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April 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limbaugh, right here at the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
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So I mentioned earlier that I was watching Carl Rove on the Fox News channel today.
And he was going on and on and on about Trump's high uh yeah, uh Trump's off-the-charts, negatives and unfavorables in the polling.
He said that unprecedented.
There's never in the history of American political polling.
Never been anybody with negatives as high as Donald Trump's.
And I'm watching this and I'm thinking, but something doesn't make sense here.
How can you have somebody so obviously popular?
Now I understand polarization and all that.
I understand you have some love, you're going to have some hate.
You don't want polarization in the politician, though.
Some other public endeavors, it's okay, but in politics, nobody's going to vote for you because they hate you.
So it doesn't work.
But I said, how accurate can this be?
I mean, it almost doesn't work for me.
It doesn't make any sense.
Massive unfavorables, and 25, 30% say they'd never vote for Trump, and yet he's setting records in terms of turnout and numbers of votes, and winning every county in five Northeastern states.
So there's some things that have to, I think, be explained here to because I'm not sure I don't buy this negative stuff as being all that relevant.
For two reasons.
They never talk about when discussing Trump's negatives, how high Hillary's are.
Hillary's not sitting out there with universal love.
Hillary's negatives are practically as high as Trump's are, and so are Cruzes.
And then they say, well, look at all the people that say if Trump's a nominee are never going to vote for him.
Well, look at the Sanders supporters who say that if if if Hillary's a nominee, they're not voting for her.
And then the same thing crews.
If Cruz the nominee, some people vote not going to vote for him.
So there's nothing unique to Trump here, is my point.
They're trying to make it look like.
You know, certain members of the establishment, certain members of the media trying to make it look like that all of this negative stuff is exclusive to Trump, and it isn't.
Hillary's negatives are almost as high.
Cruz has his own set of negatives, but there's even more to this.
You know, pollsters always talk about negatives in a vacuum.
They say here are the approval disapproval ratings of uh candidate X. But elections are not conducted in a single candidate vacuum.
Okay, yeah, you're gonna what's your opinion of Trump?
I hate Trump, I love Trump.
Okay, what about Trump compared to Hillary?
Well, it's gonna change.
But they're not, that's not how they're doing the polling.
It's not how they're doing the reporting.
They're reporting on these negatives for everybody.
Trump, cruise, as though they're in a vacuum.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be this notion of lesser of two evils that's so frequently applied to politics.
But there are, because these polls and these elections certainly don't occur in vacuums.
Do you know one of the biggest landslides in American presidential history?
Richard Nixon in 1972, when he was hated.
Richard Nixon was hated.
And yet he won one of the biggest landslide victories over McGovern in 1972.
He was personally unpopular.
Eisenhower didn't like him.
The Kennedys didn't like him.
They said he had no class.
Even Republican people who did like him thought he was a nerd, thought he was socially awkward, and they didn't like admitting that they were his friend.
It's amazing that Nixon ever won anything because his negatives were always through the roof.
Except for one TV appearance that Roger Ailes ran in 1968.
Nixon had a return.
It was one of the early town halls.
And Roger Ailes produced it, and it was just Nixon in the round with people asking him questions.
And Nixon came along, came out.
That was four years before the last slide win.
But he came off in that 1968 town hall, personable, likable, unthreatening.
It was remarkable.
I remember I was 17.
I watched it.
I remember watching it.
I remember being impressed by it.
I didn't know who Roger Ayles was at the time.
But I didn't know later that Ailes had produced that whole thing and conceived the idea.
But the bottom line is in 1972, Richard Nixon was hated.
He was hated, you know, Watergate had happened, it hadn't become anything yet, but I cannot emphasize for those of you who were not born yet or who were young and not paying attention.
Donald Trump's negatives are nothing compared to what Nixon's were in 1970.
Now, Nixon's polling negatives were not that high, but I'm just telling you, don't doubt me.
He was not liked.
The Democrats despised him.
That's why he gave the left so many things like OSHA, tried to buy off their friendship here by giving them a bunch of new government agencies and so forth.
But the mood of, and the media hated him too.
Big.
Oh my gosh, the media hated Nixon maybe more than they hated George W. Bush.
But it didn't matter, is the point.
Because the mood of the countries, it wasn't in a vacuum.
The mood of the country at the time, McGovern was a looney-toon.
