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Aug. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Into our 28th busy broadcast year.
27 year anniversary back on August 1st.
I'm Rush Limbaugh.
I've been doing this a long time.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
And I have to begin this hour with the answer to an open line Friday question from the previous hour.
I ran out of time.
And I can't duck the question.
I promise that I would take the question.
That's what open line Friday is.
I extend the invitation.
So the guy called, and he, after telling me that he thinks the great ticket would be Trump and Ben Carson.
He wanted to know what I my emotional experiences were as I was losing my hearing.
And I got my staff saying, don't answer that.
Save that for the movie.
And I said, What movie?
They're going to be a movie.
If there's if there's ever a movie, it's it's it's it's not gonna be one I do.
You can't.
That's a that's a great untold story.
You you you can't share that.
I said, I'm already I'm already committed.
It's there is not that much to it anyway.
Look, I could I could spend the next hour talking about this, or I can answer this question in two minutes, Max.
Which version do you want?
You tell me in there which vers.
Here's the two-minute version.
As best I remember it.
I I I remember now that what was this?
When did I lose my hearing?
Was it oh that's right, it was it was I was losing it during 9-11, that's right.
That's right.
9-11, I was on my way to play in a Warren Buffett charity golf tournament.
And 9-11 happened, and the FAA gave every aircraft in the sky 45 minutes to land, and we didn't, there's no way to get back home, so we landed, turned around at around somewhere.
No, because we're on the way to we're on the way to Omaha.
It was it was like somewhere in Tennessee, we had to turn around and got I got back to a strip in in Florida, but still had to drive an hour and a half or an hour to get back here.
And I remember not being able to understand a thing on the radio.
And one of the flight crew was driving me, and I was having them repeat to me what the details were of 9-11.
I had not seen any pictures yet.
And I was unable to even hear the flight.
I mean, at that point, I really I hadn't all I had was hearing aids, but they were only amplifiers, amplifying the noise of things I could not comprehend.
I really could not comprehend speech.
I will never forget the day that I came in here.
Back back in the old days before we needed any assistance.
I was in here by myself every day during this program, and came in one morning and made the phone call to New York to establish everything and could not understand.
And that was the fateful day.
I mean, I could hear it.
It was dim, it was in the distance, I could not comprehend.
Hearing had gotten to the point where I just could not make out words people were saying.
Now that was scary.
That and I I'm kind of jumping ahead here, but I had no way that day of taking phone calls.
There was I didn't have a court reporter, didn't have a transcriber, didn't have any of that by that time.
And I was there was no way that I would be able to take a uh a phone call.
Then eventually we got court reporter in, and I remember getting a call from Rudy Giuliani one day, and uh all this is running together.
Let me stick and uh stick with the the emotions.
The the first emotion was denial.
Uh well, it'll stop, it was genetic, it's it's got to level off at some place, and hearing aids will fix it, and then I'll uh continue to lose my hearing as I get older, but it just kept going and just kept going.
So I started going to specialists.
And everywhere I went, I went through the same tests.
Nothing was being advanced.
There was no every place I went it was though I was going in for the first time.
I did the same hearing tests that I'd already done at the previous stop.
So it got a little frustrating.
And it became clear to me that nobody knew.
It became clear that nobody had a clue until it was too late.
Uh The people at House Clinic diagnosed it for what it was.
It was an autoimmune attack.
I mean, my immune system thought my ears were a disease and were flooding them with white blood cells, killing the hair cells is what was happening.
That's why they put me on every chemo.
I was I was taking embrail head to learn how to shoot that up, which is I don't even know what it's used for, but they had me on a cocktail of things.
Uh just to stop the immune system.
And then of course that put me at risk for other things.
I remember one Friday during the program, during the treatment of all this, I get an email from a local doctor saying, you have got to drop what you're doing and get yourself to the hospital now.
They had just gotten some blood tests back, and I was bleeding internally from all this medicine.
I said, if you don't get over here, you're you're you.
So I I finished the program and I went over to the hospital and I was there for a weekend getting all kinds of transfusions with blood replaced.
The medicine was just, it was vicious.
I it was multi-different things that they were throwing at me just trying to stop the immune system, and none of it worked.
But when this when it first was explained to me that that I could lose every bit of my hearing, they told me what's the solution.
They asked me, I asked what's the solution.
I said, Well, this thing called cochlear implants.
