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RUSH: I want to get back to this story in TheHill.com<\/a>, and then, after we finish this, we\u2019re gonna get to some of the latest polling data that is hidden in the NBC\/Wall Street Journal pol<\/a>l, because there is some shocking internal information.<\/p>\n

In addition to the fact that Trump\u2019s lead continues to grow, there is some really surprising inside stuff about… I\u2019ll just tell you one thing. Of all the Republicans in the NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll, while it acknowledges that Donald Trump is adding to his lead, there is one Republican, according to the people polled in their responses here. There\u2019s one candidate who could beat Trump for the nomination, in the eyes of Republican primary voters, and that\u2019s Ted Cruz. Now, I don\u2019t have to tell you that that little tidbit of information is not something that\u2019s causing \u2019em to do handstands and flips at the GOP.<\/p>\n

“Ted Cruz? Are you kidding me?”<\/p>\n


\nThey want that name to be Jeb Bush — and if the name isn\u2019t Jeb Bush, they want it to be Marco Rubio, as we said yesterday. Now we\u2019ve got stories all over the media — Politico, the New York Times — about how the Republican Party is all of a sudden saying, “Well, yeah, you know what? Maybe we can live with Ted. Maybe Ted\u2019s not looking so bad now.” The establishment people say, “Yeah, Ted could be one of us.” So they do want to win. I don\u2019t doubt that. But I found one guy who doesn\u2019t, if the victor is conservative. And let me get right back to this. It\u2019s in TheHill.com.<\/p>\n

It is about a Republican donor and organizer (a young man, by the way) named Ford O\u2019Connell. He\u2019s a “strategist,” Republican strategist. He\u2019s one of the many in the Republican Party “who has long insisted that the party must expand its demographic appeal.” He\u2019s one of the people that believe the Republican Party simply cannot win with Republican votes alone, so they have to go out and get other voters. They\u2019ve gotta go get Democrats, they\u2019ve gotta go get Hispanics, have to get African-Americans. They have to go get whatever.<\/p>\n

Which is fine, but don\u2019t do it acting like Democrat Lite! If you want to go get these other voters, go do it as a proud Republican conservative. That\u2019s what\u2019s not happening here. And this story details a nightmare scenario for the “modernizers” of the GOP. The modernizers are these people that think for the Republican Party to have any long-term chance of survival as a winning and dominant party, it has got to expand, and it cannot be known as conservative. It\u2019s gotta go much farther than that. The nightmare scenario, as detailed in this story, the nightmare scenario is a conservative candidate becoming the nominee and then winning the presidency.<\/p>\n

That is described as “a perfect storm,” an outcome that will “postpone the hard conversations the party needs to have internally.” In other words, Ted Cruz becoming president is a problem, according to this Republican strategist, because it will falsely portray the GOP as a conservative party, “and that\u2019s guaranteed to kill the GOP,” is what these people think. Even in the scenario where Cruz becomes president, that very fact is seen by these people as a death knell for the GOP. What can you conclude from that?<\/p>\n


\n“‘If they are successful,\u2019 O\u2019Connell said of candidates such as Trump and Cruz, ‘then those who are arguing to broaden our appeal will be pushed to the edges of the party.'” Can I translate this for you? This guy and whoever else in the party he\u2019s talking about do not want a conservative to win no matter what. I remind you: How many times have you seen — in the past weeks, recent months — various Republicans quoted as saying if Cruz or Trump are the nominee, they will vote for Hillary? You may have heard me pass that news on to you, or you may have heard it for yourself.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just a few. It\u2019s a rather significant number of Republicans who\u2019ve been public, saying, “Hey, if it\u2019s Trump, I\u2019m voting Hillary. If it\u2019s Cruz, I\u2019m voting Hillary.” A conservative winning the presidency is a nightmare beyond belief. Mr. Priebus, what are we supposed to think here? I\u2019m not making up anything anybody believes. I\u2019m not manufacturing what people are saying. I do what I do every day. I sit here, I read, I consume whatever is to consume out there, and I react to it.<\/p>\n

And contrary to what people might think, I do not arrive at the Golden EIB Microphone with an agenda. Meaning, I don\u2019t plan this program every night and say, “Okay, do this. I\u2019m gonna do this. I\u2019m gonna do that. Tomorrow we do that. Friday that and Thursday this, all for the purposes of expanding…” No. I deal with what happens as it happens and react to it accordingly. Here\u2019s how this story begins. It\u2019s by Niall Stanage. It\u2019s S-t-a-n-a-g-e. I\u2019m not sure how you pronounce. S-t-a-n-a-g-e.<\/p>\n

