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March 31, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh yeah, I can explain this.
I'd be happy to explain it.
I don't expect anybody to actually get what I'm saying because that's the season in which we live it.
This is easy.
No, no, I think it's easy to explain this.
Now, you know, a lot of people think when you explain something, you're either advocating it, accepting it, supporting it, or what have you.
And those two don't necessarily go together.
I can explain a lot of liberalism, but I don't agree with any of it.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, and we're back at it.
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Can't believe how much news my self-imposed opinion ban made yesterday.
So I self-imposed a ban on my own opinion yesterday on a couple of things.
And that made the news.
It made the news in the drive-by media.
We're whoa, whoa, whoa, we're going to miss Limbaugh's opinions today.
Oh, no, we can't have that.
Limbaugh has silenced himself on opinion.
And they got it wrong, as predicted as to why.
But such are the tensions that are even becoming wound more and more tightly as the days go by.
Great to have you with us here, folks.
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I was just watching.
This is a setup now.
I'm going to talk about Trump and abortion and Chris Matthews and PMSNBC.
And we've got the audio sound lights.
I'm going to tell you what I think happened here.
And I want to stress that in explaining this, I am not.
I'm serious.
People are making a mistake.
When they listen to anybody explain something, they automatically combine advocacy with the explanation.
So, for example, if I explain to you something about Cruz, or if I explain to you something about Trump, oh, well, he must support it.
Wow, he must agree with it.
No, no, I haven't said I've endorsed any of these people.
I'm just telling you, I'm explaining why things are happening.
I'm going to explain why Trump said what he said on abortion.
And I've already addressed the foundational reason for it.
I've already mentioned it to you countless times, but I'll set it up and do it again because I have a pretty good idea.
I don't know for certain.
I haven't talked to Trump about it, but I think I have a pretty good idea what's going on here.
And I'm not offering the explanation to make anybody feel better.
I'm not offering the explanation to make anybody feel worse.
I'm just telling you what I think is happening here.
As a prelude, let me tell you something I just saw on the Fox News channel.
It was three women, the Fox Info Babe, was interviewing two women guests.
One was Angela McGlowen, and the other was the daughter of the Reverend Jackson.
I did not get her name.
I did not see the graphic, so I didn't get her name.
So the fact that I'm not pronouncing her name is not an insult.
I just didn't get it.
They were discussing Trump.
They were discussing abortion and all of these things.
And the daughter of the Reverend Jackson Jr. said to Angela McLowan, you Republicans, you love fetuses, but you don't love people when they get out there.
You love fetuses, but you don't love people when they get out there.
And then she further went on to say how all of you Republicans, you just want, you want women to do this and do that.
You don't want women to do that.
You want to deny women rights.
You want to do that.
And what she was doing, what the daughter of the Reverend Jackson Jr. was doing, was articulating her own biases and prejudices about Republicans and conservatives when it comes to the issue of abortion.
Now, the issue of abortion has not been a part of this campaign.
It has not been a factor.
It hasn't been brought up as a main campaign issue by anybody.
You might have individual candidates in individual states seeking primary victory by saying various things to audiences about their opinion and their stance on abortion.
But in terms of a campaign issue, it hadn't even come up in debates, I don't think.
It has not been something that's been debated back and forth.
It's this is, I'll tell you what we have here.
This is this campaign's version of George Stephanopoulos asking Mitt Romney about contraception.
Contraception at the time Stephanopoulos asked Romney had not been talked about.
Nobody cared about it.
It was not a factor.
And you can tell by Romney's answer, it was in January of 2012 at a debate.
And Stephanopoulos, who's a Democrat Party hack, so is Chris Matthews.
Chris Matthews, Democrat Party hack, used to work with Thomas P. Tip O'Neill Jr.
He's a Democrat Party hack.
His wife is running for elective office somewhere in the Senate, the House, something.
Her name is Kathleen.
It's a Democrat Party hack.
And so he starts asking Trump about abortion in a hypothetical, just like Romney was asked about contraception.
And just as in Romney's case, abortion is not being discussed by anybody.
It has not been a bone of contention.
There have not been massive debates, disagreements, and arguments about it.
So it essentially came out of left field.
But it was worse than that because Matthews set up a hypothetical.
Matthews asked a question about abortion that I don't recall anybody ever having been asked.
And he essentially wanted to know from Trump that he asked me: should women be punished if the United States bans abortion?
Which is not going to happen, by the way.
Certainly, no president can do it.
We have abortion because of a Supreme Court decision in 1973.
