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March 24, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Oh, here's a shocking headline, folks.
Kasich rules out vice president role, is open to a Democrat running mate.
Stories from the Washington examiner, Ohio Governor John Kasich said that he is not willing to serve as anyone else's vice president, but he indicated that party affiliation would not matter to him when choosing his own running mate.
After losing the Arizona primary and trailing a candidate who's no longer running for president.
Kasich hit the do you realize Casey came in, did you Arizona had the pre-early voting?
If you look at Rubio got votes and well, Rubio and Jeb got more votes than Casey got.
Kasich's still running.
And they're not.
And that's what this means.
After losing the Arizona primary and trailing a candidate who's no longer running for president, Kasich hit the campaign trail in Wisconsin and told voters only he can beat the Democrats in November.
He ruled out the possibility of serving with any GOP nominees.
Not going to be Trump's VEP.
He wouldn't be Cruz's VEP.
But that doesn't mean that he would oppose putting a Democrat on the ticket as his vice president.
He said, I'm not going to be anybody's vice president.
Okay?
Okay?
I mean, my story's too remarkable.
Look at what's happened to me.
You think I'm going to settle for vice president?
A guy, the son of a mailman from McKees Rocks, who's now the governor of Ohio?
It's a remarkable story.
You think I would settle for vice president after all this?
No way.
I will not be anybody's vice president, just so you know.
And then he said that he would be open to putting a Democrat on the ticket as his VP if he gets a nomination.
Just because someone happens to be a Democrat doesn't mean they are disqualified.
Kasich Sanders, Kasich Biden.
Kasich Hillary.
Yeah, that's what he's saying.
Another headline here.
Well, no, I'm ripping that up.
There's no reason to keep that one for the archives.
I won't forget it anyway.
Homeownership, increasingly difficult for average Americans.
You know what this headline ought to be?
You want to know why Americans are supporting Donald Trump?
So I think, folks, I really think this is such a big deal.
And I I tell anybody, people ask me questions all the time about why this or that is happening or what I think about whatever's happening.
If you look at the condition of America today for the middle class, you know, the great distinction between the United States of America and any other country, well, there are many,
but one of the most important has been because of the combination of liberty, freedom, uh capitalism, all these various ingredients, has been the opportunity for middle class people, meaning unconnected, no connections here, nobody paving the way, greasing skids for him, just merit-based advancement through life.
There's always been the real possibility of improving your standard of living.
The American dream has always been thought to be house, but you know, homeownership, but really that was just part of it.
It was the opportunity, it was the chance to elevate yourself, the the chance to climb an economic ladder.
People forget this, but the the history of the human condition, the beginning of time is bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, authoritarian, it's been poverty.
Uh that's really when you get down to it, what American exceptionalism is.
We are the exception to the way most human beings have lived.
And one of the elements that made this possible was education.
It became, in many people's minds, a requirement.
A college education became a requirement for this advancement.
American homeownership likewise was part of the realization of this possibility of upward mobility.
And I don't mean in a selfish sense.
I mean, you know, you know, a guy or a husband and wife doing better for themselves elevates their family, elevates the community.
I mean, everybody benefits from this.
I don't mean this in a selfish sense.
And it's always been what set this country apart.
But obviously, not everybody in any way, shape, matter, or form, comes close to leading this country.
There's always been a trust, an implied trust that the people elected to run the country, quote unquote, are good people, maybe even special, that they are a cut above, that they have qualified.
It's the way lawyers look at judges in the in the old days.
Judges had to be incredible people.
They had to be fair, they had to be informed, they had what it required really, really quality people.
And this is how most people viewed their government.
It's why they still do.
In fact, it's a holdover.
Faith that the people representing you are good people, moral people, honest people, and that they actually are doing what they're doing not for themselves, but for the entire country.
Well, part and parcel of all this, middle class expansion, middle class growth, middle class economic advancement.
Key to it has been education, primarily the college education.
I know I've been harping on this a lot, but it's crucial.
I've found that oftentimes you need to repeat things for people to remember them.
A college education is no longer the ticket out.
A college education is no longer the ticket up.
A college education for way too many has become an impediment because of the cost and the debt that people incur getting it.
So you graduate four years, maybe you get a master's, a doctorate, or whatever.
The debt that you incur stands squarely in the way of the purpose of the education in the first place.
And who's done this?