“The front-runners for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are casting aside the lessons of the GOP ‘autopsy\u2019 that was intended to prevent Republicans from losing the White House in 2016. The autopsy report, issued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in March 2013 after Mitt Romney\u2019s losing campaign and titled ‘the Growth and Opportunity Project,\u2019 was intended to help the GOP set itself up for victory after losing two presidential elections in a row.”<\/p>\n

So this thing was set up 2013, here we are 2016. We\u2019re coming three years old is this battle plan. They have been operating on a three-year-old report on how to win that was done by a bunch of insiders who told them exactly what they wanted to hear but not what was correct. “In both cycles, GOP candidates lost badly to Barack Obama among minority voters. The former Illinois senator also defeated Romney in 2012 and Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008 among women and voters under the age of 30. Now some Republicans fear their party is making the same mistakes.”<\/p>\n


\nThe same mistakes that were made nominating Romney and McCain, I guess? What “mistakes” are we making? That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to stop here is the same mistakes. We keep nominating people that don\u2019t have a chance. We have a three-year-old report talking about how to prevent that from happening and they want to keep repeating the process that guarantees them defeat. But it makes them feel better but who they are. “‘To win the White House, a political party has to make folks feel welcome and show that it cares about their daily life,\u2019 said Henry Barbour, who was one of five authors of the 2013 report.<\/p>\n

“‘Attempting to appeal to only one segment of the population,” that would be conservatives, “is bad for governing and even worse for winning a general election. And that\u2019s what Trump and Cruz are largely doing.'” What what what what? Trump is conservative now, along with Cruz? These people, that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying? So here again, Trump or Cruz winning? Bad for the party. Who ever…? You know, the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Denver Broncos on Sunday in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.<\/p>\n

Antonio Brown, their best playmaker, their best wide receiver, maybe the best one in the league, was ruled out today because he cannot pass the concussion protocol after the hit by Vontaze Burfict of the Bengals last Saturday night. So they don\u2019t have their best player. Their best quarterback may not be able to play anywhere near 100%. Should the Steelers stay, “You know what? We don\u2019t want to win. We don\u2019t have our best players on the field, so we\u2019d just as soon lose. It\u2019d be very, very bad to win.<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t have our best players here, and if we win without our best players, our fans are gonna get the wrong idea and people are gonna think that management doesn\u2019t know what it\u2019s doing. If we can win with the backups, then why aren\u2019t the backups playing?” Is this the way they think? You think the Steelers don\u2019t want to win because they don\u2019t have their best players going this weekend against the Broncos? It\u2019s silly. But apparently we have ranking members the RNC preparing this three-year-old report on how to avoid what happened to Romney happening.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re saying, “We cannot win if we have a conservative nominee that wins the White House. That\u2019s bad for the party. That\u2019s bad for our long-term plan to expand and grow the party.” And who\u2019s telling them they have to expand and grow the party? Isn\u2019t it the Democrats and the media telling them what they have to do? Isn\u2019t it the Democrats saying, “You can\u2019t win with your attitude on immigration”? Democrats say, “You can\u2019t win the way you look at women.” Democrats say, “You can\u2019t win with your lack of diversity.”<\/p>\n


\nMeanwhile, you look at RNC field, the GOP field; it\u2019s more diverse than anything the Democrats could hope to put up. The Democrats are in the process of destroying this country. The people at the RNC don\u2019t seem to think there\u2019s anything out of the usual about that, nothing out of the norm about this. “Yeah, it\u2019s just the latest Democrat to get elected, but we gotta get \u2019em back! We gotta get our guys.” Voters think that we\u2019re in the midst of a major, major crisis with the country hanging in the balance, and the RNC people at the GOP apparently don\u2019t think that. So they think anybody who does think that is kooky, a little weird. “We can\u2019t have those people determining who our winner is!”<\/p>\n

The story goes on. Haley Barbour gets to this quoting Ford O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you who he is. Ford O\u2019Connell\u2019s a young guy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I\u2019d never heard of Ford O\u2019Connell, so we did a little research here, and here\u2019s what we came up with. He\u2019s a young guy, maybe a Millennial. He founded something called Project Virginia, which is a political action committee that\u2019s supposed to help Virginia Republicans seeking public office to better utilize social media and voter mobilization technologies. He claims to have worked for several campaigns, McCain-Palin in \u201908. In 2013 he published a book called “Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery.”<\/p>\n