No president can change that.
But the Democrats, nevertheless, have their techniques.
They have their own prejudices and they have their own biases.
And they have their own tricks, if you will.
So out of nowhere, Matthews says, okay, abortion is illegal in the country.
What should happen to women who have abortions?
Well, so as far as Trump is concerned, you just ask me if something is illegal, what should we do to people who break the law?
We should punish them.
It's exactly what Trump says when asked about illegal immigrants, for example.
It was a hypothetical that I don't foresee ever being reality.
I don't see abortion ever being made illegal in this country.
It isn't going to happen.
Yet here comes this hypothetical.
So Trump, not a political guy.
Now, here we go, folks.
I'm going to stress here again, because of the heightened tensions, the frayed minds that exist out there.
What I'm saying here does not constitute support for anybody or opposition to anybody.
I'm merely explaining to you what I think happened here.
I do not know.
I have not called the Trumpster.
I have not spoken to anybody.
I never do do that.
Rarely they will call me, but I never reach out to any of them.
So this is what you get here each and every day.
My considered opinion based on intelligence guided by experience.
Donald Trump lives where Donald Trump lives primarily in New York.
As a resident of New York, Donald Trump knows a majority of people who are not Republicans and who are not conservatives.
As such, when Donald Trump listens to people that he knows, maybe even in his inner circle, maybe some of his casual friends, but regardless, the vast majority of people that Trump talks to are liberals and Democrats.
And added to that, the majority of them probably are vehemently opposed to Republicans and conservatives.
I mean, we're talking New York.
We're talking New York politics.
What's the voter registration for Republicans in New York?
10%.
I mean, it's minuscule.
It's more than that, but it's minuscule.
So you have Trump running for the Republican presidential nomination.
Let's put some things on the table that I believe are true.
I mean, I don't know these either, but these are considered opinions again based on intelligence guided by experience.
I do not believe Trump is a political animal like you are, like I am.
I don't think Donald Trump is ideological in any way.
I don't think ideology is how he defines himself, meaning he doesn't run around thinking of himself as a conservative or liberal.
And by the same token, when he is with anybody else, he doesn't think of them as conservative or liberal.
And thus, the ideological identity or the ideological makeup of himself or people he knows does not even register with him.
They're Democrats or they're Republicans.
But whatever they are, in Trump's world, they are people you have to deal with.
You have to either work a way around them, you have to bull your way through them in his business.
You can't pretend that they're not there.
You have to deal with them however you do it.
But he doesn't deal with them ideologically.
He does not form opinions of people ideologically.
He will not immediately distrust, for example, Chuck Schumer because he's a liberal Democrat.
He might distrust Schumer, but not because of that.
And the same goes for every other liberal Democrat in New York.
But my point is that when Donald Trump gets together with people, and this has been the case pretty much his whole life, where he listens to people talk, he listens to people who live in New York.
He listens to what they say and think about things.
And I myself have done this.
How many times have I told you the story of this party or that party that I've gone to where they've come up to me, poked me in the chest?
What are you going to do about the Christians?
They've asked me.
What are you going to do about getting guns out of the hands of people?
We can't.
I hear it all.
I know who these people are.
I know what animates them.
I know what they think about it.
I'm sure Trump hears it too.
The short version of my theory is Matthews asks a question, and Trump took it literally.
He sets up a hypothetical with something that's never ever going to happen here.
Abortion is illegal.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, abortion's illegal.
What happens to women who have abortions when abortion is illegal?
Well, Trump, he's got to think fast here.
So two things happen in micro flash seconds.
He says to himself, okay, I got to make sure I'm consistent on law and order here with his position on illegal immigration.
He makes no bones that people should be punished.
He makes no bones the law should be enforced.
He is aware that people consider him a law and order guy and an outsider.
So the first thing he's got to do is make sure that he does not give up that position.
So he got a hypothetical question.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, abortion's illegal in America.
What do we do to the women who have abortions?
His instinctive reaction, based on his political inclinations here, is going to be, we punish the lawbreakers.
At that point, I don't think he's aware that this is a specific abortion-related question so much as it is, in his mind, law and order.
But then let's get to what he actually said.
He said they should be punished.
You think I should finish this, Mr. Ternes?
Here's what I think happened.
I think what Donald Trump said, and I'm happy to be corrected if this is wrong.
I think what Donald Trump said is what he thinks Republicans and conservatives want to hear based on the way Republicans and conservatives are talked about by New York friends of Donald Trump.
Put another way, people in New York, New York liberals, I lived there for eight years, I've encountered them.
