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Feb. 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 19, 2016, Friday, Hour #2
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Well, it kind of blows the hell out of my theory.
And I thought it was a great theory.
I thought it was an example of my forward thinking.
I thought it was an example of my ability to see through the haze.
But Trump is backing away from his charge that George W. Bush lied on Iraq.
So it must not have been a move to attract Democrat voters in the open primary of South Carolina.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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Donald Trump, in fact, there's two things.
Donald Trump, that's a Wall Street Journal story.
The headline, Donald Trump backs away from charge that George W. Bush lied.
And then there is a story that the Trump is backing away on his criticism of the Pope.
And the Pope is backing away from his criticism of Trump.
So here are a couple of people that the Pope, especially, this guy goes out and says things, and it almost without fear, when when he when he strays outside being the Pope, when he when he ventures away from an outside the vicar of Christ and gets involved in, say, in this case, American politics presidential race, invariably, somebody at the Vatican has to walk it back.
No, no, no, no, they say.
That's not what Il Papa meant.
And then they clarify.
And this is a what how many times now has has this had to happen that uh the Pope said something?
Actually, the Pope, the Pope can be defended on this accurately.
Bill Donahue, we have some soundbites coming up.
Bill Donahue, the Catholic League, who is a great guy.
Well, I've interviewed Bill Donahue for the for the Limbaugh Letter.
And I've watched him on TV.
This guy's a bulldog.
This guy is fabulous at what he does.
He's he's one of the best people at what he does, if anybody doing what they do.
He defends Catholicism.
He defends attacks on the church.
Uh just famously well.
I would think this guy would be every Pope's best buddy.
Um just my guess and assessment.
And we'll have those two sound bites coming up, because apparently what happened was the Pope was asked a rather not complicated but detailed question, and the Pope gave a detailed answer from which one sentence was called.
Well, if you build walls, you're not a Christian.
And it turns out you can make the case that the Pope was not even talking about Trump at that point.
But the media saw a golden opportunity here to stir the pot and did.
So anyway, Trump's walking it back, and he's walking back also the uh charge that that Bush lied.
Now, remember when that happened in the Saturday night debate.
A lot of people were shocked watching this.
I immediately evolved a theory to explain it.
Here you have the Republican frontrunner, and let's review.
The Republican frontrunner defended Planned Parenthood.
Great organization do great things for women's health.
It's almost a cliche.
It's what left-wing planned parenthood defenders say.
They're an abortion mill.
They are an abortion factory.
The lion's share of their so-called funding, their income, comes from performing abortions.
They don't do mammograms, for example.
The idea that planned parenthood's involved in women's health is is largely a PR smoke screen to cover up the fact that they're an abortion factory.
Well, Mr. Trump came out and said, Is it Planned Parenthood?
They did great things.
And didn't want to defund them because they did great things for women's health.
Republican front earner.
I sat up when I heard us, so whoa.
Not even Romney said that.
McCain hadn't even said that.
I said, what's this?
And then as the debate went on, Mr. Trump accused Bush of lying about Iraq.
They knew there weren't any WMD in there.
And they still went to war anyway.
They knew, Trump said they knew.
And then Trump said that he opposed the war in Iraq.
And that Bush was lying about that and lying about 9-11, that Bush didn't keep us safe, that the Twin Towers fell when Bush was in the White House.
And he did that while assaulting Jeb, going after Jeb.
But nevertheless, I said, what is this?
This is uh first time I've heard any of this.
And then it hit me.
Well, it's an open primary.
And in South Carolina, Democrats and independents can cross over and vote.
And I theorized that what Trump was trying to do here is get some of those, because we'd had reports that Cruz was gaining ground.
Internal polling day of the Bush campaign, true cruise only two points behind.
Figured that if that internal polling existed, the Bush campaign, the Trump people knew it too.
So it was one of two things.
Either Donald wanted to go get these other additional voters for one of two reasons.
Either to stave off whatever was happening with the cruise or to just amass more and more votes to just hammer that final nail in the coffin and just be done with this and just win with a slam dunk.
And then commentators on TV took me to task.
No rush.
Trump's not that diabolical.
He speaks from the heart.
And I said, nothing diabolical about it.
This is political strategy.
All I'm saying is that Trump is not surrounded by idiots.
He's got some political pros in his organization, and it could well be they've strategized to do this.
