Jan. 15, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Hey, look, I want to mention this before it gets lost in the shuffle of our post-debate discussion. | |
| Have you seen the economic news today? | |
| Retail sales, their weakest. | |
| What is it now? | |
| Eight years, six years. | |
| They announced this. | |
| They wait to announce this after Obama's State of the Union debacle. | |
| And Walmart is going to close 154 stores in the United States. | |
| What was it Obama just said about the greatest economic recovery in the history? | |
| Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line. | |
| We continue to be snookered. | |
| And your host is now being blamed for so much. | |
| Your host is being blamed for Trump. | |
| You know, the people blaming me for Donald Trump don't get they are the reason for Donald Trump. | |
| You people in the so-called moderate wing of the Republican Party who've been wringing your hands and fretting over the possibility of a conservative nominee, you opened the door. | |
| Not us. | |
| And I'm going to explain that in a second. | |
| Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Il Rushbow on Open Line Friday, which means, and if we take any calls today, you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. | |
| And I think I kind of know what it's going to be, but it can be anything. | |
| The numbers 800-282-2882 in the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com. | |
| This is the best debate that we've had last night. | |
| You watch it, Mr. Snerdley. | |
| Well, I don't know. | |
| You didn't watch the last one. | |
| You started to get frustrated in it. | |
| It's the best debate we had. | |
| I'm just going to tell you the it in my very humble opinion. | |
| I tried watching this last night, as I imagine non-Republicans, non-conservatives, independents, maybe it's a low information voters watch it, and everybody in that stage last night. | |
| Everybody came across as likable and fun and fun. | |
| Well, there may be a couple exceptions on the on the fun and funny, but nobody was dislikable. | |
| Everybody was on a charismatic roll last night. | |
| Everybody scored their points. | |
| We end the night with with uh basically three contenders. | |
| We got Trump, Rubio, and Cruz. | |
| And it's patently obvious to anybody, and all three of those people, you could arguably say had their best debates at the same time. | |
| It was actually fun and a pleasure to watch. | |
| It was fun and a pleasure to make notes about. | |
| And it came on the heels of uh so much criticism and discussion and so forth, but man, everybody was just on their game last night. | |
| It was it was uh it was just it was just good. | |
| Everybody came across, even in their confrontations, they came across as likable and friendly. | |
| Uh I mean, exactly what the GOP claims that it wants to be here, uh, willing to cooperate, willing to cross the aisle. | |
| And I'm not don't say this in a derision sense. | |
| Um I mean it as a as a totally upbeat positive. | |
| Now we've got the appropriate sound bites in the debate, and we'll get to those in due course, and I do want to spend a little bit of time on this economic news. | |
| This is not insignificant, and they're rolling this news out on Friday. | |
| This is this is classic of this regime. | |
| It's classic of the uh various bureaucracies in the government when they got bad news to tell. | |
| They roll it out on a Friday when there's many other things people are focused on, like the 13 hours movie premiering today, Trump with a smart move, by the way, in Iowa buying out a theater, renting the theater and buying a showing of it for anybody that wants to show up. | |
| He's paying for everything on the uh close here to the eve of the Hawkeye Cockeye. | |
| But retail sales, what else is there in this country besides retail now? | |
| So retail sales decrease in the weakest year since 2009. | |
| Six years. | |
| And 154 Walmart stores closing, and that's just in the U.S. is 269 worldwide are closing. | |
| On the heels of Obama, just telling everybody what the greatest economy we've ever had here, the strongest economic recovery, all of that was just lies and BS. | |
| So, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Let's just go to the audio sound bites. | |
| I have a point to make here because the long knives predictably are out for your beloved host. | |
| That would be me. | |
| We will start with CNN last night, Jake Tapper's program speaking with the Republican National Committee Rhines Prebis about me and my reaction to Governor Nikki Haley. | |
| Who, by the way, did anybody notice? | |
| Nikki Haley walking it all back now. | |