Well, for lack of a better term, the establishment, the special people, the people that we've always entrusted to run and lead the institutions that defined America's greatness.
And now so many of those institutions appear corrupt, some perverted, but certainly there isn't the trust in them anymore.
Even to this day, usually after a sporting event, you can watch an interview of the star of the game, and invariably the player will say proudly is the first in his family to ever go to college.
It was it still is that big a deal.
And it was something that families were proud of, but now it's become an impediment.
It's a shackle in a way because the people running education, people run that there's never any reduction in tuition costs.
There's never any reduction in overall cost to go to college.
They're skyrocketing, and nobody ever seems to care about it.
You know, let the price of gas go up a dime and everybody freaks out.
Let the cost of any other necessity and then it go up and everybody has a cow.
Education costs have been skyrocketing.
And there's no condemnation of the people making that happen.
There's no condemnation of university presidents, and many of these big universities have overwhelmingly huge endowments.
In fact, there was a story yesterday, the state of Connecticut is in such dire straits in their economy, their budget, that they're thinking of getting some money from the Yale endowment.
And I the first person I thought of there was the uh Reverend Dax, who back in the 1980s said, you know, that's there's a lot of money in these pension plans.
a lot of money here that we can go get in these pension plans.
And homeownership has become the same thing now.
Homeownership as part of the American dream is getting further and further.
There is a story.
I didn't get to it.
I saw it yesterday on Drudge.
I think it's Southern California, somewhere in California, that people with incomes of 250,000 can qualify for subsidies to buy homes in Southern California because they're so expensive.
$250,000 salary, you qualify for a subsidy because home prices are so out of whack.
It's becoming like health care.
No way you can afford it on your own.
No way are market forces involved in any way, shape, matter, or form, particularly in health care.
So, headline, homeownership increasingly difficult for average Americans, right?
Now I tell you, they're not blaming themselves.
They have any wage increases in 15 years.
They see open borders, country flooded with low-skilled, no skilled, no education people.
They seem to be the preferred people.
Politicians in Washington seem to want them in greater numbers than they care about other Americans.
And it's true because they see them as potential voters down the road.
Anyway, people have lost faith in these institutions.
People have lost faith in what they always trusted.
And that's another reason the establishment is on the outs.
Which takes me to the story at the Hill.com.
Vocal Trump critics in GOP open to supporting Clinton.
I have been acknowledging and predicting this for the last couple of months.
The establishment is a closed club.
It's exclusionary, and you can't get into it.
It's not merit-based.
It requires a pedigree and a resume and even some breeding to be an accredited, accepted member of the establishment.
The Washington established, both parties, lobbyists, campaign consultants, I mean, whoever, elected officials, and Republicans, Democrats doesn't matter.
The same people end up serving.
At the State Department, over at the Defense Department, Department of Education.
It's just a revolving door.
But members of the GOP foreign policy establishment are open to supporting Ted Cruz or even Hillary Clinton for president if that's what it takes to prevent Trump from becoming commander-in-chief.
In interviews with the Hill.com, prominent Republicans who signed a scathing open letter, denouncing Trump, said that they are not wavering from their opposition to him.
Yeah, what's happening is you have you have a lot of people desperate to get anybody in there other than Trump.
People, people are going to go for crews because at the end of the day, they think he's considerably less bad than Trump said Elliott Cohen, a former Jeb Bush advisor, who also served in the George W. Bush administration.
Elliot Cohen, along with Brian McGrath, organized an open letter opposing Trump that was signed by more than 120 members of the Republican foreign policy establishment.
The letter declared that Trump is unfit to be president because his views of American power are wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle, which means we wouldn't do any of that.
And if we wouldn't do it, it shouldn't be done.
Because we are the smart people.
We are the best and the brightest.
We are the only ones who should be entrusted with this kind of responsibility.
So the Hill went out, contact contacted 13 of the people that signed the letter.
And they heard back from 11 of them.
Support among the group appears to be shifting to cruise, especially now that Jeb endorsed him along with Senator Gramnesty.
One of the uh guys, Brian McGrath, Byron McGrath said, Look, Trump's not a Republican, He's a caricature of classless wealth.
Folks, remember my lecture on old money versus new money?
How the old money, this is it's really classic.
Old money is not earned.
Old money, your great-great-granddaddy earned it decades ago, and it is so much of it you can't go through it.