They have bias.
They have prejudice against Republicans, and it's almost cliched.
And Jesse Jackson's daughter articulate, you people love fetuses, but you don't like people when they get out there.
You want to deny women freedom.
You want to deny women rights.
You want to keep women barefoot pregnant in the kitchen.
This is the kind of thing that New York liberals say when talking to each other about Republicans and conservatives.
And when they get really wound up on the social issues, there's no stopping them.
And you know what they think of conservative and Republican people when it comes to social issues, because many of you over the years have come to me and begged me to make sure that social issues are no longer part of campaign because we're getting killed on them because there's no way can win because of what the liberals think and say.
And the liberals are in the media and they're all over the place and they're mischaracterizing pro-lifers and they have for life.
But that's what Trump hears in his day-to-day, and he may believe, I don't know, but I know he hears it.
He's not, remember, the key to understanding this, if I'm right, is that he is not governed by ideological beliefs.
He's not, he's not, his is a world of deals.
You do deals with people.
It doesn't matter, liberal, conservative, from Mars, from China, from you do deals.
He doesn't have time to worry about whether conservatives are liberals, but now he's got to be somewhat attuned to that because he's running for president, and a lot of his supporters care about that.
So he gets asked a question about abortion, the hypothetical abortion is illegal.
What should happen to the women?
And I think he does two things.
I think he tries to stay consistent on his law and order position.
By that I mean people who break the law get punished, no matter what and who.
And then I believe, based on what he hears from New York liberals and Democrats, when they start talking about conservatives, you can, folks, you can't deny that's what New York liberals everywhere think about conservatives when it comes to abortion.
We deal with it every campaign.
You people, meaning us, you hate women, war on women, you don't want women to have abortions.
You don't want this.
You don't want that.
Trump's surrounded by it.
I think he maybe thought he was relating to people.
And I can give you a personal example of that very thing having happened to me in a totally different sphere or realm.
Now, I know what's happening right there.
Everybody is running to the keyboard.
Limbojus, Limbo just agreed with Trump.
Limboj is siding with Trump.
Limbo just did no such thing.
I'm just trying to explain because a lot of people, this doesn't make sense.
You Trumpists are saying, how could this guy get so screwed up?
How could this guy get so tricked by a question?
How could this guy blow it?
Like a lot of people on the Trump side are petrified of this.
I'm simply trying to explain.
I could be wrong.
This is my attempt to explain this.
I've taken a brief break.
We will be back and continue after this.
Now, as I said, I have a personal experience that helps me or suggests to me that this may have happened to Trump.
And I just don't grasp this stuff out of thin air.
My opinions, the reason, the opinion auditing firm, the Sullivan Group, the reason my opinion audit rating, 99.8 almost always, right, 90, is so high, it's because my opinions are considered.
They're not just grabbed out of thin air.
There is a foundation and a basis for each one.
Do you all happen to remember the day, the year, that I was a member of the ESPN Sunday morning pregame show?
What year was that?
Was it 2000?
I don't remember.
The years all run together.
2003, maybe so.
I know I had lost my hearing because it was a major technological challenge to make it work.
Okay, we'll say 2003.
And I lost my hearing 2000, so it could be.
And do you remember a firestorm erupted two days after one of those Sunday pregame shows?
It was on a Sunday pregame.
It involved Donovan McNabb.
You remember, I know it's a long, long time ago, and people may have forgotten this.
But Donovan McNabb was not having a good season, and the main crew on the ESPN Sunday Countdown show were trying to discuss why.
And I was to join the conversation at any point.
I thought somebody had said something that I wanted to bounce off of.
So I found a moment in their discussion to interrupt, which was the format of the program, and started telling people why I thought they were misanalyzing what was going on with McNabb and the Eagles at the time.
Oh, no, a commercial time.
Well, I'll continue this when I get back.
The saga continues.
El Rushbow on another week of broadcast excellence.
Michael Duffy Time Magazine says that James Comey himself is going to be interviewing Hillary Clinton.
The FBI director is going to be interviewing Hillary Clinton when it comes time for her interview over the emails.
Whoa!
Whoa!
That'd be like Gil Garcetti actually conducting the trial against OJ, the guy that heads up the office instead of Marsha Clark.
Only even, I mean, it's even more rare and unique.
The FBI director.
Anyway, let me wrap this up very quickly.
I get this gig to do the Sunday morning pregame show on ESPN.
And my role is to sit off the side from the main desk.
