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Feb. 2, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Some email is.
You haven't talked about the Democrat side.
Yes, I have.
We've talked about it.
I'll repeat myself.
It's over for Mrs. Clinton.
She just doesn't know it yet.
And I don't know when that's going to manifest itself, but what a pathetic.
Now I know the Democrats are a bunch of socialists and radicals.
If you look at Iowa, you look at the breakdown of the Democrat identity in Iowa.
Folks, it's radical socialist.
The Democrat, there is no moderate centrist, whatever Democrat Party anymore.
They have all gone, they're left wing, so far left radicals.
Most people would not believe you.
Most people who are not Democrats wouldn't understand it, wouldn't accept it.
But they are far gone.
And Mrs. Clinton, uh she's just something's not right with all this, and this is independent of the emails, independent of all the outside things.
There's just something not right here.
And there's something not right with Bernie Sand.
All this is a is a uh uh.
I think the Democrats down deep are scared to death.
I in fact, I think the Democrats, if you want to know that, I think they're already planning on.
Let me put it this way.
They're already structuring a battle plan for if they lose and how to gum up the works for whoever the next president is for the next four years.
I think they're focusing on that as much as they are anticipating another victory and continuing the great Obama agenda.
Clearly that's happening too.
Uh this was this was pathetic last.
Both these people, if you ask me, just listening to them, and Mrs. Clinton, that whole crowd, she doesn't draw a crowd anymore.
She's got no base, she's screeching out there, she's she just.
You know what Hillary Clinton is?
It's classic illustration of somebody who thinks it's automatically hers because that's what she's been led to believe, and doesn't really know how to compete for it.
If you look at Hillary Clinton's past as a political manager for all other Clinton scandals, it's not glowing.
It's not.
And I realize she's got a built-in number of electoral votes because there's a giant D by her name.
I'm not diminishing that.
Don't misunderstand.
I just continuing my my posture here that she's nothing to fear, nothing to be afraid of, nothing great, nothing unstoppable.
Um I'm not making the mistake of taking her or Crazy Bernie lightly.
I'm uh I'm honestly assessing them.
Anyway, it's great to have you back.
Um what was I gonna got a couple of cruise sound bites I want to get into here?
Um another point that I want to emphasize, at least sound bites will help me transition to it.
This is Cruz in New Hampshire.
Uh talking about Ronald Reagan.
I think this is huge.
I think the outcome last night in Iowa and who won and how and what it all means is really important to note.
First of two sound bites from Ted Cruz uh already back in New Hampshire on the campaign trail for the primary there one week from today.
When was the last time we broke the Washington cartel?
1980.
Thirty-six years ago, and I'll tell you the granite state played a critical role in making that happen.
You know, back in 1980, all the media said this guy Reagan, he's a crazy right-wing kook.
He's too extreme, and by the way, he's really down in the polls.
That's what the media said over and over again.
Yeah, they did.
That was Reagan, for people experienced that Reagan was uh a two landslide victory president, and the the memories of Reagan were uh are of a dominant and adored respected president.
But in the campaign of 1976, the campaign of 1980, uh it was down and dirty, and the Republican establishment was anti-Reagan at every turn, and the media was, and Reagan was every bit as despised by the media as George W. Bush has been despised by the media, albeit for different reasons.
But the point is it wasn't a cakewalk.
Even though Reagan captivated a majority of the American people, he was loved and adored, supported, landslide wins.
It did not convert the media.
It did not change the way the media reported.
In fact, it angered them even more that they had been rebuffed by the voters.
It were brutal times, just like the period with uh with George W. Bush as well.
Here's more from Cruz.
But you know what?
Live free or die state, took a look at Reagan and said, that guy believes what he's saying.
He's not reading from talking points.
He doesn't have a consultant who said, okay, go pretend you're for this.
He's speaking from the heart.
He means what he says.
He tells the truth, and he's gonna do exactly what he says.
And the granite state shocked this country by giving Reagan the victory, and it literally, the men and women of New Hampshire changed the course of history of America and of the world.
And clearly Cruz is attempting to claim the mantle of Reagan in New Hampshire.
Now, here's the thing about if you look at what happened in Iowa.
There was new voter registration in Iowa.
