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Rush Limbaugh: GOP Could Have Landslide Victory If ‘Election Could Be Decided On Social Issues’

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Following the ongoing hoopla surrounding Rick Santorum‘s views on contraception and the president’s health care mandate, Rush Limbaugh took to his radio show to slam the media’s coverage of a culture war and discuss the “abysmal state of our culture.”

The birth control controversy, he said, is aimed at those people whose lives consist of “getting up, finding somebody to have sex with, maybe somebody else, then going to bed, getting up and repeating it.” He went on to add:

You tell them that a Republican wants to take away their birth control pills, and they don’t care what else is going on. This is what the objective is. … They get up…screw as many people as they can before they go to bed, get up, do it again. You know the people I’m talking about. … The news media is now calling the so-called controversy over Obama’s birth control mandate a culture war. But don’t forget who started this! Obama started this.

Limbaugh added that the phrase “culture war” is all over cable news, but that “none of this is real. None of this really happened.” Democrats set it up. Furthermore, he stated, “Look at the abysmal state of our culture. We are in a period of cultural depravity and rot, and everybody knows it. Are we not?”

The supposed culture war, he said, is basically a distraction:

What does it do? It takes everybody’s attention away from the ongoing economic destruction. I don’t care about the unemployment numbers today and I don’t care about the so-called improvement in jobs and Obama’s approval numbers. They desperately want people’s attention off of the economy and Obamacare. And the culture war, they think they can go back to their archive pages and bring that issue back.

Limbaugh also said the Republicans take the right side on social issues, and the American people would support their views:

But is the lack of free birth control really the most important social issue facing the country today? I don’t think so. In fact, something tells me, that if the upcoming election could be decided on social issues, the Republicans could win that in a landslide, because we are on the right side of the culture war. The problem is, we’re scared to death of it. The Republican establishment wants no part of it.

Well, whether Republicans would win such an election, we’ll never know. But for now, the contraception issue continues to dominate headlines.

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  • Anonymous

    It’s this sort of anti-reality horseshit that leads the GOP to blindly wander off the cliff into Obama’s 2nd term.

    Of course, turning one of only two major political parties in the most powerful country in human history is ultimately a negative for the world and humanity in general, but in the short-term (til ~November)…please Rush, continue living. 

  • Anonymous

    And if it were held in 1952.

  • Anonymous

    Allen West Rules, and Liberals Drool.

  • Anonymous

    The people who “get up…screw as many people as they can before they go to bed, get up, do it again”?  That’s a weird way of referring to the GOP.

    By the way, should Rush Limbaugh be so dismissive of women using birth control?  He does realize that there are legitimate reasons to take pills, right? 

  • Anonymous

    I’ve read a few of your comments, and have to admit – you make absolutely no sense at all. 

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    I agree!

    Make this about social policies encouraging behavior conducive to generational development (the NEW GOP), not obstructive of it (Democrats).

  • Anonymous

    The GOP is absolutely desperate to talk about ANYTHING but the improving economy in spite of having done EVERYTHING to derail it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    America’s # 1 Culture Warrior is not going to be happy with this description.

    But he won’t mention Limpo’s drug abuse and his vacation with Viagra because Limpo would bring up  America’s # 1 Culture Warrior’s own perversions with drunk women.

    Onward Chaste xtian Culture Warriors! Don’t forget to lock the chastity belts!

     

  • Anonymous

    Say, Rusty, do you think someone who has been divorced three times should pontificate on any “social issue”?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    Apart from it being totally pointless to elect people based on issues like contraception, Rush cannot possibly believe annoying women is a great vote winner.

  • Anonymous

    Allen West rule? The Psych Ward maybe. 

  • Anonymous

    ” I don’t care about the unemployment numbers today and I don’t care about the so-called improvement in jobs. They desperately want people’s attention off the economy”

    What?? You don’t care about the economy but you do care about the economy? Rush, you’re the one who’s desperate. Those unemployment numbers are showing the economy is doing better. Of course you want to ignore that. You want to talk about something else about the economy that is not doing so well. You’re one pathetic loser.

  • Anonymous

    “Look at the abysmal state of our culture. We are in a period of cultural depravity and rot, and everybody knows it. Are we not?”

    This is a quote from Rush Limbaugh? And he blames Democrats?

