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RUSH: There\u2019s a piece that I found here, I think it\u2019s at National Review Online by Larry Kudlow<\/a>. Larry Kudlow is the guy that explained baseline budgeting to me when he was at Bear Stearns. Larry Kudlow was an original Reaganite. It\u2019s in the other Stack. Here it is. And it is National Review Online. Larry Kudlow is now at CNBC, or he was. He\u2019s still there or is leaving there or something. <\/p>\n

Anyway, he wrote a column: “Snarking Hillary Is Not the Way to the White House.” Now, this is the proverbial, “We gotta leave this alone. What we need to do as Republicans is start talking about our economic policies. We have got to make ourselves known as the party of positive economic growth, strong national security, because the party needs a positive rebranding and a positive vision, and Hillary bashing is gonna drown all of that out.” <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll never forget. It was 2011 and there was a convention here. It might have been Horowitz\u2019s thing in November, Restoration Weekend. A lot of the Republican potential nominees are in town, and a couple, three of them called and wanted to come by on the Sunday morning everybody\u2019s getting out of town, just to talk to me. And three of them did.<\/line><\/p>\n

They all said the exact same thing. Quote, “Now, Rush, we do not dare go after Obama. We do not dare criticize Obama. We have to talk about the greatness of our economic message. To the extent that we go after Obama, we gonna go after his policies, Rush, but not him. If we go after him, it\u2019s the end of us. We got a great economic…” <\/p>\n

And I asked, “How\u2019s this working out?” Meanwhile, Harry Reid can go out and accuse Mitt Romney of not paying his taxes for ten years, and that\u2019s just fine. The Democrats do not say, “That\u2019s not the way to go after Mitt Romney. We must go after Mitt Romney not by personally attacking him. We must talk about the best nature of our policies and how we have the advantage.” They never do. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about going after Hillary to destroy her, but the idea that we gotta leave this alone? I\u2019ll tell you what. Let\u2019s send Bruce Jenner out and have him talk about Republican economics, growth economy policies, and just see how it\u2019s gonna work. This misses the whole point. We talk ourselves into defeat every four years. Why can\u2019t we do both? Why do we have to tie one hand behind our back and essentially say we can\u2019t criticize Obama, now we can\u2019t criticize Hillary. We\u2019ve got a crime family operating here. We can\u2019t criticize it. <\/p>\n

And Trump\u2019s right about something. The way to criticize this is not in the usual political sense. This is potential big time RICO crime that\u2019s going on here. People are in jail. This is a total abject violation of the Constitution. You cannot sell influence like this. It\u2019s the emoluments clause, and it\u2019s in the Constitution. But even so, this idea that all we\u2019re gonna do is hurt ourselves? Nobody is saying focus on Hillary and don\u2019t do anything else. But I know what drives this. What drives this, “If we\u2019re seen criticizing, we\u2019re gonna be called sexist and they\u2019re gonna see we\u2019re mean-spirited.” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a total defensive posture that isn\u2019t working. I mean, Romney tried it in 2012, didn\u2019t he? And McCain tried it in 2008. I remember McCain said the same thing. (imitating McCain) “Yes, that\u2019s right, we must go after his policies, but stress the importance of our agenda. We can\u2019t go after him personally, can\u2019t do it, it\u2019s a mistake.” Right, right. So we can\u2019t really define our opponents. And the media isn\u2019t gonna do it. <\/line><\/p>\n

So the voting public\u2019s never gonna learn the truth about the people running against against the Republicans. Meanwhile, the Democrats are gonna be tarring and feathering and trashing and destroying personally and professionally every Republican they can. And we\u2019re supposed to respond by saying, “You elect us and your top marginal rate is gonna go from 39.6 down to 35%. You know what that\u2019s gonna mean for the marginal income on the base calculations of the P&O profit and loss statement over there at Apple?” Right. That\u2019s a winner. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a quick question. I have so many people saying a variation of this to me, and I\u2019m just gonna put a question out there. No matter what I say about Republican candidates here or the Kudlow column here, “Snarking Hillary Is Not the Way to the White House,” it\u2019s all based on media. It\u2019s all based on, “The media is gonna tar and feather us, Rush! If we go after Hillary, they\u2019re just gonna say we\u2019re sexist and so forth.” <\/p>\n

Okay, let me ask this question. Any objection I hear to any strategy that somebody has designed to help the Republicans win, almost without fail the objection or one of the objections will always be, “Ah, that will never work because of the media. Can\u2019t go after Obama, Rush, they\u2019ll call you racist! We gotta focus on our economic message.” McCain did that. Romney? That\u2019s all Romney talked about. <\/p>\n

Romney wouldn\u2019t even jump on Benghazi when he was thrown a hanging curveball in a debate. (sigh) I mean, there was absolutely no harassment of Obama whatsoever in \u201908 or in \u201912. The media didn\u2019t vet Obama; the Republicans decided not to. So in each instance, the reason was, “The media will crucify us.” Kudlow\u2019s theory is also… He doesn\u2019t per se say it, but… Well, here. Just read what he writes. <\/p>\n

“A number of GOP candidates are engaging in Hillary-bashing over allegations that she used her office as secretary of state to help her husband\u2019s business dealings, prop up speech-making fees, and grease the path for foreign governments to donate massive amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation.” He doesn\u2019t say here (chuckles), they\u2019re being bribed! They\u2019re selling access to government policy. <\/line><\/p>\n