| Did you notice that? | |
| It started with this mutual apology and embrace between Trump and Nikki Haley at the debate last night. | |
| And then the story from the Hill.com. | |
| Haley walks back criticism of Bush and Rubio, not only Bush and Rubio, but of Trump. | |
| She's out there saying Trump angry voices. | |
| And then she hit Rubio on amnesty and some other things. | |
| She withdrew her attacks against these Republican candidates in the aftermath of the backlash over her State of the Union response. | |
| She called Trump a friend, acknowledged that he's given her donations in the past. | |
| I mean, yeah, there was a lot of reaction to Nikki Haley, but where did it happen for two days? | |
| Where was it explained in great detail? | |
| Right here on the EIB network. | |
| So let's go back to the audio sound bites. | |
| Jacob Tapper writes Prebis last night on CNN, plays a clip of me from Wednesday's program and gets Prebus's reaction. | |
| Here's how it happened. | |
| I want you to uh listen to Rush Limbaugh yesterday uh talking about Governor Haley. | |
| I think it's proof and it's an example of so much. | |
| For one thing, it's almost absolute proof of what I have been saying for the last couple of years now that the Republican Party's trying to drive conservatives out of the party. | |
| Now that's probably the most influential conservative talk show host in the country, telling conservatives that the Republican Party doesn't want or care about them. | |
| How do you, as the head of the RNC, how do you combat that kind of narrative? | |
| It's not me. | |
| Once again, I'm not the guy who said I want to win the Republican nomination without the base. | |
| That was Jeb Bush. | |
| Jeb Bush is the party. | |
| The Bushes are the party. | |
| They are the party establishment, everybody else along with them. | |
| And they made it plain that their objective was to win the Republican nomination without the base. | |
| And we knew how they were going to do it because they told us they were going to raise all the money and they were going to divide all the money going to conservative candidates, winnow them out, and Bush would be the last man standing with the donor class providing the energy and the money for it. | |
| I mean, I didn't make this up. | |
| I mean, when you have the chosen, the favorite of the establishment, Jeb Bush, making it clear in his campaign, making it clear they want to win the nomination without the base. | |
| Well, what's the base? | |
| The base is the conservative wing of the party. | |
| What are we to conclude from this? | |
| Anyway, here's uh here's the chairman of the RNC responding to the observations of Jacob Tapper on CNN. | |
| It's completely false, and there's no base in fact of it. | |
| I mean, the truth is, no matter who you're for, whether any one of the 12 candidates, the one thing that we have to have is a national party that has its act together when it comes to the mechanics, the ground game, the data operation, the thousands of people that we pay across the country to register voters, and to make sure that no matter who wins, that we're a heck of a lot better than we were in 2012. | |
| Now, I can't think of a single controversial thing about that. | |
| So, no matter who wins, if you don't have a Republican national committee that's really good, they will lose for sure. | |
| So we win if we have a good nominee and a good national party. | |
| We lose if we don't. | |
| Oh, so that's Ridge Prebis, the RNC chairman, uh answering Jake Tapper, saying that no rush is wrong, that we're not trying to drive conservatives out of the party. | |
| Jeffrey Lord is a commentator for CNN. | |
| He's also an author and a writer, a former political operative in the Reagan administration back in the 80s on CNN last night, post-debate coverage with Anderson Cooper. | |
| And uh Jeffrey Lord uh had this to say about this little dust up. | |
| Another thing that's key today in terms of what went on with Nikki Haley, the Governor Haley of South Carolina, is that Rush Limbaugh immediately came to Donald Trump's defense and went after her. | |
| That's no small thing here, and Rush was doing it again today. | |
| And the message, of course, is I mean, this is about that split in the Republican Party, and I see the Chairman Ryan's uh Prebis felt compelled to disagree with Rush in a statement, which is surely not a comfortable place for him to be, because we all know Russia's the real chairman. | |
| Jeffrey Lord. | |
| And see, Anderson Cooper didn't disagree. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now look, uh folks, just so you understand, I know exactly what I'm doing. | |