And when they're discussing about things, when anybody on the panel says something that I disagree with or want to add something to, I have a mechanism for joining conversation.
There's a production meeting for the show every night, or every afternoon, Saturday afternoon before the show, where every segment is laid out and blocked.
And I hear what pretty much everybody's going to say about whatever segment we're going to do.
And the McNab segment, there were two of them.
But they were not allowed to know what I was thinking because my bit was supposed to be spontaneous, their reaction to me spontaneous.
But I go to the production meeting and I listen to what they're saying.
There were two different McNab segment, NAB segments, and one of them was on why McNabb's having such a bad season.
What's wrong with McNabb?
And nobody knows.
They're all wringing their hands in the production meeting saying they called Andy Reid.
Andy Reid didn't know what was wrong.
And so I know this is coming up.
That night, I knew a sports writer that I had become friendly with.
I'm not going to mention his name.
This would destroy his career if I mentioned his name.
And I ran this by this sports writer.
I wanted his feedback.
I wanted to know what his take on this all was.
And he said something to me.
He said, if you want to know what's really going on here, there's a racial component.
I said, what do you mean?
And by the way, I've only told this story a couple of times.
You may be hearing this the first time.
You would know this guy.
You would know his name.
Most of you would.
I said, what do you mean there's a racial component?
He said, there's a lot of people hoping McNabb does well.
He's a black quarterback.
He's got a lot of social liberals in sports media.
And they're cutting a guy slack and they're giving him a break and they want him to do something.
So I thought, well, I have a scoop here.
I have a scoop.
I've got inside information.
So I thought I was going to, I thought this segment was going to be great because this guy knows.
And he's giving me some.
And he was not setting me up.
He's not that kind of guy.
He was shooting me straight.
So the show happens the next day.
And I pretty much said, I think you guys are missing the boat on what's wrong with McNabb.
He's probably playing as well as he can.
The defense isn't getting enough credit for how well the Eagles are doing.
I think there's a bit of a desire by the media in the NFL to have black quarterbacks do well.
And nobody said a word about it.
It went by.
The show ended.
The EASPN show Sunday night happened.
The Monday pregame show.
Nothing happened until Philadelphia print papers came out on Tuesday.
And every one of them had a column excoriating me for the usual racism and all that kind of stuff.
Nobody cared about it for two days.
Then when that blew up, well, you know the rest of the story ended up resigning.
The point is, the point is that when that segment happened on the air on Sunday, I remembered the tip that I had gotten the night before in this sports writer.
Yeah, there's a racial component here.
I thought I had a scoop.
I thought I was going to be revealing something that they knew.
And I even thought I might be applauded for having insight.
It was naive of me.
My point is here on this abortion business with Trump and this hypothetical question.
And this is the reason for my opinion on this, because something similar is happening.
And not just this one time, by the way.
But Trump is surrounded by New York liberals and Democrats.
And he hears how they talk about right-wingers.
He hears how they talk about conservatives and Republicans, particularly when the subject of abortion comes up.
He knows that he just hears their prejudice.
He hears their bias.
He hears their anger against conservatives.
But now he finds himself running for the nomination as a Republican.
Chris Matthews asked this question.
Hypothetical question, posing a situation that will never happen.
Abortion's not going to be made illegal, not in our lifetimes.
But nevertheless, Matthews says, okay, abortion is illegal in America.
What do you do, Mr. Trump, to the women?
And his instinctive answer is, well, they're breaking the law.
We punish them.
And then I think that he thought he was relating.
He's running in the Republican primary.
He's heard what liberal Democrats say about Republicans and conservatives.
He hears their bias and prejudice.
I think he repeated it, thinking he was scoring points.
It's a long way around saying that I think Trump thought he might be relating because he's not ideological.
He's not built that way.
He doesn't understand ideology.
He's a deal maker.
That's why he's an outsider.
I mean, if he's an outsider, you've got to accept the outsider-ness.
But again, none of this is offered in support.
None of this is offered.
I'm just explaining to you what I think happened.
I have no idea if it's right.
I'm not supporting.
I'm not opposing any of that.
I'm just explaining my thought on this, pure and simple.
And I'm saying that two or three times so there won't be any confusion about this.
Now, let's go to the audio soundbites on this.
We're lifting the MSNBC ban that we have on this program for this.
Matthews speaking with Donald Trump.
They already set up this hypothetical.
Matthews has already set up the hypothetical.
Abortion's illegal.
What do you do to women who have abortions?
What crime is it?
Well, it's human life.
No, should the woman be punished for having an abortion?
