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April 22, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Indeed, Buck Sexton here in For Rush Limbaugh today on the EIB Open Line Friday continues in our three, 800-282-2882.
Cruz, Trump, and the GOP dogfight ahead.
Yeah, we're going there.
Get ready.
Oh, yeah, get ready.
Roll up the sleeves.
Here we go.
That's right.
Now the comments are going to get really interesting online.
This is always fun.
You're such a sellout.
You're such a sellout.
I'm like, let me guess.
Oh, wait, no, this is a Kasich supporter.
You never know what you're going to get.
But yeah.
Oh, and Kasich.
I just said Trump Cruz.
Technically, Kasich is still in it.
He's the, what is he, the Prince of Hope and Light or something like that?
That's a funny one.
Kasich, like the guy who is the host of the Daily Show, also unintentionally funny, good at being funny by accident.
So there's a few things.
We could get into the races ahead and we will.
Not in any sort of excruciating detail because the one fun part about this political cycle so far, this election cycle so far, has been how often the conventional wisdom has been shown to be utterly foolish.
And the people who go on TV who are like, well, Bob, let me tell you, the way this is going to work is that it's really going to come down to turnout.
And at the end, whoever has more votes or more delegates is going to win that state.
And everyone's watching this on TV.
They're like, yeah, right.
Good, good.
Oh, by the way, I know.
Somebody tweeted at me.
A touchdown is six points.
You need the extra point for.
Yeah, I know.
It's like a gimme, though.
Come on.
We can let that one slide, I hope.
All right.
So, all right, but instead of focusing on the races that are ahead and making predictions, that will probably be wrong.
Why not?
Because everyone's doing it, right?
Now you're safe to make your wrong political predictions because just join the club.
But I love this piece.
This is from Politico.
Trump terrifies world leaders.
The title is a litmus test.
You see, I think they're writing a politico, again, politics site, left of center mostly.
Not all, but it skews left for sure.
And Trump terrifies world leaders, the title of this piece.
And I love it because Trump supporters are like, yeah, he does.
It's awesome.
I love it.
You're like, okay.
The Beltway insider types, the Washington elite, they see these kinds of things going, oh my gosh, good heavens.
What are we going to do?
Where are we going to flee?
Trump might be the next president of the United States.
Oh, no.
A couple of things on this.
First of all, foreign.
Does anyone really think that Trump is going to invade Sweden?
Unless they start making really bad trade deals and show that their leaders are way smarter than our leaders and maybe are complicit in a massive flow of illegal immigrants into the country.
I mean, I think Sweden, I think our European allies, I think most countries are fine when it comes to Trump.
I don't think they really need to worry, even if he were to be the commander-in-chief.
And I'm fully aware of what I think could be fairly described without being on NSC.
Now's where the dancing starts, Buck.
A little bit on this side, a little bit on that side.
As Trump's lack of foreign policy, hmm, what's the word?
Knowledge is a little harsh, but I don't think it's inaccurate.
Not a foreign policy guy.
Not a foreign policy guy.
but also not a complete sociopath who's going to, if he were the commander in chief, invade foreign countries, right?
There's no real, there's no, there's no reason to believe that would happen.
But people seem to think that this is terrifying.
Here's what this political piece says.
According to more than two dozen U.S. and foreign government officials, Trump has become the starting point for what feels like government-to-government interaction.
In meetings, private dinners, and phone calls, world leaders are urgently seeking explanations for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, etc., etc.
American ambassadors are asking for guidance from Washington about what they're supposed to say.
If you want to take the wind out of Trump's sails, the way to do it is definitely not to be like, oh my gosh, have you heard?
The Finnish finance minister is really upset about this.
And that's exactly the sort of thing that's being written about in this piece.
The Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs, he writes, and I don't know how to do a Finnish accent, so it's going to sound like a German accent.
In Europe, we're concerned about the U.S. possibly turning toward a more isolationist orientation.
That would not be good for the United States, good for Europe, good for the world.
We need the U.S. engaged in global affairs in a constructive, positive way.
Yaw.
