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April 7, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2016, Thursday, Hour #2
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Say Coco, I have a Troika for you.
I want these three graphics side by side at rushlimbaugh.com.
I want 1988 Michael Dukakis doing his Beatle Bailey impersonation, wearing the army helmet in the tank, trying to look like a tough guy.
I want John Kerry from 2004, dressed up like the character Johnny Carson used to make fun of hunters.
John Kerry walks into a place in Ohio, I think it was, and says, Is this a place where I get me a hunting license?
Trying again to not appear to be the Brahmin that he is, but just one of the guys.
And now Hillary Clinton trying to get on a subway car in New York.
It was near Yankee Stadium.
And poor old Carol Costello doesn't understand the subway's elevated there.
And she's going on about how miraculous it is they can get TV coverage from underground while they're in the elevated portion of the subway.
You can see the sunlight coming in at the macula.
I mean, these all of these libs claim to have a connection with the little guy, the average guy, they're looking up, and they're such elitists.
Don't even know, and Costello, I think lives in New York and hasn't the slightest idea.
Isn't it wonderful?
We can get pictures from underground when Mrs. Clinton gets in a subway, isn't it marvelous?
Meanwhile, they're on an elevated train.
You know that.
I mean, you know the subway's elevated in Yankee Stadium.
See the sunlight.
So we'll put those three graphic representations right there at rushlimbaugh.com.
Great to have you back here, folks.
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Let's continue to cycle through the latest news developments on all this.
This is a couple of interesting um statistics here.
Ted Cruz has won more delegates than Donald Trump since Rubio got out of the race.
Not talking votes here, although it might be the same thing, but has won more delegates than Trump since Rubio got out.
And of course, this was the Cruz strategy.
You know, get all of these Republicans that are not going anywhere.
Get them a drop out and have all of the re the votes on the Republican side that are not going to Trump coalesce behind one candidate.
Trump, the crew strategy's always been, okay, Trump's getting his 35-37%.
In some places he gets 40 and 45, but he never gets 50%.
So whatever, there's always going to be more Republicans voting for somebody other than Trump.
And Cruz's strategy was to try to control people to get out so those votes would go to him.
The assumption was that none of them would go to Trump.
Now the assumption was not right, because some of the votes have gone to Trump.
But the strategy nevertheless is proving out.
Cruz is doing in a two-man race exactly what he said was happening.
And that is that he would get a majority of the not Trump vote.
Rubio dropped dropped out of the race on March 15th after the Florida primary since then.
Ted Cruz has won 77 delegates compared with 65 for Trump.
Now, there's still a 250 point spread between the two, right?
200 some odd.
Now the talk is, you know, it differs day to day.
And it's really kind of funny the way it differs.
For example, yesterday, the conventional wisdom was no matter where you turned on the media, the conventional wisdom was it's got to be a contested convention.
Because there's no way now Trump can get to 1237 today.
After Cruz gets booed in New York and Trump draws a big crowd, you know what to announce, hey, we see a way for Trump to get to 1237.
Not a single thing has changed.
Other than crowds and protests.
That's all that's different from yesterday to today.
The polls that are out show Trump at 52 in New York, Kasich at 26, and Cruz at what, 17 or 19?
Cruz is in third place in New York State.
And so now the focus is on Trump and that magic number of 50.
Can he get 50 or more and get all of those 90 plus delegates?
And if that happens, if that happens, then you're gonna see the conventional wisdom shift yet again.
But it's interesting.
Yesterday, it was very unlikely that Trump would uh be able to get 1237.
If you look at the delegate math, they would all say, as I have, they would all say, it just looks increasingly difficult for the Trump should get there.
Many of these uh networks say our calculations as of today show Trump coming in 40 delegates shy of 1,237.
That was yesterday.
Today, Cruz gets booed and harassed, has to cancel a rally in the Bronx or somewhere.
Trump goes to where they shot the movie The Dictator in Beth Page has a giant rally and the whole thing.
Now, Chase, and now they're already looking at California.
And California gonna say California, despite what everybody realizes, there's a pretty significant on the Republican side, conservative contingent out there.
It's dwarfed by the Democrats statewide, but we're just looking at the Republican universe now.
And what what is it is it Cruz or Trump that's up in uh California?
That's what it is.
Trump is up to overall, statewide in the field poll, which is a respected poll in California.
But if you just go to LA and the Los Angeles area, Cruz is up over Trump.
And so now they're saying, okay, uh Trump's got the old Mobec.
If he gets his 50, 52% of New York, then that's a catapult.