| There's all kinds of uh people yelling that with this vaunted position I have, there has to be some degree of responsibility. | |
| Don't tell me. | |
| Um this is patently obvious to me. | |
| If you'd have told me 30 years ago that I was gonna end up being in this position, I would have told you you were crazy. | |
| I just want to be a guy on the radio, pure and it's all I want to do. | |
| Never had political aspirations, perspirations of the sort. | |
| However, what has happened and what is what has happened. | |
| I can't deny what I see. | |
| I can't ignore what I hear. | |
| It I'm not the only one who has heard for years. | |
| You go back to the Reagan years. | |
| The Republican establishment just doesn't like conservative candidates. | |
| They don't like conservatives winning the nomination. | |
| Take a look at the establishment nomination nominees and choices in the recent past, you'll see what I mean. | |
| But I don't even need to ask you to rely on your memory. | |
| I have an incredible story here last night. | |
| And by the way, uh just to give you a little bit of inside data. | |
| You watched a debate last night. | |
| Did you hear a lot of booze for Trump? | |
| Did you wonder about that? | |
| Where you knew where it was coming from. | |
| Where was it coming from? | |
| Where do you think no? | |
| No, it might have been the Bush camp, but I'll tell you where the boobirds were coming from. | |
| They were coming to North Carolina. | |
| The North Carolina GOP bust a bunch of people down there. | |
| And their express purpose was to try to show that there is no massive support for Trump. | |
| They wanted to do some damage. | |
| They are grudgingly accepting Ted Cruz now. | |
| But can you go back just uh maybe three, four weeks? | |
| How many of you remember the Republican establishment embracing Ted Cruz, promoting Ted Cruz, thinking Ted Cruz would be the solution? | |
| I mean, it's it didn't happen, did it? | |
| But it is it has worked out that way. | |
| I mean, if you wanted to say somebody won the debate last night, you'd have to say it's Ted Cruz. | |
| Some might think it's a toss-up between Cruz and Trump, but I'm saying they all did well. | |
| This, particularly the three top-tier candidates. | |
| But this I none of this is made up. | |
| This is pure observation. | |
| Let me first play for you a soundbite. | |
| This is um found on the politico website. | |
| They released a video of a Republican National Committee member named Holland Redfield. | |
| Holland Redfield is an RNC member and Republican precinct leader, captain, whatever, in the Virgin Islands, which traditionally votes majority Democrat every presidential election. | |
| And he was speaking about the party and the 2016 presidential race at the Republican National Committee winter meeting yesterday in Charleston. | |
| When I see the tenure of discussion amongst these candidates for using and professing they are either conservative. | |
| And a disrespect in many cases for ethnic minorities in the United States. | |
| And also religious fashions in the United States. | |
| You have to draw a line. | |
| Because sooner or later somebody has to pick up the pieces. | |
| We're almost terrorized as members of our party. | |
| Shut up. | |
| Embrace each other, and let's go forward. | |
| I understand that, but there is a limit to where loyalty is. | |
| He's upset about Trump. | |
| Holland Redfield was upset about Trump. | |
| Priebus was in the audience there. | |
| What they were talking about behind closed doors was figuring out how to sponsor a rebellion against Trump because they think they're being held hostage by Trump and by Trump supporters. | |
| But I have something else here. | |
| This is also in the Hill.com, and it's the most amazing story. | |
| It's about Republican strategist Ford O'Connell. | |
| I never heard of him. | |
| I don't know who he is. | |
| But he is of the crowd in the Republican Party who believes and has long insisted that the Republican Party must expand its demographic appeal. | |
| We must reach out to the Hispanic. | |
| We must reach out to the women. | |
| We much he is right off the front pages of the donor class. | |
| He's one of these guys that believes the party ought to be perceived, is willing to work with Democrats, wants to tout when they do work with Democrats, wants to promote how cooperative they are, how they can make Washington work. | |
| He wants to do everything he can to turn the Republican Party into a totally moderate Rhino Party. | |
| And he's frustrated and panicked over the conservative ascendancy at the moment in the Republican Party, but that's not even the half of it. | |