I'm pretty sure they say ya in Sweden, but that might just be a generalization.
I'm sorry, no, we're talking about Finland, not Sweden.
My bad.
Wrong quote.
I was talking about Sweden a minute ago.
They say ya in Sweden for sure.
Finland, I don't know what they say.
They speak Finnish.
So, where were we?
Which is a pretty distinct language, as I understand it.
They're all freaked out about this.
And what's funny to me is that this just gets the Trump supporters even more fired up.
They're like, yeah, we want to shake this thing up a little bit.
We want countries to kind of know that American muscles are going to be flexed.
Trump is going to be up there which way to the gun show as he pulls out the biceps, so to speak.
So to speak.
No, that's right.
Are you not entertained?
Just think of all of the Maximus memes that can be created with Trump if he were to become the commander-in-chief.
Is this not why you are here?
Are you not entertained?
With Trump, you know, holding out the service.
Yeah, that's right.
That's what the Trump supporters think it's going to be like if Trump is commander-in-chief.
It's going to be like Maximus with very different hair and not ever having served in the military or served in the government in any capacity before.
But anyway, a fair point.
And Cruz never served.
I mean, he served in the government, but never served in the military or was in harm's way either.
Fair is fair.
It is interesting to me.
We do seem to have this.
Who was it?
Rick Perry?
Was he the only of the 17?
Was he the only one with military service this go around?
Rick Perry, right?
National Guard?
I think Rick Perry was the.
Right.
And I think he described his social life at one point as his own private Vietnam, right?
That's also a quote that he threw out there.
I believe that was in one of his books.
We're just going to let that slide.
I don't even want to know.
If Vietnam vets are willing to let it slide, that's up to them.
I just don't even want to talk about it.
Yeah, it's my own Vietnam.
I'm pretty sure that's a quote from him.
It might have been one of those things I saw on Twitter.
As Abraham Lincoln said, don't trust everything you read on the internet.
You know what I mean?
You don't know what's going on.
But Trump terrifying world leaders is a pretty fascinating headline because some people read that and they're like, oh my gosh, Muffy and Buffy, run for the hills.
We have to make it.
We have to go to the cottage in Antigua right away.
Trump is going to be the president.
And Trump supporters are like, yeah, that's right.
He's going to throw down.
You want to call us some noise, Iran?
You want to see who's got the real stuff?
Bring it.
So it's just funny because it divides the title, the whole notion of a Trump foreign policy.
And I know all the foreign policy people, not all of them, a lot of the foreign policy people I read are, and read slash trust, right?
Because there's a tremendous amount of people who, because no one's ever technically wrong on foreign policy, right?
You never really know.
You can always find some way to justify, you know, people have been writing about America's imperial decline for the last 40 years.
And they're like, in the next 10 years, it's like, okay, it's kind of like climate change that way.
But the people that I think are pretty knowledgeable and good on this stuff are generally, let's say, bearish on a Trump foreign policy platform.
They tend to think that saying things like, we're going to, you know, bomb ISIS back then.
Although Ted Cruz said carpet bombing, right?
Wasn't he?
Was he the one that said carpet bombing?
He was Mr. Carter.
He was carpet bombing, which is not particular, you know.
Look, this is the thing.
The language matters here.
The administration right now, now I'm getting into a little foreign policy stuff.
A couple things are going on while we're all sort of talking about the minutia of who gets to use what kind of bathroom and the absolute, you know, the stuff on the college campuses these days, which directly ties in some cases into White House policy, whether it's these sexual assault tribunals that are now imposed via Title IX that are going into criminal courts and the criminal courts are saying, you can't do this.
This is not right.
And the Obama administration, all this stuff, all these distractions are going on.
The Taliban is taking more ground and is a bigger threat in Afghanistan than it has been in years.
ISIS, we're hoping, in Obama's own words, we're hoping to reach a point.
I'm paraphrasing here, but we're hoping to set the conditions.