There was a record Republican turnout in Iowa, and it was of the Republican base.
It was conservatives who made up the new turnout.
It was conservatives who created that record voter turnout and voter registration in in New Hampshire.
It's the Republican base that is growing.
Nobody is going to talk to you about that today.
Nobody is going to acknowledge that today.
They're going to diminish Cruz's win as at the hands of a bunch of crazy Christians.
And it's no surprise it's Iowa.
I mean, look at who Iowa selected a last time, San Torman.
Before him, Reverend Huckabee, or what have you.
So they're going to do their best to diminish what Cruz did, because it just, you know, it was it was the pro-lifers.
Uh, but that's Iowa, and now New Hampshire.
We're moving on into libertarian territory, they'll say.
And that's a one-off.
But it's not.
Again, three of the top four finishers genuinely be said to be descendants of Rinaldous Magnus.
Cruz, Rubio, and I'm going to throw Dr. Carson in there.
Dr. Carson exemplifies the conservatism, Reagan, and it's and it while the Republican Party is doing its best still to convince everybody to get rid of this Reagan fetish as the latest terminology, having replaced the era of Reagan is over.
But the Republican base is growing.
It is a conservative base.
It is growing because the establishment insider elites of the Republican Party are not doing their job.
That's why this growth is taking place.
And it you know, for for all of the sighs of relief that there no doubt were in the sanctity of the sectors of the establishment last night, there were as many gulps because Ted Cruz was the winner.
Now I have to say one thing, one more thing, one more time.
I do not like, and I've got I've got a Reuters story.
Yes.
Marco Rubio emerges as champion of battered Republican establishment.
Another Reuters story, headline, Republican Cruz calls Iowa win a victory for conservative grassroots.
I do not like speaking for myself, I don't like this idea that Marco Rubio is all of a sudden being labeled as an establishment candidate.
I know that Rubio's got the baggage of that gang of eight bill.
And I know that in many people's minds he's got the baggage of wanting to grant the current number of illegal citizenship.
I understand that.
But I'm here to Marco Rubio is no moderate Republican centrist.
I'm not, I mean, I can sit here like anybody else could and try to make explanations for you of why he did the gang eight.
Um I'm I'm not even going to try to put words into his mouth.
I don't want to be seen as making excuses.
I'm just telling you, I don't see Marco Rubio as anything other than a legitimate, full-throated conservative.
Nobody's pure, and nobody is ever free of making mistakes.
I have, I've I know Senator Ruby, it's like I was talking last week.
I've I've know these people, I know that Senator Rubio is the Senate.
In what in many ways he agrees with Cruz, but he's just he's worn out with the Senate.
The Senate uh I heard this from Alan West when he left the House.
I've heard this the incumbents, that's all they care about is getting re-elected.
You go there to really make a difference, and you run into brick wall after brick wall after brick wall.
And I don't think, you know, Rubio, I don't think he wants to stay there 30 years to break through the wall to get a committee chairmanship or whatever.
I just don't, I don't like this idea that we're all of a sudden going to make Rubio the establishment bad guy.
As though Rubio is no different than the McCain's and the Bob Dolls and the Romneys and the others that have come along and been nominated by the by the uh establishment.
He just isn't.
He has not been talked out of his conservatism.
He does not abandon it.
He had the best acceptance speech of anybody last night, or acceptance.
He had the best end of the evening speech of anybody.
And even the media was was dazzled by the fact that he did it without a teleprompter.
They continue to be dazzled by that.
Of course, Barack Hussain, oh, can't do anything without a uh a teleprompter.
I just I just don't want to.
We've we had three genuine Reaganites triumph last night.
And Rubio did better than a lot of people thought he was gonna do.
And to me, that is very important.
It is crucially important for conservatism, for Reaganism, for the future of the Republican Party.
And I don't, I just I'm not comfortable here sitting watching somebody end up maybe being destroyed because of a characterization of being establishment.
Yeah, the establishment may embrace him because they hate Cruz, and they're not going to embrace Trump, and their real preferences can't get any traction.
That would be Jeb and Kasich and Christie.
So they've got to go with somebody.
But I I'm never gonna be one that sees Marco Rubio as the establishment as we talk about it every day here on this program.
