{"id":15862,"date":"2012-04-26T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-26T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T18:05:20","slug":"see_i_told_you_so_social_issues_didn_t_drive_independents_away_from_gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/26\/see_i_told_you_so_social_issues_didn_t_drive_independents_away_from_gop\/","title":{"rendered":"See, I Told You So: Social Issues Didn\u2019t Drive Independents Away from GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I want to take you back to this program February, this year, mere weeks ago.  I was talking about the Republican Party.  They were angry.  They weren\u2019t being public with their anger, but I was hearing about it through surrogates.  They were angry at me for talking about social issues.  &#8220;Don\u2019t talk about \u2019em, Rush, the social issues, independents don\u2019t want to hear about abortion, that stuff, please.&#8221;  Here\u2019s what I said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" view=\"full\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16517\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushSeeIToldYouConserveCanWin.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE:  The Republican establishment in panic over the fact I\u2019m killing the party.  And you know how I\u2019m killing the party?  By not relegating discussion of social issues to the ash heap.  They don\u2019t want it talked about.  Oh, no, they just can\u2019t handle it being discussed.  They think it\u2019s gonna send the independents driving away and the electoral history of this is anything but.<\/p>\n<p><a view=\"full\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594035784?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1594035784\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/JefferyBellA300_.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH:  That\u2019s right.  The electoral history.  And I was talking, there was a book.  Jeffrey Bell wrote a book about how social issues being predominant in the Republican Party has led to presidential victory.  And this was the point that I was making.  This is an illustration about how the inside-the-Beltway Republicans are out of touch and don\u2019t get it and how northeastern liberal Republicans are scared to death of the abortion issue, when they win with it.  So I want to follow this up with Brian Kilmeade today on Fox &amp; Friends.  They just had a new Fox presidential poll out.  Listen to Kilmeade here.<\/p>\n<p>KILMEADE:  Among independents, the key voting bloc, who would you vote for if the election was today, 46 to 33, Mitt <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15865\">Romney,<\/a> a dominant lead.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Now, you heard him say &#8220;the key voting bloc.&#8221;  See, that\u2019s my pet peeve.  &#8220;So here\u2019s Kilmeade.  Among independents, the key voting bloc, who would you vote for if the election was today?&#8221;  Romney up by 13 among independents.  And that\u2019s after six weeks of this phony war on women stuff that was supposed to send independents running back to the Democrats.  Don\u2019t buy it. Don\u2019t believe the conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I want to take you back to this program February, this year, mere weeks ago. 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