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March 10, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, did you notice who just ended their press conference right before this program started?
Barack Hussein O. He got out of there with uh about 30 seconds to spare.
And somebody really got under Obama's skin at his press conference today by asking him how he feels to be responsible for the rise of Donald Trump.
And he said, Well, it's kind of a novel idea, blaming me for Trump's rise.
And Jorge Ramos took it to Hillary Clinton last night in a Democrat debate.
Greetings, my friends.
It's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone as always.
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I'm gonna spend some time on the Democrats today.
They had their debate last night.
They are the ultimate opponent here.
And I might even go further and say they're the ultimate enemy.
As you know, I believe, and I'm sure many of you agree, as we have documented time and time again, the Democrat Party is the greatest threat to this country and our attempt to maintain our founding principles and ideals.
The Democrat Party consists of a much greater threat than anybody on the Republican side in their presidential campaign.
And during primary season, we always tend to ignore the Democrats somewhat, including the candidates.
The candidates running for the Republican nomination, by definition have to focus on the immediate opponents, all of whom happen to be Republican.
And the Democrats largely do the same thing, although I think Democrats do a better job of coming together and realizing who their ultimate enemy is, and in their debates and TV appearances, they never not mention Republicans.
It's been a while since a serious criticism of substance against the Democrats has been mounted, other than a perfunctory reference to the necessity to defeat Hillary or I can beat Hillary and you can't.
But the details of what's happening in this Democrat primary are largely going unseen and unnoticed.
The drive-by's aren't spending a whole lot of time reporting on it.
They focus on the horse race.
But let me give you an example of what I'm told.
Oh.
And be I am going to do one thing on the Republican side before we dig deep into the Democrat debate last night.
And don't worry, it's not going to be anywhere like the whole show on this, folks.
But I was thinking that.
I watched a lot of these town halls on Fox.
And that was that was work.
Sitting through three, three and a half hours of this stuff.
It was uh it was Rubio and then Cruz and then Trump.
Uh or I may have them out of order.
And in the in the periods of time during these town halls where I think, okay, I know what they're gonna say, I know what this is.
I would I would I would check my uh iPad Pro, find out what else was happening out there, and I came across a story on the on the Hulk Hogan Gawker trial.
And it is just sheer utter depravity.
It was depressing utter depravity to read what is happening in that trial.
I don't I don't even want to get into detail with you about what it's about.
I mean, I may at some point in the program later today, but I'm just sure I was I was engulfed in everywhere else I would go.
Uh whatever news story that uh was was not about the primaries and the campaigns, just utter depravity and debauchery.
And it just it reminded me of the of the cultural rot that has been overtaking our society.
And for some reason last night it just hit me, and I sat there and I actually experienced feelings of depression going through and reading this stuff and realizing that all these complaints that we're hearing about what's happening in the Republican debate, they are nothing compared to Some of the stuff that's happening day in and day out on American television.
And you can trace it back if you want.
You can say, where did it all start?
For example, Politico today.
Politico actually did just a straight cut and dried story on a point that I made yesterday.
In fact, I'm encountering, I don't know what this means, but I'm encountering a lot more fair coverage of me in the drive-by media.
And various publications, websites, and networks, and I don't want to mention them because I don't want to tick off the news gods.
You know, when when you're playing golf and you're playing well, you never admit it, because that angers the golf gods, and they come back and they get you, and you lose your swing for a week or two, or you play horribly.
So you never so I don't want to jinx this, but it's incredible.
And the politico has a story, but a point that I made yesterday.
Uh all these people worried about Trump not being presidential.
And the campaign is the as such, and uh the the debates uh not representing the better parts of us.
Uh the sacred trust that is the presidential campaign being blown to smithereens as everybody goes to the gutter.
And I I made a point.
Uh when was the last president that treated all this with the greatest of respect and the utmost reverence, and it was George W. Bush.
And what did it get him?
My point is, what did it get him?
Now I'm not saying he shouldn't have done it.
My only point is there wasn't any credit extended to Bush for treating the office with respect.
And nobody in our lifetimes, other than Reynolds Magnus, has treated the office with more respect than Bush and his dad.
