Rush Limbaugh Claims GOP Was In Freefall Before Trump, Except It Was Actually Much Better Off
In his latest idiotic stretch to defend Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the GOP was in an absolute freefall prior to the emergence of Trump.
The problem is, Rush is living in an alternate reality.
Limbaugh claims that because Jeb Bush was the “establishment” candidate, the GOP had no future. He claims that the base believed no one could beat the Democrats and that Republicans were not excited. He tries to paint this picture that the GOP as a whole was dying, and, of course, it is “the establishment’s” fault.
David Harsanyi of the Federalist pointed out that Limbaugh is incredibly wrong, and that in the past eight years the GOP has gained over one thousand seats both at the state and national level.
GOP gained around 1000 state + national seats over the past eight years. so totally. https://t.co/bMCjxs6eOd
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) August 4, 2016
The “dying GOP” currently holds a majority in the House of Representatives, a majority in the Senate, and the majority of Governors in the United States are Republican. In 23 of the 50 states, Republicans control the state House, Senate, and have a Republican governor. The Democrats can only say the same in 7 states. 55 percent of state senators (1,086) and 55.9 percent of state representatives (3,026) are Republican.
So, in reality, this notion of a “GOP freefall” is absolutely ludicrous. All Limbaugh had to do was go look at the numbers to see that his narrative is absurd, but if he did that he would not be able to continue railing on “the establishment”. Already in 2016 we have seen several incumbents, some of whom were tea partiers, lose their primary election. We see a Republican candidate that is currently down by an average of 6 points to one of the most corrupt politicians in history, something that would not be true if any other Republican candidate had been nominated.
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— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) August 4, 2016
I quit listening to Rush (I am a paying member) when he did not answer my emails, nor even bring it up other than as a criticism that was “unfounded”. He stated on his show that he never endorses, so he would not endorse Cruz, but that he was not trying to give Trump more time, but that Trump just dominates the news. I wrote again, saying that of course, because people like him live off of every syllable out of Trump’s f-vile mouth. I will not be renewing my account. I never listen to Hannity, and many of the others I have tuned out altogether. It was everything Trump from the beginning. He cannot truthfully say that he was being slighted by the media because they covered him almost 24/7.
Good-bye Rush, Hannity, Bauer & Rose, Laura Ingraham, Phyllis Schafly, Sarah Palin, David Webb, Fox News, Judge Jeanine, etc.
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
C. Edmund Wright stated in his article that Rush gave Trump air time equivalent to 400 million dollars.
In his latest idiotic stretch …
The sad thing is that I suspect he is just pandering to an audience that eats this stuff up; the very “low-information voters” he used to rail against.
The fact is that there has been tremendous Conservative momentum recently, and the Republicans (other than the establishment “leaders” in Washington) were very excited about the way Ted Cruz would have won easily against Hillary.
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