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March 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's anchorman is away.
And this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Donald Trump gave me an H-1B visa on Thursday night and then took it back and tased me into submission two hours later.
We are live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
Mr. Snerdley is running the show direct from New York City.
It's a beautiful, beautiful, snowy March day here in the North Country.
Yeah, the snow is coming down fast.
It's covering, it's like two-thirds of the way up all the Jeb 2016 signs still left in the snow banks after last month.
It's very touching, very touching, looking at the snow creeping up over the last couple of exposed inches of Jeb Bush signery.
Rush is out today, fulfilling an annual charity commitment.
He's extremely generous like that and a man of honor.
Even on a political weekend with lots of developments he's busting to talk about with you.
But he was on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
And I hope you saw that because he had lots of interesting things to say.
We'll talk about some of those things a little later.
He will be back himself for authentic full-strength all-American excellence in broadcasting tomorrow.
In the meantime, a sinister foreigner's perspective on those weekend developments.
And much more importantly, your take on what's happening.
1-800-282-2882 is the number to call for Cruise fans, Trump fans, Rubio fans, and Kasich fans.
None of those people are speaking to each other, so we may have to do it like C-SPAN and break it down into liberal and conservative lines.
But for the moment, you can all use the same phone number, 1-800-282-2882.
In the midst of all these ructions about where the GOP is headed, we were reminded yesterday of the last man to change the party's direction, Ronald Reagan.
Nancy Reagan died yesterday at the grand age of 94.
She was a gracious and elegant First Lady and her husband's rock for over half a century.
She adored him and he adored her.
And when they were out together, they held hands like teenagers.
And when they weren't together, when affairs of state kept them apart for a day or two, he felt her absence keenly.
You know, when you talk to Reagan insiders, almost all of them agree that the president was something of a loner.
He wasn't a big buddy-buddy guy, and the showbiz pals, all the Bob Hopes and Frank Sinatra's, were more her set.
He was a man who was at ease by himself, he was comfortable by himself, and really the one person, the only person he ever needed was Nancy.
And they didn't enjoy the retirement they expected to have.
And the long twilight fade of his final decade must have been tough on her.
She said, you look forward to walking down memory lane and then find you have to do it alone.
And so she did with grace and dignity.
A long life, well lived, and she is in a better place with the man she loved.
I don't know how much attention she'd been paying to this election cycle, but if she did, she must surely have been struck by the way today's Republican Party has entirely modified Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shalt do nothing but speak ill of other Republicans.
Cruz supporters loathe Trump and Rubio supporters loathe Cruz and Trump supporters loathe Romney and they all listen to this show.
And perhaps most remarkably, I've just been in Australia for a few weeks and I landed back and been trying to bring myself up to speed.
Most remarkably, which is something I can't really recall precedence for, the establishment, the GOP establishment, loathes the voters to the point where, on all the talk shows now, they're full of strategies that will essentially render six months and millions and millions of votes entirely meaningless.
So we're going to try and break it down objectively over the next three hours here without all this, you're dead to me and you'll never work in this town again, all this hyper-queenery that's making the conservative movement sound like bitchy waiters in Coconut Grove after John Kerry's sent back the Aubergine Coulee on a bed of arugula.
It's amazing to listen to people.
The Daily Call had a terrific piece the other day saying that Trump has turned conservatives into social justice warriors.
It's now all this hysteria and apostasy tests and purity tests and enemies lists.
You make one bad judgment.
There's this guy, Mark Antonio Wright at National Review, did a piece, I think it was on Saturday, archiving the Trump endorsers Hall of Shame.
He's compiling a list, an enemies list.
He's making a list and checking it twice.
This guy, Mark Antonio Wright, I don't know how big a deal he is at National Review.
I think he's an editor or something there.
But he's making a list of people who've given support to Trump, such as Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Chris Christie and the Maine governor, Paul LePage.
And he's compiling this enemies list and he's saying we won't forget.
We're not going to forget.
So conservatives are turned into social justice warriors.
They're like the fellas who tracked down that $100 donation that the Mozilla guy gave to a campaign in support of traditional marriage and they forced him out of this store.
That's what's happening now.
So the pajama boy, whoever this pajama boy is over at National Review, is compiling the enemies list.
But if you missed the weekend primaries, just to bring you up to speed, the small-handed con artist won Kentucky and Louisiana.