And the way they were explained to me, it sounded like a perfect solution.
So even as I was losing my hearing, I was confident that I was going to be able to get it back.
And at some point, I mean, there was real fear and so forth.
I mean, I was looking at the end of my career and everything, but I never, honestly, folks, I never gave into that.
I always assumed that the implant would work at least well enough that I would continue to be able to do the job.
And it did.
I was actually totally 100% deaf for two months before I will have the surgery for the first cochlear implant.
And it was it was two months instead of one.
I was supposed to have the surgery after 30 days, and then I got an infection, and they couldn't do surgery because had a cold or something, so it was two months.
I did the radio show every day.
We had court reporter transcribing phone calls.
I had no idea what I sounded like.
I even asked, look, do I even need this?
What you know, I'm a voice student.
I know how my voice feels.
Can I just do this?
Will I be able to sound normal to people?
And they said no.
If you can't hear yourself, you at some point will you you wouldn't you couldn't do your job.
Your voice will change, the way you speak will change, and it will become apparent that you have a disability.
So there was no option, had to do the implant.
And they can't even tell you it's going to work because it's different in every person.
There are no guarantees.
The only thing they tell you is, yeah, you'll be able to hear.
You'll hear environmental sounds.
Whether or not you'll be able to comprehend speech, we won't know until uh a month after the surgery.
And I was very lucky.
I first tested out at 80% speech comprehension.
But I don't know.
Uh this the short answer in this emotion business, I don't I don't remember ever caving to the idea that I was finished.
I don't think it ever, I mean, the possibility crossed my mind, but it never seemed real.
The idea I wouldn't be able to do this never seemed real.
And by the way, there wasn't a whole lot of time for emotion, folks, because the the ongoing effort to save the hearing was quite time consuming.
Um every free moment I had was spent with doctors and tests, and uh just all various ways to try to save the hearing, uh, consultations.
It was quite busy.
There was there wasn't a whole lot of downtime to just do nothing but feel sorry for myself.
And I can honestly tell you, I didn't feel sorry for myself at any stage.
I I never have.
I don't I I don't know why.
I just never have done that about anything.
Because there's always, to me, options.
There always, there's always a future.
It's nothing's ever definitively over or the or the end.
So I had faith the implant would work.
Didn't know what it would mean, but I was assured that some kind of hearing would be restored.
So I mean, that's the short answer to the question on the on the emotion.
There was there was initial fear, well, denial was the first thing, then the fear.
And yeah, there was some, I was scared for a while.
One of the doctors told me that at one point, you know, you're you're really scared.
Do you know this?
I said, I am.
Oh yeah, you're trying to cover it up, but you're you're I mean it's understandable you'd be scared to death.
The most fascinating thing to me about all this, for honestly, is not what's happened to me.
The most fascinating thing to me about all this is how other people deal with it, not me.
That has been the most mind-opening thing about all this that I could ever that's the last thing I would ever think would be the big experience of.
The big experience has been the way other people react to it, or don't.
It has been real eye-opening.
It has taught me so much about people, various types of people, various human characteristics.
Uh it's just that that has been the real fascinating.
And I know you're saying, well, what do you mean?
Well, I'll give you, I'll give you an example, just one.
Um of my close friends obviously know that I can't hear.
But they don't know it.
They don't know, because I can.
I have these implants, and they can talk to me.
So they have no concept.
Uh a person that can hear cannot conceive of deafness.
You can't manufacture it.
Total deafness, I mean.
You can't create it.
You can cover your ears, you can put cotton in your ears, you can do everything, but you cannot create total deafness.
And as such, you can't understand it.
You can pretend to be blind and know what that's like.
And you can pretend that you can't walk.
You can put yourself in a chair and imagine not being able to move and what that would entail.
But you cannot imagine not being able to hear unless you can't.
And I mean total deafness, not hearing loss, and not hard of hearing.
I mean total deafness.
You can't relate to it.
As such, I was I was playing golf one day, and I ran a guy didn't even know.
It was in the it was up at Jupiter Hills, and I ran into a guy after I was coming off the uh practice range, a guy came up to me.
He said, You know, I really admire what you're doing.
And I I had no idea what he was talking about.
I said, Why?
I don't know how you're still working.
You're deaf for crying out, wow, you're deaf.
And I said, Well, implants this, that explained to him.