Because it's not often that you hear the Republican frontrunner anywhere defend Planned Parenthood and destroy a revered former Republican president revered in South Carolina when 83% just don't hear that.
They had to be a reason for it.
And then Trump yesterday, or maybe two nights ago now, when he's on MSNBC during that town hall, admitted that he was going to get crossover votes.
He was going to get Democrats in it.
I said, aha!
See, my theory was right on the money.
Exactly.
That's what they were doing.
That's why Trump said that.
Then there were a couple of uh additional things, such as Trump saying that he's going to rewrite the electrical map, electoral map, because so many people, so many crossovers in other states are going to end up supporting him, that Wisconsin's going to be play, Pennsylvania's going to be in play, Michigan's going to be in play.
And then last night, Donald Trump, let his reads here from the Wall Street Journal.
Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to try to walk back his claims that the administration of former President George W. Bush lied about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to justify the war.
During a town hall-style event hosted by CNN, when the Republican frontrunner was asked about the comments he made during last weekend's GOP debate.
Mr. Trump said, I'm not talking about lying.
I'm not talking about not lying.
Nobody really knows why we went into Iraq.
Bottom line, there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
So whether he lied or not, Trump said of Bush.
He went into Iraq.
It was a horrible decision.
We shouldn't have done it.
And so the Wall Street Journal and others in the drive by media are now trying to say that Trump is walking it back.
Now, if that if Trump's walking it back, there goes my theory.
Why walk it back if you're trying to attract Democrat crossover votes tomorrow in the South Carolina primary?
Or maybe you think you've already done it and you've succeeded.
You got your message out.
You can make a make a show at play at walking it back here to maintain your Republican vote.
I still could be right about this is the bottom line.
Now they think they've caught Trump in another, I don't know why you call it flip-flop, because apparently Mr. Trump is saying, and you've probably heard it that he opposed the war in Iraq always forever.
And people in the media said that's great, but we can't find any quotes.
We can't find any evidence you're saying that.
And Trump said, well, that's okay.
I you you shouldn't.
I I wasn't in politics back then.
I'm in business.
I'm a businessman back then.
I wasn't being quoted for things I said as a businessman.
Of course you wouldn't, but I just want to tell you, I oppose the Iraq war.
But somebody found a tape of Trump on Howard Stern back in 2002.
Stern said to Trump, are you in favor of evade invading Iraq?
And Trump said, yeah, I guess so.
I wish the first time it was done correctly.
Which is an excellent point, by the way.
If you remember what happened in Gulf War I, that's the we won that war in like two and a half days.
That was the Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Sorry, the Arnold Schwar the Schwarzkopf victory.
You remember what happened with that?
We had the Iraqi army on the run.
They were in full retreat.
The uh Republican Guard, the elite troops, they were on the way back to Baghdad, and Schwarzenegger wanted to wipe them out, just wanted to end it, go all the way back to Baghdad, get Saddam and be done with Iraq.
And Colin Powell said no.
No, no, no, Mr. President, Mr. Bush.
Don't do it.
You will look like you are using excessive force, unnecessary force.
The war is over, the war is won.
And besides, said General Powell, was he General Powell then or Secretary Powell?
Secretary Powell.
Nope, he was General Powell then.
General Powell said, look, the UN mandate authorizing the use of force does not include getting Saddam.
It just says get Iraq out of Kuwait and recapture the oil wells for Kuwait that Saddam took and eventually set on fire.
And that happened to be true.
The United Nations resolution that George H. W. Bush put together did not include regime change in Iraq, did not include taking Saddam out.
But Schwartzkopf said, a la patent, what the hell are we stopping for?
Let's just keep going.
A root the guy out and be done with this forever.
And Colin Powell said, nope, nope.
He said the optics won't look good.
And there weren't it.
The optics were the Iraqi army was on the run.
They were surrendering every day on TV, waving white flags.
They were shoeless, they were shirtless.
And they were on the road back to Baghdad, and Colin Powell said, You can't, you can't continue this.
You've got to just end it and let them get back home and that's it.
Well, we did.
And Sardan Sabam survived to once again start threatening and bellowing about weapons of mass destruction.
It gave us reason to go back in.
Ancient history, but nevertheless, Trump is right when he says, I wish the first time it was done correctly.
What he means by that is we just kept going taking Saddam out.
But the point is in 2002, he did say he was for invading Iraq.
So there's this, I don't know if you know flip-flop, but people have found evidence contrary to what he has been saying.