The Lion Canadian won Kansas and Maine.
And the little sweaty guy won Puerto Rico.
So the upshot of the weekend is basically this.
No one can win.
No one.
No one.
So before we get into political philosophy, wither conservatism and all the rest of it, let's just get the horse racy stuff out of the way here.
The problem here is Donald Trump, the guy who wrote the art of the deal, has failed to close the deal.
He should be farther ahead than he is by now.
And the fact that he isn't weakens the best argument for rejecting the so-called elite and establishment.
Basically, the quickest way to put a nail through this thing would be for him to rack up enough delegates so that all this talk about brokered conventions became irrelevant.
But there are two views on this.
One is that he's slipping.
He won Louisiana and Kentucky very narrowly, mainly due to that's to say they were much narrower victories than the poll suggested.
And that's due to the fact that mainly due to early voting where he had a big lead and then actual come voting day itself, late voters went for Ted Cruz, basically.
So there's two views of this.
Either he's slipping, we've reached peak Trump and he's now on the slide.
Or he spent the last couple of weeks taking incoming like nobody's taken and he's still standing, which there's a case for.
I mean, we basically had the previous two nominees of the Republican Party, McCain and Romney, have both done direct assaults on him and his character and his integrity, and he's still winning primaries.
So there's enough of a vote for him to hold up and to stay in the lead and to be the choice of a plurality of Republican voters.
But if he's going to win this thing, if he's going to put it in the pocket, the fact is he has to win 58% of the remaining delegates.
And he can't, and as much as I don't think Romney hurt him.
I think if anything, in fact, Romney reminded people of everything they dislike about the Republican establishment.
Essentially, he hurt himself with that debate performance on Thursday.
You know, he's not going to win 58% of the remaining delegates talking about his penis and about Little Marco and Lion Ted.
So Trump's campaign is at risk of going the way of Trump Airlines and Trump Mortgage and Atlantic City.
He talks about how huge and spectacular it is.
But right now, it's slowing down.
Who does that leave?
That leaves Ted Cruz.
He's up over 300 delegates, which sounds great because he's within 80 or whatever it is of Trump.
But without Super Tuesday, he was supposed to win all the big evangelical vote on Tuesday, win the big southern states, and he didn't.
He won Texas and Oklahoma and Alaska.
Didn't win any of the old South.
And that means that he is to win 64% of remaining delegates.
Or if If Rubio wins Florida or John Kasich wins Ohio, Cruz has to win 72%, 72% of the remaining delegates, okay?
Who's that leave?
That leaves Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio, the establishment choice, the guy with broad appeal, the only fellow who can take it to Hillary, and Hillary's the most scared of running about because he's optimistic, he's young, he's pretty, he's promising a new American century, and all that is worth 8% in Maine.
He placed fourth in Maine, 8% of the vote.
But don't not to worry because on Sunday, Marco Rubio won his first primary in Puerto Rico.
So I think that shows he's pretty well set up for all the other Spanish-speaking territories that are coming up in the next few weeks.
Like, I don't know, Puerto, Puerto Idaho, isn't that coming up this week?
At any rate, the Republicans, this is hilarious.
You couldn't actually ask for a better illustration of the stupidity of the Republican establishment.
He's now the anointed establishment candidate.
And the Republican establishment, after losing everywhere, after losing to Ted Cruz in Texas and losing to Trump in Louisiana and New Hampshire, and the Republican establishment has finally found its firewall in Puerto Rico.
I think it was Milton Himmelfarb who was the first guy to say that Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.
But it turns out, in fact, that that's the GOP establishment.
They earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.
72% of Puerto Ricans voted for Marco Rubio.
And this is the genius of the Republican Party now.
They have had their Republican Party's supposedly most electable candidate, the GOP establishment's most electable candidate, has his only success in a place that doesn't actually get to vote for president.
The symbolism of that is almost too poignant for words.
You know, Marco Rubio has taken the weakness of Dole, McCain, and Romney to a whole new level.
He's only competitive in non-voting territories.
He gets 75% in Puerto Rico and 8% in Maine.
That's brilliant.
If we could hold a primary, where else doesn't get to vote?
Guam, Guam, Guam is a territory, so we don't know how the Guam vote is going.
We could make some more.