    That’s pretty remarkable. Even for him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Rush hasn’t looked at polls in a long time, or he’d realize that the GOP and its nutty rightwing social positions have been out-of-date for some time.
    Scared boomers are no longer the voting bloc they used to be and they’re now outnumbered by the more forward-thinking younger generations.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Which district does he rule – the one he represents now, or the one he’s cutting-and-running to for 2012?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    lectures on morality from a thrice-divorced drug addict with erection problems.

  • Anonymous

    Its as if Rush is stuck in Bizzaro World.

  • Anonymous

    Right Rush, Mr multiple time divorcee & oxycotin abuser is going to lecture us on morality. I’m sure the GOP would win in a landslide if women & minorities weren’t allowed to vote as well.

  • Anonymous

    You’re losing it man. Don’t blame you though, the socialist Kenyan Muslim will be re-elected no matter how much you thought it wouldn’t happen.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, make this about social issues because the economic news favors Obama.

  • Anonymous

    He’s becoming increasingly out of touch and comments like this just reinforce it…

    …Talking about an improving economy doesn’t help him or the GOP/Tea Party in the slightest.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll bet it really kills you that Rush is still alive ! 

    Get it ?  Kills you that he is still…aw nevermind.

  • Anonymous

    Following your logic, former drug users make terrible rehab counselors.

  • Anonymous

    Oxycontin !!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Oxycontin !!

    *drink again*

  • Anonymous

    Are you going to drink every time I type OXYCOTIN? I think I cold send you into detox tonight.

    OXCOTIN

    OXYCOTIN

    OXYCOTIN

  • Anonymous

    I Can Quit Anytime I Want To !!

  • Anonymous

    LOL same here ;)

  • Anonymous

    Nope. The drugs sure haven’t affected his reasoning abilities. Not one bit.

  • Anonymous

    What logic course did you take? I do not know one ex-abuser turned counsellor that does not condemn drug use on moral grounds. This is one of the reasons they become clean.To put it in a simple context for you, you would not ask a child molester his opinion on raising children. Similarly, I would not ask someone who has shown utter disdain for the marital relationship their opinion regarding societal matters. The only opinion I would seek from someone who has been divorced three times is who is the best divorce lawyer.

  • Anonymous

    Culture War?  No, it’s more of some people have evolved, some haven’t and some are devolving before our very eyes.  Entire political parties, in fact.

    The irony of Rush’s statement is the fact that the Culture War is an actual problem since it is all smoke and mirrors and doesn’t do anything to help us decide whether to fight a war or four.  Decide to fund it.  Decide on promoting Jobs.  Decide on promoting Infrastructure.  Decide on how to talk to Regimes we do not agree with, but have to deal with.  Etc.

    Instead, the Culture War has the House Oversight Committee having a “religious liberty infringement” BS; has a fake Committee re Planned Parenthood; actually discusses redefining “rape” regarding Title X, etc.  Caring about whether Neighbors Bob and Tom have better curb appeal than your house does. 

    The Culture War is why America is a joke in many circles.

  • Anonymous

    “They get up…screw as many people as they can before they go to bed, get up, do it again.”

    Sounds like someone is a little bitter over having to marry every woman he wants to screw. 

  • Anonymous

    And the anal cysts…don’t forget about the anal cysts. 

  • Anonymous

    Becoming?  The guy has been irrelevant outside of his AM cult since ESPN canned him. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    Rush is hurting the Republican party.   

  • Anonymous

    There he goes again! ‘Ol Brush Himoff, spewing his mindless-numbing extremist views. Those who listen to this numb-skull have to be the lamest, most-gullible people. ‘Ol brush won’t talk about all the non-jobs the 2010 freshmen generated after the promised they would. Hell No! He’d be cutting his own throat if he could get away from the buffet table long enough.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I hope you have a fully stocked liquor cabinet – if you plan on taking a drink every time someone mentions one of Limbaugh’s hypocritical flaws, you’re going to be consuming a lot of alcohol.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The interesting thing about Rush is that he sees the parts… most of them at least….he just flips the descriptions. I’m guessing that he loves to do that. He’s an architect really. The builder of alternative realities.

  • Verreauxii

    Hahahaha…this guy is TRULY delusional. Has he even tried to look at the polls on things like abortion when it is broken down? Even among self described conservatives, only a segment of them wants abortion made illegal in ALL cases including rape and incest. We are not even talking about Independents! You are not winning the culture war when national approval of gay marriages and legalization of marijuana are reaching record highs! Both of these issues count conservatives as the biggest dissenters; Look at Gallup for 2011 data on this. Look at 2004! Kerry was swiftboated, the sink of smears thrown at him and the GOP brought out the culture wars IN FORCE and Bush barely beat what was a very weak and liberal candidate (Kerry) by less than 2% of the popular vote!