We got New Jersey, got all these other Northeastern states where Trump probably gonna do well.
Cruz won't, but then Cruz could stop it by forcing Trump to come up short in California.
So that's basically where we are.
The politico Trump soars to majority in New York poll, according to the latest Monmouth University poll.
Registered Republicans likely to vote, released yesterday afternoon after the Rush Limbaugh program.
Trump has rocketed to 52% support, which more than doubles the 25% support earned by John Kasich, and 17% by Ted Cruz.
Now in New York, a candidate receiving more than 50% of the vote in any of the 27 districts wins all the delegates in that district.
Though Trump's majority level of support is well within the polls, nearly six-point margin of error.
You know what else is starting to perk up?
It's slow, but there is a movement effervescing on Kasich to get the hell out.
However, there's a group out there called Never Trump.
You know who these people are.
And the never Trump people want Kasich to stay in through either New York or Pennsylvania and then get out.
Because their sole objective is to stop Trump.
They are making it appear as part of the stop Trump effort that they support Cruz.
But that's not what's propelling them.
Support for Cruz is not the engine behind never Trump.
The engine behind never Trump is never Trump.
Whatever it takes.
So if Kasich can serve a purpose for New York and the Pennsylvania Prime, okay, fine, but then after that, Kasich get out, they are saying.
But people are beginning to ask the questions that I have posed consistently.
There's no earthly reason for Casey to stay in.
Number one, he doesn't have any money left to be running around campaigning.
Number two, he can't win the nomination no matter what.
Number three, this spoiler business, there's nobody behind Kasich as a spoiler.
There's nobody look except for the Never Trumpers.
But more and more people are now starting to realize that Kasich remaining in this race is a supreme act of egotistical selfishness.
And more and more people are coming to that in both in both camps.
And Cruz and Trump both are out saying that Kasich is hurting them.
Who do you think Casing is hurting them more?
Cruz, yeah.
Because it's dividing the never Trump vote.
No question about it.
And then Case says, no, no, no, no.
We're gonna go to a contested convention.
It's gonna be exciting, and I've got just as big a chance as anybody else that he does.
You know the name being floated, by the way?
The latest name.
Apparently, floating Paul Ryan didn't float a lot of boats.
So you know who they're now floating as the establishment choice in a contested convention?
Scott Walker.
Scott Walker's name is being bandied about.
Walker is saying it's not me, and I that I'm not behind this effort, but it is something that is happening.
I'll tell you how if if any of you are wondering what the establishment is gonna do, and what they're doing in preparation for a contested convention, and if they are, whom are they thinking of putting up, who would they like to be the nominee?
There's a way to find out what they're doing.
All you have to do is read the politico.
That's where the Republican Party goes to leak things.
The second thing to do is to keep a sharp eye on I'll give you just a list of names as an example.
Ryan, Walker, uh Romney, Jeb.
If you start seeing in the media news stories that are essentially puff peace profiles, if you start seeing news stories about what has Jeb been doing since he got out, and how is Jeb reacting to it?
What's Jeb planning for his view?
Or about Scott Walker or about Ryan.
If you see news stories where there is an attempt to build the case for somebody, and you wonder what's this about?
He's not there floating possibilities.
They are this is where you read between the lines and you figure out what they're trying to pull off.
And that's how you can identify if there is somebody that they have singled out that they do want to nominate in a contested convention.
Just watch and see which Republican establishment types are getting a lot of news coverage, the kind of coverage that would serve the purpose of establishing a reputation, establishing qualifications, uh, establishing sense of purpose.
Yes, might not have made it throughout the primaries, but has learned a lot and is stayed involved, is closely watching events and wants to do anything possible to help the party.
If you start seeing stories like that about anybody, that will be a good indication of where the power brokers are thinking.
And but I think we've seen that with Ryan.
We've seen a lot of stories about Ryan.
Ryan was in Israel, Ryan this, and everyone has created or produced a Paul Ryan denial.
That's another thing.
Keep a sharp eye on repeated denials, because not a single one of them is gonna say, oh, yeah, yeah, man, I can't wait for that convention to be contested.
I want this nomination.
No, they're all going to deny it.
Take a brief time out.
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Springfield, Illinois.
Hi, Charles.
Great to have you with these today.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
Pleasure talking to you.
I just got a simple question.
And is Hillary ever going to start looking so bad that the media will ever turn on old Bernie to promote and protect Hillary?
What do you mean f specifically by turn on Bernie?