He said, you know, and I've never forgotten this.
He said, hearing loss, deafness is the only disability where the victim is blamed.
Have you found that?
And I said, What do you mean?
People get mad at you for not being able to hear them.
I left all the time.
He said, That's what I mean.
You're the one that can't hear, they get mad at you.
Because they can't relate to not being able to hear.
And when they're around you and you're wearing your implant, you can hear them, so they think you can hear them all the time.
They do not, they just and he's right.
He was he was dead on right.
And the way it manifests itself is um.
Well, let's say on the golf course.
I'm in the driver's side.
Then let's say it's before I got the implant on my right ear.
So I can only hear out of my left.
I'm on the driver's side.
My good buddy, whoever it is, sitting on my right, talking to me in a normal tone of voice, as we're motoring along, and the golf clubs are rattling and making noise and the wind is going through the microphone on my, I can't understand a single word.
Two years later, same circumstance.
Guy still doesn't speak up, doesn't aim for my left ear, just keeps talking.
It's just, it's I don't know how to explain it.
You can't, and I I don't, as I say, it's been fascinating to study it and try to understand it.
And I don't complain about it.
You know, I just I'll stop the cart and I'll turn my head and get three inches from them and say, could you say that again?
And it'll happen.
After I do that five minutes later, they'll try to talk to me with all the racket again, and I'll stop the cart and I'll turn my head and get three inches.
They don't learn.
And that has been the fascinating thing about it.
And I'm this is not a it's not a criticism.
It's human nature.
It's just the way I think it's all rooted in the fact that people simply can't.
Even people I've explained in great detail.
And I can't explain the acoustics.
Here's um another example.
Sometimes at the front of the airplane, I can hear what is being said twenty feet behind me with all the racket, I can hear it.
I cannot understand what somebody directly across the aisle is saying.
If, in an example like this...
Oh, uh the the racket from the galley, and whoever's talking, I hear it perfectly fine.
Somebody straight across the aisle, just two feet away from me.
I cannot hear them.
Or can I can hear them, I can't understand what they're saying.
So on one instance like that, good friend of mine is in the back of the plane.
He is a doubting Thomas.
He's one of these guys that thinks that I am lying to him when I can't hear it.
He thinks that I'm making it up to avoid conversation with him.
So he happens to be back in the plane, and he's he cracks some joke about something, and five minutes later I say, Oh, it was a funny joke.
See, you can hear.
You can hear.
You have selective hearing like everybody else.
I said, No, no, no.
I have I'm not selecting what I hear at all.
I'm trying to tell you I can't explain it.
When I tell you I can't hear you, I can't hear you.
I'm not making it up.
How many of you have somebody in your family hard of hearing and you think they're just not paying attention to you?
I did.
My dad was losing his hearing.
I didn't believe it.
I thought he wasn't trying.
I thought he didn't want to talk to me.
I thought he was just ignoring me and didn't want to go to the trouble.
We all thought that.
Now I know the difference.
It's different than losing your sight.
It's different than losing your ability to be ambulatory.
Something about hearing and people's inability to relate to deafness that uh that explains it.
Anyway, I've got to it is that kind of thing, by the way, has had an effect.
I put myself in very few.
That's not the way to put it.
Let me think about how to explain this.
Let me take a break.
I have to do that anyway.
I'm sure you're fed up with all this by now, anyway.
See, I gave you, not the two-minute version, but longer than I intended.
So, quick timeout, back one more after this.
The real challenge with uh hearing is a disability is it's the only one you can't see.
You can't.
Well, except in my case, I mean you can see these these things on the side of my head.
I don't know what people think they are.
Uh the odds are most people have never heard of a cochlear implant, so don't know what that is.
So they think it's some side of maybe a secret communication device, or maybe it's a Bluetooth thing to help me with my phone.
But they other than that, you can't see deafness.
But you can you can see somebody who's blind.
You can tell they're wearing dark glasses and they can't make eye contact with you.
And if they do, you can see that they can't see you.
So you know.
A wheelchair tells you that somebody is unable to walk.
Um other disabilities are clearly visible, and being able to see them clicks something in the brain.
But hearing loss, Being deaf, can't see it.
Plus, if you happen to listen to the radio every day and you hear me every day, and if I sound normal, and if you're here able to hear me converse with callers, what hearing loss.
