"Christmas Morning": That's what it would be for the GOP E if they got a different voting base: "That is the way they're thinking....All they gotta do is throw away their base. That's Christmas
morning for 'em." Rush Limbaugh, 10/13/2013
March 2016 Washington Post
3/15/16, "Rubio’s demise marks the last gasp of the Republican reboot," Washington Post, Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, West Miami, Fla.
""Those very elegant papers it published and conferences it held may have
been good and smart, but they didn’t really matter,” said William J.
Bennett, a conservative talk-show host and former education secretary in
Ronald Reagan’s administration. “Instead, everyone who’s been prominent for the last 15 to 20 years finds themselves getting pushed out.”...
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Following
Romney’s defeat in an election many Republicans thought they should
have won, party
leaders concluded the only way to regain the presidency would be to
engage the growing and diverse electorate that President Obama had won over twice. The RNC drafted an “autopsy” that
recommended bolstering appeals to women and minority voters."...
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Oct. 2013 Rush Limbaugh transcript: "All they gotta do is throw away their base. That's Christmas
morning for 'em."
10/16/2013, "GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"There will be a fast move in Republican circles to push
"comprehensive immigration reform," to go all-in now. I can't tell you
what the Republicans think they're gonna achieve, except this: I really
do believe that some of this is oriented toward driving the
conservatives out of the party. I really think some of this is oriented
toward the Republicans actually seeking to get rid of their
conservative base.
Even if it takes 15 years in the wilderness to rebuild a new base of
people who don't embarrass them, of people who are of the right
temperament. Maybe that's what they're willing to do. Maybe they've
got commitments from their donors to keep 'em afloat if they just get
rid of some of these wacko right-wing extremists. "We'll just go all-in
here. We'll try to put together a new base of really responsible
moderate, temperate, independent-type American voters.
"We'll go out, we'll expand our demographics, we'll get a lot of Hispanics doing this, by throwing away the Tea Party, and we'll get a
lot of women voters coming back. We'll throw away our base, and we'll
get the transgender and the lesbian, gay, bisexual groups, we'll go out
and get the Indians that are ticked off at the Redskins. We'll get them!
We'll come out against that, and pretty soon we're gonna own the
country."
That is the way they're thinking, and all they gotta do to bring all
that off? All they gotta do is throw away their base. That's Christmas
morning for 'em. Now, the Democrats never stop whipping up their base. Have you noticed? There's never any pressure on the Democrats to get
rid of their base, and you never hear Democrats ripping in their base.
You never hear the Democrats acting embarrassed -- and believe me, their
base is genuine Looney Tunes. Their base lives and workers in
asylums.
But the Democrats never act embarrassed by 'em, never act like they
want to get rid of 'em. They never, ever do anything other than whip
them up, keep them engaged, and turn them out. Meanwhile, the
Republicans are tamping their base down. Why? 'Cause the Democrats
don't like their (the Republicans') base, and it's more important to be
liked by the Democrats within the establishment, I guess, than it
is to have the current base they've got."...
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