| He calls himself a modernizer in this story, meaning he's one of the group of people that wants to modernize this party and bring it into the 20th century because it's being run now by the Neanderthals, which are the conservatives. | |
| And the conservatives are ascendant, and we can't have that. | |
| There is no way we don't even want to win with the conservatives winning, is his point. | |
| Right. | |
| And he suggested in this story, I'm giving you the summary of it. | |
| I'll read to you from it when I have time in the next half hour. | |
| But his nightmare scenario, Ford O'Connell, according to the Hill.com, nightmare scenario for modernizers like him was a conservative candidate becoming the nominee and winning the general election because of a perfect storm of pro-Republican factors. | |
| He said such an outcome. | |
| A conservative nominee becoming president would postpone the hard conversations the Republican Party needs to have for long-term survival. | |
| Yes, you heard right. | |
| A Republican nominee, conservative nominee who wins the White House is a problem because it postpones the party modernizing and doing what it must do to be a long-term viable party. | |
| He said if they are successful, he's talking about Trump and Cruz, and he's RNC. | |
| If either Trump or Cruz are successful, then those who are arguing to broaden our appeal will be pushed to the edges of the party. | |
| They don't want a conservative to win no matter what. | |
| Details to come up. | |
| Now this segment's going to be real short because I went long in the first one, and it's it's bad. | |
| I apologize for that. | |
| Short segments uh irritate you, and I understand it, but we will delay the continuation of the story On Mr. Ford O'Connell, who thinks a conservative victory. | |
| Conservative nominee, and then the conservative nominee winning the White House will delay the much needed growth. | |
| The Republican Party must have if it's to have a long-term future. | |
| The details of that coming up. | |
| In the meantime, try this headline. | |
| This is the political. | |
| Bush donors await Green Light to jump ship. | |
| When Jeb Bush announced a record fundraising hall in July, the Florida Republican rewarded major donors with a two-day celebratory retreat at the family compound in Maine. | |
| They also delivered a message. | |
| $114 million was just the beginning of how much they would need to win. | |
| Now it's seven months later, 17 days before the Hawkeye Cockyeye, Bush's donors are no longer high-fiving or strategizing how to keep the money coming in. | |
| Instead, they're waiting for permission to jump ship and join other campaigns. | |
| Back in a sec. | |
| No, I don't care that they blame me, Mr. Snerdley, as long as they spell my name right. | |
| You know, I'm thinking of changing my my my first name from Rush to Von Tays. | |
| Von Tays limbaugh, number 55, taking him out one player at a time. | |
| No, I really it it's serious. | |
| But it's silly. | |
| The idea that that I or anybody else in the media is responsible for Donald Trump. | |
| You know, this it gets to a question since when, and I'm dead serious about this, and I'm want anybody to repeat this as far and wide as you want. | |
| Since when is it my responsibility to take candidates out of races? | |
| Since when is it my responsibility to do that? | |
| Even if you think, in this case, let's just put it out on the table, you think Trump's not conservative, and I am Mr. Conservative, and you wonder why I'm not out there trying to expose Trump as a phony fraud conservative or whatever. | |
| Why is this up to me? | |
| What if I don't feel like doing that? | |
| What if I think Trump's performing an important service? | |
| And you know what it is? | |
| Trump is the first to arrive at important issues we all care about. | |
| Some of you might disagree with what he says about it, how he says about it, but for the longest time we've had two landslide election victories, 2010, 2014, we got nothing to show for it. | |
| We don't even get recognition from elected officials that they think the problems we think the problems are the same thing. | |
| So here comes Trump, and he's properly identifying what the problems are. | |
| He's the first to identify them. | |
| You call it gutsy, courageous, I don't care what you call it. | |
| And then he launches on these issues as the first to arrive at them and happens to say some pretty responsible things about them, issue-wise. | |
| And I've said over and over again what I think other services that Trump is performing are, such as showing you don't have to be afraid of the media, which is a Republican Hallmark today, you don't have to be afraid of violating political correctness. | |
