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Oct. 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Your head's still spinning.
Well, I'm not finished.
So just buckle up.
Greetings, welcome back, uh, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program to email address Lrushbo at EIB net.com.
Let me explain why I think this is happening now.
By the way, you know, I've I've had a I've had a slug line on this program.
Sometimes they go into commercial breaks, slug line irritating the left for blah, blah.
Little did I know that I have been irritating the Republican establishment all these years, but it's apparently now abundantly obvious that in addition to irritating the left, I have been irritating the Republican establishment.
And this whole alternative media has.
Now, one of the one of the facts of life out there, folks, you and I, we are legitimately and properly frightened and scared.
We are witnessing the decline of our country right in front of our eyes.
We are witnessing the transformation of our country.
We are witnessing a particular party do it with glee.
And we are scared because the party we thought that we supported to stop it isn't interested in stopping it.
They're interested in stopping us now.
Meaning opponents of what's happening.
We don't want to lose our culture.
We don't want Western civilization to take it on the chin.
We don't want government to become so big and out of control that we lose our individual liberty and freedom and impetus and ambition and desire.
We don't want to lose it.
We don't want to lose the language.
We don't want to, but all of this is happening.
People are losing their jobs or losing full-time status all because of an Obamacare policy that the Democrats put in with not one Republican vote, but beyond that, the Republicans have done nothing substantive to stop it.
So people are scared.
We genuinely see a crisis.
A crisis that involves the future of a country.
And a desire to maintain this country is founded.
But the people inside the Beltway obviously see no such crisis.
Either party.
To them, it's just politics as usual.
To them, it's another campaign and another chance to win committee chairmanships in the Senate, and maybe, well, maybe if the cards go right, maybe we could win the White House now and then.
But that's all it is.
Outside of that, everything's normal.
You got some unemployment, but you got some people doing well.
Nothing's changed.
Got immigration policy that's cool.
Nothing's nothing's really changed.
And these people that think the country's in crisis, like, oh, we're a bunch of kooks.
We're crazies.
We're out of control insurgents.
Whereas the ruling class, the establishment, hey, things are fine for them.
There isn't anybody where they live making 30 grand or less.
There isn't anybody of substance out of work where they live.
There isn't anybody that doesn't have the best health care in the country where they live.
There isn't anybody without tremendous career opportunity where they live.
So why would they even stop to think that we're in a crisis?
And the people that think that we are.
Well, that's just nuts.
It's just nuts.
Look at the unemployment.
We're at 5.1%.
What are these people?
A bunch of kooks.
They don't see the 94 million not working.
Globalism, big deal.
Gotta compete.
You know how you do that?
You lower wages.
That's how you compete with the rest of the world.
You want to be a global competitor?
You can't win if you have to pay your people more than they pay them in Sri Lanka.
Or China or India or wherever.
We can't lose to those people, and the only way we can compete is to get our labor cost down.
Hello, illegal immigration.
That's what we're facing.
We think it's a crisis.
Many Americans are scared.
Even those who have their jobs and have savings are still scared that it isn't going to hold up.
They're scared that their kids aren't going to be able to do well.
Inside the beltway, this fright is mocked, made fun of, discredited as examples of extremism, which is what they think The new media is.
I am convinced, by the way, that the way the drive-bys and the Democrat Party and the left are attempting to reconstitute their media monopoly is via Twitter and Facebook.
In a way, Twitter, the sewer of Twitter and Facebook, is the left attempting to corral everyone into their playground, their way of thinking, and create a new legacy media to replace what the big three networks had back in 1988.
You populate Twitter and Facebook with enough political activists disguised as citizens in their underwear in their basements, just tapping out comments, and posting left-wing news stories from AP, Reuters, Washington Post, New York Times, and that's how you reconstitute your monopoly.
You don't constitute a network media monopoly, but you constitute a mode of thinking monopoly by transferring your polluted, perverted way of thinking to social media to infect as many minds as possible or incapable of critical thinking anymore, because it isn't taught.
