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March 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your EIB anchor baby.
Honored to be with you on this first day of another week of excellence in broadcasting.
Rush was on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
He has a an annual charity commitment that he is fiercely loyal to today, but he will return for authentic all American excellence in broadcasting to take you through the end of the week tomorrow.
And uh it's been fascinating just in the first hour, looking at the bombardment of uh emails uh I've been getting to uh uh understand what Russia's been going through.
I said I mentioned the other day, uh I mentioned in the first hour uh people reading Rush out of the conservative movement because he's insufficiently hostile to Trump, and I've been bombarded with these emails saying, uh, well, Rush isn't a conservative anymore, you're not a conservative, he's not a conservative, you're a conservative.
Look, here's here's the thing.
Uh whether you support whoever you support in this race, if you are gonna drive uh it doesn't matter whether you're you to to to eke out the narrowest of victories in November, you're gonna need Trump supporters in the tent, cruise supporters in the tent, Rubio supporters in the tent, and Kasich supporters in the tent.
And even then you're gonna have to figure out some way to get other people in the tent just to eke out uh the bare minimum 270 electoral votes.
That's the reality.
A Republican presidential candidate has not won big since nineteen eighty-eight, uh, with the Reagan third term under the first George Bush.
I got a picture of that map uh up at my website at a piece called The Math and the Map, and it is a spectacular thing.
The map is red.
California is red.
Two-thirds of New England is red.
Barack Obama's Illinois is red, all won by the first George Bush.
Uh this century, uh with a bit of uh in 2000, his son lost the popular vote, but eked out the Bear 270 with that L shape down through the Rockies and then uh through the old South over to the Atlantic.
Uh and that's basically been nibbled away at in the in the years since.
Even even then, by the way, with that L shape, he had my state, four votes from New Hampshire, which put him over the top to those two hundred and seventy electoral votes.
So if Cruz fans say we don't want Trump fans in the tent, and if Trump fans say we don't want Rubio fans in the tent, and uh you're not gonna even get near, you're just gonna be annihilated this November.
So everybody, in the words of Ted Cruz to Donald Trump at that debate, take a deep breath.
Uh and don't do this thing where if you say something uh mean about Rubio, it means you're in the bag for Cruz, or if you say something mean about Cruz, it means you're in the bag for Trump.
For God's sake, get over yourselves.
Get over yourselves.
This is a very difficult time.
And it's pathetic to see people uh just defing uh a once great political movement by whom they exclude.
Uh Rush talked about this, how difficult this was for him a couple of weeks ago, because he said a lot of these people are friends of his.
He's known the Bush family for years.
He knows Marco Rubio, he knows Donald Trump, he knows Ted Krigs.
I don't have that.
I don't have that problem.
You know, these guys aren't all friends of mine.
In fact, it's quite quite the opposite.
Trump screwed me over.
I'm not in the bag for Trump.
He screwed me over.
There's a fascinating story here the other day.
Where where's this Bo Burgdol story?
Um about how Bo Burgdal's lawyers are demanding a meeting with Trump over his statements, which they say could affect their clients' rights to a fair trial.
You know, Bo Bergdoll, the traitor that uh uh Obama traded five top Taliban guys for.
And Trump has weighed in on this, right?
He's weighed in on what is likely to be a uh a big uh uh trial that will put Bo Burgdall away for the rest of his life.
And Trump has weighed in on this, and they're now the Burgdull defense team is now demanding a meeting with Trump to clarify this because they think it's made it impossible for their client to get a free tr a fair trial anyway.
Trump did exactly the same thing to me.
I'm being sued by this uh bozo hockey stick inventor, uh the guy who invented the global warming hockey stick, and Trump approvingly uh tweeted to a piece taking uh Michael E. Mann, that's the name of the guy, he invented the global warming hockey stick, I got a book about it.
Trump approvingly tweeted to a piece taking Michael Mann's side in the trial against me.
So if Trump wins, uh I'm not only gonna be out a a uh, you know, a sum in the high seven figures, I'm gonna be in the same situation Bo Bagdall is.