All you do is start sipping cocktails at 4 30.
And then you go to the club and you resent anybody who earns their wealth by working because the working class, no matter what else is beneath.
So when this guy says Donald Trump is a caricature of classless wealth, his wealth doesn't count.
He's a classless, coarse rube.
He's not in our league.
He is a caricature of the ugly American, this guy said.
This guy, by the way, McGrath, deputy director, the Center for American Sea Power at the Hudson Institute, which is now working with the Cruz campaign.
Now look, I deputy director at the Center for American Sea Power.
What do you think they do there?
But look, the Hudson Institute's got some good people in it.
I'm going to be very, very careful here, but I'm just...
My point is, let's say this is Myron McGrath.
This is 10 years old and he's over in the family Christmas.
Hey, little Brian, what do you do?
What do you want to do when you grow up?
Well, you know what I want to do?
I want to be in charge of American sea power.
I want to run the Center for American Sea Power.
Nobody would ever think, nobody would ever aspire to this.
But what do you do there?
It's a think tank.
So you go there and you think about American sea power.
But after you thought about it, what do you do?
Well, you write, well, you you write, yes.
I have a lot of little helpers here, folks, uh, trying to coach me in the IFB here as to what I should say next.
Official program observer, Mr. Snurley.
No.
You do.
You write about it, you no, you have contact with policymakers.
At the Center for American Sea Power, you have an entree, you know, to Admiral Hoosit in the E-ring at the Pentagon.
And you may have an in with him, and so you've thought about American sea power.
And then there's no circle, the National Organization Circumcision Information Resource.
That's in San Francisco.
I mean, who would ever grow up wanting to head up that organization?
Somebody happily is doing it, and I guarantee you, they really think they're important.
Same thing here.
They say all the palatable choices are gone.
But the next page is where this really closes out, and I'll get to that after another obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
Anyway, folks, the guy who runs the Center for American Sea Power.
At the end of this story, the Hill.com says, look, on foreign policy, defense policy, I at least trust Hillary Clinton's judgment.
I am not voting for Trump.
I will vote for Hillary.
Benghazi.
The Clinton Foundation.
The crime family foundation.
He's a guy from the Republican establishment.
Openly, proudly states that he trusts Hillary Clinton on foreign policy.
Why?
She's in the club.
Whatever you want to call it, establishment, the elites, ruling class, I don't care, but they are hanging together here.
Now this just came in from the UK Daily Mail.
It's from London, well, somewhere in the UK, a PR boss, a guy.
Public relations exactly, walking down the street.
He saw a Muslim woman.
I don't know what it was about her that told him she was a Muslim.
But she was.
And he act, he walked Up to her.
He wanted to know what Brussels was all about.
He walked up to this woman to explain Brussels to him.
This guy's been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.
Matthew Doyle, an LSE alumnus.
I'll find out what that is in a minute.
He's a partner at a South London-based talent agency.
Sparked outrage on social media after he confronted a Muslim woman about the Brussels attacks.
He wrote on Twitter, I confronted a Muslim woman in Croydon yesterday.
I asked her to explain Brussels.
She said, nothing to do with me.
A mealy-mouthed reply.
His initial post was followed by a number of like-minded tweets, such as, no more Muslim migration.
The comment went viral.
Metropolitan police issued a statement confirming he had been arrested for inciting racial hatred with the question.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Simply by showing up.
There's some polling data here.
You know, Wisconsin, we uh we read earlier this week in the New York Times story, that's what it was.
It was a New York Times story about how the Republican establishment was going to start their 100-day strategy designed to take the nomine away nomination away from Trump.
And it was going to start on April 5th, the Wisconsin primary.
Well, there's an Emerson poll out, just out.
As establishment Republicans look for ways to slow down Trump's march toward the nomination, Wisconsin's winner take all primary contest, April 5th, offers some intriguing possibilities.
In a statewide Emerson College poll released today, Ted Cruz is not only leading Trump 36 to 35 in Wisconsin, but Ted Cruz is only trailing Hillary by one point in a hypothetical general election matchup, 46 to 45, which is a margin of error, of course.
In contrast, uh the Trumpster is trailing both Hillary and Crazy Bernie by nine points, 47 to 38, in a potential general election matchup.
In the Democrat primary, Hillary leads Crazy Bernie by six, 50 to 44, 5% undecided.
