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RUSH: Eric Cantor is out saying the Republicans have to change. The Republican Party has to change. The Republican Party has to show that we want to help people. The Republican Party has to reach across the aisle. <\/line><\/p>\n

Karl Rove and his PAC. What is it, American Crossroads? Is that the name of his PAC? There was a New York Times story a couple of days ago that basically said they are gonna end up choosing Republican primary candidates so that they\u2019re not “Tea Partied.” The Republican establishment has had it with nominees like Sharron Angle, Christine O\u2019Donnell, Todd Akin, and Richard Mourdock. They say (summarized), “No more! And if we have to, we\u2019re gonna run Republican money against Tea Party candidates to keep the Tea Party outta here,” \u2019cause the elites say the Tea Party is destroying the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you what really is happening. Either by accident or by design, this announcement and this newspaper article about Karl Rove\u2019s intentions is only serving to unite the Tea Party in ways even now it hasn\u2019t been. It is energizing the Tea Party in ways that it hasn\u2019t been. After the election, everybody on our side faced a bit of demoralization, and this has ratcheted it back up. The conservative base of the Republican Party has now been targeted by the Republican establishment. That\u2019s how they interpreted Rove\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

So what the Tea Party people now realize is that they got two political forces gunning for \u2019em. Obama and the Democrats and the Republican establishment. Now, I want to take you back. Grab audio sound bite number one. Once again, folks, I told you this was on the table. I told you this was going to happen. I predicted it almost literally, and I\u2019m not saying this so that you go, “Wow, this Rush guy really knows his stuff!” I\u2019m not looking for kudos. I\u2019m simply saying you can trust what I tell you. You can trust the predictions. I know the kind of people we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to back to October 19th, 2010, before the midterm elections — and those midterms in 2010, the Tea Party swept the House by a big margin. They took the House from the Democrats. It was a Tea Party, slam-dunk landslide. The Democrats lost seats all the way down the ballot to dogcatcher level. The Democrats lost over 700 seats nationwide, in the midterms. This why so many of us thought that there was a good possibility to win in 2012. So here, about three weeks before the midterm election in 2010, I warned everybody in this audience the following…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: This is how third parties are born. These morons have no clue how short their lease on life is, these elites, they really don\u2019t. They have no clue how short their lease on political life is. They seem to think that the Tea Party is gonna end on November 2nd. They think the Tea Party\u2019s over, and once the election has taken place, then the elites, the Republican Party as well, are gonna now take over and start to manage the victories that have been secured by virtue of the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

What will happen is the Specters and the Charlie Crists and so forth will go ahead and will officially become Democrats, the worthwhile Republicans will go to the Tea Party, and the remaining of these insider people, the David Frum, the David Brooks, the inside-the-Beltway, so-called conservative intelligentsia, the “Let\u2019s Make a Deal” types who believe that crossing the aisle and compromise and moderates, that\u2019s what the American people want, and they think that\u2019s what this election will say. They\u2019re going to be all that remains of the Republicans. They\u2019ll go to the Hamptons or wherever, but they\u2019re going to be all that remains of the Republicans. The Republicans could end up being a 10% party if they\u2019re not careful here. They could end up being the third party, and they could be the 10%.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was me predicting exactly where we are now today with the announcement that elements of the Republican Party are now going to seek to make sure Tea Party candidates don\u2019t win primaries. The Tea Party\/conservative base has been energized. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve seen that. I\u2019m getting feedback, e-mail, phone calls and this kind of thing. People are furious about this, and they\u2019re getting focused and they\u2019re coming back after having been demoralized by the election results last November. But, again, that sound bite was October 19th, 2010, before the massive Tea Party landslide victory.<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s further evidence that I was right on the money. After that landslide, what was one of the most amazing things? The Republican Party did not seek to capitalize on it at all. The Republican Party in no way sought to capitalize on the birth of the Tea Party, its growth, its energy, its electoral prowess. They sought to minimize and diminish it, which they continue to do. We\u2019ll see what the end result of it is, but right now there\u2019s a unity and an energy. It may be just short of a rebirth going on. You have FreedomWorks, people like that, and Tea Party groups all over the country. Let\u2019s take a brief time-out and we will… (interruption) See? See?<\/p>\n

Snerdley said, “You\u2019re not gonna talk about Rove! I know you\u2019re gonna try to get away with not talking about him. I just know you are.”<\/p>\n