Okay, well, take a brief time out.
I'm gonna come back and grab a couple of phone calls, then we'll get into this uh business with Trump and the Pope.
I want you to hear what Bill Donahue says about this because that'll straighten it up for you right after this.
Don't go away.
Salon.com, Salon magazine, left wing extraordinaire headline.
Hillary Clinton just cannot win.
Democrats need to accept that only Bernie Sanders can defeat the GOP.
Ceylon is is, well, I don't know, demanding, advocating, editorializing that Hillary get out of the race.
They are suggesting that she surrender.
She can't win.
She can't beat Trump or Cruz or whoever.
Only Bernie Sanders can.
Salon.com.
Wacko leftist extreme radicals to you and me.
Mainstream Democrat thought to them.
I'm going to have to make a note, because I'm not going to have time to develop this today, but folks, it is a you know, we sit here, we laugh at Bernie Sanders and that whole campaign over there.
We laugh crazy Bernie, this old dodging daughtering man running around.
You realize a frightening, frighteningly large percentage of Americans think Bernie Sanders is a rock star.
And it's because of what he's saying.
It's not personality.
It's not, it may be cultish, but it's because Bernie Sanders is promoting socialism.
It's right there what we're up against.
And the one thing the Republican presidential primary does not hit on is that, and I think they should.
That's what we're ultimately up against.
Now understand the immediate task at hand for Republicans is to win the nomination, to win the primary fight.
But I think part and parcel of doing that is letting everybody know you know who the real opponents are, the real enemy is, and what we're going to do about it, because this is a significantly large number of Americans that can't wait to elect this guy.
They're not a tiny minority of 20%, folks.
And they are rabid.
In the meantime, Mike and Raleigh, North Carolina, open line Friday, you're next.
And it's great to have a lot of people.
I know how to beat Trump.
Got to use his own tactics.
You know, Ted Cruz's main um selling point is his integrity.
So what's cre what's Trump do?
Calls him a liar, liar, liar.
Well, what Cruz should say is, how can we trust you to make America win again when you're such a loser?
Go on.
Sue me, you loser.
There's countless ways to characterize Trump as a loser.
Just you just talked about it.
His backtracking on calling Bush a liar.
There's so many ways.
He lost to the little old lady in Atlantic City.
He's been bankrupt.
He's been divorced.
He's flip-flopped.
When you were for abortion, now you're not for abortion.
Were you a loser then or are you a loser now?
Countless ways to go after him.
And that would piss him off.
And, you know, that's I think the way to do it.
Uh what's the task at hand?
The task at hand is to what?
Take some of Trump's support.
I mean, no, that's not a good thing.
No, no, wait.
No, how about you gonna are you gonna you you you think you're gonna take Trump voters and convince them not to support him by calling him a loser?
He's a loser every which way you look at it.
I mean he can't.
No, no, whether it's not listen, you've got Trump supporters, you know who they are.
They're they're committed to the guy.
Do you think by Ted Cruz running around calling him a loser that he can convince Trump supporters to abandon?
I think it needs somehow, some way, reasonable doubt has to be put into people's minds because him just saying I'm gonna make America win again is he's it's it's working.
So somehow there has to be reasonable doubt cast upon that.
No, but no, I'm I'm I'm let I'm I'm asking specific, the word loser.
Nobody's gonna associate that word with Trump.
Nobody.
You're not gonna peel off one Trump supporter by having Cruz run around calling him a loser.
If your objective is to tick Trump off, you could do that, maybe, but you're not the objective, if your Cruz or Rubio, you need Trump supporters to abandon him.
And you're not gonna do it by calling him a loser.
The reason, one of the many that Trump supporters are locked in is because to them he's a winner and is gonna transfer that winning to the country, and he's gonna transfer it to them.
They're gonna become winners.
Trump to them represents an era of America that is almost over because it's been under assault and under attack.
I would call it the era of the standard majority.
It's it's under assault, it's under attack, and people who have not been in that majority are mad and they want to get rid of it and replace it.
Trump represents the people who are very much aware of that, and he's the bullwark.
He's not going to let the era of the majority actually be taken away.
Calling him a loser.
I'm just trying to help you out here.
I know that you love crews and you want crews to win, and you've got you think that there's ammo out there, and there may be, but it does not include calling Trump a loser.
In fact, not only are you not going to take votes away for you, may solidify the support that he's got from people already, if you use that term.
