The truth of the matter is the Republican Establishment agrees with Obama on immigration-Rush Limbaugh on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace

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12/8/14, "Rush Limbaugh: Pro-Amnesty Republicans Like Jeb Bush Will 'Lose the White House'," Breitbart, Tony Lee

"Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh agrees with fellow conservative talk radio host and scholar Mark Levin that the pro-amnesty, pale-pastels wing of the Republican Party only serves up losers in presidential elections. 

When asked on Fox News Sunday about Jeb Bush, Limbaugh said that Jeb Bush is reflective of a "Republican Party" that "is totally absorbed in this comprehensive immigration business, and Jeb is out there claiming the only way he can get nominations is somehow run against the base in the primaries."

"I think the Republicans have demonstrated they know how to lose the White House, and it's time to change direction, change strategy," Limbaugh said. "They're not going to win by continuing to do the same thing over and over again."

Limbaugh accused establishment Republicans of wanting "what Obama wants on immigration," asserting that "they are using the government shutdown as an excuse to not stop him because the truth of matter is they agree with him."

"Romney agrees with it, Jeb Bush agrees with it, the Chamber of Commerce agrees with it. Obviously, the Republican establishment doesn't want to stop Obama on comprehensive immigration reform," the conservative icon continued. "And the American people are being let down here. They're voting. They're expressing their desires. They want this stuff stopped and the Republican Party is not listening."

Levin has called on the GOP to nominate a conservative in 2016 who will ensure that the base, which did not turn out for Mitt Romney, shows up at the polls. When Republicans nominate candidates like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Romney--who do not excite the base--they lose general elections. Jeb Bush, who knows his embrace of pro-amnesty legislation and Common Core will turn off the conservative base, believes he can win the White House if he chooses to run by appealing to mythical "independent" voters who value authenticity and hate phoniness." via Levin twitter
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12/8/14, Transcript of 12/7/14 Rush Limbaugh interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, RushLimbaugh.com 

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NY Times last endorsed a Republican for president in 1956 so let's go with their picks in 2016. Let's "clear the field" early:

12/8/14, "G.O.P. Donors Seek to Anoint a 2016 Nominee Early," NY Times, Nicholas Confessore

"Dozens of the Republican Party’s leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party’s banner in 2016, fearing that a prolonged primary would bolster Hillary Rodham Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate.

The conversations, described in interviews with a variety of the Republican Party’s most sought-after donors, are centered on the three potential candidates who have the largest existing base of major contributors and overlapping ties to the top tier of those who are uncommitted: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Mitt Romney."...

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After the 2014 midterm landslide:

11/5/14, "Establishment GOP Wants to Purge Party of "Extremists"," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a piece from today's New York Times (11/5) written by Jeremy W. Peters and Carl Hulse. "Republicans’ First Step Was to Handle Extremists in Party." The premise of this story is the Republican victory depended entirely on the Republican establishment silencing and eliminating any Tea Party candidates. Cory Gardner and Joni Ernst not included, and some others.

(NYT): "It was late spring, and Republican leaders knew that if they wanted to win the Senate, they needed to crush the enemy: not Democrats, but the rebels within their own party. And Chris McDaniel, a Senate candidate from Mississippi who had a history of making sexist and racially insensitive remarks, was a problem."

Notice Nancy Pelosi is never an extremist. Harry Reid is never an extremist. Dick Durbin, never an extremist. No, no, no. Hillary Clinton, never. No, no. The only extremists are in the Tea Party, in the Republican Party, and the Republican Party is well aware. And the only way the Republican Party can win is to kill off the Tea Party, as epitomized by Chris McDaniel. 

(NYT): "Candidates like Scott Brown, running for the Senate in New Hampshire, called the National Republican Senatorial Committee to complain that if Mr. McDaniel was not stopped, he could drag the whole party down." 

This would be Scott Brown who lost again in a race for the Senate, this time in New Hampshire, to an absolutely corrupt woman by the name of Jeanne Shaheen who we have learned worked hand in hand with Lois Lerner to target the Tea Party at the IRS. 

Jeanne Shaheen was one of the US senators, along with Al Franken and others, encouraging the IRS to deny tax-exempt status to Tea Party fundraiser groups. We couldn't mention that, of course; that would be partisan.  

(NYT): "In June, the party establishment--just barely--vanquished Mr. McDaniel, reaching a turning point in their dogged campaign to purge the party of extremists and regain power in the Senate." And again, it's funny, ladies and gentlemen, how we never hear of any extremists in the Democrat Party....

We only hear of extremists as named by other Republicans. 

We don't hear of one Democrat, even after they have just received another historic shellacking. But nobody ever dares suggest the Democrats need to dial back some of their extremists. No, no. Harry Reid can go make fools of himself all day long, and it's mainstream. And Pelosi and Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz, who define radical extremist kook cases, are free to say and do whatever they want, and they're considered brilliant strategists.  