The president of the United States will weighed in on my trial, uh, and it's gonna be pretty hard, particularly in the uh District of Columbia to get a jury uh that's not going to be weighed by that.
So I'm gonna be on the lamb.
I'm gonna be gone.
I'm gonna be I I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna be sewing the fake passport into the lining of my coat, and I'm gonna be uh on the run.
So I don't yeah, I am gonna be Al Chapo, although I think his network works better than mine.
So I'm gonna be El Steino.
I'm gonna be out there in a tunnel under the Canadian border somewhere.
Uh because Trump took the other guy's side in my case.
So I'm getting all these I'm getting all these emails from people saying, oh, yeah, just in the bag for Trump.
No, I'm not.
Trump's costing me nine million dollars.
That's how much that's how much I gotta be thankful for Trump.
Now, Ted Cruz, he screwed me over too.
Uh he invited me up to it.
It's at every every every candidate must go sale.
Every it's a grand Mark Stein closing down sale.
He screwed me over too.
Uh I went to the United States Senate to take part in a hearing with three very distinguished climate scientists.
And Ted Cruz did not tell me that he is so loathed in the Senate that not a single one just one other it's a Republican majority Senate, remember, so it's a Republican majority on this committee.
But instead, because all the other Republicans loathed Ted Cruz, they didn't show up.
And so uh it was just uh uh being hammered by Democrats.
It was basically agreeing to submit uh to a phony Democrat photo op.
And Ted Cruz didn't tell me in the other climate scientists that so I'm uh so I'm a I'm anti-Marco Rubio because he's one of the guys who so hates Ted Cruz that he didn't even show up at that hearing.
Uh just another no show uh from the backbencher, as Jeb Bush used to call him.
So Marco Rubio hasn't done me any favors.
Well who's the other guy in the race?
Kasich.
Kasich, okay, this is the big one.
John Kasich was condescending to me at a country inn in New Hampshire uh in the year 2000.
I'm bitter like that.
He was condescending to me, Mr. Sturdley.
So I don't have a dog at I don't have a dog in this fight.
I'd like it if Calvin Coolidge were running.
But Calvin Coolidge couldn't could have uh could Calvin Cool nobody remembers anything.
Kasich ran for president in uh in uh 2000, and no one remembers about that campaign except uh the lady who was holding a coffee morning for him, uh, got so panicked and excited about not having uh enough chocolate chip cookies or whatever that she jumped in her car to go to the store and accidentally ran over her dog.
So John Kasich spent the entire, you know, New Hampshire meet the people coffee thing burying this lady's dog.
It was very sad, very sad business.
But anyway, uh I got nothing against I got uh Russia's thing was it's all very difficult because he's pals with all these people.
I'm the opposite.
Trump screwed me over in a huge lawsuit uh and uh and um uh uh and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio uh staged uh participated in this weird Rubio sat it out and Ted Cruz uh staged this freaky misshapen Urzat Senate hearing uh that he suckered me and three other people into.
So I got no time for I got I got problems with all these people.
The thing is, though, one of them is gonna be the only alternative to Hillary Clinton.
And this whole business now of uh, you know, disqualifying people, saying Jeff Sessions has no place in the conservative movement.
Russia's no place in the conservative movement.
This is this is ridiculous.
This is the system, it's a fixed two-party system.
In other countries, parties come and go.
There's only two here.
So in November, uh there's going to be a Democrat candidate and there's going to be a Republican candidate.
And one of them's going to be uh and one of them's going to be the winner, and one of them's going to be the loser.
And the person who is a loser ought to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There was a story, there's been all these email stories.
One of the interesting ones was that she revealed on her insecure server the whereabouts of Chris Stevens, her so-called friend, the ambassador to Libya, who died on the night of Benghazi.
His whereabouts, so uh particularly in that part of the world, uh, were supposed to be closely held because it's a very dangerous part of the world.
If you go and see that film, magnificent film, gripping film, thirteen hours about the night of Benghazi, the overwhelming sense you have in that movie is that everybody in town knows exactly where the ambassador is, where he's being taken, what's going on.