So all of the it's all understandable that people don't get it, but it's still to me it's fascinating to study it to try to alleviate some of it.
Making the complex understandable.
Back to your phones here, just a quick second on open line Friday, just a couple of more things.
And I promise to answer our first caller's questions about this.
Now, as to um uh the emotion when this was all happening, look, folks, I I uh all I can tell you is I never, even in moments of solitude and quiet, cried about it, and I never went woe as me, and I never felt like anything was unfair.
I'm the mayor of Realville, you know.
I just whatever is, and I I'm sorry, I I know that distances me from most people uh in terms of being able to relate to things, but I I'm a hard, hard cold literal realist, and that's what was happening.
And so the emotional focus I had outside of fear, where there was plenty of that over not being able to continue my job, which I love.
But it didn't dominate because the effort to save the hearing was intense, and it had serious medical consequences, such as the internal bleeding, intestinal internal bleeding from all the medicine.
Uh and all the testing, and and I mean I was a guinea pig for a lot of things as they were as they were trying to save my hearing.
In fact, I'll tell you shortly after uh my experience, I got a call from Tom Hicks, who was the owner of Texas Rangers.
The same thing was happening to him in one ear, and he wanted to know what I had done, and I told him, and I've in my case it was autoimmune, and uh uh he was dealt with in in a way they were able to save his, and they did it with direct injections in the ear of the of whatever the uh drug cocktail that was working.
I don't mean to be giving anything away, it was that it was I was flattered that he called it when it worked for him.
I think it was it might have been his brother now that I think about it, but um you know it just it differs from person to person.
You just never know that they don't know, particularly when it comes to cochlear implants, they don't know why some people do exceedingly well with them and others don't, because it's the brain, and every brain's different, and every set of circumstances is different.
One of the things they tell you is once you lose your hearing, do not wait to get an implant.
The longer you wait, the greater the odds your brain's gonna forget how to hear.
That's how they explain it to you.
And in my case, it's true.
I did my implant in my left ear within two months, and I was at at first 80% speech comprehension.
I'm down to 50 now for reasons I won't get into.
And I waited whatever it's been 10 years, 13 for the right side, and the right side's useless by itself.
It has no volume, it's fuzzy, everybody sounds like chipmunks.
It only works if I have the left side attached to.
If all I had was on my right side, I could not be doing this job.
I it it's that's how bad it is.
One side of my brain forgot how to hear.
That's how they explain it.
Now, one other thing I want to explain here, because I get this question a lot, it's not related to hearing.
Why aren't you on TV more?
And I've always told people I don't like TV, which is true.
I really the reason I don't like TV is because I'm not a collaborator.
And television is collaboration.
Directors have to know what's coming next, producers have to know, stage managers, camera people have to know what's coming, and I don't work that way.
I've never had a meeting to do the radio show.
I don't but I sometimes don't even decide in advance what I'm going to talk about.
It just happens.
Can't do that on TV.
It's impossible.
But there's there's another reason now, and that is I cannot do remote television appearances.
I cannot go to a satellite studio here, say, and appear on a Fox program.
I simply can't hear it.
I cannot hear the IFB.
I just I could I cannot comprehend what plus there's more than one voice.
You hear the director and you hear the host.
Uh I simply cannot.
That is worse than a cell phone connection.
And I cannot hear what's being said to me.
It's simply is not my hearing is why I don't do TV.
The reason why I don't do too much studio TV is because even there, if I have to plug in order to hear if they're gonna play audio they want me to react to, or if they're gonna take phone calls and I have to plug in.
Uh it's not as bad as being on a remote, but the problem is I have to concentrate 120% of the time on what I'm hearing.
And when I devote a hundred and twenty percent concentration to what I'm hearing, I'm not even thinking about what I'm gonna say.
And I don't hear everything.
I'll miss two or three words.
My mind has to race trying to tell myself what I just heard based on the context of things.
I wish I could give you an example.
This happens in person all the time.
I'll be in the car or somewhere, somebody will say something to me, and let's say they use 20 words and I hear 15 of them.
Those 15 words I hear, I have to to try to guess the five words I missed, and this is in split seconds.
I have to take those 15 words, combine them with the thing we're already talking about, and then guess what they've said.
And that concentrate to do that on TV, you you I would look like a deer in the headlights because uh the my my total focus is concentration, trying to understand what's being said.
And that just doesn't look good.