I'm telling you, Solon.com, not insignificant, folks.
They may not be the Huffing and Puffington Post, although they may be.
You know, I really don't know.
Be honest, your average, ordinary left-wing radical, who they think is their most credible website out there, who they rely on, who the hoot who to them is gospel.
And a lot of them think Salon is.
Some think the Huffing and Puffington Post, others think it's the nation.
But I'm telling you, with something like Salon comes along and thinks Hillary should surrender because she can't beat the Republicans.
That only Bernie Sanders can, and that they love Bernie and they don't like Hillary, they want her gone.
This is not insignificant.
And again, to me, it is a very sobering reality to see how many Americans think that what Bernie Sanders is talking about is heaven.
A 90% tax rate, free everything, and that's what he's promising.
He's everything's going to be free, and he's going to punish everybody who has succeeded at anything to pay for it.
He's going to punish every achiever.
He's going to punish people trying to achieve.
He wants to tax Wall Street speculation.
That's anybody buys or sells a stock.
He wants to tax every level.
He wants to tax the attempt to succeed.
Even in his world, the attempt to succeed makes you a suspect.
And you have to be taxed.
Free college, free food.
What good is free college?
What is the theory is that everybody needs an education, free education to make it fair, so that you can go out there and get a job and do well.
But what if you're also trying to wipe out competition?
Why should anybody have to have an education to succeed?
Why won't you just mandate success and define it as X number of dollars a year and give that away?
What is this going to the more why do people need an education?
What are they going to use it for?
They're going to use it to try to improve themselves, but that's competition.
You can't have that, because then you're going to have some losers.
See, the Libs get going to get hung up every step of the way, even in their utopia, because you're going to have losers, and that's what they can't abide.
They can't abide that they're losers.
Any system that makes people losers is unjust and immoral, and we got to get rid of it.
Except they're not going to get rid of themselves.
So what are they going to do here?
What's the point of an education?
Particularly when the number of jobs available are dwindling or is dwindling because the government's taking over more and more of them.
What's the point of an education if it's not for propaganda and brainwashing, which I think is really what they mean by education?
And I mean that out of my heart.
I don't think when Bernie Sanders talks education, he's talking about preparing people to do well in life because – He can't mean that because that means they then got to go out and compete.
And competition, that's that's one of the biggest sins in all of progressivism.
Even You want to compete, you're bad.
That means you want to win.
Not cool.
You want to win, you want losers, and then you'll taunt them.
That's really bad.
No.
No losers, and by definition, no winners because everybody wins.
So, Bernie, don't give away college.
Just establish what you think is a fair annual amount of money to live on.
Don't call it an income because nobody is earning it in your world.
Just establish what if it takes a hundred grand and and give it to everybody.
And I guarantee you, he's gonna have people vote for him on that basis, folks.
That's what's happening now.
That's what they think.
Hell, that's what they thought Obamacare was gonna be.
A large number of them.
It's a scary scary thought.
Back to the phones, Dave, Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.
You are next on Open Line Friday.
Ditto's rush.
Uh I'm I'm an I'm a diehard Trump supporter.
And uh I'm the problem that I have with Rubio and Cruz, Rubio, I think he's really an establishment person.
I think with the immigration, I think that's probably one of the biggest concerns that we have.
I think our country is on that point of no return, and I really think that uh if Rubio's in there, I think that he's just gonna go along with the system.
He's just gonna follow what they want to do and do everything, you know, like the Republicans pass the budget, let's get the gang of eight, let's do this.
I think with Cruz, the problem with Cruz is I I think that if he gets in, I think McConnell and I think Ryan will work with the Democrats to defeat everything he wants to do.
You think that because he is is he's taking them on face to face liked by him.
That he is he's so resented and disliked that they will purposely sabotage.
I I think I truly I truly believe that that's what they'll try to do.
And you know, Cruz, I think with him with some of the stuff that he's doing, I'm not really thrilled.
He was my second.
I would have uh you know, I was kind of let's let's stick with your first point here for just a second, and we'll get on the next.
Uh let's assume here that he is president.
Let's assume that he has won, which means he's got a majority of people who voted who put him there.
Correct.
And a guy like Cruz, if he wins, he's gonna have a mandate.
Would you agree?
I mean, he's not running as a marshmallow.
Well, I mean, what are the mandate?
I mean, what is he gonna win by?