Look, this is not something you can dodge.
If you say abortion is a crime or abortion is murder, you have to deal with it under the law.
Should abortion be punished?
Well, people in certain parts of the Republican Party and conservative Republicans would say yes, they should be punished.
How about you?
I would say that it's a very serious problem, and it's a problem that we have to decide on.
It's very hard to do.
But you're forbidden.
Well, wait, are you going to say put them in jail?
Is that what you're doing?
Well, no, but I'm asking you because you say you want to ban it.
I am against I am pro-life.
See, what happens is Trump's out there saying he's pro-life.
So the left says, oh, you want to ban abortion.
You want to make abortion illegal.
Okay, abortion is illegal.
What do you do to the women?
The whole thing is manufactured, made up, hypothetical.
And this is part of the very bias and prejudice that I'm talking about.
You have a metal midget like Chris Matthews and all these other left-wingers who are so consumed by their hatred for the right wing.
And they're so consumed by their own bias and prejudice that they think pro-life equals punishing the woman.
They have no idea that it's about life and it's about the government standing for life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
They have no idea the constitutional roots of it.
All they look at it is people wanting to punish women pro-life.
And so they set up these hypotheticals.
Okay, and you heard the question here.
Well, it's murder, right?
It's murder.
So you've got to punish somebody for murder, right?
It's murder.
The whole point of the pro-life movement, change minds and hearts, not put people in jail.
It never has been put people in jail.
Maybe some abortion doctors that run these factories, but it's never been about putting women in jail.
So the whole thing is a manufactured, made up gotcha.
And it's made to order for Trump because he doesn't think like this.
Therefore, he's never going to be prepared for something like this.
Not this stage, because he's an animal, but he's not a political animal.
He's a get-things done kind of guy.
He does deals in this.
So this was a huge, huge gotcha.
Matthews continued with this.
Do you believe in punishment for abortion?
Yes or no?
As a principle?
The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.
For the woman.
Yeah, there has to be some form.
10 cents, 10 years.
I don't know.
That I don't know.
Why not?
I don't know.
You take positions and everything else.
I, frankly, I do take positions and everything else.
It's a very complicated position.
You're running for president.
I'm not.
I'm asking you, what should a woman face if she chooses to have an abortion?
I don't want to do that.
I'm not going to do it.
Why not game?
Dame, you have.
You said you're pro-life.
I am pro-life.
That means banning abortion.
So is the Catholic Church pro-life.
But this isn't Spain.
The Church doesn't control the government.
Let me give you something for the New Testament.
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
Don't ask me about my religion.
All right.
That's Matthews.
You see what's going on here in this rapid-fire machine gun type accusation that is disguised as a question.
Okay, so you think abortion is murder?
You think it's murder?
The answer is there has to be some form of punishment.
The woman, what?
She murdered somebody.
You have to take a position.
You're killing, right?
Killing.
You got to kill me.
She chooses to have an abortion.
These people have no earthly idea what the pro-life position is all about.
They have no earthly idea how pro-lifers seek to reduce the number of abortions, which is happening, by the way.
They can't get past the fact that it is what they have made it up to be.
So they ask Trump these questions formed by their own bias, formed by their own prejudice.
And since I don't believe Trump in any way thinks about issues this way, he's caught and he has to, okay, what do my supporters want to hear?
I'm going to be consistent on the law and order.
And he's heard what New York liberals say about conservatives and this kind of stuff.
So he might be answering here, articulating what he thinks based on what he's heard about conservatives and Republicans and his liberal buddies, what they want to hear.
At any rate, the whole thing was a giant setup, and the correct way to have dealt with this, and of course, hindsight's easy, 2020.
Chris, I don't do hypotheticals.
Chris, abortion is never going to be made illegal.
Well, who can you be?
How can you be pro-life?
I'm pro-life.
I hope that every wife that's conceived is born.
I hope.
What are you going to do?
Chris, I'm not dealing with your hypothetical.
It's how you deal with this.
But that's not what happened.
I got to take a brief time out.
Sit tight.
Your phone calls are coming up.
Do not go away.
And this only scratches the surface.
And to the phones we go.
We start with Mark in Barrington, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB Networks there.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor to actually speak with you.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say your analysis of Donald Trump, my view, is spot on.
I used to be a CFO of a pretty big company, and the owner could be Donald Trump.
I mean, to me, they seem like the exact same person.
And, for example, we used to build nursing homes and supportive living facilities all over the country.
And while people might think that's admirable, you're taking care of old people, it had nothing to do with that.
