{"id":5193,"date":"2015-10-09T16:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:47:22","slug":"republicans_have_another_golden_opportunity_to_realign_with_their_voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/09\/republicans_have_another_golden_opportunity_to_realign_with_their_voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Have Another Golden Opportunity to Realign with Their Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: F. Chuck Todd here on the Today Show today, Savannah Guthrie talking to him, and she said, “So, Chuck, what happens next? You have a vacant job over there in the House of Representatives, the Speakership. It\u2019s a powerful job, and yet you don\u2019t have people falling all over themselves to fill it. Why is that?”<\/p>\n

TODD: Nobody wants it for the very reasons why John Boehner is leaving the job. The place is impossible to run right now. It\u2019s going to be impossible to run during a presidential election year. The same forces that are dividing the Republican Party — Trump, Carson, Fiorina, from Bush and Rubio and all that stuff — these are the forces in the House that are basically saying, “We don\u2019t want the same people running the House.” So I think McCarthy was gonna be Boehner 2.0. I think a lot of conservatives saw that and I think that\u2019s why they were trying to torpedo this thing.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: What it boils down to is it\u2019s these forces versus the voters. When was the last time — and I\u2019m not saying it hasn\u2019t happened — but what F. Chuck Todd is saying here is basically all of these establishment types are afraid of the voters. They\u2019re afraid of us. Nobody wants it for the very reason Boehner\u2019s leaving the job. What is the reason Boehner\u2019s leaving the job? We have to assume here the reason Boehner\u2019s leaving the job is he doesn\u2019t like being criticized. These guys forget they committed things to us when they ran for office.<\/p>\n

They told us they were conservative. They told us they were gonna stop Obama. They made a great point of this. They told us to rest easy. Mitch McConnell did it, every one of them said it. They know that that\u2019s what they were elected to do. They campaigned on some variation of the premise that they were serious, they were gonna stop Obama, but they don\u2019t, and they haven\u2019t, and they haven\u2019t really seriously tried. And apparently they\u2019re not going to. There isn\u2019t anybody who wants to take the job with the realization that he\u2019s gonna be at odds with the voters for the rest of the term.<\/p>\n

So how committed are these establishment types? You know, I think what it points out or what it illustrates is that the inside the Washington Beltway establishment really doesn\u2019t care about voters and public opinion and all that and doesn\u2019t even want to have to deal with it. And whoever\u2019s in this position is gonna get the brunt of the criticism. In the old days, and it wasn\u2019t that long ago, folks, when a political party was the loser of a presidential election, or other elections, that party would honestly assess where it had gone wrong with the voters and would attempt to make it right with the voters.<\/line><\/p>\n

By that I mean the party would attempt, even if it was just for show, they would attempt to change or modify their beliefs in order to be relevant to the voters because it was the voters who determined who won. And what\u2019s changed is, as far as these guys are concerned, it\u2019s the donors who determine who wins, and, therefore, it\u2019s the donors to whom they have to be loyal, not voters. They don\u2019t even want to go through the motions. So now there\u2019s not even any pretense of mollifying the voters. There\u2019s not even any attempt. I mean, what was it, the 2002 midterms? It was whatever year that I was invited to do election night coverage on NBC with Tim Russert and Brokaw, and I think that was 2002. Yeah, it was, because what happened in that election year, that was the year of the Wellstone memorial.<\/p>\n