Now, all of this, we have figured all of these years that we had a built-in obstruction.
We had a built-in force that was going to help us, and that we were helping at the same time, stop all of this and win these political fights.
And that we thought was the Republican Party.
And we've known, suspected, I should say, for years, suspected and known, for years, that the Republican Party isn't on stage.
They are not on the field.
They're in the dugout, they're on the bench, and they're just waiting for the coach to put them in the game so that they can collaborate, so that they can cooperate, exhibit their bipartisanship, and therefore be treated in a friendly way by the people running the show, the Democrats and the left.
Now they do want to win elections, and they really, really, I'm talking about the established, they really want to win the White House.
Because now they've got their Senate committee chairmanships.
They've got the House, and they're about to get their guy Paul Ryan in there as speaker.
They get the White House and the donor class can get its agenda implemented in the first 12 months.
Who was ordained, if you will, to be the next president, who was chosen and declared to be the de facto nominee on our side to go along with the de facto nominee on the left side, Hillary.
That was Jeb Bush.
All of the donor money, well, practically all of it, I mean the vast majority of it, went to Jeb, various packs, to Jeb's campaign personally.
Remember when Jeb said that he had a plan to win the general election by losing the primary?
Remember that?
Remember we're scratching her.
What the what the heck is he talking about?
Well, we suspected and we know he was going to win the nomination without the support of the Republican base.
Well, how do you do that?
Hello, donors.
Hello, money men.
Here my best buddies over here.
This is how do we silence these insurgent Tea Party types?
We just outspend them.
We just drown them in money.
It's always worked in the past.
He who had and spent the most money on ads generally prevailed.
And Jeb was the chosen one.
The Bush name was going to be magic yet again.
But not really the Bush name, but the Bush organization, all the experts, all the professionals, all the consultants who had Been there and done that.
Been there and done it in Texas, been there and done it in Florida, been there and done it in Washington for W. It was just waiting to be mobilized again.
They had the most money.
They had a genteel, soft-spoken, nice guy candidate, didn't ruffle anybody's feathers.
And it was just a pro forma thing.
Let the calendar play out, let the primaries play out.
Any conservative insurgents as candidates surface will take them out with money.
In fact, the more of those the better, because they will split their money, and none of those candidates will have nearly enough money to compete with Jeb, and we're off to the races.
It's just a matter of letting the calendar play out.
And then something happened that nobody figured, and it's still happening, and it's called Donald Trump.
But when Trump happened from the first day he announced the Bush and others in the establishment were convinced that he'd be drummed out of the race in embarrassment and humiliation.
Because he's so uncouth.
So braggadocious, he's so unrepublican, so unsophisticated, so unestablishment.
We won't even have to take him out, they said.
He'll take himself out.
He'll save something he won't be able to survive, and that'll be it.
Or we'll find something in his past.
Strangest thing, whatever he said it helped him.
Whatever offensive, supposedly offensive, outrageous thing, doubled down on it, support continued to skyrocket.
And they went looking for family baggage, and they can't find a thing other than a wholesome, well-mannered, successful American family.
Damn it.
So it was time for old reliable.
When Trump didn't fade, when Trump didn't implode, and when nobody can take Trump out, it was time for old faithful.
It was time to put old standby in full force, and that was to start spending the donors' money on a series of ads, a swarm of ads in early important primary states like New Hampshire.
And they did.
They have been dominating airwaves with paid ads in New Hampshire for Jeb.
In Iowa, it's all over the place.
And in the midst of all this, when Jeb failed to gain traction, Trump continued to gain ground.
We began to hear scuffle, but stories, donors getting nervous.
Donors worried money spent on Bush may not have any return.
Then we started hearing the name Rubio as an alternative to Jeb if it didn't work out.
Into all of this, Mitt Romney steps forward on the David Axelrod podcast and blames all of this on conservative talk radio, conservative blogosphere, conservative websites, as a bunch of insurgent media that destroyed the legacy media that we all used to enjoy when we all got our facts in the same place.
