Republicans think they want to win, but they really want to lose; they think they want to live, but they really want to die.

A friend tells me that Rush Limbaugh is beside himself today over the Republican convention, that they’re treating the election as some ordinary event, and not going after Obama at all.

When will Limbaugh realize that the very raison d’être of the Republicans is to allow themselves to be defeated by the Democrats? And when will he realize that the same is true of himself?

Wait—that sounds crazy, right? We know that the Republicans, including Limbaugh, are passionately eager to win.

Yes, they are passionately eager to win. But above and beyond their desire to win they have a higher priority, which is to be race-blind and non-discriminatory and universalist. So they support the immigration policy which has Hispanicized and Third-Worldized California and put that one-time Republican state forever outside the electoral reach of the GOP, and is steadily doing the same to the rest of the country as well. And they don’t see the contradiction. They continue to expend all their mortal energy on winning elections, even as they embrace the immigration that is turning America into a proletarian leftist country that will never again elect a Republican congress or a Republican president.

And nothing will ever reach them and get them to change their mind. The Republicans will keep blindly following their suicidal script until they go out of existence. They are as delusional as, say, the Israeli left which still believes in the peace process. But at least Israel has a right-wing party, which has defeated and marginalized the delusional Israeli left. Where is the American right-wing that will correct the delusional Republicans? It doesn’t exist. The Republicans are as right-wing as America will ever get.

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Nile McCoy writes:

You wrote:

“[The Republicans] are as delusional as, say, the Israeli left which still believes in the peace process. But at least Israel has a right-wing party, which has defeated and marginalized the delusional Israeli left. Where is the American right-wing that will correct the delusional Republicans? It doesn’t exist. The Republicans are as right-wing as America will ever get.”

That brought it home to me. If you’re right, which I believe you are, then the America we were taught, the America we thought we knew as our younger selves, is truly over. It is past being salvageable. We are not at the edge of the abyss looking into it, we are in the abyss looking out as we sink deeper into oblivion.

LA replies:

That image is very apt. I think that you are right that I’m right; and therefore your terrible image is right.

The first part of the previous sentence needs a smiley emoticon, but the last part would make it inappropriate.

Gerard Van Der Leun writes:

You might be able to use this small banner which I made about three years ago and has come in handy again and again and again….

Dave T. writes:

I disagree. It’s not so much that Republicans don’t want to win as it is that they aren’t serious about winning. For Limbaugh and his fellow Republicans, the political process is a game that they want to win, but heretofore only within the rules and/or constraints set for them by the left. Hence, when large-scale amnesty bills are being considered, rank-and-file Republican activists mobilize to defeat them by putting pressure on their politicians even as they remain incapable of openly articulating the demographic rationale for their efforts, as that would be against the rules. In any case, the Republican party is neither wholly serious nor completely worthless, which is why some of us vacillate between throwing in the towel and caring about its success.

However, I am more optimistic in thinking that this state of affairs won’t continue much longer. In particular, Texas is about to become a “blue” state within a few election cycles for the same demographic reasons that put California out of reach to Republican presidential candidates roughly a decade ago. At that point, people who are trying to restore this country (and/or combat the left) via Republican politics will be confronted with the futility of their efforts in a way that they’ve never been confronted before; the game that they’ve been playing with the left will be over given the painfully obvious nature of their defeat on the national scale. Once that happens, I expect real politics to begin again and for conservatives to start fighting back like cornered animals.

Ed H. writes:

Two scenarios:

1. The election goes to the GOP and Mitt Romney wins with 52 percent of the vote, with exit polls showing that 65 percent of the white vote went to Romney but 95 percent of the black vote and 70 percent of the Hispanic vote went to Obama. Would the GOP come to its senses and realize that there are no “conservative minorities”? Would the GOP realize that the demographic trend is going to turn this years four percent victory margin into a five percent loss in 2016 and a 15 percent loss in 2020? Facing those stark numbers would the GOP remain unfazed? Would a radical change in immigration policy be forthcoming?

or

2. Obama wins by four percent with every “conservative” in America voting for Romney. Even if a defeat of that magnitude wakes them up, it will be too late anyway. What do you imagine will happen to the national psyche if Obama does win? What will whites do when they realize they are now powerless in the country they built?

Those are the two choices. Either immigration policy changes radically after Scenario 1, or we have Scenario 2. What else is there?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 29, 2012 01:39 PM | Send