And one of the reasons for that is that Hillary Clinton leaked to details of the ambassador's movements on the emails on her insecure server.
This is a w this is a woman who should not still be in public life.
Never mind cruising towards being becoming president.
Her la her husband was a credibly accused rapist.
And yet suddenly now the Republican Party, uh Mitt Romney and all these other people are discovering persons that they couldn't possibly associate with, wouldn't want to be associated with.
If Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected in November, she is not an ideologue to the same degree that Barack Obama is, but she is going to complete the Obama project, which will be to turn America into a land that is unrecognizable from the republic that the founders had in mind.
So you can go around saying, Well, I'm not I'm not having I'm not listening to Russia anymore.
He's not a conservative, and you're not a conservative, and that guy's not a conservative, and I'm the only real conservative here.
Uh you can do that, but you need Trump supporters, you need Kasich supporters, you need Rubio supporters, you need crew supporters, and you need millions more inside the tent, or you're gonna get clobbered in November.
That's the reality.
Mark Stein for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Um I mentioned earlier that I wasn't sure whether that Mitt Romney thing wasn't on the whole a net advantage to the Trump campaign, and Theo's restaurant and lounge in Manchester, New Hampshire, is running a big billboard in Manchester tradition since 1978.
They've got a big billboard outside Theo's restaurant and lounge saying Romney is a loser.
Uh they're pretty confident that uh pizza lovers in Southern New Hampshire will be uh on board with that.
Um let's let's go back to how uh this thing got to be the way it is.
As I said, there's a two-party system in in uh in America.
That's unique.
Fro two frozen parties for a hundred and sixty years.
That's unique anywhere on the planet.
So you've got to be with Party A or Party B. You've got to be a Democrat, you've got to be a Republican, otherwise you're nowhere.
Uh, not gonna get anywhere.
And uh that's very different from if you take even like uh Northern Ireland, which is about a million and a half people, uh, on the on the Unionist loyalist uh side, there's something like eleven political parties just for one million people.
And uh and uh most of them are represented in the uh at the legislative uh level.
Um so this is very unusual here.
And what that means is that when people say, oh, he's not a real conservative, he's not a real, you know.
Uh the the liberals never in case you haven't noticed, the liberals don't care about that.
The Democrats will take anybody under their umbrella and then work with it.
And that's uh the logic of a two-party system, because let's say you're some squishy centrist type.
You're like 51% Republican, 49% Democrat.
You know, in most systems there'd be like some centrist party for you to join.
But here you've got to join one party or the other.
So in a fixed two-party system, you're gonna have people with differing views, differing views on a lot of things.
Uh now uh there's a particular problem on the Republican side in that the Republicans, whatever your bag is, have not been able to deliver.
You know, it's a two-party system.
One party is supposed to be fiscally conservative, one party is supposed to be fiscally liberal.
Nevertheless, regardless of who's in power, uh the debt balloons balloons balloons to its nineteen trillion dollars.
No party, neither party actually pays down the debt.
There's a two-party system.
One party is supposed to be socially liberal, uh, the other party is supposed to be socially conservative.
Yet regardless of who's in power, the culture gets more and more liberal.
Uh there's uh on uh foreign policy, uh one uh one party is supposed to be foreign policy hawks, one party is supposed to be foreign policy doves.
Yet regardless of who's in power, America doesn't win wars against pipsqueak goat herds with string and fertilizer.
So regardless of whether you're a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, or a foreign policy hawk, this party isn't working for you.
The Republican Party isn't working for you.
That's where Trump came in.
Trump was talking about uh immigration.
Immigration.
That's again, that's an important thing, because before you can decide what kind of country you want to be, you've got to be a country.
And you can't be a country without borders.
So if you uh if you have open borders, then eventually uh that will determine the kind of country you are.
That's not a liberal point or a conservative point.
Sweden is a very liberal Scandinavian social democracy, and they've been overwhelmed by butch young Muslim men who are gonna kill that liberal Scandinavian social democracy.