Fifty-one percent.
Well, I don't I don't know, but take your number if it's fifty-one forty-nine, but let's w uh now.
The people you talk McConnell and Ryan and the Democrats, but the the Congress tries to sabotage him.
What's that gonna do to the people that support it, the the voters, the electorate?
Are they gonna sit there just take it?
Are they just gonna sit there and let McConnell these guys get away with it, or are they gonna fight back and help the guy they put in the White House?
Because it's whoever wins, if whoever wins this race Republican wise, is there to do one thing and that's stop the crap that's been going on the last seven, ten, fifteen years.
Would you agree?
I fully agree with that.
Okay, the people, therefore, if a Republican wins this thing, there's gonna be a mandate, and that is it.
And if there's any attempt by if they try to sabotage Trump, same thing.
What do you think?
You do you think they can get away with that is the point?
I I th I think that you know what they're doing, I mean, I the Republicans in a house and the Republicans in the Senate, they truthfully they're more concerned, I think, with the next election, getting the next contribution that they get from the donors.
I think they really don't care.
I think immigration is probably one of the biggest concerns that we have.
You know, you're you bring in mass people.
We're we're sending jobs to Mexico, and what we can do is when they're bringing the air conditioners back, they can have the illegals carry them across the border for him.
Right?
Because they're removing all the business to Mexico and we're bringing all the illegal.
I think that is probably one of our biggest concerns.
And McConnell and the Republicans, they're all for it.
I mean, they want more you know, they want more people to come in, they're looking for the low wage and okay.
Let me stop you right there.
And I'm I'm just I'm not playing devil's advocate.
You are genuinely inciting creating questions for me.
Trump talks about bringing these jobs back, right?
Correct.
You just said McConnell and the other guys, they like the jobs going to Mexico.
They like the immigrants coming in.
How is Trump going to succeed in bringing the jobs back if McConnell and the other potential saboteurs in Congress don't want to work with him on it?
I uh the same way that he's doing everything right now.
He's he's not afraid of anybody.
He's willing to stand up, he goes to the media, he states what his views are.
Sometimes they're a little flaky.
I mean, a George Bush lied.
I'm not really a big fan of that, but I uh but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to vote for him.
And I think just seeing him going out there the first time that Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi or whoever it may be, they come out and they start, you know, telling, you know, attacking him.
I can't wait for that time when he goes out on uh and he holds a press conference and he really puts him in their place.
I think that he is that strong that he could put some of these people in their place and get some kind of consensus.
Let me tell you how I think let me tell you how I think Donald Trump would do it.
And I'm gonna create a hypothetical because I have to do that in order to make the point.
And let's let's say that Trump specifically is gonna let's make it building the wall and and stopping immigration.
Forget about deportation.
We're just gonna stop it.
We're gonna build that wall and we're gonna close the border.
And we got the Republicans and the Wall Street Journal and the Chamber of Commerce who don't want that to happen, and they're gonna try to sabotage Trump left and right.
What I think Trump will do is go make deals with Pelosi and Reed.
I think you go make deals with Democrats, and he's if the if the Republicans are gonna try to sabotage him, he's just gonna try to ace them out by making deals with the Democrats and making them ineffective, inconsequential, humiliate them, embarrass them, or what have you.
I I see I don't agree.
I I I mean, I know he's not Reagan.
He he he's just he doesn't have the same personality, and I love Reagan.
I mean, 60 years old, Ronald Reagan was is like my hero.
I heard him on TV, I didn't care.
I was a hippie, didn't really care about anything, and I listened to this guy, and he just sparked something in me, and he made me proud to be an American.
At that time, nobody was really proud.
I see the same thing in in Trump.
I know that he's a little crude, but I see the same thing.
I think that he's gonna be able to do what Reagan did, and he's gonna be able to get on the TV and get on the Twitter and whatever it is and say this is what we need.
He's a business guy.
Well, you know, I I have to tell you that you're you're right about Reagan.
One of the one of the uh really simple reasons that Reagan was able to build his bond of connection with so many people.
Two landslide victories the press could not, and they tried.
They couldn't destroy Reagan.
He made people feel great to be Americans.
He made them feel proud of their country again.
I I I remember even in those days hearing people say that.
It was no more complicated than that.
And that's uh that's what Dave thinks that Trump is uh is doing.
I gotta take a break here, folks, is the fastest three hours in media just steamroller on back.