If we really want to put Rubio over the edge, let's just make some more places U.S. territory.
Oh, there's the U.S. Virgin Islands.
I don't think that'll be enough.
We might have to throw in the British Virgin Islands.
Could we declare them an honorary territory?
I don't know.
Tajikistan.
How do they feel about Rubio?
They could be a Samoa.
I'd like to see Samoa, Samoa, as the old song said.
We've run out of, we've won that.
That's American Samoa.
There's a British Samoa, and they don't.
We need to get Samoa-Samoas into the mix.
That way, Rubio's going to have a chance.
But basically, this is like the old Bertolt Brecht line about how we need to elect a new people.
The Republican establishment's strategy for victory is to, for its most electable candidate, is non-voting territories.
Territories that can't actually vote in November are where the establishment candidate has the greatest appeal.
You can't get better than that.
Mark signed for Rush 1-800-282-2882 in this fractious time as the Conservative Party and Conservative movement tears itself apart.
Pick your sides, have at it.
Lots to come between now and 3 p.m.
Eastern.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush in this interlude between the weekend primaries and the big night tomorrow.
And it'll be interesting to see whether, particularly with Michigan, whether the trend of the weekend continues.
What happened is, if you recall Mitt Romney's line on Thursday, he said, reach your own conclusions on who's the best anti-Trump in any of these states.
If you're in Florida, vote for Rubio.
And if you're in Ohio, vote for Kasich.
And in other places, it might be that Ted Cruz is the best chance.
And so far, Romney said that for one reason.
Romney doesn't want to nominate anyone because he's doing this sort of coy little tap dance about how if a fractured party calls on him to serve in the convention, he will not refuse the crown.
That's basically the Romney position.
He's doing a lot of like tap dancing around the question and he's being a bit disingenuous about it.
But that is the reason he didn't endorse anyone.
He says, pick whoever you think is likely to weaken Trump.
It's more important that Trump loses than that anybody else wins.
And unfortunately for him, people took it at his word and concluded that Cruz is the guy.
And Rubio is at 9% in this poll in Michigan.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
They thought the donor class, the consultant industrial complex, decided that Marco Rubio was the successor to Jeb Bush.
And he is.
He's got all the endorsements.
He's got all the mainstream support.
And he's at 9% in Michigan.
And that's really the problem for all this brokered convention talk.
The idea being that, you know, the party would be divided and the establishment would decide, okay, we're going to parachute in some great unifying moderate figure who can reach across the aisle and Bob Dole 2016 would be all fired up and ready to go at the convention.
And that isn't going to work because if you look at all the results over the weekend, basically, putting aside Puerto Rico, if you look at Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, and Maine, Cruz and Trump got between 70 and 80% of the vote.
Whatever you feel about the Cruz guys hate the Trump guys, the Trump guys hate the Cruz guys, but the establishment hates both of them.
And you can't tell 80% of your voters your votes don't count and now we're going to parachute in Mitt Romney or Bob Dole or whoever to save the day.
That ain't going to fly.
So the idea that the brokered convention is somehow going to rescue the GOP establishment from what's happening is getting less and less likely.
Now we will be talking in the next hour.
We will be talking to Matt Schlapp, who's the big, he was a Bush administration guy, and now he's the big honcho at CPAC, which is currently going on.
Sometimes CPAC, Rush speaks at CPAC.
He did memorably a few years ago, but not there this year round.
So we're going to talk instead to Matt Schlapp, who's the head guy at CPAC, about what the mood is there.
Now, that's an anti-Trump venue, basically, and more so because Trump pulled out of his weekend speech.
He decided he was not going to speak at CPAC because there were all these protesters who were there basically who were going to use him for some sort of photo protests.
And he figured nuts to that.
I don't need that.
I'm not going to go along with that.
But we will get down the breakdown, get the breakdown from Matt Schlapp on the mood at CPAC and where the Republican Party goes from here.
But just on those numbers, the numbers after the weekend, it's going to be very tough for any of these candidates to get to 1237.
Trump is the best shot.
If he wins Florida and he wins Ohio, Trump has the best shot at getting to 1237.
And he can't complain about, he should have realized, you know, essentially he's mounting a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
And he should have realized you've got to be on your game with that if you're going to avoid what's happened to him in the last week.
He bears part of the blame for what's happened, and he's got to be on better form in the debates and in the primaries to come.
