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April 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 26, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Great to have you here.
This the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Did you see?
You see the news story where Trump donated 25,000, no, maybe it was 50.
It was a lot of money to Terry McAuliffe when he ran for governor of Virginia back in 2007.
Not this.
Does that bother you?
It doesn't.
See, that's what I'm talking about.
I mean, he's the punk.
He's a Clinton confidant.
He was one of the Clinton's enforcers.
Trump donates to his gubernatorial campaign.
No big deal.
Yeah, that's what he had to do.
That's exactly right.
Trump had to probably add some hotel business Virginia.
Something in Virginia needed to supported the punk.
And uh probably didn't even want to make the donation, but had to do it, right?
That's exactly right from the Federalist parents of a five-year-old trans questioning child have filed a complaint against a charter school for refusing to teach harmful anti-science beliefs about human biology.
Let me read that out.
I don't you know so much stuff you need to translate.
Parents of a five-year-old trans questioning child.
I assume that means a child who thinks he might be a different gender, or she might be, is that what trans questioning is.
Parents of a five-year-old trans questioning child.
The parents have filed a complaint against a charter school because the school is refusing to teach harmful anti-science beliefs about human biome.
That just doesn't make any sense.
Why would the parents want the school to teach harmful stuff?
That's gotta be a typo for refusing to teach harmful anti-science beliefs about.
Maybe the next paragraph will unlock this.
Parents of a five-year-old transgender child have filed a complaint against the St. Paul, Minnesota Charter Scruol, alleging the scrual failed to protect the child from bullying and refused to teach all the students their preferred transgender awareness current.
We're talking five-year-old.
Five-year-olds choose the curriculum and the parents sue if the school doesn't respond to the five-year-old's chosen gender orientation.
David and Hannah Edwards.
You know, we're talking here about zero three percent of the population.
David and Hannah Edwards, whose child was born a boy, but now thinks he is a girl.
David and Hannah Edwards have filed with the city's Department of Human Rights, claiming their child was not able to take full advantage of Nova's educational opportunities because of her gender identity and expression.
This violated her rights.
So when the boy showed up at Scrual wearing pink tennis shoes, we're talking a five-year-old here.
When the boy showed up at Scrual wearing pink tennis shoes and wanting to wear a jumper like the girls in gym five-year-olds at gym class.
Other children reportedly pointed and laughed at him.
The parents contacted the scruel and wanted something done to protect their child from bullying, despite the fact that the scrual currently has an anti-bullying policy.
The Edwardses, however, wanted more for the scruel to teach only their views of human sexuality and to be engaged in helping their five-year-old boy transition to a girl.
Hannah Edwards said, My kids just trying to live and be accepted and be safe.
five-year-old Breitbart News headline, transgender and gay groups say federal officials should ban single-sex bathrooms in all K-12 schools.
President Obama may use a new courtroom decision to effectively eliminate single sex bathrooms in K-12 schools around the nation say groups lobbying to increase the social and legal status of transgender people who want to live like people of the opposite sex.
The changes needed according to transgender groups because a revolutionary change would comfort the tiny number of kids and youths who wish to change their sex.
Okay.
Um...
Uh...
Mainstream lawyers hope higher courts will stop a presidential or agency mandate against single sex bathrooms.
And I predicted this.
When the gay marriage fight was won, that was pretty much it.
I mean, the militant gay agenda had been realized, but they didn't want to give up the game because the game is – You know, agitation, agitating protests and so forth, basically upheaval.
So the transgenders became the new beneficiaries of the militant gay protest movement.
John Fund, National Review Online.
If Trump will not release his tax returns, his delegates should abstain on the first ballot.
Ronald Reagan famously said that trust but verify was the proper way to deal with somebody who has a record of credibility problems.
Republicans need to adopt Reagan's approach as Trump moves closer to the Republican nomination.
This is a opinion piece of fund.
A political party that did not demand the public release of Donald Trump's tax returns could be committing electoral suicide.
In his 40-year business career, he's assembled an empire of great complexity along with a serial record of credibility problems.
In other words, he often makes stuff up, writes John Fund.
This is a man who sat under oath in a 2008 libel suit that he later lost.