Well, they've thought this for a while.
I mean, it's not new what Romney said.
I mean, the fact that he said it is what's new.
The fact that he's been public.
Well, what's caused all this now?
And I really just to backtrack, I really think that full fledged real panic has set in because old faithful has not erupted.
Old faithful is running dry.
The old standby is not working, and that is all of the donors' money spent on these ads.
The ads are not working for Jeb.
The ads were supposed to vanquish Trump, scare people away from Carson, demolish Fi Arena, and extol the virtues of a Jeb presidency and a Bush organization returning to prominence in Washington.
And it isn't working.
These packs have literally blanketed New Hampshire with ads upon ads, and all that happened is that Jeb's approval numbers have gone down.
There is fury.
There is outrage over this, but it isn't aimed at themselves.
It's not aimed at Jeb.
It isn't aimed at Trump even.
No, the reason the ads aren't working, folks.
Conservative media.
Me, the other talk shows, Fox News, the conservative blogosphere.
We are poisoning your minds with facts counter to the ones they want you to believe.
We are the reason their money isn't working.
We are the reason their ads are not changing the game.
These alternative sources of information, i.e., this program and others, are making you, the primary electorate, not believe their ads.
This is the first time this has ever happened.
Romney's ads destroyed Newt back in 2012.
McCain's ads destroyed Romney in 2008, along with the help of Mike Huckabee.
The money has always worked.
It isn't working now.
They don't have anything else.
They don't have ideas because it never has been about ideas.
If it were about ideas, these people would be running away with it.
Conservative ideas would be running away with this nomination.
Conservative ideas, well spoken, well articulated, the Democrats wouldn't have a chance, and neither would the other Republicans who were not articulating conservatives.
They just can't bring themselves to do that.
No way, Jose, so they've got to go to the money, and the money isn't working, and it's Panic City, and that's why Mitt Romney is lamenting.
Oh my God!
We need to go back to the days of the legacy media when all we had were the same facts from three networks and the New York Times.
And maybe some days the Washington Post, depending on what David Broder wrote.
And that's where we are.
And instead, Trump and Carson are running away with this.
The Bush team convened over the weekend.
Grab audio soundbite 13, and this is what if if the donors were not panicked before this, imagine what they are after hearing this.
If this election is about how we're going to fight to get nothing done, then I don't want any part of it.
I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives.
That is not my motivation.
I got a lot of really cool things that I could do other than sit around being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them.
That is a joke.
Elect Trump if you want that.
Okay, so wherever the big money people are and whatever they've spent, they're desperately trying to find a way to get it back now because that's just...
I heard it.
I heard it.
You can stop emailing.
People going nuts over the Jeb soundbite.
Look, I was up against a commercial break.
I had to go right into it.
I heard him say people are in decline because of gridlock.
I folks, this is my whole point here in airing the soundbite.
Gridlock is what's causing people's lives to decline.
In other words, blocking Obama's agenda is causing people's lives to decline.
Then isn't the solution to vote for Hillary.
If gridlock, i.e., stopping Obama is causing people pain, then why even nominate a candidate?
Just endorse Hillary and try to hold the Senate and House.
If the Democrats' agenda being blocked is what's causing the American people pain, then why doesn't the Republican Party just disband and join the Democrats?
Ron Fournier, when he heard Jeb this soundbite, and this is after a family confab when they tried to figure out what to do.
The donors got together with a consultants and they were going to fix this.
And Ron Fournier says Jeb Bush broke every rule in one 20-second soundbite.
The second rule of politics, presidential politics, never tell voters you got something better to do.
He did.
The third rule of presidential politics is never tell voters to vote for somebody else.
He said, Elect Trump if you want that.
The fourth rule, presidential politics.
Man, politics today sucks.
I don't want I. The first rule of presidential politics is don't run if you don't want it.
Anyway, this after a session of the best minds, the Bush campaign has to try to diagnose and solve the problem.
I I cannot imagine the donors are comforted here.