To the point that Bush would not even respond to any criticism because that was politics and he was not going to let politics enter the Oval Office.
He would do politics when he was campaigning, but he would not do politics as president.
So we're sitting out here frustrated as hell, he's getting beat up, we're getting beat up, the country's getting beat up by the Democrats.
He doesn't respond to it because he didn't want to sully the office.
Told me that, I can't say how many times.
What did it get him?
And yet look at who really did.
If you want to see the forerunner of all that's happening now, you can't go any further back.
You don't have to go any further back than Bill Clinton for crying out loud.
You want to talk about sullying the office.
You want to talk about breaking the sacred trust of reverence for the Oval Office and the presidency for crying out loud, Bill Clinton going in there after a jog all sweaty and gym shorts and a t-shirt and putting his arm around whatever intern he can find, and everything else we know that went on, and it didn't hurt him.
It didn't.
This to me are, these to me are examples of the slow devolving of our culture.
And it's a serious thing, as far as as far as I'm concerned.
And we don't we don't speak of it a lot lately.
We do we have over the course of recent years, of course, but things happening in the presidential campaign are taking precedence.
Now there is some discussion of it, what with the way the Republican primary campaign, the debates primarily are happening, but they're nothing compared to some of the other rot that's out there, so it's a question of chicken and egg, you know, which begot which.
The thing I'm gonna get into before I get deep into the Democrats here is the the CNN had a the funniest thing today.
Carol Costello, formerly assigned to stalk me and report on me at CNN.
Now she's an infobay bankerette, and they had Trump's former butler on as a guest.
You could just tell that they thought this butler guy was going to come on and just cream Trump.
Why else have the guy on?
Your CNN.
I'm sure they thought this butler was going to dish dirt on Trump somehow, some way.
But he didn't.
He did just the exact opposite.
And Carol Costello was asking questions, and this guy would answer with one or two word answers, and she didn't know what to do.
She'd pause for three or four seconds, then ask the next question.
Here, may as well let you hear what this is about.
And after that, we'll div into the dig into the deep Democrat aspect of things, and there's one salient thing There, the Huffing and Puffington Post had a story last week that kind of slithered by everybody.
It's related to the low Democrat turnout in these primaries.
And to me, it's blockbuster in what it portends.
So, hang on for that.
Carol Costello interviewing Donald Trump's former butler.
Do you think Mitt Romney ever had a butler?
He never talks about it if he did you think he did?
Why do you think that Romney had a butler?
Well, but you're just because he's got a bunch of properties and a bunch of cars and a bunch of houses and big garages for the cars, and so you think.
Well, that butler, that's a major domo that does that.
A butler has specific duties.
The thing here, Trump is not ashamed to have his former butler out there.
Trump not bothered at all by the fact that people are gonna learn he had a butler.
I mean, the only people I have butlers are rich Wall Street aristocrats.
And we're supposed to hate them.
That here's Trump.
I know.
And here's Trump's former butler.
His name is Tony Senecal.
S-E-N-E-C-A-L.
Some people might pronounce it Seneca, but the correct pronunciation is indicated here is cynical.
Carol Costello.
And here's how it opened.
Are you gonna watch tonight's big debate?
Of course.
And when you watch Mr. Trump at these debates, is he the man you know personally, or is he someone else?
No, he's the man that I know.
For 20 some years, we carried on that same debate.
Another pause here.
What same debate?
The debate that he's having now.
His interest in the American people, uh, his patriotism.
The man was born on flag day.
He's a very patriotic person, and he wants what's best for this country.
You should have seen this.
It was clear to me that somebody thought that this guy was gonna be dishing dirt.
And whenever an anchor has to pause for four seconds, formulating the next question, it means they're shocked or stunned by what they got in the answer.
They weren't expecting it, and they don't know where to go next.
Are you gonna watch tonight's big debate?
Of course.
Long pause.
What was she expecting?
Hell no, I hate the guy.
I'm not gonna watch the debate.
He's a phony baloney plastic man, a good time rock and roller.
