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April 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the distinguished, the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders starting to figure out that the Democrat National Committee and the Hillary campaign have stacked the deck against it.
That it's really, really rigged.
In Bernie's case, he is exactly right.
Now, Bernie should have known this from the first day he got into the race.
Bernie should have known it was going to be rigged before he got into the race.
And he may well have.
But it's now getting to be ridiculous.
He keeps winning.
He keeps outraising her.
And she keeps piling up all the delegates.
And I'm going to tell you, on the Democrat side, folks, you don't hear as much about it because the media is not disposed to exposing snafus and discord within the Democrat Party.
But I'm telling you, they have their own equivalent of anti-establishment voters, and it's a large number of people.
And they are just as opposed to the Democrat establishment as Republican voters who are opposed to it on the Republican side.
Different reasons.
Some of them overlap.
The primary reason, for example, Bernie's people are upset with the establishment.
They think the establishment is too corporate.
And they're exactly right, by the way.
I mean, even though they're fringe lunatics, they hate corporate.
They despise everything about Western civilization.
They despise everything about the founding of this country.
And the Democrat Party, they don't think, is radical left enough that Hillary has become corporatized and moderate as opposed to liberal.
And they think Hillary's into it for herself, for her and her family's financial enhancement and so forth.
So they're in the same point, and there are just as many of them.
And they don't tell you much that Hillary Clinton's disapproval, Hillary Clinton's negative numbers are almost as high as Cruz's and Trump's, almost to the point of canceling it all out.
And then the polls vary from time to time, state to state, and even poll to poll.
But the latest series of polls show that Cruz and or Trump would beat Hillary.
And that's relatively new.
And so there is a lot of panic on the Democrats.
You just don't see it.
And it doesn't fit any narrative.
There isn't a narrative in the media of Democrats in trouble.
That narrative only happens after they lose elections and it lasts for a couple of weeks and then they're back to normal.
I mentioned earlier in the week, I didn't get a chance to get to it.
I don't know if I saved it in this stack or not, but the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Yes, here it is, my friends.
The Democrats are flawlessly executing a 10-point plan to lose the 2016 presidential election.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I would assume that the vast majority of you in this audience are of the opinion that the Democrats never have doubts, that they're always confident, largely because they have the media on their side, largely because what they believe is never challenged, it's never criticized, it's never ripped to shreds, as everything the Republicans stand for is.
So your impression of them is that they're unified and that their primary enemy is us, and that that's what unifies them.
And as such, at the moment of truth, they will all come together and that they're confident and unstoppable.
And it's not the case.
And this piece in the Huffing and Puffington Post illustrates it quite well.
It's by somebody named Seth Abrasion.
Democrats flawlessly executing a 10-point plan to lose the presidential election.
Point number one.
These are the mistakes, the assumptions that they are making that are all wrong.
They are assuming that Donald Trump will be the nominee, though it's now clear he won't be.
And let me analyze each of these as we go.
This guy, Seth Abrasion, whoever he is, thinks that the Democrats are operating on a whole bunch of conventional wisdom theories that are dead wrong.
And one of them is that Trump's going to be the nominee.
This guy doesn't think he's going to be.
And it's going to end up being Cruz or somebody else that the Democrats are not prepared for and are not going to know how to beat.
That they're making a mistake of gearing up for one guy and thinking they've got the way to beat Trump in the can, in the bag, it's over, and they're not worried about anybody else, and he thinks they should be.
Number two, the Democrats are going to nominate the only person who can reunite the Republican Party once Trump fails to get the nomination, has fractured it beyond repair.
So this guy thinks that Trump not getting a nomination is going to blow the Republican Party up sky high to the point that it's going to be in tatters.
But then the Democrats are going to come along and unify everybody on the Republican side by nominating Hillary.
I hope that he's half right on this.
It has been my hope all along that whatever happens on our side, that when it's all over, everybody does focus on the real opponent here.
