Rush Limbaugh: If McCain or Huckabee Gets the Nomination, It Will Destroy the GOP
Posted on January 16, 2008
South Carolina, please listen to Rush. If any one commentator has proven their credentials to know about conservatism, its Rush. Please, while I prefer Fred Thompson….vote for anyone but Huck or McCain!
RUSH: Mark in Standish, Michigan, I really appreciate your holding on. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Sorry to deviate from your monologue for just a minute, but you had a woman call yesterday that just frosted me to no end that if either Huckabee or McCain won the nomination she was going to sit the election out.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: People like her, I coined a term, a call them TV Republicans, and it doesn’t stand for television, it stands for tunnel vision, because they need to take the blinders off and see the bigger picture. If they sit out the general election, the Democrat wins it by default, whichever one of the Three Stooges wins it. Guess what? In the next four years, there’s going to be probably one, maybe two Supreme Court vacancies come up. Do they really want one of the three bozos over there appointing the next two Supreme Court justices? Is Clinton gonna appoint another Ginsburg, or is she going to do another Scalia? Is Obama going to appoint another Justice Thomas or is he going to do somebody like Breyer or Stevens? Do they really want a liberal appointing the next two Supreme Court justices? They need to take the blinders off, Rush. They need to look at the bigger vision and quit being tunnel vision Republicans.
RUSH: I understand what you’re saying. I hate to tell you this, but she’s not alone. I’m here to tell you, if either of these two guys get the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party, it’s going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren’t going to vote. You watch.
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First of all, I think that Limbaugh is engaging in more than a little bit of hyperbole. If the Republican Party survived the George H.W. Bush administration and the Bob Dole nomination, there’s no way that McCain or Huckabee can kill it.
But if we accept the premise that nominating an imperfect Republican is going to kill the GOP, any idea why Giuliani is given this free pass?
The pro-choice mayor of a sanctuary city who sued gun manufacturers seems like more of a threat to the GOP than either Huckabee or McCain. And I know a lot more people who will never vote for a pro-choice Republican than who will never vote for a weak-on-taxes Republican.
Just wondering if you have any thoughts on that one.
Has it?
Surely it could survive those two bad choices, but I think Rudy is the one that could fracture the party when the GOP ceases to be the party of life.
Rush does not know what he is talking about. If he is not careful he will disenfranchise parts of the GOP and thus doom them himself. If I am reading the signs right the GOP has managed to alienate a portion of the middle class that Reagan appealed to. Reagan Democrats for instance.
The GOP has alienated ALL Democrats. The Bush administration drove the mother of all wedges between the parties. It’ll take some serious changes before you see any significant crossover like Reagan was able to accomplish.
Oh, and the GOP has completely alienated fiscal conservatives too.
the GOP party is in trouble because it hasn’t stood up for conservative values and lets the Demo’s get away with labeling them racist, sexist, and so on. Produce Economic results, Secure the borders and improve education by having school choice and the best of America happen and the Demo’s will still be trying to raise the same old tired issues year after year.