So the next bite, she says a lot of voters are puzzled when Mr. Trump does things like he did at the news conference when he brought out the Trump water and the Trump snake.
Why do they?
This is classic at how the drive-bys do it.
A lot of voters are puzzled.
Nobody's puzzled.
They either laughing about it, applauding it, or think it was cheap.
But nobody's puzzled about why Trump did it.
Nobody's puzzled about Trump at all.
There isn't any puzzlement about Trump.
There is either massive support or endless despisal.
But nobody's puzzled.
A lot of voters are puzzled when Mr. Trump does things like he did at the news conference when he brought out the Trump water to Trump saying.
Why did he do that?
Because he was challenged on that.
That it wasn't true, that he didn't have the water, that he didn't have the magazine, that he didn't have a stake.
It's all bull.
You mean it's all bull when people say he's not the great businessman he passes himself off to be?
Absolutely.
Wrong answer, another pause.
Even the allegations against Trump University you think aren't true.
That's in court.
Let the court decide that.
Another pause.
But it is fair to bring it up, right?
Because shouldn't voters know that it's in court And why it's in court?
Sure, that's fine.
I have no problem with that.
Right there, right there, it tells you what she thought she was gonna.
She's cursing the producers under her breath right now.
This is not happening the way it was supposed to happen.
So let's review here.
You mean it's all bull when people say he's not the great businessman he passes himself off to be?
She's hoping for something totally.
She wants the guy to say, no, the guy's phony.
It's all bull.
There aren't any stakes.
There isn't any water.
Everybody knows that.
Trump's laughing at every that's what she wants.
She wants something like this.
She doesn't get it.
So she pauses for four seconds.
You mean you mean it's all bull when people say he's not the great businessman?
Absolutely.
Oh, that's pretty definite.
What do I do next?
She says.
You mean even the allegations against Trump University you think aren't true?
Yeah, let the court decide that.
And then the proof.
But it is fair to bring it up, right?
I mean, because shouldn't voters know that it's in court and white.
It's fair to bring it up.
So she's doing everything she can to steer this guy into criticizing his former employer, and he won't do it.
And she can't figure out how to get it done.
So she next says, well, it'll probably be brought up at tonight's debate because there is Florida and there's Ohio coming up, and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, John Kasich have to make their mark.
So she wants this Trump University thing to come.
She wants this guy to dump all over Trump for Trump University.
Here's his reply.
Yeah, but I think Rubio's gonna back off a little bit.
He's been, he's been just absolutely obnoxious.
First of all, he has not represented this state.
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, he is taking American money under false pretenses.
I wouldn't vote for him in this state for anything.
Another pause.
Donald Trump says he's going to take a softer tone at tonight's debate.
Do you believe him?
Sure.
Another pause.
What's a softer tone when you um when you say that about Donald Trump?
He probably won't pick on Rubio as badly as he has.
He may not even call him little Rubio anymore.
Little Marco.
And finally, can can you can you tell my viewers something about Donald Trump that they don't realize like he kills cats, like he uh he he picks the wings off of flies?
Is there anything like that you could she didn't say that, but you know that that's what they're looking for.
Yeah, I tell you, first of all, he's an incredibly generous person.
He's been generous to his employees, he's generous to strangers, he's an entirely nice guy.
He's not the great gruff person that people play him out to be.
Sure, you attack him, he's gonna fight back.
But most of the time he's just a nice man.
I mean, I lasted with him for 20 years.
He had to be pretty good.
I have to leave it there.
Tony Seneca, thank you so much for joining me this morning.
Who gave me this guy?
She's asking.
Sounds like Donald Trump is one of the first guys to be a hero to his valet.
You heard that old saying?
That old philosophy that no man is a hero to his valet.
Because the valet knows all the shortcomings.
The valet knows what goes on behind the scenes, what a phony baloney plastic, but he had a good time rock and roller to powerful patriarch is or whatever.
But this guy sounds like he uh a lot of respect for Trump.
What?
No, I've I've I've known one person in one family that had a butler.
One person had a butler's a British guy.
And whenever I was at this place, I I could have sworn the butler behaved like it was his house and the family worked for him.
