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Rush Limbaugh (January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021) was an American conservative talk show host, political commentator, and author. He hosted 'The Rush Limbaugh Show,' a nationally syndicated radio program that became one of the highest-rated talk shows in the United States since its debut in 1988. Known for his outspoken and controversial style, Limbaugh criticized liberal policies and the Democratic Party while advocating for conservative values. His show reached millions of listeners, shaping the rise of right-wing media. He also authored books like 'See, I Told You So' and received multiple industry awards. In 2020, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He died of lung cancer at age 70.

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“The Republican Party clearly is not interested in winning. And if you want to be even more specific than that, it is paramountly obvious that they're not even interested in defeating the Democrats.”

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“Republican voters and people all over this country are fed up with what Democrat leftist policies are doing to this country, and they want it stopped, and the only agency that can stop it has been the Republican Party, and they have refused to!”

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“The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.”

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“The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.”

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“It's comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and their membership in this club known as the establishment, party affiliation is second or third in terms of your qualifications to be in the club.”

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“All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And as the years have gone by, it's become obvious to me that that's not their number one objective.”

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“We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't.”

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“We can't stand any more! We don't want any more of what we've had to put up with for eight years and many years prior. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that.”

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“The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks.”

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“Where would the Republican Party being without talk radio the last 25 years? And yet who now is enemy number one? Talk radio! I don't know what I did to Michael Gerson, but he's back again in the Washington Post blaming everything [Donald] Trump on me.”

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“Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?”

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“The Republican Party does not want to defeat Democrats.”

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“The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.”

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“Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt. We [Republicans] are the number one enemy. And they will put aside whatever differences they have.”

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“This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same.”

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“It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.”

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“The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.”

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“There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.”

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“The Democrats have always been known as the party that's negative and look at everything wrong.”

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“When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that. Total power. Whether anything works or not is irrelevant. We work.”

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“If the Republican Party continues to have a different message for every different group, they're gonna die. We already have a party that does that, and they own it. It's called the Democrat Party.”

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“In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.”

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“The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.”

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“The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.”

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“The Democrat Party can't provide, can't take care of, cannot provide prosperity for people.”

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“The economy working - the economy growing, corporations growing and hiring people and wage increases occurring - is the worst thing that can happen politically for the Democrat Party.”

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“Hillary [Clinton] got defeated by the alt-right or by white supremacism or what have you. And they continue to lie to themselves, as does the entire Democrat Party.”

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“Then the actual count comes in and not only does that not happen, [Donald] Trump wins, Hillary [Clinton] loses, they don't get anywhere near the House. They've lost the Senate. They've lost 1,200 seats in the last three elections. They don't have a national party, just one election. And in this next bite, Kellyanne Conway is pointing this out to them.”

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“Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states.”

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“[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.”

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“How one election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party. It really is profound.”

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“All the media is anymore is the Democrat Party's agenda, the Democrat Party's political desires and objectives presented as "the news" and also presented as popularly supported by the American people.”

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“The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College.”

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“Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment.”

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“Barack Obama wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward.”

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“There isn't a Democrat in politics alive who does not know what the Obama presidency has meant for the Democrat Party around the country. They've lost 1,500 seats. The Democrats only have five states, ladies and gentlemen, where they control the governorship and the state legislature, only five!”

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“Donald Trump as the nominee losing was to be the end of the Republican Party. The Democrats were gonna have basically one-party rule for 50 years, and look at what actually has happened. It's practically the reverse.”

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“Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama.”

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“Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.”

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“Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending.”

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“The media is not about the arena of ideas. The media is not about persuading. The media is about overcoming the will of the people. The media has joined forces with the Democrat Party, members of the Democrat Party, and the extreme radical left in the United States to advance the extreme radical leftist agenda.”

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“We have, a Democrat Party once again adding to the civility of the discourse, Maxine Waters claiming that [Donald] Trump and his people are scumbags 'cause Trump wants to help [Vladimir] Putin put the Soviet Union back together by raping a bunch of other countries and stealing their resources.”

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“I think you know what's new about this the Democrat Party not liking the Russians. That's a first. The Democrat Party not liking the idea the Soviet Union back together.”

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“The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union.”

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“The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union?”

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“I go back to Robert Reich and his appearance on [George] Stephanopoulos' show. The Democrat Party has not been in this bad a shape since the 1920s.”

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“If during the eight years of [Barack] Obama they won and they had converted this country into this radical, leftist, extremist culture and country, and if that was the trend, and if that's what Obama's elections meant, then how is it that the Democrat Party, which is the home of all of that, has lost 1,200 seats since Obama's second year in office?”

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“You have to go back to the 1920s, almost a hundred years, to find the Democrat Party as weak and out of power as it is today. How did that happen with just one election? It didn't happen in one election. The fact is the Democrats have been losing elections, except for the White House, for the last eight years in numbers that have not been reported.”

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“Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.”

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“Who's driving this business that the Russians hacked the election? It's the Democrat Party. It's Hillary Clinton. It's Obama. It's all those people who just can't accept that they lost.”

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Born: January 12, 1951
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