This is what President Obama says, by the end of the year, such that at some point in the not too distant future, there will be the possibility of retaking Mosul, the largest Sunni majority city of Iraq, back from the Islamic State, which is the largest terrorist jihadist army to be consolidated and on the march and holding territory since the Taliban pre-9-11.
That's also happening.
And all this stuff is going on, but we are sitting around talking about what bathrooms people get to use.
And world leaders are terrified of Trump.
I really need to know what the Finnish.
I want to make sure I get it right because Finland and Sweden, very different.
I want to get, come on, Finland.
I want an angry Finland call right now.
Very different places, both cold and apparently very good school systems.
The Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs is very upset about this.
I really want to hear what the Icelandic Minister of Education has to say about a Trump presidency because that's going to sway me one way or the other.
Maybe we could also get the petroleum minister of Venezuela to weigh in, but he probably won't because he's busy because they're cutting electricity production back there.
Power not to the people, you could say, in Venezuela, because they're cutting electricity for four hours a day.
Because that's what happens when the government's in control of the economy and setting prices.
Oh, it's almost like we could learn a lesson from Venezuela, but we won't.
Bernie Sanders, it's going to be great.
Tax the millionaires and the billionaires.
That's all we need to do.
It'll fix everything.
But Trump-terrifying world leaders, I have to say.
This really just cuts right down the middle on this.
The Trump supporters love it.
The Trump haters use this as evidence of why we can't possibly consider a Trump presidency.
And meanwhile, Obama's foreign policy is in shambles, but you don't hear him talking about that.
And Hillary was his secretary of state for four years.
You don't hear him talking about that either.
She had to take a break from that, though, to get lots and lots, millions and millions of dollars in checks from groups that now think that they're going to have direct access to her.
But that's not corruption.
That's just, you know, what the market will bear.
It's ridiculous, isn't it?
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Light up those lines back after this break.
And you open the Trump crews floodgates and the lines.
It just goes wild in this place.
She talk about Earth Day again.
It's like, who wants to discuss renewables?
Do you guys want to have a talk about renewable energy?
Let's talk about wind farms.
That's going to be fun.
Hi.
Wind farms.
Let's talk about organic, sustainable cuisine.
How about that?
10 ways to make your own sandals and poncho out of recycled materials.
We could have so much fun here with that.
But no, people want to talk politics, and I know that, and that's cool.
So we'll get into it.
Oh, side note, though, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, served in the Navy, forgot about Lindsay.
And how could I forget about Lindsay?
Hello, sir.
Ooh, Lindsay Graham.
But thank you for your service, Mr. Graham.
Side note.
But yeah, he served in the Navy.
And he likes to talk about ISIS and how much he's going to destroy ISIS.
And take that as you will.
He's going to sit on a throne of ISIS skulls.
But Lindsay, Lindsay is the one and Per are the only two who had any service, any military service, obviously a long time ago.
And the rest did not.
So had to correct the record there.
Where were we?
Fred in Arizona wants to get on the action.
Fred, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show now.
You are speaking to Buck.
Thank you.
Hey, Buck, first-time caller.
Two comments that I'd like you to share your thoughts on, if you would, please.
First of all, is there a level of tolerance or a ceiling that the left has for Hillary Clinton's ineptitude?
She's got a proven track record in deceit and pandering and alleged criminal activity.
That's number one.
The other one is your comments on the Virginia governor's pearling, excuse me, providing voting rights to 200,000-plus felons.
My comment is: what's next?
Allowing them to carry firearms?
I mean, voting rights is an actual privilege, not a birthright.
Thank you for your time.
Look forward to your comments.
Oh, thank you very much.
A couple of things.
The left is willing to overlook anything Hillary does.
Let's just keep in mind on the email thing, which I haven't gotten into today, and it's something that I know about as somebody who I had a top secret clearance.
I worked in the CIA.
I even spent a short period up here in New York for the MYPD Intelligence Division.
But I was handling a lot of TS material, obviously, in the CIA.
You have to be a TS-cleared employee to be an analyst there.
And the rules and the regulations, the restrictions on how we handle that stuff, draconian is the only way you could describe it.
