Why do Republicans support Rush Limbaugh???

[TaraJo]

I certainly hope so...we'll take back congress in the midterms.

You didn't pay attention to he 2012 elections, did you? Until the republican party realizes what they did wrong and corrects their mistakes, they aren't going to be gaining anymore political power.

Poll after poll after poll has said that the American people want taxes raised on millionaires, but the GOP won't have it. In fact, they'd rather have the sequester than go with Obama's plan which calls for over twice as much in spending cuts than it does in increases in tax revenue:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/sequest...dents-plan

And it wouldn't even be the first time I remember the GOP getting their ass kicked because they're ignoring the public opinion. I remember the 1998 election; before that, congressional republicans were obsessed with finding out what Clinton did with his pecker. The public was tired of it, everyone heard lots of polls about how tired we all were about it...... but they stuck with it and lost power in the election. Then in the 2006 election, everyone was sick and tired of the Iraq war and Dubya's apologetics for the war. They refused to listen to the polls that told them that and, again, they got their ass kicked in the elections for it. The only difference in the 2012 election was that they ignored the public in so many areas: repeated polls say we want taxes raised on millionaires, we support same sex marriage (or, at very least, that more people support it than there are people who are against it) and we don't want to talk about rape. Republicans have ignored the polls in all three of those areas and they've included a lot of quasi rasict talk when they go into immigration (which isn't helped by some of the far less subtle racism directed towards the president).

But I'd really like to hear what our friend A Theist thinks: why did the republicans lose the 2012 election and what can they change to win the 2014 midterms?