It's so if you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
So discussions on what kind of country you want to be become pointless.
That's where Trump came in.
Now that's that was an issue that's without that issue, he wouldn't be where he is.
And he used to, if you remember the way he used to talk, he used to talk about that issue.
He used to talk about Kate Steinley, beautiful young American woman murdered uh by a guy who should not have been in this country.
And he used to talk about her in his speeches.
Uh he used to talk about this issue.
Uh and lately he's just like talking about himself, and that's why he's got problems.
He he he's he had an issue uh and he then got distracted uh to the point where last Thursday he suddenly even forgot that immigration was his big issue, and he and he let Ted Cruz get to his right on that.
But on that issue, on that issue, he was right.
And the Republican Party, by taking that issue off the table, as it has taken so many other issues off the table, was wrong.
Uh he's not a first principles guy.
You know, my uh my two big issues, I would say, are mass immigration, which is gonna destroy the Western world, and free speech, which is in trouble all over the Western world.
I've just been in Australia doing a big free speech tour.
I was speaking in Copenhagen on the tenth anniversary of the Mohammed cartoons.
I'm all about free speech.
Trump is horrible on crypto free speech.
He g he says he wants to change the libel laws to make it easier for rich guys like him to silence their enemies, basically.
He doesn't think in first principles.
He has no feeling for the U.S. Constitution.
He wouldn't know the US Constitution if it dropped off a tree onto his head.
He would know n what not know what it was when he bent down to pick it up.
He has no feeling for the U.S. Constitution.
But in case you haven't noticed, uh neither does one of the two political parties and most of the judges in this country.
Uh so it's easy it's easy y nobody gets the candidate uh a one hundred percent candidate.
You weigh your issues, what are important to you.
If immigration is your issue, Trump is the one who put it in there, put it in play.
Uh if you like freedom of speech as I do, Trump is terrible on freedom of speech.
But eventually uh you're not going to get a 100% candidate.
You're not going to get a 100% candidate.
And I'll tell you the other thing Trump exposed.
A lot of the time, uh I I was trying to see what was the big news on the Democrat side uh today.
And the ba big news is that it's an offense not to let a tran in New York it's an offense now uh not to let a transgendered person use the bathroom of their choice.
Do you understand how weird it is for uh for lower middle class Americans who used to have successful $25 an hour jobs and that world has died.
And every time they look to see what the political parties are talking about, the Democrats invest uh in tension in identity groups in inverse proportion to the number of people there are so they're all about the transgender issues now.
And if you just happen to be a non-transgendered white guy who's mill closed, you're screwed.
That's why Trump came along.
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CPAC has just ended and uh it was a uh a turbulent CPAC uh at least from Donald Trump's point of view because he decided at the last minute to pull out from appearing there.
The the guy who runs CPAC and the American conservative union is Matt Schlapp and he is live with us on the air right now.
Matt uh welcome to the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to be with you Mark.
Hey you had a uh you wrapped up a a uh a successful CPAC in which uh Ted Cruz uh was uh pretty much uh the meeting's choice is that's uh that's what happened on uh the final day Saturday.
Yeah that's right Ted Cruz won the straw poll.
Ted Cruz showed up at CPAC as did Marco Rubio and John Kasig and Ben Carson.
Ben Carson talked to the crowd about the fact that he was suspending his campaign and look I think it matters to come to CPAC and I think it affected the straw poll results and I think it helped Ted Cruz get a big win.
The funny the funny thing about this is that uh CPAC and Trump were on very friendly terms for most of the last half decade and a lot of these never Trump type people that are going around now think that in fact CPAC uh was partly responsible for um making Trump uh respectable in political terms.
I mean he he's had a friendly hearing at CPAC uh in the last five years.
Did definitely you know he's appeared at CPEC I think since 2011 before I was the chairman Mark and you know I think most of the people on the conser in the conservative movement who had their pop had it at CPAC.
Marco Rubio had that pop back in 2010.
Ted Cruz there's you know so CPAC is the place where kind of our whole family comes together and uh yeah I'd say that we have a good relationship with Mr Trump and um you know it was really I just think a mistake a political mistake to not come.
