Limbaugh said Democrats are 'salivating at winning 2014.' | JAY WESTCOTT/POLITICO Limbaugh: GOP could lose House

The Democrats could win back the House in the 2014 midterms, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday morning.

Limbaugh, calling into the show “Fox & Friends,” said Republicans will lose if they don’t change their focus.


“The Republicans are sitting around twiddling their thumbs worried about immigration and whether the Hispanics like them, and they’re being stumped on issue after issue after issue like this,” Limbaugh said.

When asked if he thought Republicans losing the house was an actual possibility, Limbaugh said yes, “because the Republicans are in the process of engaging in policies guaranteed to lose them elections.”

Limbaugh said Democrats are “salivating at winning 2014” and are running campaigns on the basis of Obamacare to help register more Democrats.

“They are salivating at winning 2014, and that’s why they’re out there running campaigns for a bill that is already the law of the land and no one can do anything about it. They’re trying to sell it,” Limbaugh said. “The California health exchange, most people think that’s where you’re going to go to buy our health insurance if your employer doesn’t provide it. Turns out it’s going to be run by the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, Cover California, the NAACP, the Democrat voter registration group, running the California health exchange. You show up to get your health insurance, they’re going to register you as a Democrat; they’re going to get you to the polls to vote on Election Day as a Democrat; they’re using Obamacare and these exchanges to grow the Democratic Party.”

Later Tuesday on his radio show, Limbaugh said that mobilizing opposition to Obamacare is key if Republicans want to maintain their House majority in 2014. “It’s the golden opportunity I was talking about,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript. “Because the opposition to Obamacare is already there; they don’t have to create it. They just have to tap into it.”

“They’ve got the best opportunity they have ever had in our lifetimes to contrast conservatism,” he added. “It’s made to order.”