"My net worth fluctuates and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and Even my own feelings.
Yeah, you know, normally the drive-by's would be clamoring for Trump's tax returns.
Any other average ordinary Republican running, the drive-by's would be clamoring for Trump's tax returns.
But uh I don't think they're gonna do it until Trump's the nominee.
And if you if you think that you have seen a drive-by media feeding frenzy before, you just wait until Trump gets the nomination.
Drive by, I'm telling you, they're just laying in wait.
They are they can't wait to unload.
I don't know that it's gonna matter.
That's what I meant in the in the previous busy broadcast hour about the terrain being all new and and uh and all different.
I think some of the old conventional wisdom is out the window, and people don't realize it yet.
But we'll we'll know soon enough.
Uh Rachel and Buckeye, Arizona, I'm glad you called you up.
First great to have you with us on the program today.
Hello.
Uh good morning, Rush, and thank you for having me.
And you were talking about Cruz this morning about not being an insider.
And I just called to to differ with you on that point.
And um I for me, for one, as an American who has voted her whole life, um I see him as an insider.
He's uh he's been a lawyer slash government employee his his whole life.
And um that's one of the reasons I I'm not voting for him.
I mean, if he gets the nominee, I will vote for him, but I'm I voted for Trump and I just see him as an insider.
And uh and like you've talked about for a while now.
No, I know, and uh and you don't know why I don't see it that way, uh, probably right.
I don't.
I've been really frustrated with you for the last few months because yeah, I don't know.
I I don't I don't I don't get where you're coming from.
And I've I've valued your opinion.
Let me ask you what Rachel, just a second here now.
This this may be hard to do because you might not have had any opinions here, but what did you think of Cruz before Trump even came along?
What you know, a year from a year ago, before Trump was even toying with it, before Trump's even in a news possibly running.
Well, I liked him.
I liked him.
Did you did you think of him as no different than Mitch McConnell?
Did you think of him as no different than John Boehner?
No, I thought of him as different.
Yes, sir.
Right.
You thought of him as in opposition to those people.
Yes, sir.
He was speaking out against them.
He was publicly calling them out.
Uh he he was uh that's it is it on that basis that I refer to Cruz as outsider anti-establishment.
But believe me.
Rachel, I uh when you throw Trump in the mix, I can see where Trump qualifies on the surface as a as a genuine outsider.
I mean, he's not elected, he's not in the Senate, he's not a warrior, he hasn't worked in a regime or any of that.
But before all that happens, my my only point the earlier portions of today's program was to try to explain what Cruz is doing.
Cruz had a strategy.
He was running against the Republican establishment.
He was the only one in the Republican field running against the establishment.
Everybody else was part of it.
Pick any one of those other 15 people from what maybe Ben Carson would qualify as an outsider, but when you're talking uh Jeff Christie, uh Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, uh Marco Rubio, uh all of the others, the the Huckabee.
Um they're all part of the Republican establishment.
Cruz was running against all of them.
And he was devising, he did devise a strategy to win that involved delegates because that's the only way he could.
He b before Trump gets in, the way to look at Cruz in his campaign was David and Goliath.
Now, he may not want to hear it, and it may not hold up once once Trump gets in the race, which you know is the great irony, but that's who Cruz was.
Cruz never factored Trump.
Nobody did.
Cruz, when he was putting together his game plan to win the nomination, never once factored Donald Trump or anybody like him would be in the race.
He knew he was up against everything the establishment has in their arsenal.
They run the convention, they run the primaries, they run the state parties, he was the outsider.
The only hope he had was to go to these conventions and tie up as many delegates as he could so that he could withstand the onslaught of the establishment should it come to it at a convention.
Now Trump gets in and all of that gets blown to smithereens, but it doesn't change who Cruz was.
Now you might want to say Cruz compared to Trump is establishment or insider, because yeah, he's in the Senate, and yeah, he's a lawyer, and yeah, he was in the Texas state government, and yeah, his wife worked for W, and yeah, he's got all these connections.
But it's only in comparison to Trump can you say that Cruz is a is an insider, but he's not.
I mean, you know, Rachel, you know as well as I do.