Wisconsin's demographics bode well for Crazy Bernie.
That doesn't matter.
Bernie Sanders was never going to get not to say they're not worried.
I mean, he is generating interest.
He's trading he's raising money.
There isn't any excitement out there on the left.
I mean, the biggest thing that Hillary's got going for is what they've always had, a capital D next to her name on a ballot.
I mean, based on the electoral college, don't they start out with 206?
Electoral votes are somewhere in there.
So monumental task every year, but that's some people think that Trump could redraw these maps.
Before we get back to the phones, here's another Trump soundbite.
Now, I you you let anybody else say this, and they're done.
You let anybody else even allude to this.
And they're gonna grab, you know, the little yellow bus and send the guys in the white coach to pick them up and take them away.
Last night on Doomberg TV, all due respect, is the name of the show.
John Heileman is interviewing Trump.
He said, you would you would you would use the possibility you would use nuclear weapons against ISIS?
I'm never gonna rule anything out at a minimum.
I want them to think maybe we would use it.
Okay.
We need unpredictability.
ISIS is an enemy.
When you ask a question like that, it's a very sad thing to have to answer it.
Because the enemy is watching, and I have a very good chance of winning.
And I frankly don't want the enemy to know how I'm thinking.
But with that being said, I don't rule out anything.
No, to me, makes perfect sense.
You build the B-2 bomber so you don't have to use it.
You know, the left never understood that.
What do you mean you build a B2?
You're building a B2 bomber because you're a bunch of imperialists and you want to bomb people.
No, no, you build it so you never have to use it.
What does that even mean, the left deterrent?
You'd understand the terms.
You have this giant military, you hope you never have to use it.
It's so big nobody wants to take it on.
It equals peace.
And that's what Trump is talking about.
I'm not going to take it off the table.
I want him to think I could nuke him.
But just the idea, just the suggestion, I guarantee there are people out there that need to pick them up off the floor with this.
And most other.
Let's say Crazy Bernie started talking about the possibility of using nukes.
Can you imagine what would happen to him?
I mean, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz would get to him before Hillary even did.
Anyway, Peter Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Fine and dandy.
Thank you much.
Okay.
Uh if Donald Trump is the nominee, the establishment won't even have to run a third party candidate because it's going to happen naturally or spontaneously.
Let me explain.
As we all know, on every presidential ballot, in addition to the Republican and Democrat nominees, there are a whole host of faceless names or what I call ghost candidates who never have a prayer.
Yet this time around, they will be ripe for the choosing of any member of the never Trump movement who will probably just follow Romney's lead and vote for any one of those candidates which will have the same effect as a third party.
You know?
Whether there's an official third party or not, you think there's going to be enough ghost names on ballots for people to effectively vote for one.
So you believe that'll elect Hillary is what you're saying.
Yeah, it it's it's it's gonna have the same effect.
Romney saying he's gonna vote for anyone else, or he'll write in a candidate.
You know?
So it doesn't matter.
It's it's a third-party effect.
What are you saying?
Trump should quit?
What are you saying?
I'm scared.
I am really scared.
You just cited the the poll that Trump's down by nine.
I've seen polls that Trump is in the world.
Okay, so you you are scared, no matter what the bumbling idiots in the establishment do that the third party option is going to be there and it's going to result in Hillary being elected.
You know, the last week, uh Krouthammer was saying, you know, oh, the the war is over and the anti-establishment has won.
No.
What is happening now is is uh not just a fracturing within the Republican Party, but a fracturing within the conservative movement.
If we didn't uh have a divide enough country or divided enough party, now we're being split into fourths, eighths, and sixteenths.
And each one is raging against the other.
As a result, Rush, the establishment couldn't have asked for a nicer Easter or even Christmas present if they had wrapped it up.
Okay, I I get it now.
Because of all this fracturing, because all of the divisions, because the conservative movement's not unified, because the Republican Party is unified.
The establishment by default is going to be the winner because they're gonna be there to pick up all the pieces, because one of them, Hillary or whoever's gonna end up uh winning this thing.
You know, it is a there's so many unknowns here.
And I told you the uh uh people I had dinner with last night.
I mean, they are rabid Republicans.
These are donors, these are fundraisers, these are people that have uh that have been associated with the official Republican party, the establishment wing of that party, all of their lives, and they're fascinated by Trump.
