Amid widespread concerns over voting “irregularities” in Tuesday’s midterm elections, voters on the right are upset with the do-nothing Republican Party, which squandered a golden opportunity to ensure election integrity by refusing to pass the SAVE America Act.
Feeling betrayed by those who supposedly are in DC to represent their interests, these voters are fed up with the current class of Republican politicians.
Turns out, they have an unexpected ally — the late Rush Limbaugh.
20 years ago, after Republicans suffered a blowout in the 2006 midterms, Rush Limbaugh shared a perspective many of us are feeling today:
Rush: “I feel liberated, and I’m going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried…
Now I’m liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it.”
— Phil Kennedy (@PhillipAKennedy) November 4, 2026
Following the 2006 election, when Democrats took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in a dozen years, Limbaugh spoke about feeling “liberated.”
“I feel liberated, and I’m going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried,” he said.
Explaining that the stakes are high, Limbaugh said he had been supportive of the Republican Party because it represented a “far better future” than Democrats, stressing that even though the party “let us down,” it was “much easier to reform” the GOP than consider the alternative.
“Now I’m liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it,” he said.
When you look at the GOP-led U.S. Senate, led by Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and featuring the likes of Sens. Mitch McConnell (KY), Susan Rice (MN), Lisa Murkowski (AK) and Thon Tillis (NC), this is a class that certainly does not “deserve” to be supported for standing in opposition to much of Trump’s agenda
The worst part about the 2006 election is that two years later, Barack Obama was ushered into the White House and the Democratic Party was given a strong majority in both chambers — which may foretell serious pain for Republican voters in 2028.
The shifting political landscape had the left convinced that they had defeated conservatism – though the George W. Bush compassionate conservatism at the time was a weak representation of the fiscally conservative, small government Tea Party wave the GOP took advantage of to ride back into power.
Back to the present, the Republican Party is in desperate need of a rebranding, learning to play for keeps while getting back to the core principles that Americans will embrace.
Here’s a sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
But the problem is things are significantly worse in America than they were in 2006. We are bleeding a slow death.
— Bill Williams (@BillW20594) November 5, 2026
I still remember that monologue to this day. It’s be nice if many others in positions similar to his would acknowledge the same…no more carrying weight for these republicans including the White House.
— Some Call Me….Tim? (@TimothyRyans) November 5, 2026
Gosh it’s good to hear his voice…
— MamaBear (@msmeece) November 5, 2026
Perfect. That’s exactly how Rush would have been. He wouldn’t have made any excuses, wouldn’t have cried on air, etc. He’d have said pretty much the same thing today about last night. No hand-wringing, no pearl-clutching. That’s just the way it is, and it needed to happen the way…
— Dessa Cordell (@dessacordell) November 4, 2026
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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