That would dovetail with the 2013 RNC report on how to avoid repeating the mistakes of McCain and Romney. This guy\u2019s book is “Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery<\/a>.” He\u2019s been talking about this stuff even before Trump arrived at it on the scene. Here are some of his 10 steps. “‘Hug the Gays;\u2019 embrace them and make them part of the political base. Reform the GOP primary process to make it a little more like the Lincoln Douglass debates and less like a deathmatch version of ‘survivor.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Reach out to nontraditional and Leftist media. End the Reagan fetish. Come to terms with the fact that Ronald Reagan and the Reagan coalition are dead and not coming back.” That\u2019s who The Politico has written about today that is very worried that if a conservative is nominated and win the presidency, then it delays implementing all of these things that he thinks the Republican Party has to do if it\u2019s to be viable down the road in the future. So the Era of Reagan is over and that\u2019s a “fetish.” Come to terms with that; realize it\u2019s not coming back and move on and hug the gays, embrace \u2019em, make \u2019em part of the political base. Hug the media. Same thing. The left-wing, nontraditional left-wing media.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me read one more little passage from this three-year-old autopsy report prepared by the GOP establishment. After in 2016 loss, they sat town and they wrote this big autopsy of what went wrong and then their suggestions. And in addition to everything else I told you, they say a conservative winning the nomination and becoming president would be the worst thing that could happen for the Republican Party. It would set it back a generation in modernizing.<\/p>\n

Honest to God. I\u2019m not making this stuff up. I\u2019m not. I couldn\u2019t even make that up. Not even I would have believed that until I had read it. If you\u2019d have come along and told me that there are forces deep inside the Republican Party who don\u2019t want a Republican conservative become president because it sets the party back… Well, wait a minute. I might have believed it. But, anyway, one more little passage. ‘We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform,\u2019 the 2013 report said. ‘If we do not, our party\u2019s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.'” Meaning, “All we\u2019ll have is the base — and yuk to that!”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I checked the e-mail here. “Rush, what\u2019s so wrong if the Republicans don\u2019t want to get taken over by conservatives and so forth, what\u2019s?” I\u2019ll tell you why it matters to me, folks. It\u2019s not a power thing. I think conservatism\u2019s the only solution we have to our problems. Liberalism is what\u2019s destroying this country. I\u2019ve made the case for 27 years. We don\u2019t need to be redundant and go through it issue by issue, event by event. The solution to our problems is conservatism, as an ideology, as a political movement, as a philosophy, as an economic theory, as a social theory.<\/p>\n


\nIt\u2019s the solution to our problems.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe it is the problem.<\/p>\n

We happen to live in a day and age where a lot of people are so afraid of it because it is the solution. They don\u2019t want that solution. They have to impugn it and try to relegate it to insignificance and so forth. A little story here, a short little story. I was on the golf course, and it was a typical Republican membership club. Not so much conservative, although there were some. A particularly vociferously guy spotted me and came up and started not quite yelling, but accusing me of standing in the way of the party moving forward and it being backwards.<\/p>\n

“What do you think you\u2019re doing? What in the world…? Why can\u2019t you…? Can\u2019t you just give it up?”<\/p>\n

I said, “What are you talking about?”<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re just focusing on all this stuff that doesn\u2019t make sense. You\u2019re the reason! You\u2019re talking about things and you stand for things that are the reason why people hate us and think we\u2019re this and that and everything else.”<\/p>\n

“Let me ask you a question.”<\/p>\n

“Sure. Ask away.”<\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s a he\u2019s in his sixties, late fifties. I said, “Was there a day when you were younger that you opposed gay marriage?”<\/p>\n

“Oh, hell, yes,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I assume in your teenage years, if you thought about it, you thought it was a crazy idea?”<\/p>\n

“Oh, hell, yes.”<\/p>\n

“What about in your twenties?”<\/p>\n

“Hell, yes. No way.”<\/p>\n

“What about in your thirties?”<\/p>\n

“Hell, yes. There\u2019s no way. I mean, we never even thought of it!”<\/p>\n

“What do you think of it now?”<\/p>\n

“I think it\u2019s… Well, um, I don\u2019t know. (stammering) It\u2019s… it\u2019s… We… I… I… I don\u2019t think it\u2019s good.”<\/p>\n


\n“Well, where are you, then? For your whole life you thought it was a dumb thing, a bad idea. You\u2019re the one changed, not me. Why? What made you change? Why do you accept it all of a sudden?”<\/p>\n

It boiled down to his kids. He\u2019s got young kids going away to school. They\u2019re coming back and they think it\u2019s cool. He wants to stay hip to his kids. I got him to admit it that he still opposes it, he thinks it\u2019s damaging, but he won\u2019t stand up against it. But I am a problem because I am perceived as somebody standing up against all this stuff. I said, “To me, you\u2019ve got a bigger problem and you have more to explain than I do. Because you\u2019re willing to stand aside and let all this stuff that you don\u2019t believe in, happen. It seems like you\u2019re the one who owes me an explanation, not the other way around.”<\/p>\n