Well, start asking him specific questions about his policies and how they're gonna maybe fail or not coming up with the right numbers and maybe things that he says, like the banks that he really has nothing that he knows not about.
Well, you know, I think I think a little bit of that began yesterday when the New York Daily News released audio tapes of Bernie's editor's meeting interview with him, and it was clear, I mean, the stuff they released was Bernie not knowing how he's gonna do anything.
Like they asked him, well, okay, if you if you're gonna break up the banks, they're gonna do it.
What are you gonna do?
And he had no answer for anything.
So I think that was step one.
I know, I think I get what you're asking.
At some point, when do they stop treating Bernie as the crazy little lovable uncle in the rocking chair up in the attic?
And when do they start savaging the guy?
Well, it's a good question.
Um we don't know how many drive-by support Bernie.
Folks, one thing you have to understand, it's easy to assume that all the drive-bys are in the Clinton tank, but some of them are just as radical extremists as Bernie Sanders and the rest of that that insane lunatic fringe base.
And so I think you have even Bernie and Hillary factions in drive-by media, and if any of them on the Hillary side go after Bernie, you're gonna have some pushback from journalists.
And it it really depends on how much unity in the journalism community there's gonna have for, you know, like how many journalists are gonna say one of these two is going to be our nominee, we better not destroy either one, versus how many are loyal to Clinton for whatever reasons and will destroy Bernie.
Here's maybe an example.
Today's show today, Savannah Guthrie speaking with Enriam Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
She said this continued into the night.
Clinton spokesperson saying that there should be a retraction from Bernie Sanders.
That he should take back his words about Hillary not being qualified.
And the response was to issue a press release, doubling down on it and blaming her for a trade deal that was supported by the president and she as the Secretary of State, a Panama trade deal, which he claims was partly responsible, was in fact responsible, he claims, for helping rich people evade taxes.
That connection's not been made, but boy, he's just slamming her and doing it again after being told to take it all back.
Yeah, now see, she's on the Hillary side, and she can't believe.
You know, the Clinton campaign, it's like Don Corleone, you know, talking to somebody uh uh from a rival family.
Okay, look, look, you've had your say, and and we and we gave you prostitution, and we gave you the drugs in the Bronx, but it's time to shut up now.
And the rival family isn't shutting up, and they're still making moves on the Corleone family.
And Andrew Mitchell's kind of surprised.
You know, Bernie, he's heading for the dead horse in the bed, and he wakes up the next day if he's not careful here.
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Here's Bill in Macon, Georgia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Rush, do you think that the pro or anti-Trump sentiment with people saying they will or will not vote based on Trump, getting or not getting the nomination will impact the GOP from Senate down to dog catcher.
I think it will.
You know, that's one of those questions that is really hard to answer right now.
All you can do is take what you think are polling data that's accurate or inaccurate and sentiments as they exist now.
And remember, passions are really, really in flame right now.
So and there's no unity yet on the Republican side or Democrat side either.
So it's it's hard, I think, to make that projection.
I think it will.
Too many people are calling different shows and saying that I'm I'm definitely opposed to.
I mean, well, I can't get clarification.
I've asked a couple of friends, and they say I'm not showing up at all.
And I'm like, well, okay, you're gonna like show up and vote and write in Mickey Mouse to otherwise vote Republican ticket, because regardless of who gets the nomination or how they got get it, I am showing up in November.
I may not like them.
I mean I'll like how it happened, but I will I will show up and vote.
I don't think a lot of people are, and I try to point out to folks the one thing that's worse than Sanders or Clinton's president is Sanderson Clinton president with a rhino or Democrat Congress.
Um, you know, I I also point out a couple of my friends that, you know, the Constitution's changed at the state level, not at the federal congressional level.
So you got to think of this impact when you're out there threatening and speaking out of anger, and if people actually act on it, it didn't happen in 2012, which is what I was surprised at, because you had all these people, particularly Republicans staying home, and we lost uh the presidency, but we still, by miracle, kept kept the Congress.
I don't know.
I think passions are more inflamed this year, and I think we got a really chance of of the GOP really taking on the chin if they don't, uh if they don't quickly uh at least either modify their totally shut up until the the the convention happens.
That's my thought.
Well, look, I don't I don't dispute that right now there are a whole bunch of never Trumpers who uh are claiming that they're gonna have a big problem voting Republican if Trump is the nominees.
People are out there, you know, whispering about third party, which that's just as destructive.
Then you have the pro-Trumpers who, if they in any way think the nomination has been unfairly wrested from Trump, then they are going to be legitimately infuriated.
And may as an act of punishment sit out.