Probably stages of panic that they've never experienced before.
Okay, coming up next, the Donald Trump sound bites as we provide a contrast between Mitt Romney and the Republican establishment and the way they're going about things versus Trump.
Trump did a uh essentially a town hall in New Hampshire today on the Today Show, with Matt Wauer interrupting with questions.
And uh it was it was clear that Matt Wauer is part of the establishment crowd that does not get the nature of the crisis that most Americans sense in the country.
And why would he?
Matt Wauer has a couple houses, a horse farm, $15 million a year, and and and uh and what have you.
So I mean, Matt Wauer needs a visa to get to Iowa.
So all of this is very strange to him.
He's one of these people that can't believe Trump's still in the campaign, much less leading it.
Should have been gone long ago.
But before we get to that, it's time to now get to phones.
People have been waiting patiently going to start with Darren in Indianapolis.
It's great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh Rush, I'm uh my wife Robin and I are conservative African Americans, both born in 1965 and grew up in the 70s in a liberal democratic household of middle class.
As we became adults in the 80s under Reagan, uh, we became aware of the misinformation and lies that the uh uh liberal media was putting forth, particularly uh uh Reagan economics, uh, which logically made sense.
Uh we could never explain that to our relatives.
So we were always thankful when conservative media like yourself came along to give us some credibility and not let us feel isolated anymore.
And at this current moment, we couldn't agree more with you that the Republican Party as a whole should be embracing conservative media, because this is the time right now to stop this unconstitutional transformation of America.
Amen.
A freaking men.
Well spoken there.
And I I I couldn't put it better myself.
And that's saying something.
But I I you know you've you've it's a great reminder.
Reaganomics, the 1980s, Ronald Reagan with two landslide victories, and Mitt Romney's preferred legacy media was lying about Reagan every day, lying about Reagan policies, lying about Reagan and the Soviet Union and communism, lying about Reagan and his tax cuts, lying, lying, lying, doing everything they could to dissuade people from supporting Reagan.
After Reagan won both elections and landslides, they did everything they could to destroy Reagan's character, his good name, his reputation.
They tried to gin up hatred for for for Reagan just as they tried for Bush and the Iraq war in the second term of W.'s administration.
They didn't succeed with Reagan because the people of this country loved him.
Ronald Reagan connected with the American people over the heads of the media.
And Reagan had to deal with the media that Mitt Romney longs for.
When Ronald Reagan was president, there were just three networks.
Sam Donaldson, Dan Rather, and Peter Jennings trying to embarrass him at every press conference.
That was it.
The New York Times had their reporters and columnists.
Ditto.
And for some of his administration, CNN.
The days apparently Mitt Romney, the Republican establishment, longed for was what Ronald Reagan triumphed over.
What Ronald Reagan had to do.
Ronald Reagan did not have a conservative media and still won two landslides.
What does that tell you?
It tells you that conservatism will win landslide elections when properly articulated, understood, cheerfully and optimistically supported, and that the drive-bys cannot change that.
And they know it, by the way.
Folk, this is this is very important.
The left in this country knows full well the danger posed by an articulate conservative.
That's why they have to destroy them.
That's why they have to destroy their credibility, their uh reputations, what have you.
But we all know the Republican establishment even back then was not supportive of Reagan, tried to undermine Reagan many times.
Not just 1976.
They tried to undermine him in 1980 as well.
After he won, they all wanted to bask in the glow, but they were never at home with Reagan.
They too thought Reagan was a little kooky.
Uh a little uh off-center, you know, not quite right, but he won big and they they went along with the with the run for the good times of it.
But they were never ever of the mind that Reagan was one of them.
Reagan remained an outsider throughout even his two landslide wins and his two successful presidential terms.
But it's that media that Mitt Romney, and I look, again, I know he's not just speaking for himself.
These to say this, I guarantee you they're all talking about this amongst themselves and probably have been for a while.
Longing for the good old days.
When there weren't anybody in the media holding them to account.
Yeah, those were the good old days.