He was in bed with all these Chicago 60s protesters, the Abby Hoffens and the Tom Jane Fondus or whatever the name of it, all these weirdos, the Bill Ayers and these domestic terrorists, the 60s radicals, who, by the way, are running the country today.
The very people, I mean, their descendants and some of them first running the country today as 60s radicals that McGovern represented, he was considered dangerous.
So 1972, my point is 72 could teach everybody that high negatives are not by themselves disqualifying.
But the anti-Trump people out there want you to believe that they are.
And you'll see it everywhere.
Why Trump can't win, look at his numbers of women.
Well, Trump can't win when it all disapprovals.
It doesn't mean anything right now.
We haven't even had the convention yet.
We haven't even had the campaign.
And I'm going to tell you something else.
You know, in November, who knows what's going to become of these negatives after a convention and after the campaign.
And I'll give you a little secret here.
If Trump's the nominee, and if he does unload on Hillary Clinton, as he's promising to do, let me just tell you something.
You do not know how many gazillion Americans are going to be delirious and orgasmic with delight and support.
There are gazillions of Americans who have had to suppress, have had to swallow, have had to just sit there and take it.
Whatever the Clintons have gotten away with since they entered the public national scene in 1992.
They've gotten away with everything, the dirty right-wing conspiracy about all this stuff, and nobody ever goes after him.
Nobody ever hits the Clintons.
Nobody is serious.
Republicans have never tried it.
They get away with Hillary.
$225,000 for a speech, the various bankers and so forth stealing stuff out of the White House claiming to be broke.
And now just rolling in money and so forth.
all the other unlikable things about her, if Trump hits her and criticizes her like they haven't been, like the Clintons haven't been, you're going to have people on that basis alone vote for the guy.
In my opinion, because I don't think people understand how pent up the frustration that and opposition to the Clintons at what they have seemed, seemingly gotten away with all of these years.
And I'm reminded of our caller from Philadelphia yesterday, this guy Sean.
He's going on and on and on about how the Republicans have never fought back, Bush didn't fight back, and Trump does.
Trump fights.
And he said, you know what?
I disagree with 80% of what Trump believes.
But I'm voting for him because he's a fighter.
80%.
You wonder why the establishment's going nuts.
They hear something like that.
And the guy meant it.
And he was a he's a well-spoken guy.
So you can take some of these Trump negatives and you can wipe them out if he is a nominee and goes after Hillary.
And I don't mean just crooked Hillary.
I mean if he goes after it exposes this email stuff and Benghazi and her general incompetence and Hillary Care and how she covered the bimbo eruption, you know, all of that stuff.
If he goes after that, because nobody ever has, nobody's ever had the guts, nobody's ever had the courage to do it because they know the media is going to come after him.
That alone is going to wipe out some negatives.
I'll tell you something else.
The infighting between Trump and Cruz has distracted attention from uh I think the major story that their rise to the top spots here is caused by the let's not forget what's what's driving this whole campaign, and that is the utter rejection of the Republican establishment by Republican voters.
That has, I mean, it's known, but I think it's it's taken second or third place because the competition now has so tightened between uh Cruz and Trump, and we're on the verge here of finding out where it's all going to end up.
But the way this all began hasn't changed, and that is all of this is happening.
Trump exists because he's anti-establishment.
And do not doubt me on this.
Washington still does not get what Trump symbolizes.
They go after you, they say his speech yesterday was empty, it was vacuous, it was uh silly, doesn't matter.
He had he had the great memorable line about, you know, not bowing down to globalization anymore.
Yeah, he mispronounced Tanzania.
Called it Tanzania.
Well, Obama called it Marine Corps.
When Trump mispronounces Tanzania, everybody harps on it, but what Trump symbolizes is a big fat screw you from the country to the people running the country.
And that alone is garnering him support that the establishment cannot understand.
They still do not understand the depth to which people feel this.
And by the way, here's a companion story.
It is from the Daily Caller.
Headline, Democrat strategist, Trump will beat Hillary like a baby seal.
By the way, Salon.com, the second story this week, salon.com demanding that the Democrat establishment get rid of Hillary, that she's guaranteed to lose.
She's got too much baggage, she's too corrupt, and she's not Bernie.
They love Bernie at Salon.
But my point is there's no there's not total unity out there on the left on the Democrat side.