    Run on culture issues GOP and Obama gets 80-90% of the independent vote!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Walrus-Kookookachoo/100002139363841 Walrus Kookookachoo

    “IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!…what? the economy is getting better?…IT’S THE SOCIAL ISSUES, STUPID!”

  • ozonator

    It’s not lust.  It is jealous of trying to corner the market on Iranian barbie dolls because he and Ken lack ability to produce children.  

  • ozonator

    I hate it when you mention the Marc Morano’s and Joe Basts.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     As a boomer, I resent that comment. Do NOT lump us together.
    In fact, if the Republicans are counting on even half of us voting for them, the Republicans are in for the shock of their lives.

  • bsorin1

    What planet is he from again?

  • http://profiles.google.com/shle896 Shane Lear

    Seriously?  The GOP social issues platform has alienated the blacks, the Hispanics, the gays and most everybody under the age of 40.  Do all of those groups not vote in Limbaugh’s mind?  It’s either delusion or wishful thinking on his part.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PMCIREXU5PX26WQB6W4P26LHNM Gary

    If I remember correctly, it was GOP Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan who first enunciated the term “culture war” at a Republican convention.  If my recollection is accurate, it appears as though, by attributing that term to Democrats,  Rush is guilty yet again of following Goebbels’ edict about telling a big lie loud enough and often enough:   “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, Rush, gonna have to disagree with you on this one. You’re assuming that most Americans want a theocracy, a ban on contraception and widespread censorship of books and movies. The reality says otherwise.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Sorry Rush, independents don’t give a flying f*** about social issues.

  • Anonymous

    And Rush, you could be president if……………………………….   Oh, wait – you already do think you are president.

  • http://reconstitution.us/rcnew Jolly Roger (Plutocrap)

    Yes, let’s talk social issues. Starting with a guy who has been married 4 times. A guy who got caught coming back into the country with a suitcase loaded with stolen Viagra. A guy coming back from a place well known to wealthy North American men to be a great place to rent underage prostitutes, especially young boys.

  • Anonymous

    It (he or she) is either joking or absolutely insane.

  • Anonymous

    Even Bob Beckel this week admitted the Democrats insistence on promoting single parent families was a mistake, creating a whole generation of struggling families many with misbehaving children who haven’t developed the drive to learn (or work).  My parents divorced when I was 2yrs old so I grew up without a father in the home, so I’m not claiming all single parent families are bad, but the conservative position that its an added challenge is obvious correct, yet Democrats for the past few decades have insisted that is wrong with the same veracity they now insist gay parents are fine (I assume it is, honestly don’t know since I have little to compare it to since I only had one parent) but lacking two parents is so obviously a disadvantage, and Democrats were wrong on that issue.

    My point is just because your party, Democrat or Republican, takes a position on an issue it doesn’t make them right.  Very often they draw a line in the sand and oppose each other for the sake of opposing each other, regardless of objective review of the facts.  Its sad that so many people choose not to use their own brains and make their own choices, instead choosing to blindly follow what their party leaders tell them to think.

  • Anonymous

    It is amazing how all we hear from these forums are total opposing viewpoints with no voices of reason (or civility in between)   There is no discourse here just yelling at each other.  OK I am older than most of you but in my lifetime I have voted for JFK, McGovern,  Ronald Reagan and GWBush.  Unfortunately I also voted for McCain who was weak as I thought and still do think that.   Gay rights? A purely human thing to do. I do not think Homosexuality is necessarily a Choice issue any more then Heterosexuality is. Why should they be punished.Not sure if Marriage is the right way to go but if that is the only way for 
    partner’s’ to obtain a pension and insurance I can see that.  Perhaps a civil Union works.  Contraception in my opinion is a wise decision. Prevent unwanted Pregnancies BEFORE the occur as the alternatives are never good–unwanted children born to those who don’t want them? Abortion is Murder and  stops a beating heart.Left unmolested it is a Human being in formation.  There are lines for unwanted babies.  Yes it takes courage to give birth and give away a child but the alternative is the death of a child.   I am a religious Conservative and follow my conscience and do consider what would Jesus do? I grew up in a lower end middle class family, paid my own way through school and started working at 11. Served in the military during the Vietnam war.  The only assistance I had with education was my Uncle–Uncle Sam. There are branches of the service where you are not in harms way and don’t have to shoot anyone.  I know I am an Air Force veteran who served during the Vietnam war.  Now as I see retirement in the future, God willing, I am not willing to now ‘share’ beyond the thousands I provide to Charities (not to mention a substantial Taxation.  Absolutely I do this out of the gratefulness for my blessings as well the tax deductions. I am not willing to have my income further garnished to repay everyone else’s debt nor subsidizes those who did not make smart choices and still do not and refuse to take the many menial jobs I did growing up.  Democracy has long shown that continually doing your best and busting it has rewards. There is no silver spoon in my history nor do I have this wonderful nest egg to fall back on. I am totally colorblind as truly many of my generation are, particularly truly religious conservatives as that’s how our beliefs and bible read to me.  My religion is one of love not hate and therefore I have a tough time with other religions of hate. My religion certainly had it’s own historical problems during the Crusades.  My plea is for these forums to become discussion venues rather then hate filled one upmanship.    We are after all, in this together.Peacelovernotfighter  