It was the most amazing thing.
I mean, this butler might have been a major domo, I don't know.
But this butler clearly thought he ran everything.
It was just short of owning it.
And it was uh it was fascinating dynamic to watch.
Anyway, folks, let me swerve into the um into the Democrat side here because it has been getting short shrift, and these are the people that we ultimately are Going to have to unify against.
And there is a gold mine of attackable stuff that came out of last night's debate alone.
But there's also this, as I mentioned from last week, the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And the headline, when I saw this headline, all kinds of lights went on.
Fewer Democrats are voting this year in states with strict new voter laws, but Republicans don't appear to be hurt.
Now this goes back to March 3rd, actually, and this was a story written about the time people started really talking about how low the Democrat turnout is, and how uninspired the Democrat campaign appears to be, and how unenergetic and basically how nothing this campaign is and the low turnout.
The Democrats are all on TV admitting that they were very bothered by it.
And I think I have an idea about this.
During the break, email says, screw the Democrats.
The Republicans aren't finished.
Let's start with the Republicans.
Folks, we're going to get to everything going on on the Republican side.
Florida is coming up.
I know there's a there's a huge push now to get Rubio and Kasich to drop out now, before Florida and before Ohio, and have everybody unify behind Cruz on the theory that the only way to win this.
And by the way, this is a fascinating theory, and the question then becomes can it happen?
Is it possible?
The theory is get rid of the divided opposition, which Trump benefits from.
Get everybody out except Cruz.
Rubio and Kasich aren't going to win anything.
It isn't possible.
There's no gold star for winning your state, not in this context, too much is at stake.
Rubio and Kasich get out.
Everybody unify behind Trump, or I'm sorry, behind Cruz, and maybe even have Cruz select a potential running mate.
And then that unifies the anti-Trump vote on the Republican side, which many people think is greater than the Trump support on the Republican side, which tops out 35, 40%.
The question then becomes is there enough time left?
Because what if if you do that, if that's what they ultimately decide to do, and I think the strategy makes sense.
There's two theories.
Let's stick with this one.
Kasich, Rubio resign from the campaign today.
Resign before next Tuesday.
Announce unification, the party behind Cruz.
What then has to happen, folks, if this is going to have any prayer, because you can't do this unless you think you're the Cruz camp.
You can't do this unless you think you can show up at the convention with 1,237 delegates.
You can't show up a close second.
You can't show up with Trump, say 50 votes short, 75 votes short, and expect a contested convention that you can win.
You're good.
You have to go all out.
That has to be the thinking.
If Trump shows up and he's only 25 or 50 votes short of the 1,237, it'd be crazy.
It'd be crazy to deny him the nomination at circumstance, that would be utter chaos.
Cruz knows it.
People, a lot of people confused here over what Cruz has said.
When Cruz talked about how silly it would be for the establishment to deny the legitimate winner, the leader in delegates, a plurality leader in delegates, the nomination.
What Cruz specifically was talking about was in that scenario, if the establishment would then take that occasion and say, give the nomination to Romney, or give the nomination to Jeb, or give the nomination to somebody who has not contested, then that would be major error.
That would cause chaos and an explosion that would result in the end of the party.
Cruz was opposed to that.
Cruz did not say, and he's made it clear now, excuse me, Cruz was not saying That if you have a contested convention and somebody other than the leader gets the nomination, that would be fine if it's a candidate that meets all the other rule requirements and has been in the race all this time and has had a lot of support.
His only point, Cruz's only point was do not blow up the convention, do not deny the leader he was talking about Trump and replace him with an establishment pick.
That would be disaster.
Okay.
So if you buy into this theory that there's still time for Cruz to get 1,237 to essentially beat Trump by unifying everybody, there's a big part of this that also has to get behind Cruz.
You know who that is.
That's a good old establishment.
It's not going to be enough for Rubio and Kasich to get out and pledge their support.
If you still have a Mitch McConnell-led faction, per se, in the Republican establishment, which hates Cruz for personal reasons and others, that will not get behind him and can deny donor support, can deny establishment support, which is going to be necessary.