It was all about making money and deals and taking care of families.
This social stuff you're talking about that Trump didn't do so well with this morning.
Yeah.
It's irrelevant to Trump.
It doesn't even think about it.
Yeah, I don't think it's a big deal to him.
I think, in fact, of all these people, I can't tell you the number of times I hear this every campaign, even before the campaign.
I hear it from my golf buddies.
I hear it from everybody.
And they all come to me as like it's my responsibility.
You got to get them to stop talking about the socialists.
We're going to get killed.
We can never, it's socially just dropped.
And they all mean abortion.
And it's as though I have some magic ability to get everybody to stop talking.
I want to, folks, I want to remind you again, who started this?
Donald Trump did not bring it up.
Ted Cruz didn't bring it up.
John Kasich didn't bring it up while eating his pizza in New York City with a knife and fork.
Chris Matthews brought this up.
It has been my contention all along, listen to this again, it is not Republicans who lead with the social issues.
It's the Democrats who do it because they are trying to score points.
They've got various tricks that they play, narratives and templates that they want to establish.
They've got the war on women.
That was built in 2012 with the same kind of question to Mitt Romney about contraception.
What?
George, contraception?
Nobody, just what do you think?
Mr. Romney, should women be denied contraception?
George, I don't care.
Nobody's talking about this.
Well, should the states be in charge of the federal government?
George, I don't know.
And he kept pressing until Romney gave an answer.
All that took was Romney giving an answer.
Once Romney answered it, there we go.
War on women.
Republicans want to deny women contraception.
We're off and running.
Meanwhile, it's never even been brought up.
The Republicans weren't even thinking about it.
It wasn't part of campaign.
Just like abortion is not part of this campaign.
Abortion has not been a part of this campaign.
It has not been a part of this race.
It is not a factor.
Abortion is not anything that is animating any aspect of this primary campaign.
Abortion is nowhere near immigration.
Abortion is nowhere near the debt.
It's out there.
It matters to some people, but it's not part of this primary.
Thank you, Chris Matthews, with one of these Stephanopoulos-type Democrat hack questions.
So it's the Democrats who always do introduce the social issues into the campaign.
And my point is that the conservative Republican position on social issues anyway is one of defense.
It's the Democrats corrupting and polluting culture with their preferred issues.
It is conservatives and Republicans who are trying to stop the corruption and the perversion of culture by standing up and saying, no, we disagree.
And then somehow that gets translated into Republicans care only about social issues.
But if you don't fight back against it, if the Democrats' efforts to corrupt, pollute, whatever, the culture continue, and nobody stands up and stops it, the culture is going to get what?
It's going to get corrupted and polluted.
So you have no choice if you believe in it.
You have to stand up, speak out against it, oppose it.
And when you do, the Democrats think you've fallen for their play, fallen for their trap, fallen for their trick, and they get out and they go to their buds in the media and they make it look like you're some social issues abortion freak who cares about nothing else.
You're trying to punish women.
And all you did was answer a question.
A hypothetical question to boot.
And can I synthesize the hypothetical question down to its bare, basic essence?
Mr. Trump, what should we do with people who break the law?
That was the question.
Now you add abortion, you add punish women, you add all these other liberal flourishes to the thing, and you end up bastardizing this whole premise.
And you end up with a result that basically says it's unfair and it's prejudice and bias to enforce the law.
And that comes from racism and it comes from sexism and it comes from bigotry.
So any attempt to enforce the law, and that's what this really was.
This is an attempt, once again, to pigeonhole law and order people.
It's an attempt to maintain and expand the war on women.
Hillary Clinton's sitting over there cannot draw flies.
Hillary Clinton's campaign's as dull as weak old dishwater.
There's real problems on the Democrat side.
Their base is not enthused.
Their base is not showing up to vote in these primaries, at least especially for Hillary.
There's no excitement over there whatsoever.
Their turnout's way down.
They've got to do something.
It's either abortion or the race card or both.
And so today, last night, we got abortion.
And the Democrats have once again inserted it by virtue of their buds in the media into a campaign where it had never even been mentioned.
Oh, yeah, there's all kinds of other stuff happening out there, polling data.
Ted Cruz appears to be pulling away from Trump in a major way in Wisconsin.
So we'll have details on that.
And Kasich eating pizza with a knife and fork.
There's more than one way to eat a pizza, by the way.
He's done it.
They have special ways of eating pizza in Ohio that actually help reduce the deficit.
Don't be critical here.
Too remarkable a story.
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