Yes, America's anchorman is away fulfilling a charity engagement.
He was with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
And his view on Trump essentially was this.
It was an interesting lineup because Rush appeared at the top of the show and then whatever it was after Rush, they went to Mitt Romney, who had to sit there listening to what Rush was saying, which was not flattering to Romney, frankly.
And Rush's view of Trump is that there's more upside than downside.
There's more upside than downside.
And I saw that on the basis of that soundbite, Jennifer Rubin, who is the conservative blogger at the Washington Post, now wants to and is talking to this guy.
Do you remember this guy when I was here a few weeks ago?
Got into, we were trying to get him on the show for something he'd said.
This guy, Rick Wilson, he's one of these consultants.
And we couldn't get hold of him.
He was in a meeting or something.
He was in a meeting that lasted, curiously, from five minutes past 12 Eastern Time to 2.59 p.m. Eastern Time, this meeting.
So he wouldn't come on the show.
But Rick Wilson quoted this slide from Rush that there's more upside than downside, said Rush is soiling his legacy and Jennifer Rubin is now reading.
People are reading people out of the conservative movement.
They're saying Rush is not a conservative.
Sean Hannity is not a conservative.
Jeff Sessions is not a conservative.
They're not going to be any conservatives like this.
This is the great, there's going to be Rick Wilson and Jennifer Rubin arguing in a big tent.
Big Tent Conservatism.
The reason the tent seems so big is because there ain't nobody in it.
That's the problem.
Look, conservatism and the Republican Party is a weak brand, a weak brand.
American presidential elections have the lowest turnout of any national elections in the developed world, with one or two exceptions.
Basically, half the people don't vote.
When it gets to midterm elections, which in case you haven't noticed, are the only ones that the Republican Party wins these days, you have even lower turnout.
Absolutely the lowest turnout for any national legislative election anywhere in the developed world.
And even by American standards, it's getting lower.
2014 had the lowest election turnout since the Second World War, when the reason for two-thirds of the people not bothering to vote, that back then, you know, a big chunk of them were on the other side of the planet up to their neck in muck and bullets.
So the Republican Party has got a very weak brand, and they're currently spending, they don't have many people in the big tent.
The tent has spent most of the 21st century getting emptier.
And we're now in this vicious fight about how many other people we can kick out of the tent.
So Jennifer Rubin and Rick Wilson want to kick Rush Limbaugh out of the tent.
And this guy, this editor, whatever he is over at National Review, wants to kick Jeff Sessions and Chris Christie out of the tent.
And sooner or later, you're going to have the world's biggest marquee and you're going to be standing there like somebody at the wedding who got stood up and there just ain't nobody.
Nobody accepted the invitation.
And you're all alone in the tent, nibbling the hors d'oeuvre all by yourself.
The Republican Party, all this, you're not conservative.
Rush Limbaugh, he's not conservative.
What are he?
He's just some rhino-wuss sellout.
We can't have him in the tent.
And Jeff Sessions, well, Jeff Sessions, we're not going to have him in the tent.
Okay, okay, you're going to need a much smaller tent.
We have, there's blame enough to go round for everyone on this.
Somebody said I didn't mention Kasich.
I'd given the state a play for all the candidates.
And I didn't mention John Kasich.
And Mr. Snurdley is already on the floor.
Mr. Snurdley is like weeping with laughter on the floor and horrified that we're going to waste their time give it over to John Kasich.
Look, John Kasich, he may well be the vice presidential nominee.
You know, yeah, yeah, no, I know he was the son of a man.
The only man who could never reach me was the son of a mailman.
That's the John Kasich official campaign theme.
Rush mentioned this.
Yeah, he's the only adult in the room, is John Kasich, the only adult in the room, the last man on the stage.
I didn't know what a man he was.
Rush was talking about this on Friday, this whole thing that apparently, since we were talking earlier about Nancy Reagan dying and talking about the Reagan era and the 1980s and everything, according to John Kasich, he was like the indispensable man in the 1980s.
We all thought it was Nancy at Ronnie's side.
But as John Kasich tells it in these debates, he was the guy at Reagan's side throughout the 1980s.
John Kasich won the Cold War.
He knocked down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain.
I never knew, I didn't know that.
But John Kasich, he's up there on stage of these debates saying that.