And that's Hillary and what she represents, the third term of Barack Obama, the continuation of the transformation of America into a country it was not founded to be, which means the continuing destruction, the cultural rot, the cultural decay, the attack on religious people, primarily Christians.
It's going to ratchet up.
It's going to continue.
Hillary Clinton has promised to raise taxes, a trillion dollars.
Stop and think a minute.
The federal government is en route to collecting $3 trillion in taxes this year.
Already $1.46 trillion has been collected.
Now ask yourself, how is that possible when we have 94 million Americans not working?
How is it possible for almost record tax revenue to be collected?
It means people are getting soaked, folks.
It means Obamacare and any number of other things.
All the hidden fees and the excise taxes and who knows what.
The idea that the middle class isn't paying any taxes has obviously blown to smithereens here.
94 million Americans not working.
Unemployment rate is really more like 11 to 15 percent.
And they're still collecting record tax revenues.
And even at that, we are going to run a deficit of nearly half a trillion dollars this year.
Stopping $3 trillion.
That's more than people can understand.
It's more than you can contemplate.
It's more than you can analogize in ways that would make sense to you.
$3 trillion is, you know, number three is confusing.
It's a small number.
Trillion.
You know, a billion is a thousand million.
It's incomprehensible.
And yet it isn't enough.
And in the middle of all this, Hillary Clinton has come out and promised to raise taxes by a trillion dollars more.
They never have enough, no matter, because at some point it has long ceased to be about raising money.
Taxation is not about raising revenue to run the government efficiently and properly.
It's about social architecture.
The tax code is how liberal Democrats punish achievers.
It is how they use the tax code to dissuade a lot of people from wanting to be achievers.
It is a subtle way that liberal Democrats impugn the whole idea of success, which they do constantly.
If you look at Democrat Party enemies list, it's rich this or rich that.
Rich corporation here, rich industry there, rich individual there, whoever, that's their enemy.
But on top of record tax revenue being collected, Hillary wants to add a trillion dollars to it.
Number four.
I'm sorry, number three on this guy's list of 10 mistakes the Democrats are making.
Democrats are on the way to fracturing the party by broadly supporting the Clinton camp's attempts to smear Bernie Sanders and his supporters.
Number four, the Democrats are en route to losing the 2016 presidential race by fatally underestimating the electoral chances of the two men now most likely to be the Republican nominee in November, Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
And again, whoever's writing this is named Seth Abrasion.
Number five, Democrats are going to screw it up by failing to nominate their most popular candidate, Bernie Sanders.
Number six, they're going to freeze Bernie Sanders out of the picture altogether.
This guy is totally into Sanders, and he is convinced the Democrats have written a plan guaranteed to lose by acing him out.
Number eight, Democrats are going to lose by doing nothing whatsoever to address the outstanding concerns about the character, integrity, and judgment of the party's frontrunner.
In other words, this guy is saying the Democrats are making a huge mistake because they have a flawed human being as their frontrunner.
She has no integrity.
She has a dubious, questionable character, and her judgment stinks.
In other words, the Democrats are choosing her just because she's next in line.
Her name is Clinton, and for some reason, we owe her.
And he thinks it's a death wish.
In short, Hillary Clinton appears to blame everyone but herself for the lack of trust the American people have in her.
That's a bad look for any politician, both because it ignores the concerns of voters, but moreover, suggests a candidate incapable of personal and political growth.
There are many things the Clinton camp could be doing right now to rehab her image, and they're doing absolutely none of them.
Number nine, the Democrats are overly relying on the media to set the political narrative for the campaign season, further alienating voters who want to vote for a candidate with vision.
That's Bernie Sanders.
And number 10, they're ignoring the youth votes.
So my point in all this is that there is all kinds of friction and all kinds of upset and dissatisfaction on the Democrat side that you're not hearing about.
And a lot of people on that side are afraid it's going to manifest itself at the worst possible time.
Now, here's Bernie Sanders this morning in Brooklyn.
A bunch of union people, a bunch of people are picketing outside of Verizon office in Brooklyn.
Bernie showed up.
They want to take away the health benefits that you have earned.
