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RUSH: Newt Gingrich is the latest Republican — and there have been quite a few — who have advised other Republicans to back off on this, there\u2019s no reason to be critical here of Obama. Obama had nothing to do with this. Republican National Committee shouldn\u2019t be running these ads, it\u2019s just a mistake here to focus on what might have happened. Now, I think this is an example here of the Republicans continuing to make a mistake in thinking that if they appear in a way that they consider reasonable, that somehow it\u2019s going to result in people voting more for Republicans down the line than Democrats, which is disheartening because it means a continuation of the same flawed thinking that we carried into the election. <\/p>\n

See, I am convinced that this is a center-right country. I\u2019m convinced that the majority of the people in this country did not vote for the Republican candidate because the Republican candidate was not a right-winger, the Republican candidate was not a conservative. I\u2019m convinced a lot of conservatives simply stayed home and didn\u2019t vote. They couldn\u2019t bear to vote for Obama, but they also couldn\u2019t bear to vote for McCain, they couldn\u2019t do that to themselves, they couldn\u2019t compromise their principles in that way. So these election returns have created the impression that the country\u2019s moved way to the left, almost irretrievably so and apparently a lot of Republicans think the only way to get back in power is to move a little bit to the left, not as far left as the Democrats have gone, and compete essentially on the liberal side of the field, and it\u2019s a mistake. It is a huge mistake, but I\u2019m not worried because Colin Powell has told the Republican Party not to listen to me anymore. They are not listening to me, period, but this notion that we can\u2019t criticize Obama or we can\u2019t raise questions about some of this stuff is like saying we ought to leave Barney Frank alone and Chris Dodd alone and everybody associated with the Fannie Mae debacle and the subprime mortgage debacle and we need to leave everybody in the Democrat Party who has anything to do with this corruption, leave them alone because it\u2019s unbecoming and people don\u2019t want to hear it right now. And that\u2019s a mistake. <\/p>\n

People need to know what\u2019s ahead of them. If we want to continue this illusion that you have a cesspool in Chicago, Illinois, and out of this cesspool came Barack Obama, but none of the cess in the pool happened to stick to him, if that\u2019s what we want to present — I know there\u2019s one school of thought out there. I have heard this expressed. I forget who said this. Some Republican, slash, conservative thinker. Back off. Back off right now. It\u2019s wasted to do this right now. At some point, all this is gonna come home to roost, and if the Republicans just hold their fire and appear reasonable here, and appear to be giving Obama a fair shot, we all must come together as peoples, and we all must come together as Americans for hope and change, we have an economic crisis, we have a recession, perhaps a depression, we have subprime mortgages and foreclosures, we have the automobile bailout, we have Bernie Madoff, we have essentially huge, big problems. We need to appear to be working together with the president-select so as to convince the American people that we are not partisan and that we are not small-minded and we\u2019re not just picking fights to pick fights. Instead, we need to back off so that when all of these mistakes that Obama is going to make begin to pile up, that we will have a baseline of credibility and previously voiced support for Obama from which to launch our criticism, which will then give the criticism more credibility. <\/p>\n

So the theory is that our criticism will only have credibility if we appear for weeks and perhaps months to love Obama, to support Obama, to want Obama to succeed because, for Obama to succeed, the country will succeed, and we want the country to succeed, that\u2019s the tactic that we are supposed to take, and if we do, then our criticism down the line will have much more credibility because we will have shown that we really hoped for this to work out, we really wanted Obama to change America for the better forever, but alas, it didn\u2019t happen and we are so sorry to have to say this now, but maybe he\u2019s making some mistakes, that\u2019s the theory. The theory behind this is that with the great unwashed, the so-called 20% of independents and moderates that we think we need to win elections, that we must appear — and remember, there\u2019s polling data, the liberals and the Drive-By Media have run polls, all these exit polls, and they have said that the reason McCain lost was because he turned negative on Obama. I nuked this during the campaign, because it\u2019s a silly notion. It\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the proposition they put before us. You have these 20% or so moderate independents who hate partisanship. They literally despise it. And as long as Senator McCain was running a friendly and respectful and honorable campaign, they were willing to listen to what he had to say and perhaps give him their vote. But the moment — this is the theory, this is what our people are told, and they stupidly believe — the moment that our candidate appears to be critical of Obama, just critical, not even in attack mode, just critical, why, that\u2019s it, that\u2019s it, the moderates, they\u2019re outta there, they knew it, it was too good to be true, the Republicans just can\u2019t help it, they just become these mean-spirited partisans and they run for the Democrat Party, which is the most egregious, outraged, partisan, angry, deranged bunch of people in American politics in my lifetime. So we\u2019re told that moderates look at Democrats as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re never ‘partisan\u2019 whatsoever. They don\u2019t like partisanship, and that is killing us because we\u2019re believing in this rotgut. It is partisanship, standing on principles and ideas that have long proven to work, that people want to respond to or will respond to. When you\u2019re afraid to stand up for what you yourself believe in, why should anybody else believe in you? Our side is afraid to stand up for what it believes in because they\u2019re afraid it\u2019s going to offend people. So we can\u2019t criticize Obama, can\u2019t criticize the education secretary choice, because we want this to work, we want the country to improve and change for the better, we want Obama to really bring about this change and hope that he promised, yet many of us, we sit here and we cringe at that because we know who Obama is, and we know what his ideas are, and we know where it\u2019s going to lead the country. <\/p>\n

Somebody\u2019s gotta stand up and say, ‘Hey, folks, maybe we can\u2019t stop it but this is what\u2019s headed your way and you should be prepared for it,\u2019 which is why I spend some time here talking to you about those very things, and with examples of how the culture is deteriorating. I mean, when you get stories that say a school has discovered that one of the great ways to keep order is rules, I\u2019m sorry, I do not feel like celebrating that. I do not think, wow, somebody\u2019s come up with a great idea. When I see stories that say parents are in a dilemma over whether to tell their kids the truth about the economy this Christmas or whether to just go spend crazily, go further in debt just to shield the kids from the pain, I\u2019m just incredulous, I\u2019m incredulous. This does not bode well for the future that we\u2019ve gotta whole political party that\u2019s trying to foster this kind of thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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