I do we've got a whole bunch of sound bites I have not gotten to yet, by the way, and I want to get to those because there are some of them are just great, great fodder to bounce off of.
React to.
Plus uh plus your phone calls.
Oh, yeah, I will gladly explain that.
Yeah, I just got a question about Trump.
I'll be happy to explain this.
I want to go back to this tweet that uh that Trump put out there.
Here it is.
Here's this tweet.
Uh I don't believe I've been given any credit but of voters for self-funding my campaign.
The only one I'll keep doing, but not worth it.
I don't think he's saying funding his campaign isn't worth it.
I don't think he's saying that his campaign isn't worth it.
I don't think he's saying that.
Don't misunderstand.
I think that his point is all this talk about all the money in politics, and there's too much of it and too much lobbyists.
So he goes out and self-funds.
And nobody says anything about it.
Nobody praises him for setting a new tone, a new direction in politics.
So what he's saying is essentially that self-funding his campaign has not gotten the accolades he thought that it would get.
But he's going to stay in the campaign.
Don't misunderstand.
He's not saying that that's not worth it.
I get this totally.
And I'll tell you something else.
I'm going to go back to what we talked about earlier.
In the real clear politics rolling average, Trump has a 22.
In some other places I've been corrected.
I've been told it's 28-point lead.
And I'm telling you that the drive-by's are hoping that it goes away.
Republican established it hoping that it's as meaningless as his four-point lead was in Iowa.
And and what they can't wait for New Hampshire to come along and for Trump to lose that too and then be able.
Now here's the thing, that isn't going to happen.
What happens when Trump wins New Hampshire if he does?
We're going to be back one week from today, well, tomorrow, we're going to be right where we are today.
We're going to have a week of a bunch of speculation, a bunch of predictions, a bunch of mindless twaddle about what Iowa means as relates to New Hampshire.
A bunch of people are going to claim new Iowa told him exactly how New Hampshire's going to turn out, even nobody knows.
And every week is going to be like this.
Because the media cannot escape the horse race aspect of this.
And if you think if they think that well, I let's put it this way.
Think forward.
Hypothetical Trump wins New Hampshire, as the polls say.
What's the media going to do then?
Is it over for Cruz?
Cruz was a one state wonder.
Can you imagine where this is going to go?
So you've got to keep a level head about this stuff, folks.
You really, really do.
And try it's hard not to.
It's hard not to get caught up, because if you watch any media for any length of time, you're going to get caught up in narratives and the templates and whatever else that they're spreading, which they do just to keep the hype up, crisis mentality, whatever to hang on to viewers.
But I've often said if you just have confidence in what you think about things.
You know as much as anybody else does in terms of what's reported.
And if you you always you'll have gut reactions to everything.
I'm just telling you to trust them.
Trust your instinct, trust your gut reaction instead of getting all caught up in what ends up being, no matter where you go, the same analysis, the same predictions, the same explanations.
It varies very little.
Yeah, and I know I need to explain myself on Hillary a little bit more, but I'm not gonna be able to get all that done yet today.
I still too much left here to go.
We have a brief timeout coming up here with much more broadcast excellence on the uh other side.
So hang in there and be tough.
Try to squeeze as many calls in as I can.
I've still got to get some sound bites, too, because they're delectable.
Here's Carl in Columbus, Ohio.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us on the program today.
Hello.
Hey, you know, it's over for the Democrats.
You can tell by the way they shout.
It's real obvious.
And Bill Clinton stares with that vacant old man stare behind Hillary.
And to me, the Republicans, this is a great opportunity for the Republicans.
And as a voter, you know, personally, uh I like our governor from our great state of Ohio.
John Casich.
You know, the American people hopefully are gonna make a personal choice opposed to what any media says, wouldn't you agree?
Uh what was that?
American people will make a personal choice opposed to win.
Oh, of course.
Now the media here's the thing.
The media is always going to try to choose our candidate for us.
The media is always gonna try to get us to choose a moderate, but it's guaranteed to lose.
Here's here's the thing.
Here's the thing, Earl.
The media, everybody knows the Republican Party's base is the majority of the party, and that it's conservative.