We stay with the phones.
Bill Donna here soundbites explaining the Pope and the Trump and that episode coming up at the top of the next hour.
This is Julie in Topeka.
It's great to have you.
Hi.
Julie.
Hello.
Hey.
Yeah, hi.
Hi.
Um, I just have a question.
At what point would you see I know Ben Carson wants it, I know Bush wants it, I know Kasich wants it.
But by having so many people in there, it allows Trump to carry that banner of I'm winning.
Is there some point that those others, the lower tier at this point, would say for the sake of the Republican Party and keeping saving the country from Trump that they would throw in for like a Rubio or a cruise just so he can't carry that banner of winning and and pull the whole um party down.
I want to thank you for asking the question because it's a it's a good question, and it reminds me of something else that I'm gonna include in the answer that you didn't specifically ask about, but it's related to it.
The reason is there's and actually there's there's more than one, but the primary reason why none of the lower tier guys are getting out is it's only two primaries so far, New Hampshire and Iowa.
And another reason is that I'm here to tell you from Rince Prebis on down, there is still this belief that Trump is not real, that he's either going to get defeated big time somewhere by somebody, or that he's gonna get out of the race.
They they still can't have not accepted the fact that Trump is in this for real and forever, all the way to win this.
They're hope So everybody is hanging in, hoping that they're right, that Trump eventually is either taken out of the number one slot, which would open it wide up before they get out, or that he eventually quits.
They all have donors which have given them money.
This is the third reason.
The donors want to see some investment for the money that they put in, particularly on the Jeb side of things.
Kasich thinks he's got a shot at winning this thing because of what happened to him in New Hampshire.
You can see it the way he's campaigning.
Rubio, because of uh same thing.
He's uh his endorsement with Nikki Haley.
He thinks he's still alive.
Um there's there's there's no way, I mean, you what you say is it'd be really cool, because the fact of the matter, here's her point.
The point is when you look at these numbers, a full 65% of Republican voters oppose Donald Trump.
But that 65% is split five ways.
Trump's there with his 30, 35, and here come the others.
So the question is why don't some of these lower tier people like Carson and all just quit and throw their supporters to true to Cruz or Rubio.
Well, none of them have small enough egos to want to be teen players yet.
But let me tell you here's here's the other thing, Julie, that I think every one of you, if you are Republican primary voter, or if you are simply a Republican interested in all this and you're gonna vote in November, I think you better be well aware, and I don't know this for a fact, but I will tell you what I really think.
I think the establishment and the RNC, whoever they are, are even now, as we speak, conceiving various options and strategies designed to thwart whoever wins the primaries.
If it's Trump, if it's Cruz, I think that the establishment and the people that run the party are as we speak hatching and hot uh hatching plans to take over the convention and deny whoever wins the most delegates by virtue of the primaries and throw it open to try to deny whoever wins this.
Trump Cruz Rubio, if it's Rubio, they would probably go with him.
But I believe, and this is just a intelligence guided by experience, these are not the kind of people that sit around and wait for things to happen and deal with a loss, as though, ho hum, okay, we gave it our best shot, we lost.
These are people in their minds, they run the party.
They run the convention.
This is their show.
This is their business, it's their party, and they're not gonna let this outsider Trump or Cruz get it.
Believe me, they've got some plan or a series of plans, options that they're gonna hatch, if at all possible, to throw this convention wide open if somebody they don't like wins these primaries.
We won't know until it happens.
We will not know if that actually happened.
You know, the theory is that the rules are such that a brokered convention is impossible.
And that's why we have the primary system.
The brokered convention, it was fun.
But once everybody banned smoking, there was no smoke-filled rooms, and the smoke-filled rooms were where all the fun was, and since there aren't any smoke-filled rooms, there's no brokered conventions.
But you watch.
They're just not gonna, if Trump won't quit, and if nobody's gonna beat him, and Ditto Cruz, they're just not gonna sit there and let this happen.
They're gonna try, however, whichever, whatever.
They're gonna have a last gasp if they don't get what they want after all these primaries take place.
And that'll happen at the convention.
Make book on it.
Okay, folks, it's the fastest three hours in media.
What other stuff out there?
Good stuff besides this, but we do have the latest in the uh Trump and the Pope.
Uh, call it controversy, if you will.
Oh, at what the ESPN president said.
Holy smokes!
I'm glad I found this, I reminded myself.
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