I still remember the look on the face of a female colleague of mine in the cafeteria who thought that she had lost a classified document and thought her career was over and was just crying her eyes out.
And I sat there with her, and we did this whole retrace your steps thing.
And sure enough, it was in, it had gone under the seat in her car, which was in the parking lot.
And she went.
But she still had to report it to security, and they still read her the riot act.
But at least, no harm, no foul.
We were pretty sure the Russians didn't sneak into her car in the 10 minutes between the walk from the parking lot and when she was freaking out.
But that's the way it is for the rest of the government employees.
And with Hillary on the email system, even if it's not going to, and I don't believe they're going to indict her.
I don't believe Loretta Lynch will allow it.
I don't care what the FBI finds.
And I don't think the FBI is in on it, by the way.
I just don't think the Department of Justice is going to bring charges.
They just won't.
I just don't see it.
I could be wrong.
This is like making predictions about, you know, Trump's finally jumped the shark.
A reference to happy days in the Fons, which I still to this day, that's the most enduring cultural legacy of happy days, was the Fons jumping the shark.
But Trump has jumped the shark with these comments, and then it's like, nope, his poll numbers went up.
So I may be wrong on this, and I say that in all honesty, but I just don't, I don't see, I mean, I put the chances of a Hillary indictment at almost zero.
Like, you know, less than 1%.
If I were a Vegas oddsmaker, that's what I'd say they are.
I just don't see it happening.
I know others disagree.
You had Comey, the FBI director, who's apparently a very straight shooter.
Although, wouldn't that be the media wrap on this guy if they're going to make it seem like this is all in the up and up, right?
You know, 150 agents, Comey's like a Boy Scout.
Yeah, okay, right.
And at the end, they don't file any charges.
Who could have thought?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that we all could have thought.
But even if all of that's, even if it's not criminal, it's just reckless and stupid.
And the rationalization for it, or her initial rationalization for it was a lie, but Hillary lies so much that it's hard to keep track of all of it.
And beyond that, why did she set up the server?
And this has now come out with some of the emails that we've seen.
There was fear of FOIA requests.
Why did she want control of her whole record?
You see, if she has an email that's a State Department unclassified email, everything that goes to that is in the control of the State Department.
So there's no like, whoopsie, we lost it.
If it's on her private server, she has full control.
She's getting no unclassified communications.
So let's just say theoretically for a moment, you are somebody who's written her a check for $300,000 or $400,000 or her husband, even better, who was just, you know, out there like, hey, I'll take a big check.
How about $800,000 for this company that's sort of tied to a Russian uranium mining interest?
$800,000 for one speech.
Must be a really good speech.
And you call up and you're like, hey, you know, Bill's getting these big fat checks.
I'm expecting a little bit of extra love here.
No, sorry, not call up.
You email.
If you send that to her State Department account, that's now in the state.
Now that's FOIA.
You can't hide that.
If you send it to Hillary's special Chappaqua slash bathroom server and Colorado account and she gets to parse out, remember, she's not trying to delete all the emails.
She just has to delete the ones that are like, who is this idiot who's putting this in writing and sending it to me?
That's not how it works, buddy.
You know, there's a whole system here.
You know, we do like the, you know, we keep, we keep stuff on the down low when we're making these sort of corrupt arrangements and agreements.
But you see, that was the purpose of the server.
Everything gets funneled through her first that way.
Clinton Foundation business, Clinton Incorporated business, State Department business, all unclassified stuff goes to her personal server.
She gets first crack and she gets to completely eliminate much of it from the record.
That's the only reason she would have done it.
It's why she did it.
So it was to hide from the public.
It was to evade transparency requirements.
And she also, as a result of that, has gotten ensnared in all this classified stuff.
Whether she gets charged or not, whether it's even illegal or not, it is colossally, monumentally stupid.
It is wildly irresponsible.
And it just shows you that she has this craven need for secrecy while she's enriching herself.
I mean, $100 million for giving speeches over the course of like, whatever, a decade with her and her husband.
Must have been some darn good speeches, I like to point out.
More coming up.
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Oh, we had all the lines lit up before.