“But here\u2019s a warning to my friends on the presidential campaign trail: Bashing Hillary is only going to make the Republican party look mean-spirited and snarky. It\u2019s no road to the White House.” So you see? Criticism, disagreement, that\u2019s hate. Yes, they\u2019re gonna call us haters. So we can\u2019t criticize. “Bashing” Hillary. Why does criticism have to be bashing? Why is pointing out the near criminal behavior of these people unfair? <\/p>\n

Why is it bashing? And the answer you always get is, “the media.” So my question to you is this. For every one of you who has ever said to me personally or has written me or has called in here and given me a variation on the theme, “This won\u2019t work. That won\u2019t. The Republicans can\u2019t do it \u2019cause of the media,” what would you think about a Republican candidate who decided to seek the presidency by making the media his opponent and not the Democrat nominee?” <\/p>\n

In other words, would you support a candidate running against the media? That\u2019s all that\u2019s left here. If the media is reason we can\u2019t implement a tough political strategy to win, then we\u2019re gonna have to beat the media, and it sounds to me like a number of people think we have to beat the media first before we even get to beating a Democrat, that they\u2019re one and the same, actually. Well, they were. I mean, the media is a branch of the Democrat Party. There\u2019s no question.<\/p>\n

But the media, they get criticized as being biased. Nobody ever runs against them the way people run against candidates, and I\u2019m not talking about individual media people. I\u2019m not talking about individual media as examples. I\u2019m not saying run against Chuck Todd. I\u2019m not saying run against Bob Schieffer. Just “the media.” I would think a lot of you out there\u2019d be cheering, saying, “Yep, that\u2019s exactly what we need to do! <\/p>\n

“We need somebody like that. It would take bravery. It would take courage. It would take stick-to-itiveness. It would take somebody that\u2019s got a thick skin. But that\u2019s the only way we\u2019re ever gonna win everything and start beating any of this back is to somehow deemphasize and disempower the media.” (interruption) You\u2019re shaking your head in there, Mr. Snerdley. Don\u2019t think it can be done? (interruption) You don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good strategy? (interruption) No, no, no. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just saying, the people I hear from are saying, “We can\u2019t run a campaign on the issues. The media is gonna lie about us. The media is gonna destroy us. The media\u2019s gonna carry Democrat Party\u2019s water. The media is the poison. The media is the reason country\u2019s going to hell in a handbasket, because the media does not ever present a fair exposition of Republican or conservative ideas. The media is the agent of destruction of all opposition to the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

“So you gotta run against the media. You gotta make no bones about what you\u2019re doing. The only way this…” I\u2019ve had couple people tell me this. “The only way we have a chance, Rush, is if there\u2019s a Republican candidate somewhere willing to run against the media.” So… (interruption) I know. I know Reagan won twice. I know. George Bush won twice. Reagan won twice. Nixon won twice and so forth. I understand. I\u2019m not advocating, I\u2019m asking. I\u2019m not pushing the idea. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m asking it as a rhetorical device. I\u2019ve even heard, “You know, Rush you\u2019re wasting your time. Every time you talk about ‘Democrats,\u2019 you should be saying ‘media.\u2019 Every time you talk about Harry Reid, you should be talking media. The media\u2019s the problem. The media! You\u2019ve gotta destroy the media.” I said, “You know, the problem is, I am the media. I mean, I\u2019m in it.” “Yeah, Rush, but you know what I mean! I\u2019m talking about the Democrats in the media.” <\/p>\n

It sounds good, but when you think about actually doing it… You know, I don\u2019t have guests on this program, but I ought to get hold of your favorite Republican consultant. Just ask him to come on and help me on the air as an exercise, and develop a campaign strategy seeking the presidency running against the media. See what this professional would say. Now, the first thing he\u2019s gonna say is, “You can\u2019t do it. It\u2019d be a mistake! You\u2019d kill yourself. You\u2019re finished. You wouldn\u2019t get past the first primary.” <\/p>\n

I\u2019d say, “Okay, after that… Let\u2019s say after you tell me that, I still want to do it. I still want to run against the media. How would we do it?” It\u2019s an obstacle the Democrats don\u2019t have. You have to admit that, don\u2019t you? The Democrats do not have an obstacle like the media. Look at this White House Correspondents Dinner. People ask, “Why don\u2019t you go?” Why would I go to a place that\u2019s gonna be openly hostile to me? <\/p>\n

The White House Correspondents Dinner, you\u2019ll notice that everybody gets up to speak realizes they\u2019re speaking to buddies and friends. That gives them all kinds of confidence. When you think you\u2019re in a room full of friendlies, it changes everything about your confidence level and your overall comfort, as opposed you walk into someplace where you know there\u2019s hostility. They don\u2019t have it. They don\u2019t face hostility in the media, Democrats don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t know what it is. They never encounter it. They never have to overcome it. Unless one of them just is so egregious that the media and the Democrats decide, “We gotta get rid of this person for the sake of the party.” But that is extremely rare, and that is also not because the media disagrees, essentially, with what the candidate happens to believe. It\u2019s that candidate\u2019s providing embarrassment; we\u2019ve gotta shelve that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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