Democrat strategist Dave Mudcat Saunders, who I never heard of, but they found him here at the Daily Caller, believes that Donald Trump will beat Hillary Clinton like a baby seal, and that working class whites who haven't already left the Democrat Party for cultural reasons, will do so now for economic reasons.
Dave Mudcat Saunders, not to be confused with Jim Mudcat Grant, said, I know a ton of Democrats, male, female, black and white here in Southern Virginia who are going to vote for Trump, and it's all because of economic reasons.
It's because of his populist message.
But there are a bunch of pull quotes I could share with you here about how he thinks two things.
He's going to beat Hillary like a baby seal.
I mean, he's just gonna cream her in the election, but that he is going to just have at her with Oppo research and criticism that is going to be successful.
And he's a Democrat strategist out there.
And if that indeed happens, I'm just telling you, some of these negatives out there, which are already being looked at mistakenly in a vacuum, are not gonna matter anyway.
Ditto Cruz, by the way, same thing if Cruz is the nominee.
Negatives are not going to end up being that big a deal.
Okay, Dave Mudcat Saunders was involved in a John Edwards campaign.
Uh I I never recognize the name and it's place, but he said something very very very curious here.
It's going to tick some of you off, but I'm just going to tell you.
He thinks that Trump is going to beat Hillary like a baby seal.
He means landslide win over her.
And if you read deep into the story, here's why.
Quote, Dave Mudcat Saunders.
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have very similar messages.
They're just dressed in different clothes.
I think you're going to see a lot of Sanders people jump to Trump.
Democrat strategist thinks that Trump is going to win big by getting Bernie's voters, because there's not much difference in his estimation in Bernie or Trump, other than their clothes.
Dominic, Pensacola, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Oh, Russia.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I uh I was going to touch on the Tanzanian embassy, but you already said that he mispronounced it.
So I I asked about the poll numbers and the negatives of Trump.
You know, you said that it doesn't make sense that he has such high negatives, but he's done so well.
But honestly, Russia's only done well in blue states.
I mean, he did well in Florida, which was blue last year, and all of the Northeast is blue.
But in the red states, he couldn't get 40%.
Mississippi being the only exception.
So, I mean, the only states I believe you put in play are red states like Arizona, where Hillary's already polling seven percent, seven percent above him.
That there's there's there's some credence to that, but by the same token, I mean, if you if you look, what you're saying is Trump's done welln't liberal uh Northeastern states, but in real Republican red states, he's not he's not climbed to 50 percent.
But what Cruz didn't do anywhere near as well in those states where he was supposed to do well either.
I don't know if that sounds like a dead connection to me, but uh I think that that uh we're gonna find out here in Indiana.
I mean, it it's Kasich is there, but he's not.
This is this is gonna be a good test.
This Indiana should be Ted Cruz without question, right?
I mean, it's Hoosier, it's conservative, it's uh upper Midwest.
Uh it it it ought to be something that even now if you look at it before this time, if you look at Indiana six months ago as you're looking at the map, Indiana you'd put in the cruise camp.
You might not now, given the things that have happened in the campaign so far, but it's it's uh it's made to order for cruise, just in terms of the way you would handicap it.
May not end up being uh that way.
But I still let me try to make this point a little bit differently.
Uh I still think it's fascinating to focus on the negatives of the way people are trying to do it to disqualify Trump.
And you took it, take a look at the people that are doing it, they're establishment types, and they're doing it in a vacuum.
That's why I went to the pain of trouble of pointing out that one of the most reviled public figures of his era, Richard Nixon, won in a landslide.
The fact that uh Trump's negatives are being touted here by the I think it is significant that even though they are that high, he's doing amazingly well and is popular at the same time.
My only attempt here is to try to talk people out of believing these negatives are that relevant because they apply to everybody.
Hillary's negatives are high.
All politicians are kind of looked down on these days by voters.
Cruz's negatives are high.
And if you look at some of the early exiters from the Republican primary, their negatives were not high.
And where are they?
They're gone.
You know, Trump may not have gotten 40%, but some didn't even get five in um in some of these states.
So I know everybody wants to put whatever quiver they can in the bag to say, I got the bit of information will prove to you Trump can't win and we're making a big stake.
People did the same thing with Cruz.
And I just don't think it's it's too soon.
There's too much yet to happen.
Nobody can possibly know what's going to happen in November yet.
Despite what they might tell you.
Did you uh did you see this story?
I saw this uh earlier today, maybe last night, I can't remember what legal insurrection.
Bill Jacobson's site.