Democrats didn't say anything bad about them.
Democrats didn't make up lies about them.
They think.
This is what's mind-boggling to me.
Ronald Reagan was treated with the same abject hatred and disrespect George W. Bush was, as was Richard Nixon.
I do not understand longing for those days.
I just don't.
Anyway, Darren, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
This is Gary Pensacola, Florida.
You're next.
Glad you waited.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's a uh it's a thrill and a pleasure.
As I see it, the real problem of trying to work across the aisle is the Democrats just don't operate in good faith as negotiating partners.
It's like uh dealing with the old Soviets or the Iranians.
They lie and then they cheat.
It's like uh well, Reagan tried to cut a budget deal.
Uh the Democrats got their spending, uh, got their tax increases immediately.
The spending cuts never came.
Uh George H. W. Bush made a budget deal.
And they said, you gotta be statesman-like, you gotta raise taxes.
And he said, Well, okay, I'll go along.
And then they use it against him and called him a liar, said he raised your taxes.
It's like the the establishments like uh Charlie Brown and the Democrats are loosy with the football.
They snatched it away, and he never learns.
Well, it's a great point.
It's a great, I mean, it's it it it kind of understates it to say that Democrats don't negotiate in good faith.
Uh but it the point is well made, uh, well taken.
Um I think we're at a stage that this is just me, but I don't see there isn't anything in Hillary Clinton's Clinton's agenda that I want part of.
Now I know the old, and Romney makes this point, Jeb makes this point a number, and by the way, uh the left is out, they love to quote Reagan, in fact, on this point.
They love to say Reagan negotiated with the left, Reagan made deals with Senate, Reagan's, and they and they have this quote that they love to put out about Reagan.
They claim Reagan was chastising the right-wing extremists in his own party.
When he said, Look, I learned when I ran the screen actors guild, you never get a hundred percent of what you want.
You gotta get something.
If you can get 70 or 80 percent of what you want, then go ahead and make the deal.
We have to have that kind of flexibility.
Granted, but that never happens.
When have we got 70 or 80%?
The Democrats are the ones that get 70 or 80 or more percent of what they want.
Usually it's 100%.
The recalcitrance here and the reluctance to negotiate and cross the aisle is simply intelligence guided by experience.
What in the world is there to negotiate with with these people, particularly when Gary's right, they don't keep their word on things.
At this point, the stage, there isn't anything.
What do you want?
Obama to sacrifice 20% of Obamacare?
Do you want Obama to only go 80% of the way on the Iranian nuclear deal?
I mean, what is there to negotiate with?
You want only eight million to have amnesty instead of twelve?
What what where is the common ground?
I would think if you're going to negotiate, and if you're going to make deals, and by the way, that whole belief system that Washington exists for deal making, what a crock.
That's when you get sold down the river.
Washington is where people win and lose.
Washington is where there are winners and losers, and we've been on the losing side for far too long.
What is this deal making business?
Yeah, that's what we've got to make deals.
Paul Ryan's out there saying, yeah, we've got to get together and we've got to solve problems.
Well, what is that what Congress does is solve the problems of the American.
What Congress and Washington's done is make a bunch of problems.
They've created a bunch of problems with law after law after legislation after legislation, regulation after regulation.
Problems are created that the American people have left to try to fix themselves.
But this idea that we've got to work with the other side, cross the aisle, make deals, negotiate, uh, compromise.
They say this almost religiously, and it's almost as though they believe that the entire presidential electorate is of that frame of mind.
Certainly they believe the independents are of that frame of mind.
And they believe you've got to win the independence.
If you don't win the independence, you don't have a chance.
I love to remind them Mitt Romney won independence going away in 2012.
I mean, it was a slam dunk.
It was Romney had a landslide victory among independents.
And he lost.
And he lost handily, lost sizably.
But it's this belief that the independents want the parties to work together.
They want everybody smiling and shaking hands.
That is a concoction of crap.
That has been promulgated in such a way as to represent the thinking of a majority of Americans.