Somebody dropped.
Some people get impatient.
Oh, important correction again.
Apologies.
And I have to, all kidding aside about Lindsey Graham, he served in the Air Force, not in the Navy.
Pardon me.
It's what happens when you're doing live corrections based on social media while you're doing a radio show and seven things at the same time.
The first person wrote me said Navy.
And I just trusted Freedom Patriot 79727 or whatever.
And I probably should have used the Google or maybe looked up on the Wikipedia instead of just going with Freedom Patriot 1776 Sam Adams man on Twitter.
That was what I did.
So there we go.
So we have Marianna in Tennessee.
Mariana, you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You're speaking to Buck.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
How are you?
Good.
I wanted to talk just a minute about the Kasich phenomenon.
I understand having three people in this race headed toward a broker convention is good for media ratings.
I get that.
What I don't understand is why Trump and Cruz, most especially Cruz, keep grousing about the fact that this guy is still in, still has 20 to 25 percent of voters voting for him, yet they remain silent on his most vulnerable point, which is the big lie he's telling, that he balanced the budget when he was in the Congress.
He did not.
Okay, the budget was balanced, but as far as I can see, he didn't do anything to balance the budget.
He was simply in the right place at the right time in the midst of a technology revolution which had capital gains coming through, you know, flying through the air, dropping straight to the bottom line of the U.S. Treasury.
The NASDAQ went from $780 to $5,000.
That was a remarkable, I've never, I'm 67 years old.
I've never seen it in my lifetime, and I doubt I ever will again.
So you had employment and salary through the roof.
I was a career services director at a liberal arts college, and my English majors were getting signing bonuses.
First of all, we go back and restate, he didn't do anything so much as be at the right place at the right time.
And it is for sure the environment now, since he keeps saying if I did it once, I can do it again.
The environment now, as you well know, is nothing like it was then.
Salary, wages, depressed, employment high.
Look, if you're opening the door for me to criticize Kasich, I'm going to walk through it.
There's a lot of things that I would criticize Kasich on.
And for one, he seems to still think it's a good idea to occasionally just antagonize people in the media that he needs to at least be willing to take an open approach to him when he's speaking about certain things.
But anyway, that's kind of a side note, just as somebody who's in the media.
In terms of his policies and what he's done, I always joke around that he should have a t-shirt that says, I did it in Ohio, because that seems to be what he starts off practically.
Either that or my dad was a mailman, one or the other.
It's, you know, how are you going to defeat ISIS?
Well, my dad was a mailman, and, you know, you should see what I did in Ohio.
It's like, what that has to do with ISIS is beyond my comprehension.
He expanded as you took the Medicaid expansion from Obamacare.
He kind of poses as though that makes him a moral champion for the poor, which is very annoying to other conservatives who feel like he's grandstanding and doing what's sort of easy.
And so you can hit him on that issue.
I've also been told by people who have spent decades in D.C. and had a fair amount of interaction with him, know him well.
People always say that Ted Cruz has made enemies in the Senate.
Kasich was not exactly loved in the Congress either.
That's just a side note, but something else to throw in there.
And yeah, his balancing of the button.
I mean, look, I think the only reason he's staying in, actually, I don't know why he's staying in.
I can't really fathom, or I can't really think that he believes that they're going to just throw out all of the votes and decide to just hand it to him like this is a coronation by the GOP convention, right?
If you're not going to do that with Paul Ryan, why are you going to do that with Kasich?
It makes no sense to me at all.
Maybe he's hoping to get a VP slot or some sort of a cabinet position.
I can imagine that that's in the back of his mind.
I don't really know, but he mathematically certainly can't win.
That's not a maybe.
That's a definitely.
And it's interesting to see how it's played out, though.
Is it more likely that his role, that his staying in helps Cruz or Trump?
I've seen analysis of this that goes both ways.
So it depends on what happens in the various states.
I mean, I haven't really gotten into this yet, but you've got Pennsylvania looks like Trump is going to win, but there's a pretty good pool of unbound delegates, and we know Ted Cruz will be maneuvering for those.