They want to outsource decent-paying jobs.
They want to give their CEO $20 million a year.
They want to avoid paying federal income taxes.
This is just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.
Yes, cheer that.
That's absolute insanity.
Here we have another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.
There's a way to translate that.
What Bernie Sanders is alleging here is that Verizon is trying to destroy the lives of their customers.
And how much sense does that make?
But that's what they tell you.
Big oil, big pharma trying to destroy working Americans.
Big auto.
That's right.
They want to destroy every customer.
They want to cream.
They want to obliterate.
They want to damage every potential buyer of their product.
It's absurd.
Meanwhile, over here from Investors Business Daily, under Obamacare, insurers are losing money on a product people must buy.
How does that happen?
Obamacare forces people to buy insurance.
If you don't, you pay a fine.
And later on, you could might go to jail.
And yet insurance companies are still hemorrhaging money.
They're still losing money.
How do you, when you have a product, the federal government mandates that hundreds of millions of Americans must buy, how do you lose money?
Well, there's Obamacare for you, if anybody can figure it out, Barack Hussein Obama.
And yet they set themselves up as the experts in virtually every aspect of life.
Obamacare requires people to buy insurance, but United Health Group is losing so much money, it is exiting two states, leaving two states, and eight co-ops, Obamacare co-ops, eight more are on the brink.
Your health care on government.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
No, what's actually interesting is that the Bernie Sanders voters, they're ticked off.
They're ticked off at the failures of liberalism.
They don't know it, but that's what's got them upset.
They have all this student loan debt.
There wasn't supposed to be any.
They've got all these health care expenses.
It was supposed to be free.
And everybody was supposed to have it.
And there's all this racial strife out there.
That was supposed to be ended seven years ago when Obama got elected.
America was supposed to be loved and adored.
There weren't supposed to be any more wars anywhere.
The military was to have been neutered.
None of it's happened.
The abject, in-your-face failures of what they believe in is what's got them ticked off.
They just don't think of it that way.
Liberalism, in their minds, does not fail.
It just isn't implemented properly, usually because it's short of funding or some such insanity.
Here's Silvana as we head back to the phones in San Diego.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
I'm just going to kind of answer the question that you asked.
And you said, well, why is Donald Trump acting the way he is now after Colorado?
No, no, no.
Let me rephrase the question because I'm glad you're answering it.
I opened the program today because people are still fit to be tied over what happened to Colorado from the disenfranchisement standpoint.
But people there weren't allowed to vote.
Colorado GOP aced them out.
But it's been known that that was going to happen, whether you liked it or not, since last August.
So why didn't the Trump campaign complain about this a month ago, two months ago, last fall?
Why'd they wait till after the whole thing happened to complain about it?
Why not complain about it before it happens?
Why not put pressure on him before this thing goes down the way it went down and try to influence the outcome?
Or maybe what you can do if you go out in front of this thing is you can, in effect, have the results disqualified if you have a good PR effort.
Why not do this beforehand, still wait until after the process is over?
Well, then I'm in, I don't know, then I'm in trouble because I was going to say what he's doing right now is he's lashing out because in my opinion, Colorado and what happened in Colorado exposed him for what he is, the paper tiger.
And what does that mean?
Well, what you have is not what he claims to be.
Number one, rules do not apply to him.
And you keep saying that, well, he plays by his own set of rules.
Well, hold it a minute now.
Okay.
I don't recall ever saying that rules don't apply to Trump.
Okay, well, you say that he plays by his own rules and the rules that, you know, that he sets.
Is that correct?
You know, I think you are interpreting what I say in your own way.
I have attempted to say that Trump as an outsider is not going to play the game according to the way it's always been played, that he's going to be going to remain outside.
And if you interpret that as he's going to make up his own rules, fine.
I don't want to quibble with you about that.
Okay.
Well, my issue is this.
Just like you said, the rules were known in advance.
He decided to play by his own rules and his own rule book.
And for people who say that that's okay, well, the reason I'm revolting against the Washington elite class is that they are playing by their own set of rules.