The only time I could do TV is if nobody was talking to me and I was simply up there rattling off a monologue, speech, or whatever I was doing, like the CPAC thing.
My first address to the but a guest on a TV show, I simply can't do it.
Unless the person is right here next to me, and I don't have to hook up to hear it.
If there are electronics involved, I'm stuck.
So that's why you don't see me on TV.
I literally cannot do it.
I cannot hear remotely, and even if I'm in a studio and I'm hooked up, I don't hear every word, and then I have to start guessing at what I've heard, and believe me, it's not conducive to a flowing uh conversation.
And there's no there's no court reporter, there's nobody transcribing what's being said on a TV set for me to look at in case I need some they just isn't there.
That's not and that wouldn't work on TV anyway, because no matter how fast it is, it isn't instantaneous.
Okay, that's that.
Enough of that.
Greg in Madison, New Jersey, as we head back to the phones.
I'm glad you waited.
Appreciate your patience.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Well, thanks, Rush, for having me.
Russ, I just wanted the opportunity to tell you I think you have it completely uh opposite when it comes to history.
I think she's not going to get the nomination, but we would love conservatives to have the nomination.
She's not gonna get the nomination, not because of the email scandal, but because she's a terrible candidate.
The email scandal would have gone away long ago if she was a better candidate.
Well, once again, as a conservative, I'd love to see her on that debate stage against any of the possible Republicans.
Well, now you we did.
We saw her on the debate stage with Obama.
Do you remember any of it?
She good she was terrible.
Okay, now if if she's not gonna get the nomination, because she's such a bad candidate, who is Greg?
I think I think it's gonna be Joe Biden.
Months ago I would have guessed Joe Biden or even Michael Bloomberg, but I think Biden's gonna get in.
Why wouldn't he?
He's 73, he's wanted to be president, and this is his last chance.
And you think Biden is a better candidate than Hillary is.
I well.
I think they're both terrible, but I think he would be a much better national candidate for the Dems than Hillary would be.
And I think I think the Dems think that.
Well, you mean much better for us.
Well, I think they think it's much better for them.
I would love to have Hillary as the candidate of the Dems, because she'll go down in a flame of uh of uh well, whatever the expression is.
But I think I think the Dems do not want her.
I think they know she's a loser.
And though I think Joe Biden is their guy.
I think that's how it's gonna come out.
Well, look, I don't disagree with I know I don't disagree that she's a terrible candidate.
I I don't disagree that she's unable to speak.
She's not charismatic, she's not infectious, she does not inspire.
None of that.
She is there as a placeholder because she is owed.
She acts like it.
She acts like it's hers.
It's her turn or she's owed this.
She acts entitled.
There's no question about it.
Well, uh, she's got too many scandals to try to hide, so she's got to remember who she's told what lies to.
Uh, from appearance to appearance to appearance.
But the the only reason I I think it's, you know, I go back and forth on this too.
And it might my common sense tells me there's no way she's gonna get nomination because she can't win.
And then I look at the bench, and I don't I don't see the Democrat Party thinking they've got a better option.
I think if they thought they had a better option, they would have had an indictment been handed down from the Justice Department.
If that happens, she's gone.
Now, why hasn't there been an indictment?
Well, hell who knows.
I mean, who knows what she's got on Obama?
Who knows what she's got on Holder?
You know, the Clintons are experts and professionals at collecting data on people to be used in just these kinds of circumstances to prevent people from taking action against them.
Uh what is there left to learn about what she did?
The violations of law are already clear.
The classified data that passed over her server and she lied about, we already know it.
There's there's no question here.
So where's the indictment?
The answer to that uh contains quite a lot of scintillating data itself.
Uh but time will tell.
Uh Biden, he's out there.
I don't even know that when Biden said the other day he doesn't know he has the emotional juice or whatever he said.
I think he's being serious about it.
73, it's a grind.
But there is that internal ego.
I gotta do it.
My country needs me, what have you.
We'll see.
I'm glad you called Greg.
I appreciate it much.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't call.
Here, let's listen a little bit of Hillary here.
We've got her from just a moment ago this afternoon of Minneapolis, uh, Democrat National Committee summer meeting.
This is where she went to show up, tell everybody else to go away, shut up.
She's got whatever dirt on him, don't even think about it.
This nomination is mine, and screw you.
I mean, that's the message she took there.