I'm just telling you right now, it's going to take an entire unity effort.
If the establishment doesn't get on board, then it's all finished.
And how do you get them on board?
Now you can look at Lindsey Gramnesty.
Lindsey Grahamnesty has floated a possibility.
Lindsay Grahamnst, either earlier this week or late last week, said, maybe over the weekend, he said it may be time to consider all of us unifying behind Cruz.
And remember a lot of people were stopped dead in their tracks over that.
Because the conventional wisdom is that Cruz is hated by the establishment even more than Trump is.
Because they view Cruz as intractable.
Cruz won't make deals with him.
Cruz will not be flexible.
He is who he is, and he's going to remain who he is, and they know that.
Now, I believe what Lindsey Gramnesty was doing.
I don't think Lindsey Gramnesty was making a pitch to the establishment there.
When Lindsey Gramnesty said it may be time to start thinking about unifying behind Trump, he was not talking to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and whoever the big donors are.
He was sending a message to Cruz.
The message to Cruz was, hey, bud, come back to us and we can talk.
Now, what does that mean?
Would that mean that Cruz has to, I don't know, apologize?
To members of the establishment that he has attacked, like McConnell?
Well, I don't know, but I'm just telling you, if you are of this school of thought, which says, Kasich, Rubio, get out.
Everybody unify behind Cruz.
Everybody means everybody.
You got to do something to get the establishment that doesn't like the guy on his side and treating him as though Jeb Bush got the nomination, all the money, all the donors, all of the ground support, all of that that the party can bring to it, that would have to happen.
The other theory involves Kasich.
Rubio is essentially, if he doesn't get out after Florida, and if he doesn't win it, he will be out.
But Kasich, latest Fox News poll, Kasich is what, down five or six points to uh Trump in Ohio.
Six points.
So the other theory involves Kasich staying in for as long as he can.
The other theory, essentially, you know what it is?
It's an operation chaos for Kasich.
Keep Kasich in.
Have Kasich win Ohio, deny Trump those delegates, have Kasich and Cruz stay in and continue to deny Cruz the delegates, Trump, I'm sorry, deny Trump the delegates, keep him short of 1,237, and then at some point down the line, come together, as we're talking about in the first theory, and then seek the 1,237.
Now the Cruz camp, I don't know this.
The Cruz camp, for that second theory, keep Kasich in it as long as you can, maybe even do an operation chaos type thing so that Kasich wins Ohio.
Deny Trump delegates, deny him getting 1,237.
If the cruise camp believes that they can eventually prevail in a contested convention, where Trump has a majority of the plurality.
Neither of them have the minimum requirement, 1,237.
If the cruise camp, and I don't know, speculating here, if the cruise camp believes that neither Trump nor Cruz get to 1,237, therefore a contested convention, Cruz camp, there may be elements there that think they could win that contested convention.
On the theory that when you get to the second ballot, all bets are off.
That theory that that may be popularly held within a cruise campaign relies on this.
That all of the delegates that are pledged to Trump and Cruz and in the first ballot, let me use Florida as an example.
Let's say Trump wins Florida, winner take all 99 delegates.
On the first ballot, all 99, the delegates are elected by the state, it's a big honor.
In the first ballot, they have to vote the way of the popular vote in the state.
So on the first ballot, Trump would get the 99 delegates in Florida.
But if there's no winner, and in this scenario there isn't because nobody's got 1,237.
So if there's no winner, the cruise theory is that some of those 99 that had to vote for Trump on the first ballot are really not Trump supporters.
And would vote for Cruz or could be persuaded to vote for Cruz on the second ballot, third ballot, what have you.
Now, speaking just for myself, I don't think that theory has much of a chance.
I think if Cruz is to win the nomination, he's got to do it in the primaries.
And I think they think they can do it.
I think they think there's a pathway there.
But it involves Kasich and Rubio getting out now.
And somehow the establishment unifying behind Cruz, happily, cheerfully, with no animosity, no disappointment.
I mean, they've got to be all in that Cruz is the guy.
They think there's a pathway to do it.
But those are the two theories that survive here in the world of how to defeat Trump.