The real throwdown is going to come after that in Indiana, which is going to be, as I said before, that's going to be a bit of a dogfight.
And then I think the battle royale comes in California.
And what Kasich's role in California, I mean, we'll have to see if that helps Cruz or if it helps Trump.
I mean, my sense of it is that it all depends on how people actually vote, which now I sound like one of these announcers who goes on TV.
It's like, well, it all depends on turnout and who gets the most votes.
Like, yes, of course it does.
So I don't know.
But I agree with you that Kasich is the more you he hasn't gotten that much scrutiny on his record, and his only real selling point right now is that he beats Hillary in national polls.
I think that would change overnight if he were the nominee and people actually looked at his record.
And I just, I'll be honest with you, I just don't buy it.
I'm not even sure national.
Are these polls of swing states?
Are these just polls of sort of national public opinion?
And even more than that, there is a, in my mind, 100% certainty that if Kasich was just handed the nomination, you will have a nuclear implosion of the Republican Party.
I mean, it will be over and done with.
It will be uninhabitable political land for a millennia or millennium.
So that's what I see, Mariana.
But thank you for calling in from Tennessee.
I appreciate it.
Let's take Ray in Florida.
Ray, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You're speaking to Buck Sexton.
Hi, Buck.
I love when you host.
Thank you.
Anyway, I have a couple of facts that people should know about global warming and climate change.
And one is, do you know what the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is?
It's small, and you know, you're adding to it right now, sir.
So be careful how much breathing you do.
It's 0.038.
Yeah.
At even one half of 1%, but there's more.
Out of that, 0.038, humans put in less than 4%.
The Earth naturally puts in 96%.
So if we eliminate all human output, 96% would still be there.
And it's actually impossible for CO2 to be changed in any climate.
Yeah, well, you're breathing out CO2.
According to the EPA, human beings are, by their very nature, walking pollutants.
We walk around and we're constantly just spewing pollution out into the air.
So if you really took it to its radical but logical lens, they can regulate your breathing because you're breathing CO2 into the air.
So maybe we have to all wear some sort of weird apparatus that converts it into something else.
I don't know.
Creates.
The point is, Buck, that CO2 is not the cause of global warming.
Our global change.
Climate change.
Yeah, they don't even know what to call it anymore.
It's just show people scary, show people scary footage of natural disasters and tell them that if they don't ride bicycles to work, we're all going to die or something.
It's just crazy.
But people believe it.
I'm amazed at people who are otherwise seemingly knowledgeable and intelligent who fall for all this stuff.
And they look at me like, yeah, I want the world to end.
I'm some sort of lunatic who wants the place to melt down and us all to drown and be living in water world.
Very bad movie, by the way.
No, no, I actually don't want to see Florida submerged underwater.
There are some very nice parts of Florida.
So I don't get it.
And I don't see why they believe.
That's what they'd have to believe about the other side.
I think that they view climate change as something that's necessary for wealth redistribution, for government control, for increased statism in all aspects of life.
And I'm not the only one to say this.
This is obviously a lot of conservatives know this and are trying to make as much noise about this as they can to inform the public about it.
But for the left, it's like, well, what's the worst?
You know, so we're going to have cleaner air.
But if we don't have cleaner air, it still means the government's in control of stuff.
And it means that people are following lifestyle habits that were that we are just more favorably, you know, it appeals to leftist prejudices in a whole bunch of ways, all across the spectrum, right?
Bicycle riding, organic food, government control, you know, renewable energy, all this kind of stuff.
You know, as I've said before, wind farms are like cuisinarts for migratory foul.
You know, it's like, but they don't seem to mind that, right?
I mean, you know, if it kills a few bald eagles, well, hey, at least we're getting some watts of electricity that don't come from burning fossil fuels.
Good heaven.
What can we do about that?
So that's what I got for you, my man.
Thanks for calling in from Florida, Mr. Ray.
Not a lot of CO2 in the air.
Wait, actually, do we, yeah, it's probably break time.
Why don't we take some calls after the break?
That probably makes some sense.