They're not the same set of rules for me.
So Ted Cruz was playing by the rules.
Donald Trump chose not to.
That was his decision.
Another point that I was going to make, Colorado also showed that he does not have a ground game.
Well, ground game is another.
Well, but I don't think he thought he needed one.
See, that's the key.
Okay, Silvana from San Diego.
It's interesting.
Interpreted me in my comments about Trump in the past as saying he's breaking the rules, playing by his own set of rules.
That's not what I ever said.
I have never said that Donald Trump is breaking rules.
And I've really not said he's not following rules.
All I have said about Trump, and I know people are going to interpret this in their own words, if you tell somebody a story, a short story, and they tell three more people by the time it gets back to you, it's nothing like your version.
So I understand that.
My point was, and has been about Trump all along, he was unorthodox.
He wasn't going to run a standard campaign according to the set procedures that the experts say you have to do it.
He wasn't going to play the insider's game.
He was going to run his own campaign, being who he is.
And by the way, part and parcel of that is not having a ground game.
I think that Trump's Trump's theory, his philosophy, I think what he intended was to just run away with this and just smother the entire process and not need these ground games anywhere.
I mean, where do you, you need Colorado, you need California, there are a couple other states where you've got to have a delegate selection apparatus, something in addition to winning the popular vote.
And I think Trump just figured he was going to skunk everybody winning a popular vote.
And it was based on the fact that it was happening at the time.
I've heard it referred to as the King Kong approach.
Trump was just going to climb the Empire State Building and start swinging from the TV antenna up there and claim everything was his.
It was unorthodox.
And it was, you know, I might have even said he wasn't played by the rules, but I didn't mean an official rule book.
I mean conventional wisdom, standard ordinary operating procedure.
This is how we do it.
Interim, no, I'm not going to do it that way.
I am going to say controversial things.
I am going to violate political correctness.
I am not going to worry about it.
I'm going to say what I think.
If somebody criticizes me, I'm hitting them back twice as hard.
You know, all of the don'ts that the professionals tell you, he's doing them.
And that's all I mean.
I don't mean he's got a rule book that he's purposely violating.
You know, don't anybody out there assume that I have ever said that Trump's cheating.
I know, frankly, that that's what many of you think is happening to him, that he is being cheated by this odd set of rules, for example, in Colorado.
But I really think that Trump thought that he would go to Cleveland with enough delegates by now.
I think Trump probably thought he would have this nomination wrapped up by now.
I would be very surprised if anybody in the Trump campaign, including himself, thought this was going to go all the way to June.
You go back to, I mean, he was winning everything, and he was winning with 30 points, 20 points, and his massive lead in every upcoming poll.
And then Wisconsin came along.
There were some little states that Trump lost.
And he lost, you know, Cruz won his home state of Texas, but he even won Rubio's home state of Florida.
So it's Wisconsin where the apple cart here has been upset.
It was not even Iowa where he didn't go to the debate and lost that.
Cruz won that.
That could have sidelined a campaign, but it didn't.
So I just, I think that the reason that Trump didn't do a set of procedures for Colorado, he didn't think he was going to need to.
I don't believe that he didn't know.
I just, I mean, because it's had the candidates all are told about these state-by-state procedures.
I just think he didn't think it was going to be necessary.
He's going to go in there.
And even if he doesn't win, Colorado, fine, can't win everything.
But I'm going to win this thing hands down going away.
I think that was what he thought.
So all this other stuff wasn't necessary.
It's one of the aspects of a campaign that everybody does, and Trump, not me, I don't have to do that.
I don't have to do that.
I'm Donald Trump.
I can win without doing that.
I'm going to show you.
But since it's happened, and since it appears to have been very disenfranchising, well, there's a score to be made here by claiming you've been cheated.
I mean, it keeps your base tightly, steadfastly attached to you.
Now, one thing, I want to go back to this United Healthcare thing.
Because this, folks, is a fundamental question.
Stop and think of this.