And the American people don't think that way.
But yet the media reports it as though that's what everybody's concerned about, the lack of cooperation at Washington.
What people are worried about is the country is in decline.
The people on the left know it's in decline.
They're upset because their policies are not saving the country.
You are upset because the country's in decline because Democrat policies are working and Republicans don't seem to be interested in stopping it.
But there's angst everywhere on both sides of the aisle.
The left is getting everything they want for all intents and purposes, and they're not happy, they're angrier than ever.
You would be too if everything you believed in was going to lead to a utopia, and you elected a guy who began to implement it right down the line, and it did get implemented.
You got nuclear weapons in Iraq to show that we're not a superpower any longer.
You've got Obamacare, everybody got free health care.
Everybody's going to get treatment.
Nobody's going to get sick.
We're going to get rid of the coal industry.
We're going to build up all this green energy, we're going to get rid of global warming.
Nothing's happening.
Every policy implementation leads to the country's decline increasing in speed.
So the left, understandably irritated and outraged, they're faced with the evidence that what they believe in doesn't work.
But you add it all together, and there's a combined fright, fear, angst throughout the population, those that are paying attention.
The others are upset that Glamour magazine named Bruce Jenner, the woman of the year.
And they did.
I just threw that in there.
Jermaine Greer noted Feminazzi from Australia is upset.
Now you can't have transgender woman as a woman.
Transgender woman can't win in a woman of the year award.
But one did.
Anyway, I'm long again.
I have to take a break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Marco Rubio giving up on the U.S. Senate, it says here in the Washington Post, that he did an interview with Jamie Gangell on CNN as well.
The Washington Post says Marco Rubio is a U.S. Senator, and he just can't stand it anymore.
Rubio said in an interview, I don't know that hate is the right word.
I'm frustrated.
This year, as Rubio runs for president, he's cast the Senate, the very place that cemented him as a national politician, as a place he's given up on after less than one term.
It's too slow, it's too rule bound.
So Rubio 44 has decided not to run for his seat again.
It's the White House or bust.
He said that's why I'm missing votes, because I'm leaving the Senate.
I'm not running for re-election.
He even mentioned this in the last Republican debate.
This is after Trump sort of made fun of him for the unusual number of missed votes.
Now, what's going on with this?
Rubio's a good guy.
Some people made a misstep with a gang of eight.
Uh immigration bill originally.
But the Senate is a place where nothing is getting done.
The Senate is a place where the Republican the Republican establishment runs it.
And by nothing getting done, it's very simple what he means.
There isn't any effort to stop Obama.
There's nothing of substance happening in the Senate to stop, slow, or halt the implementation of the Obama agenda.
Now, if you got elected on the basis that you were going to advance conservatism, conservative ideas, a conservative agenda, and the place you work has a leadership not interested in that and shuts all that down.
Is it a legitimate question to ask?
What am I doing here?
Ted Cruz has tried to reform it, and he is persona non grata in the Senate.
The Senate leadership despises him.
It's gotten so bad that he started working with the House conservatives in uh in an effort to get some sort of alternative agenda in the works in Washington to stop Obama.
Look at how hard Tea Party and Conservatives worked to put him there, though.
And Rubio has had, man, I remember Rubio when he became known locally as a Florida politician, the raves, the adoration.
Marco Rubio was the future of the Republican Party for the longest time here in Florida before anybody else heard his name.
And it was these accolades and this energy that launched Rubio to a national political career.
And now he gets to the Senate, and it's just one giant roadblock.
And the roadblock, make no mistake.
I mean, Harry Reed is responsible for what the Senate has become.
There's no question, there's no deny, but the Republican leadership, after having won the Senate, when they told us all those years, hey, we can't do anything with just the House.
You need to give us the Senate.
We gave them the Senate.
Now they say, well, can't do anything.
We need the White House.
I I look, I can understand the frustration.
I really can.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
Fastest three hours in media, two of them already in the can.
We will take a brief time out, come back and wrap it up.
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