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RUSH: No, the Clinton... That really wasn't the case. That was to come later. It was a factor, but the primary reason for Republicans winning in 1994, number one was me. Number two was the House Bank Scandal. Number three was the House Post Office under 40 years Democrat rule. Number four was the Contract with America. Number five was the fact they nationalized House races for the first time in history instead of running them as 435 local elections.

You know, they tried Hillarycare. Hillarycare was the forerunner of Obamacare, and that was a factor. But they didn't need just that. It was all of Clinton. See, Clinton ran and he was called a conservative Democrat, a moderate. He gets into office, and he proved to be what everybody before the election was trying to warn people about: This guy's a card-carrying leftist just like Obama, and people finally saw that. But the Republicans back then, the reason they won it wasn't just by the American people decided to do it.

There was a reason. The Republicans gave people a reason to vote against Clinton and to vote for them. Contract with America, any number of things, and the House Bank and Post Office Scandal, and a bunch of dislikable Democrats like Jim Wright, who was the Speaker. Now, the real question is for me and why your point here is interesting to me is, demographic shift or whatever you want to call it. How do you go from 1995, 1996...?

That's not that long ago, in real terms. It's 18 years ago. How do you go from there to the outhouse as the Republican Party has? Now, they still run the House of Representatives. They won it back in the 2010 midterms, much the same way they won it the first time in 1994 and 1995, by being conservative and by offering an alternative. In that case, it was Obamacare that gave birth to the Tea Party. So the lesson here... What you're saying is that the Tea Party is the right wing.

The Republican Party itself has become moderate. I think in a broad-based sense, what's happened here is that the entire Washington establishment has never liked conservatism. They didn't like the fact the Republicans won, didn't like the fact that Reagan won. Both Republicans and Democrats. But the reason we're where we are is the most amazing thing to me. Because the 2010 midterms were a recipe for victory, and so were the '94 elections a recipe for victory, and the Republican Party refused to follow the recipe.

Mind-bogglingly so.

Not only did they not follow the recipe, the Republican Party today seems to believe its future is in Democrat light. Mind-bogglingly so. I'm not disagreeing. I don't think demographics has as much to do with it as ideology. The fact is the Washington establishment never has been conservative, and when the Republican Party has been victorious is when it was unabashedly conservative. But the forces of the establishment are such that they make it painful, uncomfortable, miserable to be a conservative.

Look at what happens to any prominent conservative in that town. Look what's happening Ted Cruz right now. Look what's happening to Mike Lee. Any of them that rise up, they get shot down, by their own party included. That's just the power of the Washington ruling class. Pure and simple. This doesn't even include the role the media plays, which is rather significant, by the way. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. No. I haven't seen that. Snerdley just said that Wall Street is ticked off 'cause they've got no influence in the Tea Party. I haven't heard that.

I didn't think Wall Street wanted any influence in the Tea Party. I thought Wall Street hated the Tea Party like they hated Christine O'Donnell. I didn't know they wanted any influence in the Tea Party. I'm not denying that exists. I just haven't seen it. Anyway, Ray, I appreciate the call, I really do. I'm glad you took the time. I don't mean to be disrespectful when I say I don't think demographics is the reason. We may be saying the same thing with just different terminology. I just don't think it's complicated. The Republican Party, when it abandons conservatism, is a nonfactor.

I have no idea what's gonna happen in 2014. All I know for sure is that the Democrats and the media are going to launch everything they've got. Let me tell you something. Barack Obama hates this crap that's going on. The fact that there's opposition, that just frosts him, ruins his day. He has to deal with these little gnats, deal with these creeps. The whole modus operandi of Barack Obama is to get rid of opposition, not beat them, but get rid of them.

They want 2014 so bad 'cause there won't be any opposition. There won't be any lame duck. They can do whatever they want to do and nobody can do anything about it, nobody will be able to stop 'em. So they're gonna be loaded for bear. 2014 for them is their next -- that's why they've been delaying all the bad things, as many as they can about Obamacare. Again, Ray, thank you for the call. I appreciate it.

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