''Let me see if I can get your question right. You want to know why the Republicans are willing to say, 'Screw you,' to 30 percent or more of their voters and yet Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, 'Have your way with me,' for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population?.... A lot of money is coming from these kooks, and I'm not talking about just the blacks.... There is an answer to your -- basic question is, 'Why don't the Democrats say, ''To hell with you, you wacko nuts in the base,'' like Republicans do?'.... [T]he politically active gay community on the left is worth a lot of money. These people send the Democrats more money than you can possibly imagine. A lot of it from Hollywood, and the arts and entertainment.''

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh on his radio broadcast on June 23, responding to a caller who appared to be asking how the Christian/conservative portion of the population (at 30%) was politically expendable compared to black people (at 12%) and homosexuals (at a claimed 10%). (Media Matters)