  • Anonymous

    Thanks For Doubling Down !! Now You’re Twice As Wrong !!

  • Anonymous

    LOL

  • Al Swearengen

    “They get up…screw as many people as they can before they go to bed, get up, do it again. You know the people I’m talking about. …”
    You mean people caught in Customs coming back from a sex vacation in the Carribean with bottles of Viagra NOT IN THEIR NAME, such as…RUSH LIMBAUGH?

  • Anonymous

    Even BEFORE ESPN canned him.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve been listening to Limbaugh for all of his 23 years on national radio, and he was just as bad before the Oxy fried his brain and rendered him so deaf that he can’t hear himself fart.

  • Anonymous

    congrats, you beat me to it!!!!, but you forgot that the next day (monday) after getting caught he stated that he was on a fun trip  with the boys!!, which begs the cuestion, did he use the viagra “with” the boys or did he hire prostitutes?????????

  • Anonymous

    gary, congrats, you have an excellent knowledge of “Goebbels” propaganda machine which is what Rusholinni uses

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Since republicans are on the wrong side of history, truth, reality and the facts, twisted skews social issues are the only thing they have left to try.  That is because such things require a severe lack of personal honesty and integrity.  That is why republican voters will almost always coalesce around any pathetic waste of skin who acts even remotely like a religious right wing extremist who wants to return this country back to the days of withcraft trials.

  • Mari Johnson

     But. but Rush, the person least likely to have any moral authority about self control feels perfectly comfortable with his screed about everyone else’s lack of control.  If you just see Rush as a comedic figure, it will be a lot easier on your values meter.  The guy is anything but self controlled.  And his pontificating about the failures of others is a comedic dash into never never land.  The poor guy lacks any self evaluation skills but he is very funny in a warped comedic sort of way.  His ick factor is just too high, though with his serial wives, drug history and his hate speech.  I am always confounded by the double standard of the far right Christian Coalition types when it comes to their undying attraction to Rush.

  • Anonymous

    He rules as the biggest Uncle Tom in America.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Sometime this year, we taxpayers will again receive another ‘Economic Stimulus’ payment authorized by our beloved Fasci Kenyati…..Barack (IL Dumbo) Obama.
    This is indeed a very exciting program, and I’ll explain it by using a Q & A format:

    Q.  What is an ‘Economic Stimulus’ payment?
    A.  It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

    Q.  Where will the government get this money?
    A.  From taxpayers.

    Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money?
    A.  Only a smidgen of it.

    Q.  What is the purpose of this payment?
    A.  The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

    Q.  But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China?
    A.  Shut up.

    Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the U.S. economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:     

    * If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China or Sri Lanka.
    * If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
    * If you purchase a computer, it will go to India, Taiwan or China.
    * If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
    * If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea.
    * If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan.
    * If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

    Instead, keep the money in America by:

    1)  Spending it at yard sales, or   
    2)  Going to ball games, or 
    3)  Spending it on prostitutes, or   
    4)  Beer or   
    5)  Tattoos.
    (These are the only American businesses still operating in the U.S.  )

    Conclusion:
    Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day!
    No need to thank me, I’m just glad I could be of help.
    Oh, I forgot one last thing, the stimulus money you get is considered INCOME and therefore you will have to pay taxes on it. 

  • Anonymous

    The thing I find amazing is that there are still people willing to drink the Limbaugh koolaid.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     In what way did Democrats promote single parent families?

  • Anonymous

     I really liked this e mail when it came out, 3 years ago.
    Keep up the original thoughts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/latohere Kate Benson

    How Many kids Does Rush have?

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