Cruz was despised by these people precisely because he was exposing them.
Trying to expose them.
He was doing everything he could.
Called him the Washington cartel.
Um he was running for the presidency from the Senate, from his elected position.
So I I'm you don't don't look at this as me choosing sides over who's the outsider and and who I I see clearly everything happening here.
But it simply isn't true to say that Ted Cruz is establishment.
He never has been.
He never wanted to be.
And if Trump were not in the race, he would be the only guy running against the establishment right now.
And thus he you would have no choice but then to conclude that you might not trust it.
I don't know about that, but that's the way it was.
I'm not ignoring anything.
I'm not willfully blind here.
I'm I'm simply recounting things as they were.
I'm really glad you called.
I have to take a uh a break.
We got some audio sound bites I want you to hear, plus more of your phone calls, of course, all next when we get back.
Now that fun story that that's from back in March, uh March the 16th.
It hadn't got any traction at all.
I just I just came across it, and it's it's kind of out of nowhere.
Uh so I I I thought I'd uh bring it up.
I'm not advocating Trump releases tax returns.
You know what, folks, I'll tell you what we're gonna do on this one one day this week, maybe do it on open line Friday.
I'm gonna I'm gonna ask Trumpists to call the program, and I'm gonna ask you to tell me what one or two things Trump does that you wish he would stop doing that worry you going forward.
And I don't mean this in anything other than a helpful productive exercise.
Well, I'll tell you what gave me the idea of it is a call up here.
Let's see, what is it?
Uh here, grab line two.
This one gave me the idea.
This is Lee uh in uh in college station.
Welcome, Lee.
Great to have you on the program.
It says here that what you want to talk about now that Trump's in the driver's seat, gonna get the nomination, what does he have to steer clear of in order to beat Hillary?
What do you what do you mean by that?
Well, that's right.
Well, first of all, finger of friendship uh puppy studios to you, sir.
All right.
Thank you, sir, very much.
And my uh premise to my question is um I I think he first of all has it in the bag.
I voted for the master debater in the uh primary here in Texas, but I'll I'll vote for Satan if he wins the nomination.
So, of course, we're talking about Trump, and uh I think he's got it locked up.
He's he's rewrote the art of the deal, so he should uh he should sail through the convention.
Right, right.
But you say, what does he need to steer clear of in order to in other words you think that he's got some propensities that could hurt him, right?
Well, I don't I don't know.
I you're smart guy, so I called you.
I thought, you know, Russ will know.
What what does Trump what does he have to not do in order to win the general in November?
And I'm talking about course going out, it looks like against uh Hillary.
What does he have to not do in order to win it?
To win it all.
Well, um this would require some considered uh thought, though.
That's why I called you.
Right.
But I mean, off the top of my head, might be risky, because I guess right now just give you generics, and uh and the first thing I would say is whatever he does, whatever he he's got to stay who he is.
He cannot try to become somebody he's not.
And he's gotta resist efforts on the part of whoever surrounds him to turn him into something he's not, based on what they think is necessary, because they're not the one running.
He's the guy, his instincts are solid, obviously.
He knows himself.
So I think he's just gotta trust himself.
Okay.
All right.
But but I've had I know people are worried, for example, I know Trumpists who are worried, you know, they they love it when he insults people, but they're worried that it's gonna backfire, that it doesn't come across as uh stately or presidential or what have you.
Uh and so I thought I would give Trumpists an opportunity to uh express what their fears are.
At least because like you, most of them think Trump's got it in the bag.
Most of you Trumpists think that it's over.
And you're on, you've moved on.
The primaries are a perfunctory thing now.
They are a formality.
And so you're you're you're Hoping that whatever happens next does not blow it.
And so you've got obviously in your mind, there are things, maybe you haven't nailed them, maybe you haven't identified them, that could blow it.
And so your question to me what do I think Trump should avoid in order to beat Hillary?
Let me grab some sound bites here quickly.
We got time to squeeze this in.
Here's Hillary last night in Philadelphia on PMS NBC.
Well, I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America, and 50% of America is women.
All right, here's how Trump reacted to it.