Therefore, everybody opposed to the Republican Party knows the way to beat them is to nominate some moderate centrist rhino type.
And that's what the media is going to try to engineer.
The Republican establishment's going to try to engineer.
The Republican establishment is really curious.
I would I would have to think if they've got any ability to remember history, recent history, they have to know the candidates they want lose.
They have to know that.
They keep beating their head against the wall.
They keep nominating, wanting to nominate the same kind of people from the same geographic area of the country that are going to lose.
It's almost like they prefer that to having somebody in their conservative wing win.
But Bill Clinton standing behind Hillary last night.
I saw that too.
I mean, I I I saw it all.
I saw Prep H. I saw Gerital.
I saw Fix itant.
I saw DePens.
I saw it all.
I saw dripping saliva.
I saw it all, folks.
I it it was it was it was astounding.
You didn't see it.
Well um it was striking.
It was stri and in front of him, Hillary's running around screeching, you know, like uh bunch of seagulls that have been starved out near Alcatraz for a while.
Stephanie in Cleveland, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, hello, Rosh.
We we've been laughing together, you and I, for years, you know.
Well, thank you.
I'm glad to hear that.
Yes, we have, and and you you always make my day because uh you're you're the funniest person I know.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Well, good.
Naturally funny person.
Yes, you are.
You're naturally funny with the depends thing you just did.
I I I you know you had me laughing on the other end.
I did I saw it all standing there looking at I did.
Yes.
Well, Rush, I know that earlier.
Can I talk to you about a couple things?
Well, one, actually.
Oh, sure, by all means, have at it until we remember.
I know I know that um it was touched on a little bit by one of your former callers.
But you know what really bothered me, and is bothering a lot of people.
As a matter of fact, my my daughter came in for lunch and said, Oh, well, I liked Cruz, but I I can't vote for him.
And the reason is is I think a lot of people are are very incensed about what he did to uh Dr. Carson last evening.
This is big, Rush.
You're talking about this dirty trick where somebody in the Cruz campaign announced that Carson had pulled out of the race like at 7.30 last night.
And it and it's CNN and media, somebody announced it.
They actually took on the air, Ben Carson's dropped out of the race.
And and this affected people at that uh were caucusing and who they were choosing.
Now, of course I'm aware of it.
I just gotta, I've been trying to track it down.
I haven't mentioned it because I don't really know yet if if Cruz did it.
I've I've got some people, admittedly Cruz supporters, telling me that there's more to this than meets the eye.
I don't know what it is yet.
Well, I I think that it it really should be cleared up, and I think Dr. Carson addressed that this morning on Fox and Friends.
And he he spoke about it and said he would he would really like to get to the bottom of it because he feels that you know it did disrupt his voting, and he could have had higher numbers.
Well, he you know, Dr. Carson is 10%.
I I thought that number stunned me.
In fact, I have to tell you something.
I probably shouldn't admit this.
In the early going before it was known what was gonna happen when it was nip and tuck there, and Cruz was, you know, up by a hundred votes, then two hundred and three hundred, and Carson sitting there, whatever his number is ten percent.
I thought this means Trump's gonna win this.
Because I thought that would that meant that Carson was taking votes that Cruz would need to win.
Turned out to be not true.
It means the Republican base is even broader and bigger in Iowa than we knew.
Well, and at the same time, I think this is what worries and bothers people about Cruz.
On one, on one hand, he's saying to God be the glory.
Yeah.
As he's throwing Dr. Carson under the bus.
Now, that that that is not uh the way we want a conservative or any uh candidate for president, you know, to act.
They would have expected that, I believe, probably out of the case.
Yeah, I think I think what happened was Dr. Carson said that he was going to go to Florida right after Iowa to get a change of clothes.
And somebody said, it's being alleged it was in the Cruz campaign.
Somebody said, Well, that means that's proof that he's dropping out of the race.
If he's gonna go home after this, what can you think about?
That's where it all got started.
And network ran with that.
So no, it's a it's it's serious, serious.
Serious problem.
It's uh it's uh you'd call it a dirty trick, right?
Rush, I would.
I I think it goes against what you know, he's uh te uh uh what his evangelical um talk is out there, and I think that's something that really doesn't fit with that.
Well, that is You know, is he is he brother Jimmy Swagger?