| You don't have to be defensive, you don't have to be ashamed of yourself. | |
| None of that. | |
| You can win. | |
| With traditional good old American confidence, roll up the sleeves, hard work, be proud of who you are, stand for what you believe in, and tell everybody how right you are and bring them along with you. | |
| There's been a genuine hunger for that for I don't know how many years here on the conservative. | |
| But even even with all that, since since when is since when does the establishment media, the quasi-conservative media, the Republican Party, since when is it our job here on talk radio to do what they want done? | |
| If they want Trump taken out, go for it. | |
| Now I want to get back to this story in the Hill.com. | |
| And then we, after we finish this, we're going to get to some of the latest polling data that is hidden in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll, because there is some shocking internal information. | |
| In addition to the fact that Trump's lead continues to grow, there is some really surprising inside stuff about, I'll just tell you one thing. | |
| Of all the Republicans in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll, while it acknowledges that Donald Trump is adding to a lead, his lead. | |
| There is one Republican, according to the pollsters, and I mean, according to the people poll and their and their responses here. | |
| There's one candidate who can beat Trump for the nomination in the eyes of Republican primary voters, and that's Ted Cruz. | |
| Now, I don't have to tell you that that little tidbit of information is not something that's causing him to do handstands and flips at the GOP. | |
| Ted Cruz, are you kidding me? | |
| They want that name to be Jeb Bush. | |
| And if the name isn't Jeb Bush, they want it to be Marco Rubio. | |
| Leslie said yesterday, now we've got stories all over the media, political New York Times about how the Republican Party is all of a sudden, well, yeah, you know what? | |
| Maybe we can live with Ted. | |
| Maybe uh Ted's not looking so bad now. | |
| The establishment people, yeah, Ted Ted could be one of us. | |
| So they do want to win. | |
| I don't say no doubt that. | |
| But I found one guy who doesn't, if the victor is conservative. | |
| And let me get right back to this. | |
| It's in the Hill.com. | |
| It is about a Republican donor and organizer. | |
| A young man, by the way, named Ford O'Connell. | |
| And he's a strategist, Republican strategist. | |
| He's one of the many in the Republican Party who has insisted for the longest time that the Republican Party's only hope is to expand its demographic appeal. | |
| He's one of the people that believe the Republican Party simply cannot win with Republican votes alone. | |
| So they have to go out and get other voters. | |
| They've got to go get Democrats, they've got to go get Hispanics, they have to get African Americans, they have to get whatever, which is fine. | |
| But don't do it acting Democrat late. | |
| If you want to go get these other voters, go do it as a proud Republican conservative. | |
| That's what's not happening here. | |
| And this story details a nightmare scenario for the modernizers of the GOP. | |
| The modernizers are these people that think for the Republican Party to have a long-term chance at survival as a winning and nominate party, it has got to expand, and it cannot be known as conservative. | |
| It's got to go much farther than that. | |
| And the nightmare scenario, as detailed in this story, the nightmare scenario is a conservative candidate becoming the nominee and then winning the presidency. | |
| That is described as a perfect storm, an outcome that would postpone the hard conversations the party needs to have internally. | |
| In other words, Ted Cruz becoming president is a problem, according to this Republican strategist, because it will falsely portray the GOP as a conservative party, and that's guaranteed to kill the GOP, is what these people think. | |
| Even in the scenario where Cruz becomes president, that very fact is seen by these people as a death knell for the GOP. | |
| What can you conclude from that? | |
| Mr. O'Connell said of Trump and Cruz, if they are successful, then those who are arguing to broaden our appeal will be pushed to the edges of the party. | |
| Can I translate this for you? | |
| This guy and whoever else in the party he's talking about do not want a conservative to win no matter what. | |
| And I remind you, how many times have you seen it in the past weeks? | |
| Recent months, have you seen various Republicans quoted as saying if Cruz or Trump are the nominee, they will vote for Hillary. | |
