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RUSH: St. Louis, this is Peter. Great to have you on the program, Peter. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Are you there?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, right here. I just said hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: 1992 mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I called to just let you know that I think the Republicans got it wrong. That they\u2019re looking at the independents as if we\u2019re moderates, when in fact we\u2019re not. We might be made up of part moderate, but I myself was a Republican, but no longer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this is a good point. I know exactly what Peter is saying here. The Republicans are worried more about independents than they are their own voters. I guess they just take for granted their own voters are gonna vote for \u2019em, despite what\u2019s happened in the last two presidential races when a lot of Republican voters have not voted, they\u2019ve stayed home. I don\u2019t know how else to explain this. I could use names. That might make the point even better, but I don\u2019t want to use names because it\u2019s not really the point. I don\u2019t want people to lose focus on the issue by getting caught up in personality.<\/p>\n

But there are people whose names you see, faces you see every day on TV that think the Republicans just have to shut up because if they oppose anything, it\u2019s gonna anger the independents. And thus they believe the independents are the reason you win or lose. And his point is, you know, there\u2019s a lot of independents out here that are former Republicans. We\u2019re just fed up with the party. We quit. We\u2019re not loyal. We\u2019re not gonna identify ourselves as Republicans, but we\u2019re not moderates. But the party may think they all are, is the point, and that would affect the way they support them.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, the key to it is that the Republican establishment obviously thinks independents are not Republicans. Now, you might think, “Well, of course they\u2019re not, Rush! They\u2019re calling themselves ‘independents.\u2019 Of course they\u2019re not Republicans.” Ah, ah, ah, ah. You have got to play that out and follow that through. If the Republican establishment believes that the independents are not Republicans, then do they believe that they tend more toward Democrat? Do they tend toward Republican? Have they studied them?<\/p>\n

Do they know who the independents are? Do they know that the independents are made up in large part of disaffected Republicans, fed up and simply do not want to be identified with an (R) in their voter registration? Or do they think the independents are largely Democrats? Okay, well, no matter how you answer this, the net result is the Republican Party believes that in order to get elected, it cannot be the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re gonna run around and say, “We can\u2019t oppose Obama. It\u2019ll upset the independents! No, we can\u2019t stop the Iran deal. It\u2019ll upset the independents! No, we can\u2019t really do anything about Obamacare, because we can\u2019t stop it, and we can\u2019t override a veto — and just to put up the fight would irritate the independents,” then they obviously think the independents are not Republicans. And yet if they think they cannot win without the independents, and therefore they have to appeal to them, what a great trick somebody has played.<\/p>\n

“Republicans, the only way you can win is to not be Republican.”<\/line><\/p>\n

And by God, the Republicans are following right along!<\/p>\n

They\u2019re for amnesty. They\u2019re echoing the Democrat Party on a lot of things under the premise that this is the only way they can win. I\u2019ve always thought this independent game, this notion that you can\u2019t win the White House without a majority of the independents has always been a trick, and I\u2019ve explained that to you countless times, because what it does is when every Republican consultant believes that, every Republican campaign ends up being targeted at 20% of the population rather than all of it.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no way you can win by campaigning for 20% of the population and their votes. So it really does matter who the Republican Party thinks independents are. Because if it is resulting in the Republican Party telling itself, “You know, we can\u2019t win being Republican. We\u2019ve either gotta mask our Republicanism or ignore it or hide it,” what does that mean? That means, “We\u2019ve got to somehow shut up the Tea Party! Oh, my God, the Tea Party gonna kill us. The Tea Party\u2019s gonna let everybody know that — oh, God! — we\u2019re conservative Republicans! Oh, no.”<\/p>\n

So they have to disavow the Tea Party and they have to disavow conservatism because their primary objective is to tell non-Republican voters, “Hey, we\u2019re not Republicans, really. We\u2019re not what you think of Republicans.” I mean, this is a doozy of a trick that they have fallen for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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