I know if you're gonna go that route, you you are going to uh you you're hemming yourself in on behavioral requirements.
Jimmy swaggered, I wouldn't go that far.
I wouldn't go that far.
Come on now, we got some.
I remember when Jimmy Swaggert came clean.
I, you know, I'm sorry.
I remember the I I watched it, I watched him come clean and the tears were streaming down both eyes, and he had the microphone in his hand, or maybe it's the podium, I don't know.
And he was crying, I mean really just river of tears.
And face was contorted in great pain.
And he was looking heavenward.
And had his thousand, two thousand, what if five thousand people in his audience there in his in his church?
I have seen before you.
I have seen before you I'm watching this.
I don't think that's what we had going on in Iowa last night.
Um, safe to say.
But I appreciate Stephanie the call.
Really, I do appreciate all the kind things you said.
I uh I never do take it that for granted.
I really do appreciate it.
I'm just up against it on time.
I have to.
Cruz, I've just been informed by the official program observer that uh uh Cruz has apologized to Carson for the incident.
Is there an acceptance of blame in this?
Is that he's ex I see.
So Senator Cruz is explaining in his apology to uh Dr. Carson it was a misunderstanding.
Okay.
We'll get to the bottom of this.
And in terms of what's known and be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay.
Here we go.
Dr. Carson grab sound by number 18.
Dr. Carson was on Fox and Friends this morning.
Steve Deucey said, You're accusing Senator Cruz of dirty tricks last night.
What are we talking about?
That uh many of the precinct's uh information was disseminated that uh I was suspending my campaign that I had dropped out, and uh anybody who is planning to vote for me was wasting their vote, and therefore they should reconsider.
Some of those speakers said that, but we we also have uh tweets and written correspondence to the same.
If Ted Cruz doesn't know about this, then he clearly needs to very quickly get rid of some people and his organization.
And if he does know about it, isn't this the exact kind of thing that the American people are tired of?
Okay, so the Cruz campaign has responded, said in a statement today that his campaign staff saw a CNN report that Carson was dropping out, although CNN claims that they did not characterize Carson's actions that way.
Now, Cruz's statement shared with CNN says last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Our campaign updated grassroots leaders, just as we would with any breaking news story.
That's fair game.
What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out.
CNN had reported that Carson planned to go home to Florida after the Iowa caucuses rather than flying straight to New Hampshire or South Carolina.
Carson joking, I need to go get some new clothes.
And he's he lives not far from here just across the bridge or near West Pompey, so he's gonna go get some clothes and then head back up to New Hampshire.
And that was then taken advantage of to, hey, Carson's leaving.
Carson's leaving the race.
Twenty minutes after the caucuses began in Iowa, Representative Steve King, courting to CNN, who is the Cruz campaign national co-chair, retweeted CNN's Chris Moody about Carson's break from the campaign trail before the New Hampshire primary.
King's tweet said Carson looks like he's out.
Iowans need to know before they vote.
Most will go to Cruz, I hope.
In another tweet, the Congressman said that Carson's next steps were equivalent of suspending.
So that's that's uh Cruz is saying it's a misunderstanding.
CNN saying no, it's not.
CNN saying that they clearly took advantage of a logistic deviation or plan that Carson had uh tended to go to Florida.
Hey, he's leaving voters here need to uh need to know that he's uh he's leaving.
Um this helps to illustrate the uh when I saw the tight race, when I saw Cruz and Trump were Nick and Tuck, nip and Tuck, I mean, really early in the night, I said Ben Carson said it were 10%.
I said those are normally votes that Cruz would get.
And the Cruz campaign obviously thought so too.
So anyway, they're working on uh straightening this out.
But it it looks like some people are gonna have a tough time getting past the dirty tricks angle of this.
Some people want to go to see it as dirty tricks, no matter what explanation they're gonna get, it's gonna be dirty tricks.
And then Carson saying, isn't this the kind of stuff that we're running against here?
All of us.
Uh so.
You know, it's not Valentine's Day without roses.
Maybe there ought to be some exchanges of roses here.
Hey, look.
As a way out of this, Senator Cruz could simply offer Dr. Carson a delegate or two.
It's part of his apology.
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