Now, on the you're right, the presidential side in 2012.
Best research tells us that there were three to four million Republicans that didn't vote, who did vote for McCain in uh in 2008, and we are left to conclude there is some evidence that they didn't vote because they were angry at the Republican Party in general or dissatisfied with the nominee as being insufficiently conservative.
But also, remember that 2014 midterms came after this, and people showed up in droves again in the midterms to vote against Obama.
Just as they did in 2010.
This is this is the the Republican Party has for some reason failed to welcome to coalesce behind to to get involved with the anti-Democrat vote.
And it's huge.
The anti-Obama vote in 2010, which was Tea Party and rooted in Obamacare and out-of-control spending and everything else, but those are the two biggies.
In 2014, it happened again because there had been lip service during the presidential campaign about stopping Obama, but that's all it ever amounted to.
So when it comes to these congressional elections in the midterms, the anti-Democrat vote has shown up in droves and have delivered two separate landslide defeats for the Democrats.
People don't talk about this because this is a presidential election, but the Democrats, in those two midterms, lost a thousand Or more seats, including in the House, including governorships, uh state legislatures, you know, all the way down to town councils, they just took a shellacking, and the Republican Party has yet to try to put together a working majority based on this anti-Democrat vote.
It's the most preposterous thing, even now.
We heard rumblings yesterday that the Republican Party at its platform committee is urging the inclusion of a plank supporting gay marriage and acknowledging climate change.
You know, you can talk about Trump and you can talk about Cruz and the Antes and all this, but I tell you, if if if the Republican Party, it's up the if the establishment starts trying to monkey around with those kind of things and claim we've got to do this to get the millennial vote.
People are just gonna say, no, you don't, those are bogus issues.
There isn't any climate change.
And marriage is a values issue, and we own it, and we're we don't want to be part of a party that's gonna participate, watering it down, delineating it, or even destroying it.
So there could be a lot of reasons that people might stay home in 2016 uh congressional down ballot.
At this point, we just don't know.
We don't know who the nominee is gonna be, and then we don't know how that nominee is gonna make efforts at unification.
Any number of things can happen.
You know, I like to look on the optimistic bright side.
Chris Wallace asked me the last time I was on Fox News Sunday how I thought this all was going to end up.
And I didn't have much time to think about that because I was blindsided by the question.
I try to anticipate everything I might be asked in one of these interviews, but that one I didn't think about, so I had no answer in my head.
So I just instinctively went to the positive, and I said, we're gonna have a nominee, and we're gonna all unify, because at the end of the process, it's going to be abundantly clear.
The real opponent is Hillary Clinton or whoever the nominee is and the Democrat Party.
And I really hope that that's what eventuates.
Now, let's play game here.
Let's say Cruz is a nominee.
However, it happens, let's say Cruz is a nominee.
We don't know yet how well Cruz is going to perform in his unity efforts, but you know damn well he's gonna try.
Whoever the nominee is going to try that.
They're gonna need every Republican vote you can get, and then some.
And there will be all kinds of efforts at reaching out with the Trump voters who may be upset, angry, what have you.
But there would be efforts made for this.
It's gonna depend largely on the nominees' ability to unify.
And then there's always over here, there's gonna be the establishment.
Now, it's another monkey wrench here because the establishment, let me tell you what's going around here.
What's going around the establishment sidling up to Cruz, but not because they really like him.
He's the lesser of two evils.
Cruz getting a nomination keeps the establishment intact, is the conventional wisdom.
Trump being the nominee blows the establishment sky high.
There's a phrase I have it in a news story.
I can't recall what it is here, but it's something about we don't really lose with Cruz or something like this.
They're really more worried.
The establishment's still more worried about Trump.
Obviously, you can see the way these uh endorsements are lining up.
But don't discount what the establishment wants.
You've got people over there.
These are not the nominee.
We're not talking about Trump or Cruz here.
You've got elected officials, as things sit now claiming if they don't get what they want, they might vote Hillary.
So there's gonna need to be a lot of unification taking place.
And let's say Trump is the nominee.
What kind of efforts Trump gonna make?
Can he succeed, for example, in getting the never Trumpers to lay down their arms and join the effort?
And that's gonna be a big one, because the never Trumpers are really worried.
If Trump is the nominee and wins, then the never Trumpers are gonna say, well, you know what?
Trump's not a conservative and he won, and we're conservatives, and oh no, what does that mean for us?
So many different interests here.
Some personal, some professional, some rooted in the national interest, the greatest thing for the country, some party interests.