I'm having so much fun.
Can we just go more hours?
That would be more fun, guys.
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Andy in Pittsburgh has some thoughts to share.
Sir, thank you for calling to the Rush Limbaugh show.
Speaking to Buck.
Hey, Buck, how you doing today?
Good, sir.
How are you?
Very good indeed.
I just wanted to share what I think is some frightening thought concerning Mr. Trump.
A while back, Rush had an Operation Chaos in effect to keep Hillary in the running.
And this may be conspiratorial, but I don't think so.
That all the people, all the Democrats that have crossed the line right now are voting for Trump to get him into the delegation so that he could be elected president.
It's going to are going to jump ship when it comes time for the general election to go back to get Hillary as president of the United States.
Just a thought.
Let me hear your comments, if you don't mind.
No, of course, sir.
So I just want to make sure I'm clear on what you're asking because I kind of missed that for a second.
You're saying that I understand Rush Operation Chaos wanted to keep Hillary in against Barack longer, right?
So correct?
Correct.
Yeah.
So now you're saying, how does that compare to Trump?
I'm not really Trump and Hillary.
You're saying that delegates that are going for Trump, what's I missed that last part.
Okay, well, a couple weeks ago.
Oh, Democrats voting for.
Okay, there we go.
Thank you.
Mr. Snurdley brought me up to speed here.
The Democrats that are going for Trump.
I don't know.
I mean, you have to look in sort of the state.
I know some places the primary is open, others it's closed.
I think it's bigger than that.
And I don't think it's a well enough organized effort.
I think that there's that the people you see turning out.
I'll say this.
This is more anecdotal, more from what I see on TV and what I've experienced myself in dealing with Trump supporters.
They don't strike me as Hillary voters.
I'll be honest with you.
I'm not seeing them being like, I'm ready for Hillary.
I'm not seeing that.
I'm seeing a lot of them be like, I want to bring back jobs and I want to go kill some terrorists.
And you're like, okay, well, you know, it's certainly a philosophy you've got.
So I don't see it.
And if there's more evidence that mounts on this issue, by all means, bring it to my attention, Andy.
But I'm not aware of how that would be working in this instance.
Or I should say that it is working in this instance.
The Trump phenomenon is bigger than I think the efforts of the Democrats to look.
I've said before, if Trump is a Trojan horse or sort of a false flag Republican meant to throw, not just throw the race to Hillary, but also to implode the Republican Party.
Sometimes you're assuming the other side is just a little too genius for reality.
And I think that's the best defense I can come up with about why I don't think that that's true.
Because as good as the Hillary machine is, and as I'm fine of saying, you know, it does not feel pity or remorse and absolutely will not stop like the Terminator.
It will not stop until Hillary is president and that's that.
I don't think that they have the ability to create.
I think this Trump thing is, I think he kind of hit lightning in a bottle with his immigration comments.
I think that people felt like finally there was somebody who was saying stuff that they just wanted someone to say these things in a prominent platform and they were totally sold.
I don't see Hillary Clinton sitting in a room with a bunch of operatives and a bunch of strategists coming up with Trump as a means of winning the election.
I just don't see it.
I'm not saying that it's impossible.
I'm just saying it seems to me to be unlikely.
But also, I mean, if Trump wins, do I think Hillary, if Trump wins the nomination, do I think Hillary will probably beat him in a general?
I mean, all the polls say yes.
That could change between now and November, to be sure, but I don't see it changing.
I'll be honest with you.
I think if Trump wins, see, I'm saving this for the end because now if people get super mad at me, it's like, whatever, I'm out.
See you later.
I think Trump loses to Hillary in a general.
Yep, I said it.
Thanks for calling in, Andy, in Pittsburgh.
Good to talk to you.
Let's take Ron.
Oh, wait, do I have to know?
You know what?
We'll take him on the other side of the break here.
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Go into a break back right after.
Buck Sexton here closing it out today on the EIB.
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I don't know.
You know, a little of this, a little of that.
A little not too hot, not too cold, just right on the GOP race.
That's what I'll be going for.
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