If you ran a business, I don't care what it is, and the federal government came along and passed a law requiring every citizen to buy your product.
Let's say your product was tampons.
Well, the feminists are trying to make a pitch now that we should all buy them their tampons because it's hygiene and we all have interest in this, and they shouldn't have to buy tampons themselves.
You've heard about this, right?
We're in a cutting edge.
Told you about that before anybody else knew about it.
Okay, forget tampons.
Let's say you make the iPhone.
Let's say you invented and manufactured the iPhone, and the Obama administration comes along and tells the American people, you have to buy an iPhone, or you're going to pay a fine, you're going to go to jail.
How would you lose money?
How could you possibly, you know what your universe is, you know the market is, get the adult population, and you know you have to make at least that many phones.
So that's your inventory, because they all have to be bought.
It's a matter of law.
Somebody has to buy these phones.
So you do that, and you still lose money and have to start closing Apple stores.
How in the world does that happen?
Well, what if at the same time the government is making you give iPhones to some people, like illegal immigrants, like refugees, like take your pick of preferred Obama groups who can't afford these new mandates.
What if United Healthcare is being forced to give or provide insurance, pay for essentially insurance for people who are not buying it?
I don't know what else explains this, but there has to be, I mean, you might want to chalk it up to mismanagement, but I can't understand that.
I can't understand how in the world will you have a product, especially look, here's a typical United Healthcare plan.
A guy and his wife, a two-person family, go out and buy one of the healthcare plans offered.
They choose a plan that is in the lowest priced tier or close to it.
So they pay $1,000 a month for their premiums.
Their deductible is $12,000.
So they never, ever use the deductible unless they have something major catastrophic happen.
So how in the world is a health insurance, and you know that the charges, the prices they're charging are not cheap, you know this.
If you're personally buying your own health insurance, then you know what it costs.
So $1,000 premium for two people, $12,000 deductible that never gets used, meaning United Health never has to spring for that because how rare is something going to happen to you that would require health expenses that are more than $12,000, something outside of catastrophic.
So what is going on?
How in the world can they be losing money?
Well, let's also factor that not everybody's obeying the law.
This obviously has to be a fact.
There's a lot of people who are saying, screw this.
You know what?
I'm not going to pay it, and I'm going to make you find me to find me.
You're going to find me on my tax return?
Fine.
I'm 20 years old.
I don't need it.
I don't want it.
And if I get sick, I'm going to go to the emergency room.
Screw you.
I don't want to go to healthcare.gov.
I don't want to wander around aimlessly in this bureaucratic maze.
I don't want any part of it.
And they decide they're going to wait until they get sick, where they've got no choice.
Then they go out and buy Obamacare.
And then the system gets overloaded.
And it becomes an accounting nightmare because United Healthcare has to report statistics to Obama and the federal government.
Everybody's looking over each other's shoulders.
And Obama doesn't care whether United Healthcare is solvent or not.
He doesn't care.
Because Obama will say the same thing.
What do you mean?
I have just passed a law making everybody buy your product.
You're losing money.
Don't come complaining to me.
But strip it all away.
How does it still happen?
Maybe Obama's forcing him to, well, we know.
We know that they're having to insure people that can't pay for it.
Illegal immigrants.
We're talking potentially millions of people here.
It's a total mess.
One thing, this is not how you fix it.
This is not how you reform health care.
It isn't working.
All these co-ops closing.
And now the insurance companies, which are the vehicle to health care, you have to have insurance in order to have health care.
And they're still losing money.
Only in a communist socialist type arrangement could this possibly happen.
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Here is Bruce in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
How are you doing?
Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you today?
Fine and dandy, sir.
Thank you very much.
The first thing I want to say: I'm not the poorly educated, so therefore I'm not a Trump supporter.
Let's go.
I want to talk about the convention roles real quick.
For 160 years, you had to have a majority.
50 plus one.
According to Trump, if he goes in the convention with plurality or most delegates, he should be the nominee.