It's all got to or as much of it as possible be unified once that convention breaks in July.
Actually, once the whole thing should be begins after Labor Day, but it's largely going to depend on the nominee.
And how good at it, how inspiring the nominee is.
We don't know yet.
It's just uh it's just too soon.
But there's there's also a giant, I think, a humongous unifying element out there.
And that's the Democrat Party.
This is what frustrates me more than about the Republicans, folks.
I think all this talk of unity is it's it's it's an indication of how woefully unserved so many people are by the party in general.
The party ought to be pushing back even now.
I've got some stuff in the stack.
I'll get to that.
Stuff that Obama is doing.
Stuff the State Department's doing.
The Republican Party ought to be pushing back against this stuff now.
They ought to be standing up and saying, no, Mr. President, we're not going to do this.
They ought to be opposing it and explain to people why they're opposing it.
Because everything that happens now could be part of a presidential campaign, particularly if it's things that help people to understand the problems associated with liberalism and the Democrat Party.
It's a golden opportunity.
And the Republicans simply will not push back.
They will not oppose.
The Republicans are almost as afraid to push back against the Democrats as Western Europeans are afraid to push back against militant Islamists.
Both puzzle me.
I have to take a brief time out.
We'll be back after this.
Let me just give you a couple of examples here.
Story from Yahoo News climate forecast may be flawed.
Predictions of unprecedented rainfall extremes in the 20th century driven by global warming turned out wrong, a study said yesterday, casting doubt on methods used to project future trends.
A massive trawl of northern hemisphere rainfall data for the last 1,200 years revealed there had been more dramatic wet, dry weather extremes in previous centuries before fossil fuels are even being used.
This whole thing is a scam.
It's designed to promote big government, to raise taxes, to blame freedom and capitalism when that is the only solution for people in poverty.
And so the Republican Party could push back instead of saying we've got to put a plank on our platform acknowledging man-made climate change, push back on it.
There is a majority of American people willing to join a political party wants to push back on this stuff.
We don't hear a peep.
More than 40% of student borrowers are not making payments.
Wall Street Journal, more than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government's main student loan program are not making payments or are behind on more than 200 billion dollars owed, raising worries that millions of them may never repay.
Of course they're not going to repay.
you'll never be able to have the money to repay.
The Republican Party ought to come out now and say they are tired of what has been done to a college education.
And they're immediately going to take steps to reverse the trend.
A college education has become almost like shackles.
You graduate with so much debt that there's no way you can repay it.
So the whole point of a college education is rendered meaningless.
Become the party that is going to reverse this trend and once again make a college education the value it used to be.
Who's running education?
See, this is the problem when you've got these establishment types of both parties who benefit from these massive government programs and massive government growth.
This is how you get a party that can't push back.
Here's this is another one.
From the Daily Signal, the regulation that drastically infringes landowner rights.
Just two days ago, we learned that the Obama administration to the Housing and Urban Development Agency is going to write a regulation mandating that landlords rent to people with criminal records.
But that's not the half of it.
The reason is because the American judicial system from our nation's founding has been inherently racist, and this is reparations.
That's my word, but this is they're going to make landowners and property owners rent to people with criminal records because it's unfair.
So many criminals happen to be African Americans because of a justice system that is totally racist.
You tell me you can't push back against that?
You tell me there's not a political party could push back.
At least say you're opposed to it instead of letting it go.
Not even commented on this one.
Supreme Court heard arguments.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers versus Hawks Company.
The case is one of a collection of land use cases that trickle into the court from time to time, all representing the same problem, which is the Clean Water Act.
Here we go with more environmental wacko regulation that punishes free market economics.
The Clean Water Act drastically limits the rights of landowners to build or develop on land that constitutes waters of the United States.
Waters of the United States is left undefined.
So the regime is able to go in and call your backyard a swamp or a wetland or whatever, limiting your ability to do anything with it.
And not just your backyard, but an entire parcel land you might have purchased for the purposes of developing.
They come in Clean Water Act or some other environmental regulation tell you you can't.
It's a straight direct assault on private property, on free speech, freedom to associate, First Amendment is under assault in this country by the Democrat Party, and there's not a peep said about it by the Republicans.
There's all kinds of things to be pushing out, pushing back against right.
And I'm sure what they'd say is, well, that might get in the way of our campaign.
We might say something our eventual nominee doesn't support.
Well, this kind of stuff is universal, I think.
This is what we're talking about, opposing and stopping Obama and the Democrat Party.
Whoever we nominate better be all about that.
Make it happen back after this.
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