And he's the guy.
The other thing he says is that he's the guy who was called in after 9-11 by Rumsfeld for the post-9-11 strategy.
Because we all know Rummy.
Like, Rummy, Rummy is just like a wimp.
He's just like this.
And he was like a big quivering heap of jelly after 9-11.
And it took John Kasich, the only man on the stage, the only adult on the stage, the son of a mailman.
John Kasich had to go into Rummy's office at the Pentagon, and Rummy was going, Oh, John, thank God you've come.
I don't know what to do.
I haven't a clue.
What am I going to do?
I don't know what I'm going to do.
And it took John Kasich, the only adult on the stage, to slap Rumsfeld around and say, Pull yourself together, man.
We're going to go and invade Afghanistan.
Get a grip on yourself.
Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap.
And that's all.
John Kasich, John Kasich.
Not only did John Kasich, single-handedly, with a bit of help from some guy called Reagan, tear down the Iron Curtain, not only did John Kasich single-handedly kick down the Berlin Wall with a bit of a, he had like a slight little gentle shove at the back from this guy called Reagan,
but John Kasich also served as the man who, after 9-11, stiffened Rumsfeld's spine, because we all know what a wuss that guy is, and taught him how to see some sense.
So this is the, you know, people have been talking about red-blooded red meat conservatives like Kasich.
Kasich was actually doing the biggest red meat conservative act on that debate stage, and nobody's paid any attention to him.
So he's running for vice president.
The question, I think it's actually a question now whether Rubio is the collapse of Rubio is astonishing to me because he made a decision that to get out in front of his rivals, he had to sort of go low and dirty with Trump.
And everybody says that he only matched what Trump did.
Trump actually didn't.
Trump's general observations on his other on the other candidates have not been low.
Low energy is a reasonable characterization of Jeb Bush.
It's not beyond the pale.
It's a devastating characterization and one from which Jeb couldn't recover.
But Rubio did all this stuff.
Oh, you know, Trump wet his pants and Trump has small hands and you know what that means.
And the fact this guy was the Boy Scout.
He was like the Boy Scout.
And nobody wants a Boy Scout working blue.
Nobody wants a 12-year-old talking dirty.
I mean, Rubio's choices, I think, to start talking about whether Trump was a bit underendowed in the trouser department and whether he'd wet his knickers and all the rest of it.
He's like carrying on, what was that awful Seth McFarland movie with the potty mouth teddy bear?
That's what that's basically what Rubio's turned into over the last couple of weeks.
And it has been a complete failure for him.
And what it did was it meant that the anti-Trump vote went to Ted Cruz.
So we've now got a two-man race, a two-man race, in which 70 to 80% of the vote is going for Trump or Cruz.
And the idea that the establishment can suddenly proclaim at the convention that nobody has a majority, but 70 to 80% of votes have gone to Trump and Cruz, and we're going to parachute in Mr. Milk Toast, Mr. Moderate, Mr. Either Mitt Romney or some passing version of Mitt Romney.
That ain't going to happen.
So as yet again, the GOP establishment with its brilliant strategy of banking on a category who's a candidate whose firewall was Puerto Rico has shot itself in the foot.
Mark Stein in for Rush, we'll take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
It's not all internecine warfare in the conservative movement this week.
The Canadian Prime Minister is coming to town.
He's coming to Washington and Obama is giving him a state dinner.
This is a guy.
We have a different system up in Canada from the way you Americans do because this new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is a substitute high school drama teacher because that's how we Canadians pick our Prime Ministers.
So the substitute high school drama teacher, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, is coming to town this week.
And 60 minutes, Obama's throwing him a big state dinner.
And 60 minutes did a preview that included a shot of Justin Trudeau's parents, at which point they showed a picture of the former Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.
And instead of showing Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, who used to be quite famous in New York for sitting on the Rolling Stones' knees at Studio 54 while not wearing any knickers, instead of showing a picture of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, they showed a picture of Pierre Trudeau and Kim Cattral, the star of Sex and the City.
And so Kim Cattral has been tweeting that she had no idea she had a son who was the Prime Minister of Canada, and she couldn't be more proud.
So that's the genius of six.
That's the kind of fact-checking you get from the mainstream media.
They can't tell the difference between Margaret Trudeau and Kim Cattral.
All these Canadian cougars look alike to them.
