u2019s another great example. He had a little photo-op here and a brief mention sitting in the Oval Office fireplace next to Bibi Netanyahu, and he got a question from a reporter. “Are you resigned, Mr. President, to have the government shut down at this point?” a reporter shouted. This is what Obama said.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The Senate has passed a bill that keeps the government open, does not have a lot of extraneous issues to it, that allows us then to negotiate a longer term budget and address a range of other issues but ensures that we\u2019re not shutting down the government and we\u2019re not shutting down the economy at a time when a lot of families out there are just getting some traction and digging themselves out of the hole that we\u2019ve had as a consequence of the financial crisis. I\u2019ve said before, Congress has two responsibilities.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Pass a budget.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s not just a government shutdown. Now we\u2019re “shutting down the economy.” Now the Republicans are “shutting down the economy,” number one. Number two, we\u2019re “shutting down the economy at a time when a lot of families are just getting some traction and digging out of the whole that we\u2019ve had as a consequence of the financial crisis.” So it has nothing to do with him, you see? It has everything to do with everything that happened before he got elected and immaculated. <\/line><\/p>\n

He continues to operate this way, and therefore he escapes any accountability, and maybe, even though some of these people in the country are conservative, they just do not see Obama in an ideological way. And that could be explained by the fact that there aren\u2019t very many people who talk about Obama in an ideological way. Certainly not the Republican Party. So it\u2019s either that, the Limbaugh Theorem, or they\u2019ve just given up. <\/p>\n

But they still went ahead and answered the question honestly. But I think it\u2019s clear that Obama has escaped practically all attachments to everything happening in this country policy-wise for five years, other than Obamacare, which people don\u2019t like. I mean, that\u2019s got his name on its. They can\u2019t really conclude that he\u2019s got nothing to do with that. But even there, what did he say? “Premiums are gonna come down $2500! It\u2019s gonna be free for people! If you like your doctor, you\u2019re gonna keep your doctor!”<\/p>\n

You know, most people, contrary to what you might think, just do not want to believe anything bad about their president. It took the Democrats four years to create the monster that was George W. Bush. You could even argue it took \u2019em longer than that because they started on that even before he was inaugurated \u2019cause of the Florida aftermath. Those are the only two things I could come up to explain, “If we accept that the vast majority of people are conservative, then how the hell is any of this happening?” <\/p>\n

If you have any ideas, feel free to weigh in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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