Wrongo, pal! Big time wrongo.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, to “fair and balanced,” ladies and gentlemen: The establishment Republicans, the inside-the-Beltway establishment types… Remember, these are the people who supported Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio. These are the brains. These are the guys who are gonna protect the Republican Party from you. They also opposed Rand Paul. Remember, they supported Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey and on and on. There are countless examples. The bottom line is, they don\u2019t have any better record at picking winners than the, quote, unquote, “amateur” Tea Party types do. And even when they pick winners, what do we end up winning?<\/p>\n

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We get squishy Republican moderates.<\/p>\n

You know, my biggest problem with all of this is (and we talked about this before) within Republican Party there is a huge line of demarcation. On the establishment Republican side, they don\u2019t see the country at risk. There\u2019s nothing really special about where we are. “We\u2019ve had deficits before. We\u2019ve had the national debt before. The numbers are just bigger, but there really isn\u2019t any crisis here. We just need to start winning elections.” They\u2019re not really small-government people. They\u2019re not interested in a serious decentralization of government or reduction in size. They are more interested in controlling the levers of power.<\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s a lot of money.<\/p>\n

The federal budget is a lot of money — and when you\u2019re majority party in Washington, you are in control of the money — and that\u2019s power. The inside-the-Beltway ruling class… That\u2019s a term that I have appropriated from that great story in the American Spectator by Angelo Codevilla a couple years ago who wrote about the ruling class. They\u2019re of both parties. They are inside the Beltway. They are the New York-Boston axis. They don\u2019t see the future as threatened as you and I do, and they don\u2019t see the country in crisis like you and I do. Even after that huge 2010 midterm landslide defeat, there was still some embarrassment over the people who won, embarrassment that those people were actually in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

It actually is not new, by the way.<\/p>\n

What is new is the birth of and the surging of the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

So the elites have finally just said, “Okay, we gotta tamp it down now. It\u2019s gone too far. We gotta beat it back ourselves.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a little bit of news here from the Pew Hispanic Research Group. “Twenty-six percent of legal Latino immigrants in the US haven\u2019t tried or are not interested in attaining citizenship.” That\u2019s a pretty significant number. Twenty-six percent of legal Latino immigrants don\u2019t care about becoming citizens. The reason why that\u2019s interesting is because it\u2019ll have ramifications for this entire debate that we\u2019re having on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

And, more specifically, it\u2019ll have ramifications for the Republican Party\u2019s heartfelt belief that unless they “reach out” to the Hispanic population with a stated position of clear path to citizenship that might even include amnesty, they don\u2019t have any prayer winning elections. In fact, Eric Cantor said the Republicans need to better express why they\u2019re doing what they\u2019re doing. Cantor said this yesterday. We need to better express…<\/line><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t anybody call Eric Cantor. Please. Do not e-mail or call or fax Eric Cantor. Do me that favor. He says we need to express why we\u2019re doing what we\u2019re doing. So Cantor says we\u2019re not getting our message out. We\u2019re not explaining who we are. We\u2019re not explaining why we\u2019re doing what we\u2019re doing. We gotta do a better job of that. He said, “What this is about, is about making sure we can express why we\u2019re doing what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

“We believe very strongly, obviously, in things like fiscal discipline and not spending money you don\u2019t have. We also believe in that because it helps people, but we have to do a better job of explaining it.” In a sense, he\u2019s right. What he\u2019s basically saying is we need outreach to the low-information voter who doesn\u2019t care about this. Last night, Governor Christie was on the Letterman show. I haven\u2019t seen the Letterman show, I\u2019m not kidding, in ten years or maybe longer.<\/p>\n

But the television, the DVR was on CBS because the last time I had the TV on was the Super Bowl, which as on CBS. I don\u2019t know why but I fired it up last night about 11:30. I was gonna watch something else, but it came up and Letterman was on and just wrapping up with Joe Flacco, the Super Bowl MVP from the Baltimore Ravens. Then Letterman said, “Up next is Governor Christie.” So I said, “I\u2019ll stick around and watch this,” and Governor Christie came out, and the first part the interview was nothing but fat this and fat that.<\/p>\n

Why are you fat?<\/p>\n

Do you think about diets?<\/p>\n

Why do you eat so much?<\/p>\n

Have you ever tried to not eat so much?<\/p>\n