| You may have heard me pass that news on to you, or you may have heard it for yourself, but it's not just a few. | |
| It's a rather significant number of Republicans who've been public saying, hey, if it's Trump, I'm voting Hillary. | |
| If it's Cruz, I'm voting Hillary. | |
| A conservative winning the presidency is a nightmare beyond belief. | |
| So, Mr. Previs, what are we supposed to think here? | |
| I'm not making up anything anybody believes. | |
| I'm not manufacturing what people are saying. | |
| I do what I do every day. | |
| I sit here, I read, I consume whatever it is to consume out there, and I react to it. | |
| And contrary to what people might think, I do not arrive at the golden EIB microphone with an agenda. | |
| Meaning I don't plan this program every night and say, okay, I'm just gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that tomorrow, I'm gonna do that Friday or that Thursday, all for the purposes of expand. | |
| Nope, deal with what happens as it happens and react to it accordingly. | |
| Here's how this story begins. | |
| It's by by Neil's Stanaj or stainage, I'm not sure how you pronounce it, S-T-A-N-A-G-E. | |
| The front runners for the Republican nomination, Trump and Cruz are casting aside the lessons of the GOT GOP autopsy that was intended to prevent Republicans from losing in 2016. | |
| The autopsy report issued by the RNC in March of 2013 after Romney's losing campaign, titled The Growth and Opportunity Project, was intended to help the GOP set itself up for victory after losing two presidential elections in a row. | |
| So this thing was set up in 2013. | |
| Here we are, 2016. | |
| We're coming up on three years old, is this battle plan. | |
| They have been operating on a three-year-old report on how to win that was done by a bunch of insiders who told them exactly what they wanted to hear, but not what was correct. | |
| In both cycles, GOP candidates lost badly to Obama among minority voters. | |
| The former Illinois Senator defeated Romney and McCain by big numbers with women as well, particularly under the age of 30. | |
| Now some Republicans fear their parties making the same mistakes. | |
| Same mistakes that were made nominating Romney and McCain. | |
| I guess. | |
| What what mistakes are we making? | |
| That's what we're trying to stop here. | |
| Is the same mistakes. | |
| We keep nominating people that don't have a chance. | |
| We have a three-year-old report talking about how to prevent that from happening, and they want to keep repeating the process that guarantees them defeat. | |
| But it makes them feel better about who they are. | |
| To win the White House, a political party has to make folks feel welcome and show that it cares about their daily life, said Haley Barber, one of the authors of the 2013 report. | |
| Attempting to appeal to only one segment of the population, that would be conservatives, is bad for governing and even worse for winning in general election. | |
| And that's what Trump and Cruz are largely doing. | |
| What? | |
| What what what? | |
| Trump is conservative now? | |
| Along with Cruz, these people, that's what they're saying. | |
| So here again, Trump Cruz winning, bad for the party. | |
| Do you ever? | |
| You know, the Pittsburgh Steelers are playing in Denver Broncos on Sunday. | |
| The divisional round of the NFL playoffs. | |
| Antonio Brown, their best playmaker, their best wide receiver, maybe the best one in the league, was ruled out today because he cannot pass the concussion protocol after the hit by Vontez Berfecht of the Bengals last Saturday night. | |
| So they don't have their best player. | |
| Their best quarterback may not be able to play anywhere near 100%. | |
| Should the Steelers say, you know what, we don't want to win. | |
| We don't have our best players on the field. | |
| We just soon lose. | |
| It'd be very, very bad to win. | |
| We don't have our best players here, and if we win with our best players, our fans are gonna get the wrong idea. | |
| And people are gonna think that management doesn't know what it's doing. | |
| If we can win with the backups, then why aren't the backups playing? | |
| Is this the way they think? | |
| You think the Steelers don't want to win because they don't have their best players going this weekend against the Broncos? | |
| It's a silly. | |
| But apparently we have uh ranking members of the RNC preparing this three-year-old report on how to avoid what happened to Romney happening. | |
| Say, We cannot win. | |
| If we have a conservative nominee who wins the White House, that's bad for the party. | |
| That's bad for our long-term plan to expand and grow the party. | |