I call her crooked Hillary because she's crooked, and you know, the only thing she's got is the woman card.
That's all she's got, and it is pandering.
And you know, it's a weak card in her hand.
In another person's hands, it could be a very powerful card.
I'd love to see a woman president, but she's the wrong person.
She's a disaster.
Remember the famous call at three o'clock in the morning.
She was sleeping.
She's got nothing else to play.
She's guilty as hell of the emails.
You got whitewater.
Her whole life has been crooked.
And you look at the foundation the whole life, and the only card she's got is to play the woman card.
Now, um very few Republicans ever go after Hillary at all, period.
They don't go after Obama.
They hands off Trump not afraid to, but you try is that effective or not?
I'm asking you.
Is that going to persuade people?
Is that going to warn people off of Hillary and so forth?
You ponder that.
Because we have taken obscene profit break.
Abby in Gainesville, Florida.
It's great to have you.
You're next.
Hi.
Hi.
Um I'm a first-time voter.
I'm actually a college student.
And I'm voting for uh Cruz.
And my main reason why I'm not voting for Trump is because he encourages people to break the law.
Like encouraging violence as rallies, I just I think it's very immature and kind of thuggish.
So that's my main thing against him is that he's encouraging people to be violent.
And I don't agree with that.
Okay, let me uh I'm going to take the occasion of your call to say something here about both men.
Um because it's not good for people on our side of the aisle to start uh uh harboring opinions of uh of our of our two front runners here that may not be entirely accurate.
I understand the nature of the competition.
And the cruise people want to desperately win, and the Trump people desperately want to win.
And within the framework of this competition, obviously critical things are going to be said.
Uh I know both these guys, and I know both of them very well.
And I I I folks, I just want to tell you from the bottom of my heart.
First off, for those of you cruise people who think that Trump is some thug he's not.
He uh he this encouraging violence thing is a little bit of an exaggeration of a couple of things that happened at some of the early Trump rallies that were largely symbolic.
Uh you have to understand this is one of the things that put Trump on the map.
People on our side are fed up with having life dictated to us by public agitators and protesters who are not legitimate.
They come in purposely for one purpose, and that's to interrupt disrupt.
They don't have a legitimate grievance.
They're faking it.
They're nothing but a bunch of bullies themselves.
And uh Trump was not going to surrender his events to them.
He simply wasn't in in some faux sense of politeness or tolerance.
He was not going to surrender his event to these people.
Donald Trump is a you you would love him living in your neighborhood.
You wouldn't love him if he were one of your friends.
He is a nice guy, but he's committed.
And he's driven.
And he's confident.
And many people assume from that that he is arrogant.
Some people assume that people like that are intolerant, that they're no it alls or what have you.
But if you would spend any time around Trump, you would enjoy yourself.
You'd be laughing and you would have you'd have a good time.
You might think some things are uh beyond the pale or what have you, but uh he's not a bad guy.
And by the same token on the other side, uh I really am uncomfortable with what some of the Trump people think of Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is I I don't know how else to do he's it it he's wholesome.
He is solid, he is an excellent citizen.
He is uh he's he's possessed of uh incredible dignity and integrity.
He's not a cheater.
And by the same token, if Cruz lived in your neighborhood, it'd be a great neighborhood, and you'd be happy to have him in your neighborhood.
You'd be happy to have have Cruz as one of your as one of your friends.
He may seem stiff to some people uh because of the way he appears on the on the campaign trail.
But both of these people are okay people.
They're nice people, they're nice guys.
They're driven in their own ways.
And both of them are profoundly preferable to Hillary Clinton.
You you you want to talk about uh negative characteristics and personality traits, uh gaming, cheating, this kind of thing.
I mean, that's that is the name of the game for the entire Clinton machine.
What they have is a political machine.
And it takes no prisoners.
And they are in it for the express purpose of maximizing as much personal gain as they can out of it, while at the same time altering the status quo in this country in a negative way for the for the most people.
They are elitists and they're just not you you wouldn't, I don't think, fully trust them or or their organizations.
But when it comes to to Cruz, I mean, you have a deeply religious, committed family man, he's a he believes in God, uh he lives his life accordingly.