I think he should have come and I think I'm glad he went to my home state of Kansas.
I love Kansas Wichita's my hometown but I don't think his trip there did him much good.
No well he didn't spell it right he uh that's right he kept he kept putting a T in Wichita uh two T's in Wichita.
Wichita's about Indians it's not about witchcraft okay we gotta get this straight.
Yeah no no that's that's right that's Salem, Massachusetts or somewhere.
Uh Matt uh d Trump's ba the basically the argument of Trump supporters is that uh he was walking into a setup at CPAC.
Uh that you were pran you were planning to spring on him uh a Q and A with various setup uh protests and all the rest of it.
What's the truth of that?
No, no truth of that.
Look I am neutral in this race as is the American Conservative Union.
We did that on purpose Mark even with Carly Fiorina who was our foundation chair when she entered the race we all love Carly but we stayed neutral because we want to be fair with all the with all the candidates and with all the campaigns and uh you know every candidate uh had the uh right to had the ability to address those assembled at CPAC, but we also wanted to make sure that they answered questions.
Uh we think the questions uh part of these uh presentations are are critically important.
And um and you know, uh Mr. Trump and his team were unwilling to do that, and we were unwilling to bend our rules for him.
It's not because we don't think uh it's not because we're part of the never Trump movement, but it's because you know, as my twelve year old daughter told me, Mark, she said, Hey Dad, rules are rules, and uh that's just the way it is.
Doesn't that also apply to the Republican Party, which after a painstaking uh process of uh of of primaries and caucuses is now looking at ways it can disqualify Trump should he be uh the figure with the most uh uh delegates when when the convention meets.
I mean, doesn't that your daughter's rules are rules line apply to the uh Republican Party too?
Absolutely.
Look, there's this concept of a brokered convention where nobody has enough delegates getting into Cleveland and maybe the party bigwigs get together and insert somebody like a Mitt Romney.
I think if there's even an attempt to do that, I think there'll be just a complete revolt.
And I don't know if our party will really be the same again.
Um we've really never done that.
Nineteen seventy-six it was Reagan versus Ford.
Ford had was leading in delegates heading into the convention, and he ended up getting enough delegates.
I'm okay with that process, Mark, because that follows the rules.
You'll have vote after vote, and delegates will be free to support who they want to support, and it'll come to a resolution.
So I'm okay with an open process.
A brokered process, that would be a disaster.
Anyone who thinks that's possible is someone who just has no idea what's really happening out there in the country.
Well, what in that case, what was the mood like uh at CPAC?
Because I I've I've been at CPAC, I think a couple of times, and you can tell just when you're with the crowd and you're talking, not talking particularly to famous people all the rest, but you can get a sense of when people feel they have the wind at the backs and when people are kind of finding it a tougher slog.
Uh what would you say this ought to be?
And in theory, this ought to be a year when uh the conservative movement has the wind at its back.
Uh is that how it felt at CPAC?
You know, Mark, I'm I was a little troubled.
I I even had to give my own remarks to the crowd, and uh uh you know I I I I look at the moment that we're in this political moment, and there's so much uncertainty.
I think there's more uncertainty than we've seen in decades.
Um will we be able to unite?
Will the center right be able to unite around a nominee?
Would they unite around Donald Trump if he's a nominee?
I think there's so many questions out there.
I think that we had you know, we had the the crowd was full, the the halls were full.
People were really engaged, but they weren't joyous.
They're concerned.
And uh I think that's what I felt.
It was almost a tension in the air because people are really worried.
We can't have another eight years of you know the the Obama torch being passed for eight more years of radical policies, and I think that's what I sensed out of the crowd.
Well, uh uh Trump and Cruz are are people who believe both Trump and Cruz, and it's basically a Trump crew looks like being a Trump Cruise race.
A people who believe in putting uh clear blue water between themselves and their opponents, and in that sense, uh you know, in the cheap rhetoric they're they're so-called divisive figures.