I headed off for the first tee, and haven\u2019t seen him since.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me make another point about this, folks, this attack on conservatism. Look, I don\u2019t want to repeat a bunch of stuff. Just to remind you of the story we\u2019ve had earlier in the day in TheHill.com about this Republican strategist who thinks the worst thing for the party that could happen would be for a conservative to get the nomination and win the White House. That would be the worst thing because it would delay the modernization of the Republican Party that has to happen. I mean, we have to embrace the gays, we have to embrace “comprehensive immigration reform” and amnesty, and we have to get rid of Reagan, and until the Republican Party does all of that, it\u2019s gonna never have a chance at being anything major and dominant.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so in the midst of all of that — and that by no means is the only such story that\u2019s out there. It\u2019s not a secret that the Republican establishment is not crazy about its own base. It\u2019s this three-year-old “autopsy” written after the Romney defeat that we\u2019ve been quoting from today. I just highlighted these things. We have heard the Bush campaign brag about how they were gonna get the nomination despite the base. They\u2019re gonna be the first to win a party nomination by doing it without their own base.<\/p>\n

That was an objective, and to revisit that, the way they were gonna do it was money. They were gonna outraise everybody, number one, and thus be able to outspend everybody else and the other nominees or the other candidates for the nomination, albeit conservatives. They have divvy up all the votes and support. They would divvy up all the money. They would basically cancel themselves out. Jeb would be the last guy standing, and the establishment wins, despite having been supported by the base. That was the objective.<\/p>\n


\nSo don\u2019t tell me… Don\u2019t anybody try to tell me that the Republican Party loves its base, wants its base, wants to capitalize on it. That\u2019s not the case. They\u2019re trying to grow and expand this party and deemphasize the conservative aspect of the party. It\u2019s not even arguable. Okay, now, here\u2019s why this so frustrating to me, folks. You and I and anybody with common sense understands what we\u2019ve had governing us for the past seven years. It\u2019s been liberalism on steroids. You can call it socialism, you call it totalitarianism, whatever, but it\u2019s liberalism and whatever other offshoots.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a disaster. It has destroyed the economy. Ninety-four million Americans not working. It has destroyed… Look at retail sales, a five-year low. Walmart\u2019s closing 159 stores in America, 200 some worldwide. We do not have an economy recovering. We do not have a great recovery or great economy, period. The health care system, which was once the best in the world, has been turned upside down and is nonfunctioning. It costs more. People are now finding ways around utilizing it. But more than anything, it\u2019s not anything like it was promised.<\/p>\n

The liberals told us it would be cheaper, that if we liked our doctor and insurance plan, we could keep them. They lied to us through their teeth, and everything they told us about this has not come true. Just the opposite has. Students are graduating college with worthless degrees, like this studies or that studies. There\u2019s no practical application for any of it in the real world; thus they\u2019re not gonna get paid for it. There aren\u2019t any career-type jobs to have out there. Worldwide governments have overspent.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have any money, with us at the top of the list: $19 trillion in debt. You know where they\u2019re gonna go get the money? They\u2019re gonna get the money from your pension plan. Have you seen the European Union all of a sudden thinks Apple has underpaid its taxes by $8 billion because of the way it structures itself in Ireland. The point is, governments don\u2019t have any money. They have outspent. They have taxed their citizens to the point that everybody is a pauper in one degree or another, particularly in Europe. Now, all of this — and I could go on.<\/p>\n

I could detail many other disasters that have befallen aspects of life in the United States, and touched on the cultural rot that liberalism has brought us. You want to talk about the fact we don\u2019t have any borders, about liberals who want this country to have absolute no limits on the people who come here, who they are, how they are, what they do when they get here? The last thing liberals care about is that they become Americans. You can extrapolate that to calculate what it\u2019s gonna mean for job opportunities, wages, career opportunities.<\/p>\n

The expansion of the welfare state to support whoever\u2019s coming here and not able to support themselves? That is just fine with liberals, just fine with the Democrat Party. My point is there\u2019s one solution to this: It\u2019s conservatism. There has never been a better time to contrast it. There has never been a better time to demonstrate it. There has never been a better time in the midst of this country being transformed and nearly destroyed by liberalism. We have a greater opportunity than we have ever had to present the solution to people in the form of conservatism and we\u2019ve got evidence for it working.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got the eight years of Reagan. We could come up with many more examples of that, an individual and group, what have you, places around the world where it works and works fine. We know what we\u2019re gonna be up against. We know that the primary opposition to conservatism comes from the socially, culturally liberal left who look at it as nothing more than an extension of judgmental religion out to deny them a good time and judge them in the process. We know where the opposition\u2019s gonna come from.<\/p>\n

