Limbaugh Pitches GOP Dating Service To Win Over Unmarried Women

FILE - This May 14, 2012 file photo shows conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh speaking during a ceremony inducting him into the Hall of Famous Missourians in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. On Wednesday,... FILE - This May 14, 2012 file photo shows conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh speaking during a ceremony inducting him into the Hall of Famous Missourians in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, Limbaugh won the Children’s Choice Book Award for author of the year for his best-selling “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims." (AP Photo/Julie Smith, File) MORE LESS
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Rush Limbaugh thinks that marriage may be the key to Republicans taking the Senate in 2014.

“The Republican party would be well-advised to set up a dating service and to embark on a policy of arranging dates for as many single women as possible,” Limbaugh said on his radio sow on Tuesday.

He cited a Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund poll released Monday that found that unmarried women favor Democrats. According to the poll, unmarried women support Democrats over Republicans 58 to 36 in the 12 battleground states.

And Limbaugh is pretty sure all these women must need is a man. He said that Republicans have so far failed to reach out to the demographic, and might as well get into the online dating game.

“They can start up a dating service — maybe the only thing they can do,” he said.

Republicans have yet to set up a dating site, but have released ads targeted at women voters. Conservative group Americans for Shared Prosperity released an ad in September in which a woman describes President Obama as a boyfriend who thinks she only cares about free birth control.

Listen to the audio via Media Matters:

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  1. Isn’t this the second time the Fat Junkie has tried setting up a cattle call?

    Nothing lke taking political and relationship advice from a four time loser.

    Oh, And then there’s THIS:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VP1mQqRJQ8
  2. It sounds like a frantic, desperate move to me.

  3. thrush’s dating service involves a passport and round trip airfare to the Dominican Republic.

  4. Wow. Married 5 times and STILL cruising!
    Hey Rush, I didn’t think you would meet very many 10 year-old Salvadorian boys on a Republican Dating Site. Do you?

  5. “unmarried women support Democrats over Republicans 58 to 36 in the 12 battleground states.”

    So his “fix” is un-unmarry them and they’ll magically become rabid conservative GOPers/Teatrolls? Methinks someone has a poor understanding of polling and the difference between correlation and causation.

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