And so Kim Cattrall, according to CBS News, is the mother of the current Prime Minister of Canada.
Probably the mother of Ted Cruz, too, for all we know.
We'll have to see what the CBS fact-checking department can uncover on that.
Let's go to Kathy in Fort Myers, Florida.
Kathy, you're live on the Rushlinbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Welcome and greetings from Sunny, Fort Myers, Florida.
A quick shout out to my uncle Russell in Tampa.
Hey, listen, the big story should have been about Marco winning Puerto Rico, and that's all fine.
But no one mentioned that actually Trump came in second.
He beat out Hispanic Cruz and Kasich.
So I thought that was interesting that no one seemed to have picked up on that.
But, you know, so he supposedly, Trump supposedly has so much trouble with Hispanics, and yet he came in second in Puerto Rico.
Yeah, and I'll put that together with another poll that shows that this is from CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, whose poll shows that when it comes to support from Muslims, despite banning them all from the United States, Trump has more support among Muslims than all other Republican candidates put together.
So you attach great significance to his second place finish in Puerto Rico, Kathy.
I do because, you know, he doesn't get credit anywhere.
You know, I mean, like, he just, you know, he's supposed to be racist.
And, I mean, the Saturday Night Live just bored me.
I just saw a clip on Facebook of what they did, and I was just, you know, I was just shocked.
I mean, they weren't.
What did they do?
Not to get off topic, but I mean, he just doesn't get any credit where credit is due.
And, you know, he has a lot, a lot of support out here, and especially Florida, too.
And I believe he's going to win Florida.
And, you know, you just don't get it anywhere.
It's hard to find, you know, anybody to give Trump the credit due.
So eight days' time, the media seem to be suggesting that Rubio is rising in Florida.
There was some poll that showed him five points behind Trump and that Trump's 20-point lead was being eroded.
But you still reckon that eight days from today, Trump is going to be standing up at Mar-a-Lago or wherever it is and will be making a victory speech.
Well, I'm a strong, you know, huge, huge Trump supporter.
And, you know, I'm going to believe that, and I'm going to hope that.
And, you know, I believe that all this negativity from Romney, which I supported and walked the street for and, you know, campaigned for, you know, all this negativity, you know, with the strong support that Trump has, it's not helping.
It's not helping the Republican.
OK, let me let me ask you a question, Kathy, because you get all these people, all these people saying if you support Trump, you're not really a Trump isn't a conservative.
And if you support Trump, that means that you're not a conservative.
That's the argument that George Will and all these guys are making.
And what's your response to that?
And then, you know, they know that this establishment is just scared the death of losing their power.
And we're just going to stand up and, you know, and just, it's going to be our voice.
It's going to be the will of the people this time.
Okay, Kathy, the will of the people.
We'll talk about that a little more in the next hour because Trump, it's fascinating.
Trump is a symptom.
He's not the cause.
Even if you accept every bad thing that has ever been said about Donald Trump and some of the bad things he's said himself, Trump is a symptom and not the cause.
And so the question is, then, what is the best response to the symptom?
The response essentially of A Beltway elite made up of think tank people and pundits and what you might call the conservative intellectual class to read people out, to do this sort of Stalinist reading people out of the conservative movement because of a disagreement of opinion on the best candidate will have huge, huge implications for them in the years ahead.
We'll talk that and take a lot more of your calls as the show continues.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network.
Just a reminder, there is another party involved in this election, and on the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton has said that she would set up an education SWAT team as president made up of teachers, principals, and others who are going to go and help public schools live up to the best standards, an education SWAT team.
I found this an hilariously uninformed formulation from Hillary because, in fact, the U.S. Secretary of Education is the only education minister on the planet who actually has his own SWAT team.
You know, the French education minister doesn't have a SWAT team, and the German Education Minister doesn't have a SWAT team, and the New Zealand Education Minister doesn't have a SWAT team.
But the U.S. Department of Education actually has a SWAT team.
A couple of years ago, they kicked down the door of some guy in California because he was behind on his student loan.
It turned out, of course, they kicked down the wrong door and they arrested the wrong guy.
And it turned out to be, I think it was his ex-wife who'd been continuing to give her former husband's address.
But Hillary Clinton's solution to the problems of U.S. education is to set up, as she sees it, a so-called education SWAT team.
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