And uh certainly on the internet th their supporters uh loathe each other and regard the other b you know the Trump supporters are fascists pining for the strong man on a horse, and uh Cruz is ineligible to run, he's not a natural born citizen, and even if he were, nobody likes him in Washington.
Uh when these people get together in the uh by the concession stand at CPAC in the bars uh uh after the sessions, after the speeches, uh are they speaking to each other?
Yeah, they're speaking to each other.
Um but like I said, it is not as um you know, it's just not as smooth as I've seen it in past years.
I think it's choppier.
I think you know, Mark, I think we're just in a very raw political moment um where people have strongly held beliefs.
And usually, you know, when we started off last year we had seventeen candidates, most of whom spoke at CPAC.
There was this feeling in the air like, you know what, of these seventeen, we're gonna get one and we're gonna win this thing.
And this year, as it's narrowed down to four, there's an angst.
There's a concern, because the choices we have to choose from, they're all really unconventional.
You know, maybe Kasich's the most conventional, but they're really unconventional.
Um younger guys in some cases with very little experience, um, you know, this this outsider, uh Donald Trump, who's not spent one day in elected office.
I'm not saying that that's bad, because I actually think that matches the mood.
We need to think outside the box.
We need to have a different kind of candidate.
But it makes these activists more concerned because if we don't pick right and we don't win, you don't get a mulligan.
No, no.
Hey, well, you when you mentioned those seventeen candidates, we go back a year, everyone the the phrase they kept using was Republicans have a strong bench.
We got all these hot shot governors with terrific track records in their states, proven executive experience, uh, and all we need is for the winnering to start, and uh one of these hot shot governors is gonna emerge and uh our strong bench uh will will find the right guy.
And and nobody uh the the the the four the four fellas, the f the final four guys, um people seem to think that uh you know there's there's problems whichever way you go with with those.
Is that the was that the sense at CPAC two, the strong bench talk is gone?
I think they realize that it's the uh besides Kasich, like I said, it's just it's the uh non-conventional route and it makes you a little bit more nervous, but it might be our only way to get there.
And I think on the governor front, Mark, you know, everyone expected that we would pick a governor, and I and it's important to say Governor Kasich is still out there scrapping away.
But you know, the fact is is this governors usually win the nominations uh in these primaries because they are the the outsider, the outsider to Washington, DC.
What we've done as a party and as a movement is we want to even go further outside than that.
And that's why Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump have been the story of this campaign.
That matches the mood.
The people, even the senators we're looking at, haven't even spent a term in the Senate.
We want fresh blood.
Well, let me ask you the uh just finally, the question that Chris Wallace uh asked Rush is the final question on Fox News yesterday.
Uh what's the happy ending here?
I think the happy ending is that I don't know who's gonna get this nomin who's gonna win the nomination.
Obviously, I think Donald Trump has a very good chance to get it.
And I think the fact is is this Donald Trump has a decision before him.
He I I I almost see two Donald Trumps.
I see the Donald Trump after a big uh day of victories, who comes to the stage with his beautiful family, his handsome family, and he's kind to the people he's just vanquished on the field, and um he just seems his tone is calmer.
And then there's the Donald Trump who's whipped up at the rally.
And I think um if he continues to win in these states and it looks like he's on his way to get the nomination, I think he has to be much more the former Donald Trump than the latter Donald Trump.
Because I think at the end of the day, the American people love this idea of an outsider, but they also want to see that outsider act in a presidential manner.
And I think he's got it in him, and I think that's the challenge before him.
Okay, well that's uh that's an interesting note on which to end, Matt.
Thanks.
Uh thanks very much for talking to us.
Uh Matt Schnapp, who's uh the head honcho at CPAC, which is just uh wrapped up, and uh he is uh he's got a little bit of advice there.
He's seemed to think that if uh Trump does manage to get the nomination, he had a little bit of advice on the question of presidential demeanor.
We'll talk about that, we'll take your calls and we'll discuss much more in this turbulent presidential season on the Rush Limbaugh show straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the uh E.I.B. network we haven't talked much about the Democrats uh this uh th today, but they also had some uh primaries over the weekend.