And these are not bad guys.
These are not bad people, and it's it's kind of uh part and parcel of campaigns that you have these kind of negative attacks and critical things said about people.
But you can rely on the fact that when all this is done, these are these are these are people that you would would not mind being around at all, and you wouldn't you wouldn't mind them uh having some role in your life, be it friendship, member of your church, uh or what have you.
But they're both in a in a pretty heated competition here for the most powerful job in the world.
And there are certain things that you have to do, certain requirements that you have to do to achieve this job, to win what it takes to win this job.
And it's something most people wouldn't even subject themselves to.
Most people wouldn't even enter this arena.
Most people wouldn't be able to take one-tenth of the criticism that you get and remain smiling and have an upbeat and positive attitude.
Most people wouldn't want to get anywhere near it.
And so you have to make uh I don't know, allowances for various things that might happen that seem to be extreme in the uh in the heat of a campaign.
But you can I think rest assured that we're we're not talking about bad people here.
Not my estimation, anyway.
Brief time out will continue in a second.
Don't go away.
Scott in Ohio.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, sir.
Uh Mr. Limwall, thank you for taking my call today.
It's uh privilege to talk to you.
Um I uh I had a uh question.
Um I I'm a little uh uh curious as to it seems like you your attitude towards Trump and his supporters has changed as of late.
Um example yesterday to me was uh uh you had callers calling in, you know, many of which are complaining about the whining of Trumpists, if you want to call them that.
Um Trump himself about delegates.
And uh in the next breast, seemingly it uh you you praised Trump for exposing uh uh what is a corrupt delegate system.
So it I sense a bit of uh uh uh wait wait, wait.
I don't think that the delegate system is corrupt.
My opinion of Trump and Trump voters has never changed.
I like Donald Trump.
I'm fascinated by his campaign.
I have I have studied it.
I think I've spent more time than anybody, seriously, that's not a professional sociologist trying to understand it.
It fascinates me.
I hope it's huge.
I wonder how big it is, I wonder how much bigger it can get.
Um there are a lot of things about the Trump campaign that intrigue me.
Uh that and I'm sure they intrigue everybody else.
And and one of them is this he's not a professional politician outsider.
This stuff's not supposed to be possible.
The insiders have told you this is not supposed to be possible.
The consultants, the professional consultants, both parties, they're chewing their fingernails down to the quick over this.
Because this is not supposed to be possible.
This isn't supposed to happen.
Guys, not supposed to be able to self-fund.
You're not supposed to be able to do this without donors, you're not supposed to be able to do this without advisors and TV ads and consultants running the campaign and so forth.
Um and and Trump voters and what they represent.
Look, I think the future of this country rests with the people.
And I have great faith in the people of this country.
I still think a majority of the people in this country are appalled at so much of what is happening to our culture.
I think they're fed up with it, but they have been not represented.
And whenever they do speak up, they're shouted down and they're mocked and they're made fun of and they're ridiculed into silence.
So somebody's come along and speaks up for them who refuses to be silenced.
That they applaud.
I understand it all, but I don't think the delegate selection process is corrupt.
Not as it's being used here.
Now look, I'm not saying politics isn't corrupt.
I'm not saying there's not vote fraud that takes place on election day.
But what we're talking about here and the way these delegates are being chosen, the way they're selected and the way they're assigned, there isn't any corruption.
There's just a contest.
And Trump has had his own way of going about getting these delegates.
Cruz has had his.
Cruz is at a, look, you're going to misunderstand this, but I'm going to say he's at a disadvantage.
He's losing.
He's only got one option open to him.
And that's winning on a second or third ballot.
That's all he can do right now.
And so he's doing what's necessary to win should that eventuate.
Trump wants to win it without ever there being a second ballot.
And he's trying to pull that off now.
And he's going about it in his own way.
They're competing for the same thing, but not in the same way, because Trump can win it in ways that Cruz can't.
Trump can win it in both ways, but Cruz only has one way.
That's the best I can do at explaining it with no time left.
The conclusion of today's program, which is right now, dedicated to Kelly Rippa.
We're sorry.
It will get better.
And we will see you tomorrow.
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