And I kept digging, I kept asking.
I didn't accept any answer without asking another question.
And I finally got to it.
To them, it's entertainment at this stage.
They don't want Hillary, these people, any part of Hillary, anybody is preferable to Hillary, and they this Trump business Is so unique.
They've never seen anything like it.
I mean, it's the first outsider, and they they are steadfast that Trump is an outsider, and they are they're convinced this holds potential like they've never seen.
They realize the downside to it too, but still the excitement aspect of it.
The prospect of actually electing somebody that is not of the political profession, they said holds great fascination for them.
So I think that's understandable.
I mean, if you look at our pop culture dominated society that makes heroes out of celebrities, and celebrities can become celebrities without having accomplished anything.
So it it it it can make sense.
I mean, not that it's wise, but it can make sense.
Jim and Juliet Illinois, hi, you're next, great to have you here.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Very much.
Uh sorry, I'm a little uh very upset right now.
What you told me about uh John Kasich and him willing to have take on a uh a Democrat vice president just shows he's just a big potato headed spoiler, and uh I've known it from the beginning, and out of and my family is busting their rear end to try and keep my kids in a great school district we moved here you go to a rental property to put them in a ten out of ten school district.
My children, my eight-year-old and my eleven year old today, both of them should be giving PowerPoint presentations.
My son's eight years old, given a 26 page PowerPoint presentation, my daughter given a PowerPoint presentation on the Civil War y'all today, and I then uh to be had that joy be pulled out from under me by hearing you tell me that John Kasich is is is uh going that far.
I'm sorry, I'm so limited.
I'm just absolutely I understand.
I I understand, and i i here's the thing about about Kasich.
You know the people that that say Governor Christie was one of these, um, that he was a guy.
McCain was one of these guys.
I'm the guy I can cross the aisle, I'm the guy who can reach out to the other side, and the guy I'm the guy could cooperate with us, I'm the guy to show Washington works.
I'm I'm I'm the guy, if they have a good idea over there, I'm not gonna reject it just because it's from them.
I'm gonna I'm gonna make Washington and this is the last thing.
I mean, those people, you, me, everybody else thinks those people are the architects of the disaster that is happening all across the country.
We don't want to work with those people, we want to defeat them politically.
And here comes Kasich.
All about him, that whole thing saying that he would be way open to choosing a Democrat.
Kasich is it is taking the occasion here to try to sell himself as something unique and special.
It really is.
It's this has gone to his head.
I really believe the whole thing.
When I when I saw the uh confetti, when he when he shot confetti at himself after winning his own state, the Ohio primary, and then started talking about what a remarkable story his story is.
And looking at people, do you realize what I have done?
This is somebody that's lost in themselves and is really he thinks that he is establishing himself as a cut way above any of these other Republicans.
He will not dare utter a negative word about Democrats because they're people too.
And it's about loving people.
It's about working with people.
You get people, you get the school board people, you get the school board.
I've done it, I've done it in Ohio.
We've got utopian Ohio, and I've done it.
You know, the school board people together, and you say, get in there and fix it, and I go in there with them, and we get it fixed, and it can be done.
I did it, I know how to do it, and the Democrats and I banned people, the Republicans and I be.
We're all in it.
Can we give each other a hug?
And that's what that he's trying to own that.
As, you know, the one reasonable guy, I don't know what it is, but it it at this stage really I'll be more than happy to run with a Democrat.
But I wouldn't stoop.
I I wouldn't lower myself to be vice president.
Are you kidding?
John Kasich from the Keys Rocks, the son of a mailman, vice president, after this remarkable story about you think I would settle for that?
You got another thing coming.
After what I've done in Ohio, Vice President, are you serious?
But I'd be happy to run with a Democrat.
So I understand how you heard that, Jim.
In fact, I'm sorry for piling on here and explaining to you, but uh you should feel proud over your kid's achievement.
You're doing the right thing.
Keep it up.
We will be back.
I just got a note from a friend.
I could have sworn that you don't have guests.
I know you don't have guests, but I thought I just heard John Kasich on your show.
Very funny, very funny.
Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
It really is.
It's a it's a great thrill for me and an honor to be with you each and every day.
And I look forward to it so much as I am tomorrow.
Open line Friday tomorrow, which allows you to bring up anything you want to talk about.
Doesn't have to be anything I particularly care about.
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