| And who's telling them they have to expand and grow the party? | |
| Isn't it the Democrats and the media telling them what they have to do? | |
| Isn't it the Democrats say you can't win with your attitude on immigration? | |
| Democrats say you can't win the way you look at women. | |
| Democrats say you can't win with a lack of diversity. | |
| Meanwhile, you look at the RNC field, the GOP field, it's more diverse than a Democrats could hope to put up. | |
| Democrats are in the process of destroying this country. | |
| The people at the RNC don't seem to think there's anything out of the unusual about that, or the out-of-usual, nothing out of the norm about this. | |
| Yeah, just the latest Democrat to get elected, but we got to get them back. | |
| We got to get our guys in it. | |
| And voters think that we've in the midst of a major, major crisis with the country hanging in the balance. | |
| And the RNC people, GOP apparently don't think that. | |
| And so they think anybody who does think it's kook, a little weird, can't have those people determine who our winner is. | |
| The story goes on, Hayley Barber, and gets to this, quoting Ford O'Connor, who he is. | |
| Ford O'Connell's a young guy. | |
| I gotta take a break. | |
| I just saw the clock. | |
| Sit tight, folks. | |
| Uh we're just getting warmed up here. | |
| And we will continue after this. | |
| Don't go away. | |
| Okay. | |
| I'd never heard of Ford O'Connell, so we did a little research here, and here's what we came up with. | |
| He's a young guy, maybe a millennial. | |
| He founded something called Project Virginia, which is a political action committee supposed to help Virginia Republicans seeking public office to better utilize social media and voter mobilization technologies. | |
| He claims to have worked for several campaigns, McCain Palin in 08. | |
| In 2013, he published a book called Hail Mary, the 10-step playbook for Republican Recovery. | |
| That's what dovetail with the 2013 RNC report on how to avoid repeating the mistakes of McCain and Romney. | |
| This guy's book, Hail Mary, 10-step playbook for Republican recovery. | |
| He's been talking about this stuff even before Trump arrived on the scene. | |
| Here are some of his 10 steps. | |
| Hug the gays, embrace them and make them part of the Republican political base. | |
| Reform the GOP primary process to make it a little more like the Lincoln Douglas debates and less like a death match version of survivor. | |
| Reach out to non-traditional and leftist media and end the Reagan fetish. | |
| Come to terms with the fact that Reagan and the Reagan coalition are dead and not coming back. | |
| That's who the politico has written about today, who's very worried that if a conservative is nominated and win the presidency, then it delays implementing all of these things that he thinks the Republican Party has to do if it's to be viable down the road in the future. | |
| So the era of Reagan is over, end that fetish. | |
| Come to terms with that. | |
| Realize it's not coming back and move on and hug the gays, embrace them, make them part of political base, hug the media. | |
| Same thing. | |
| Left wing media, non-traditional left wing. | |
| Let me grab a call first hour. | |
| Always try to open line Friday. | |
| John and Ithaca, welcome, sir. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| Good to talk to you again, Rosh. | |
| Mega Diddos. | |
| Thank you. | |
| From the land of the left. | |
| Rush, you're not responsible for Trump. | |
| Trump is responsible for Trump. | |
| Nobody, nobody's gonna set him up. | |
| And I think you're responsible and should take control that you brought the House and the Senate back to the Republicans. | |
| That's what they ought to give you credit for. | |
| Oh, now you're you're issuing fighting words to them out there, John. | |
| Well, maybe it's time we we got a little the pot stirred a little bit more. | |
| But to accuse you of setting up Trump. | |
| It's a laugh. | |
| Well, he's his own man. | |
| I appreciate that, and it's a very mature view that you're espousing. | |
| To be specific, what I am being accused of, and uh talk radio too, is that when Trump came along, we should have spotted immediately. | |
| He's a fraud, he's not a conservative, and we should have immediately taken him out. | |
| While they sit around at their magazines and their blog sites, we're supposed to take Trump out. | |
| And then when we don't, we're the phonies. | |
| And we are backstabbing our own whatever. | |
| You know, at 27 years, and there are still supposed students of this game ethic of no idea what happens on this program or any other. |
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