We know how it\u2019s made up. We know how it attacks. We should have learned by now how to defeat it and beat it back. The culture of this country is being destroyed from inside out. The education system is a disaster. Have you seen the news stories on what the drinking water in Detroit looks like coming out of the tap? Take a look at wherever liberals have run things with no check and no balance, and it is a disaster. We don\u2019t have to say it anymore. We don\u2019t have to predict it. We don\u2019t have to theorize it.<\/p>\n

We just have to point to it because it is reality for way too many people.<\/p>\n

Now, I know the Republican Party has a “branding problem,” the party and so forth. My point here with this little dissertation is, we know what the solution is. The solution to this — in the short term, in the long haul, whatever — is conservatism. Now, implementing the solution? There are a bunch of different theories on how you do it. One election\u2019s not enough. I understand all that. It\u2019s not magic. It\u2019s gonna take a real commitment. My point is to reject it, to reject conservatism as the legitimate solution to this is just wrong.<\/p>\n

And yet the party — which ought to be pushing back against all of this that\u2019s happened, the party been saying stop for seven years, the party that should have pushing back and trying to make sure that all of this that happened didn\u2019t happen or that it was harder for it to happen or that while it was happening the party should have been speaking up and telling the American people, “You shouldn\u2019t be supporting this. Let me tell you what\u2019s gonna happen,” \u2019cause it would have! Seven years of a teachable moment has gone by, and we\u2019ve missed it.<\/p>\n

Seven years, eight years on the cusp here of really great teachable moments have been wasted because for some reason the Republican Party is embarrassed of conservatism or doesn\u2019t believe in it or take your pick why they aren\u2019t conservative and don\u2019t want any part of it. But the fact of the matter is it is the solution. Now I ran across a piece today, an autopsy on the Romney campaign, essentially. It has a lot of contributors, and this guy (O\u2019Connell I think his name), a young Millennial, spells out the worst thing is a conservative winning the nomination and then winning the presidency.<\/p>\n


\nThat would delay “the modernization,” the much needed modernization the Republican Party. It would delay it for a generation. Instead what we need to do is lose. Losing would be better because that will allow us to point inward at our problem and say, “We must finally embrace comprehensive immigration reform and do whatever it takes to make the Hispanics vote for us. Then we must go out and ‘hug the gays.'” I\u2019m reading right from it. I\u2019m paraphrasing, but we have to “hug the gays” and everything about that culture, show them we don\u2019t oppose them, that they have a friend in us, the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

And then we have got to get rid of Reaganism. We have to finally, it says here, just end this “Reagan fetish,” as it\u2019s called. Well, I\u2019m here to tell you that that\u2019s not a solution to anything. It isn\u2019t gonna grow the party, \u2019cause how are you gonna go out and “hug the gays” and make them convert from the Democrats to you? Just the hug? Is that all it\u2019s gonna take? Don\u2019t you realize there are there are issue-oriented, ideological reasons why the militant homosexual lobby votes Democrat? And you\u2019re not gonna get \u2019em by disavowing conservatism!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand the way these people think, which leads me to believe that it\u2019s more personal to them. It\u2019s simply about being accepted and not reviled and hated and thought to been kooky or hayseed or what have you. Regardless, here we are right in the midst of an authored… This is a disaster that has the fingerprints of the Obama administration all over it. This is the result of policy. But we don\u2019t even have an opposition party willing to say that because of fear. It\u2019s fear the media\u2019s gonna accuse them of what being mean to the first black president or being racist or what have you.<\/p>\n

And the worst case is that maybe they don\u2019t disagree with what Obama\u2019s done. They just think they could do it better and smarter; I don\u2019t know. But my point here is, what better time to make the case that liberalism doesn\u2019t work than in the midst of it creating this disaster? And why is there a reluctance to do so. And for those of you who think Trump\u2019s not conservative? You know what Trump\u2019s doing? Whether he\u2019s conservative or not, he\u2019s making the point that what\u2019s happening in the country now isn\u2019t working, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s drawing a lot of people who agree it isn\u2019t working and want it stopped and want it fixed.<\/p>\n

And by not even being willing to have anybody in the party say that, you\u2019ve left a vacuum open for somebody like Trump to come in and suck up all the oxygen. It isn\u2019t hard to understand what\u2019s happened here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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