Back to the New York Times piece: "Republicans’ impressive showing Tuesday night...was the result of methodical plotting, careful candidate vetting and abundant preparation to ensure that the party’s candidates would avoid repeating the same devastating mistakes that cost them dearly in 2010 and 2012." Because, you see, only conservative extremists make mistakes."...

["Cost them dearly?" 2010 was a GOP landslide, a gain of 64 House seats and 6 Senate seats. GOP House majority became largest since 1946. In 2012 the GOP E lost 11 Senate races and the presidency with their own hand-picked candidates. ed.]

(continuing, Rush): "If only conservative extremists make mistakes, then Joe Biden must be the biggest conservative out there because he's one of the biggest extreme radical dummkopfs that we have. But when he does it, it's just old Joe, you know, that's just Joe. Making fun of the Indians at 7-Eleven, that's just old Joe. There's not a racist bone in old Joe's body. .

(NYT): "In interviews, more than two dozen lawmakers and strategists described the meticulous efforts."
 
Why in the world are Republican establishment wizards of smarts going off to the New York Times to explain their brilliant strategy of limiting "extremists" in their own party?
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Why aren't the wizards of smart in the Republican Party going to the New York Times and describing the extremists in the Democrat Party and explaining to the New York Times why the Democrats just lost?...
.Republican leaders in this story are telling the New York Times that the meaning of the election is: The voters want us to work together to solve problems.

(NYT): "Party leaders managed to elbow aside insurgents like Mr. McDaniel and Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who had planned to challenge Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming on the grounds that he was insufficiently conservative." Liz Cheney is a dangerous extremist, in the New York Times piece. Liz Cheney is a dangerous extremist, as called out by Republican leaders in this piece?...
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"But in the end," says the New York Times proudly. "In the end, the disciplined approach by the Republicans worked. No Republican imploded with the kind of fatal campaign gaffe that crushed the party's hopes in the last two elections.
 
(NYT): "Every establishment candidate prevailed in the primaries. Republicans credited this to their rigorous training program...Fake trackers would even surprise candidates at the curb outside the airport when they flew into Washington to meet with National Republican Senatorial Committee officials."...
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And this is why they won, because of the brilliance of the Republican strategists who figured out how to keep the Tea Party from being involved. That's the media's job this week.

The media's job this week is to give everybody a totally wrong-headed, incorrect reason why the Republican victory took place, and it wasn't because they kept out the Tea Party, and it wasn't this or that.  It doesn't matter what the Republicans stood for. They were the other guys, and the American people want these Democrats stopped....

They weren't elected because they want people to work together. They weren't elected because of compromise. They weren't elected because they weren't conservative, 'cause they didn't have any identity....Nobody knew what the Republicans were on a national basis. I'm gonna say this over and over again because the Republicans stood mute. They didn't tell anybody anything about themselves.

They didn't articulate one policy. Individual candidates did, but  the national Republican Party had no identity. Purposely!... 

You really think that people went to the polls yesterday, and as they're marking their ballots...are actually saying...I'm gonna vote for Republicans this time because I don't remember any stupid things some guy in Missouri said. Yeah! Yep!  Yep! That's it.Vote Republican...." This was not on their minds. 

They walked into the polling place, they walked up to the ballot box, and the only thought on their minds was: 

"This is our only chance as stopping what is happening to our country"...

And that means stopping the people who are causing it. 

That happens to be Barack Obama and the Democrats.

And that's all this election was about."

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11/5/14, NYT: Republicans’ First Step Was to Handle Extremists in Party

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11 US Senate races lost in 2012 by GOP E hand-picked candidates, a must win election (in addition to their must have, hand-picked presidential loser, Romney, who “wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run,” per son Tagg.):

1. Connie Mack IV-Fla.
2. Denny Rehberg-Montana
3. Linda Lingle-Hawaii
4. Dean Heller-Nevada
5. Heather Wilson-New Mexico
6. Rick Berg-North Dakota
7. George Allen-Virginia
8. Tommy Thompson-Wisconsin
9. Josh Mandel-Ohio
10. Scott Brown-Mass.
11. Charlie Summers-Maine 

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Obama Ohio campaign staff to voter ratio 1:50. Romney, 1: thousands, subhead, 'Organizing Strategy.' No Republican has ever won pres. without Ohio:

12/23/12, "Mitt Romney was hesitant to reveal himself," Boston Globe, Michael Kranish

"A reconstruction by the Globe of how the campaign unfolded shows that Romney’s problems went deeper than is widely understood. His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat....

While candidates often try to portray themselves as reluctant, Tagg insisted his father’s stance was genuine.

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run,” said Tagg, who worked with his mother, Ann, to persuade his father to seek the presidency. “If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . 

he would have been ecstatic to step aside...he doesn’t love the attention.”... 

 

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