Bernie won uh two out of three, Bernie Sanders.
And uh the he he's he's toughening up on uh Hillary.
It was interesting to see the two of them on stage, uh because there wasn't a lot of space between the two of them uh uh at their respective podiums.
And when Bernie starts waving his arms around, he comes press mighty close to getting into uh Hillary Clinton's uh space when uh which will be interesting because that's what they're gonna accuse whoever the Republican nominee is of doing this November, you know, disrespecting her, menacing her as a woman with his body language.
Bernie was doing a bit of that last night when he was saying, I've never taken $250,000 for a speech from but uh Goldman Sachs uh and all the rest of it.
The other thing he said, which was uh striking to me, is when he said uh white people don't know what it's uh there's a difference between white people, only black people live in ghettos and all the rest of it.
But Bernie Sanders uh is the senator from Vermont.
And I live just across the river from Vermont in New Hampshire.
And if I ever have to go and do television or anything like that, I have to go to Burlington Vermont, which means I have to drive straight across the entirety of Northern Vermont.
And every town uh that isn't a ski resort is dead.
Deadsville.
Hollowed out by heroin, hollowed out by meth.
That's Bernie Sanders' constituency.
Uh they're the people who've elected Bernie Sanders.
And in in some respects, they're the people who uh who are uh turning to Trump too.
And I mentioned earlier, and I I repeat it because I think it's a big point that if you've got a two-party system, and every time, you know, fifty percent of the people sit out the election here.
Fifty percent sit out presidential elections.
You know, it's fifty it was fifty-three percent last time.
Obama 2008, it was amazing because it was fifty-eight percent.
Uh now you're you're talking when you look at uh Arlene, Sweden, Germany, France, all these people, way, way higher.
Sixty, seventy, eighties per cent.
So not a lot of people extra have to show up for all the turnout models to go to hell.
And uh if you're one of these people, you know, uh you feel you don't actually need another ten million unskilled Latin American immigrants uh across the border, that there's plenty of those that that uh that uh the United States has all the unskilled immigrant labor it needs,
uh that you had a great solid job at twenty-five dollars an hour, and now you you basically you've got a choice uh between being unemployed or doing some minimum wage uh night shift at uh at the quickie crap.
Uh and you switch on, you think, well, what uh there's two political parties.
What are they talking about?
When you switch on one of them, uh they're just talking about these boutique issues.
I mentioned earlier, like uh de Blasio is uh he's the New York's passed some law that makes it a crime now uh to accidentally direct a transgendered person to the uh bathroom not of his or her or whatever pronoun is in vogue, not of his or her choice.
And it's uh you're watching your your life die, and they're talking about uh transgendered bathrooms.
Now you go to the other side, and they and and uh and for most of the New Hampshire primary season, until it all got dirty, they're all running these happy face ads.
Uh Rubio's talking about a new American century.
These people don't aren't looking for another American century.
They'd like what's left of their life to be marginally less lousy.
That's all.
That's all.
Because there's no economic opportunity.
Uh the the mill closed.
Uh there's a choice between uh working at Dunkin' Donuts or becoming a heroin dealer.
That's the way it is uh north, south, east and west of where I am right now.
As I said, every town that isn't a ski resort is dead.
Uh and you you switch on the TV and people are just talking about boutique issues to them.
Or they're doing the morning in America Happy Talker, Marco Rubio.
And people are uh people will go to the candidate who uh emotionally connects with them and where they live their lives.
That emotional connection is the most important part of any winning candidate this November.
Mark sign in for Rush, more your calls straight ahead.
Caitlin Jenner is being blasted on social media uh for her supportive remarks of Ted Cruz.
Uh did you know that?
Caitlin Jenner supports uh Ted Cruz.
That's uh that's what I call a big tent.
Um and uh and she's now being expelled from the transgender movement.
Uh the the transgender movement is roiling like the American Conservative movement is because of Caitlin Jenner's support for uh Ted Cruz.
Uh yeah, well, I don't know how it works, Mr. Slurdley, but I'll tell you something.
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