So let's go back to the party of Lincoln, which Mr. Trump even says he's not even as good as Lincoln, but he recognized the Republican Party as the party of Lincoln.
In 1860.
Well, it's like he recognizes the art of the deal is not the Bible.
We're going to see how good art of the deal here is after he doesn't get the majority.
But 1860 convention, according to, you know, Seward, after the first ballot, had 74% of the delegates needed on the first ballot to become the nominee.
While Honest Abe only had 42%.
So according to Trump, Lincoln should not have been nominated.
And these are the facts.
It took three ballots.
And if Trump is so good at art of the deal, he should be able to get 1,237 with no problem.
I'm sure that that's his plan.
Well, his nickname should be Crying Donald to begin with.
If he doesn't have the 1,237, he's not going to get it after the first ballot.
He knows that everyone else knows it.
He's not going to get it.
I don't think we know this yet.
There's too much unknown here.
Now, look, I know what's going on.
I know what your point is here.
That Trump's saying, hey, I'm Trump.
And if I'm close enough, give it to me.
I've earned it.
Everybody wants me.
Everybody loves me.
I've skunked everybody.
I've won everywhere.
Nobody can hold a candle.
Lion Ted's not even close.
Come on, let's get serious.
I won this thing.
Okay?
That's the theory.
And he's going to challenge somebody to tell him where he's wrong.
And so the retort's going to be, sorry, the rule says 1237.
Not 1236, not 1150, not 1100, 1237.
Your point is, we have never gone off of that.
We've never given somebody the nomination for getting close.
And you're right.
But what Trump is saying, come on, whatever you have to do to get me to 1237, get there, because we know I'm going to get there because I've skunked everybody.
There's nobody even close.
You don't have anybody in this party that's even halfway near as loved as I am.
Anybody growing crowds like me?
No.
I can hear it all now.
I know exactly what he's talking about.
He's also trying in his own ways to either intimidate, impress, influence, or what have you, the powers that be, keep his crowd enthused and so forth.
But I think you sell Trump short if you actually think that he believes the rules don't apply to him.
I don't think that's the case at all.
I think he wants to use whatever powers he thinks he has to get himself to what's necessary, if necessary, by acclamation.
He'd be more than happy for the convention to say, you know what, Trump?
You got 1150 and you're great.
And there's nobody here that can stop you.
We realize Lion Ted can't stop you.
Kasich can't stop you.
And Donald, you're our guy.
And so let's just go out and find enough people to make it 1237 and make it happen.
And I think that he thinks something like that.
Do not misinterpret.
Now, does anybody think I'm suggesting he break the rules in any of this?
Okay, I'm talking about the force of his personality.
No, he doesn't think Lion Ted's going to go home.
He thinks that other people will choose him over Lion Ted if he's close enough anyway.
It's close, but no cigar.
It's going to be close and cigar, is the way he's looking at this.
Now, we had this story, this guy, Ryan Evans, if I got the name right.
I do.
Randy Evans.
Randy Evans on MSNBC today, and he's a Republican National Committee member, and he was on MSNBC, and he said that if Trump gets to Cleveland with 1,100 delegates or more, that he should have no trouble getting a nomination.
So everybody said, whoa, whoa!
Is the party officially saying that if he gets there with 1,100, he wins?
So people started scrambling.
What did this guy mean?
Because it got ballyhooed all over the place.
Wow, RNC member just said on TV, if Trump gets 1,100, by the time he gets to Cleveland, he's it.
Well, that turns out not what the guy meant.
Because somebody called him and tweeted what he said on the call.
And what he means is, and what he meant was, that if Trump gets to 1,100, goes to Cleveland with 1,100, it's not going to be difficult at all to end up finding another 127 delegates before the convention starts, before the first ballot, to nail it down.
He was saying Trump will have the ability to go out and find either from unbound delegates or from any number of super, whatever delegates.
His point was, if Trump shows up to Cleveland with 1,100, he's not going to have any problem persuading whatever necessary number he needs to join him.
That's what he meant.
It was not an official changing of the number.
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