Yes, look, we're going to get to the Democrats, but before we do, I just was informed of a couple of things Obama said at his joint presser with Justin Trudeau.
So we'll take a break and come back with those.
Who do you think he's blaming today for something?
In other words, sit tight, folks, back before you know it.
No, no, it was not an error.
I didn't get it wrong.
I misspoke.
It's Kasich up five.
I said that Trump was up five over Kasich in Ohio.
It's Kasich up five over Trump in uh in Ohio.
And given that this theory that requires Kasich and Rubio to get out, now you're gonna have a really tough time getting Kasich to pull out of there.
So it looks like theory or scenario two is what the Cruz campaign is going to have to glom on to here, and that is Kasich staying in trying to take delegates away from Trump in every state along with Cruz to deny the 1,237.
Now here's another thing to think about, folks, and don't think that I've did not consider this.
In theory number one, scenario number one, where Rubio and Kasich get out and the establishment and everybody unifies behind Cruz, The establishment has not changed.
They do not all of a sudden like conservatives.
So any scenario that involves the establishment getting full bore behind Cruz, you have to ask.
How serious is it?
How deep is it?
This don't you folks?
Everybody's under the illusion.
Non-illusion.
Everybody's under the impression the Republicans want to win the White House.
Remember, there are elected Republicans telling Brett Bayer.
They will vote for Hillary over over Trump.
And some of them no doubt ditto instead of Ted Cruz, who is just as reprehensible to him for different reasons.
So we'll spend more time on this.
Here are the Barack Obama soundbites, joint presser today with the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, White House correspondent from CBS, Margaret Brennan.
Some of your critics have pointed to the polarized political climate under your regime contributing to the rise of somebody like Trump.
Do you feel responsibility for Trump?
Or even some of the protectionist rhetoric coming from the Democrat candidates.
Do you have a timeline for when you might make a presidential endorsement?
Do you feel political heat is constraining your pool of viable Supreme Court nominees?
The Republican political elites and many of the information outlets, social media, news outlets, talk radio, television stations, have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years.
A notion that everything I do is to be opposed.
That cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal.
Damn right.
That maximalist absolutist positions on issues are politically advantageous.
that there is a them out there and an us, and them are the folks who are causing whatever problems you're experiencing.
That would be you.
And the tone of that politics, which I certainly have not contributed to.
You own it.
You own it.
Don't kid yourself and don't try to kid her, but don't enact a limbaugh theorem on us again, where none of this is your fault.
None of this even has your fingerprints on it.
All of this, you are trying to transform the country, sir.
You announced that that's your purpose.
And you're doing it.
You're flooding the country with future Democrat voters under the guise of immigration and making the country stronger.
There's no question what's been going on here.
So now here's Obama unified with many in conservative media who think Trump is the fault of talk radio.
For two reasons.
A, talk radio created the claim it for Trump, and talk radio will not take Trump out.
But then talk radio is just a entertainment thing.
It's really not serious, bunch of charlatans.
But now look how powerful and serious it is.
Talk radio to blame for everything out there.
What is talk radio?
Talk radio is about the only place in this country that you can find precise opposition to Obama and the Democrat agenda.
Which they don't like.
They don't want there to be any opposition.
Their objective is to get rid of it.
There was one more continuant here in the soundbite.
This is the don't have time to squeeze it in.
I'll tell you what he says in this bite.
He says that he wants an effective GOP.
He doesn't like Trump leading this, he doesn't want a watered down GOP.
I feel like I'm listening to Senator Schumer all over again here.
He wants a viable and effective GOP.
No, he doesn't.
He wants the GOP to remain as the Washington generals.
He wants them as a foil.
These people need villains.
Obama, liberal Democrats, need villains in order to prosper.
He doesn't want the Republican Party to dissolute itself away.
But he does not want it to be effective.
Do not fall for that.
Just getting warmed up.
That's right, Rushlin Baugh.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Brief time out here at the top.
No, no, no.
Obama does not want an effective GOP.
An effective GOP would win.
He needs a foil.
He needs somebody to bounce things off of.
He needs villains, but he needs guaranteed losers.
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