We're gonna listen to her say it.
We have two sound bites here, and this is number one.
You hear Mr. Trump say hateful things about immigrants, even about it.
Stop it.
You have to know my ears are still capable of being hurt.
I mean, I mean, it he it hurts.
Her voice greats.
You hear?
Hey, no weight woman sounds just it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
But I will bite gut it up here, gut it out for the cause, play it again.
You hear Mr. Trump say hateful things about immigrants, even about their babies.
How many others disagree with him?
Or support a real path to citizenship or draw the line at repealing the 14th Amendment.
Today the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump.
Think about it.
Now, of course, Mr. Trump also insults and dismisses women.
And by the way, just yesterday he attacked me once again and said I didn't have a clue about women's health issues.
Really?
I mean, you can't make this stuff up, folks.
Oh, that's really a great laugh.
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
Well, what is that?
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
Nobody's making it up, Hillary, except you.
You're the one making all of this up as you go.
Here's the next bite.
All the stuff they're saying might be red meat in a Republican primary, but it is dead wrong in 21st century America.
And I know that when I talk like this, some people think there she goes again with the women's issues.
Republicans actually say, I am playing the gender card.
Well, if calling for equal pay and paid leave and women's health is playing the gender card, deal me in.
Well, if calling for equal pay and pay you don't pay the women in your own office what you pay the men in your own office.
Mrs. Clinton and everybody except your blockhead voters know it.
He's such a hypocrite on this.
Women's health.
You uh you you support an organization that does things so unspeakable to babies that we can't even describe it.
On a family-oriented radio broadcast.
Anyway, that's it.
That's Hillary.
That's that's what uh people will be up against.
That's a written speech on the prompter, and even that's a grating.
Here's uh here's Dennis in Columbia, Missouri.
Great to have you, sir, on open line Friday.
Hello.
Uh Megamodos.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, um, I was calling about um the distinctions that we need to make uh between the different kinds of Republicans that we have.
Um we've heard that there are establishment Republicans, Rhino Republicans, right wing or moderate Republicans.
But we had four to five million Republicans that didn't vote in the last election, 2012 presidential election.
And you know, we've heard also that, you know, in the 80s there were Reagan Democrats, but we never heard that there were Carter Republicans.
We never heard that there were Clinton Republicans or Obama Republicans.
But those four to five million Republicans who didn't vote in the last presidential election made themselves in effect Democrats.
And what is their symbol?
It's a donkey or a jackass.
So those Republicans who didn't vote are what I would call jackass Republicans.
And we've got a lot of stuff going on with all the presidential uh Republicans who are running for president, and I've got my own preferences, my own predictions about what I would like to see.
But no matter who we nominate, if we don't get behind and rally behind the nominee, a bunch of jackass Republicans are going to cost us this election.
So what does that mean?
You mean if if if the if the party insiders nominate another moderate wimp, are you saying we gotta bite the bullet, get behind the guy anyway for party?
Let me ask you this.
Do you think if Trump is this is the real question, Dennis Old Buddy O'Powell, let's just say, for example, if Trump gets the nomination, is it incumbent on George Will to support him?
Is it incumbent on Dr. Krauthammer to support?
Is it incumbent on Boehner and McConnell to say that they will support Trump?
All this talk about if Trump doesn't get the nomination and goes third party.
What if he does?
They're always telling us you gotta support the nominee.
Romney McCain, you got well, what if he gets it?
Or what if Cruz gets it?
Or what if Ben Carson gets it?
Some of these conservatives doesn't.
You think that you think these guys have a duty to support the nominee too?
I think they do, because if they don't, we're we're a party of conservatives.
If they don't, we run the risk of having another Obama or possibly Hillary or somebody worse like Sanders.
We've got to get behind.
Now, like I said, I've got my own preferences.
I know who I want.
There's nobody, there's no what one thing here.
And then I gotta take a break.
There's nobody on that side worse than Hillary, other than Obama, and they're identical.
Sanders is not worse.
Do not make that mistake.
Speaking of which, John Boehner called Ted Cruz a jackass.
I think it was in Denver.
He's talking to some donors, something.
Thought it was off the record or private.
Called him a jackass.
It's a Tea Party thing.
It's conservative, that kind of thing.
But let's face it, I mean, Cruz criticizes Boehner, too.
So I mean it's uh hardball's hardball.
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