Human life begins with a bright flash of light.
I saw this and I was uh I was blown away by it.
It's a it's a story actually, the UK telegraph, and they published footage of this phenomena.
When a sperm meets an egg, a bright flash of light actually occurs and signifies the beginning of human life.
Almost as interesting as the footage, the telegraph acknowledges that life begins at conception.
That's on this isn't the telegraph.
I mean, they're not as bad as The Guardian, but they're still the drive-by media.
And for anybody in the mainstream media to openly admit that life begins at conception, I mean, bye bye tissue mass, bye-bye all these other arguments that the choicers make.
This is what they write in the telegraph.
Human life begins in a bright flash of light.
As a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time after capturing the astonishing fireworks on film.
An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.
Not only is it an incredible spectacle, highlighting the very moment that a new life begins.
The size of the flash can be used to determine the quality of the fertilized egg.
The discovery could help fertility doctors pick the best fertilized eggs to transfer during in vitro fertilization, for example.
Professor Teresa Woodruff, one of the study's two senior authors and an expert in ovarian biology at Northwestern, said it's remarkable.
We discovered the zinc spark five years ago in the mouse.
And to see the zinc radiate out in a burst from each human egg was breathtaking.
is that mind-blowing.
It does.
And you should see that it does.
It looks like a cosmic explosion.
Now it's magnified, obviously, but it's man, oh man.
There is so much that we think we know.
And the slide, oh, what's the left going to do with this?
They'll outlaw fireworks or some such thing, you know, indoors in hospitals or whatever they can do.
They'll they'll poo-poo it.
They'll say it was bought and paid for research.
All right, now I mentioned earlier that I think, ladies and gentlemen, I came across what is conclusive evidence that Obamacare is a scam designed to fail during implementation, so as to hurry and further along single payer, socialized medicine, run by the federal government.
I found this in a story, a column at Forbes magazine, and it all focuses on the Obamacare benefit that allows you to keep your kids on your health care plan up until they are 26 years old.
Here's how this works.
And this is why I think this is I don't think this is an accident.
I don't think that this is a you know, too many chefs cooking the recipe and not knowing what everybody's doing.
I don't think this is leftist incompetence.
I don't think it's uh you know bureaucratic melees or any of that.
I think it was purposeful.
What do they need to make Obamacare sustainable?
As designed.
I mean, they've told you this is not supposition.
They need young, healthy people in the 18 to 34 demographic who do not get sick and therefore who are not going to be making claims for coverage.
They need them to buy policies, and that's why we have the mandate.
The individual mandate is to force people to buy.
But the punishment for failing to do so and how they get it is where the the trick here is revealed.
Two things.
Number one, a large percentage of that demographic 18 to 34 is also aged 18 to 26.
And that's important because they're not buying their own policies.
They can stay on mom and dad's up until they're 26 years of age.
So the very financial foundation, young people required to buy insurance plans, is already subverted by Obamacare's own benefit that allows the same people requiring to buy health insurance to pay for it to stay on their parents' plan, not paying anything, not having their own policies.
That means they're not buying their own policies.
They're not paying their own higher premiums because of the Obamacare requirement, these children be covered on their parents' plans.
So the imperative of getting young people to buy coverage is undermined by Obamacare's own coverage mandate.
It's designed to fail.
And then the second aspect of this.
How do they collect the fine when somebody doesn't pay?
When somebody doesn't, when you're mandated, we are required by law to go out there and buy health insurance.
And if we don't, there's a fine.
How do they collect it?
Do you know?
Right.
Snerdly on the case.
They deduct the fine from your tax refund.
But what if you don't get a refund?
They don't collect the fine.
They don't send you a bill.
So if you happen to get no refund, if you arrange your taxes, you're withholding so that you don't get a refund, which is the smart way to do it, actually, but I know people love getting a big lump in their hands.
But if there's no refund.
There's no way to collect the fine if you don't buy.
But the point is, they're undermining their own financing mechanism.
The whole thing is built on 18 to 34 year olds who are healthy buying insurance.
And they knew that 18 to 34 year olds would not do it on their own.
That's why the mandate.
That's why the force of law making them do it.
At the same time, they let children up to age 26 out of the deal.
Stay on their parents.
They're not even serious about funding it, folks.
In fact, they want it to be unfunded.
They want it to fall apart.
Now we've got United pulling out of the exchanges.
We've got some of these other health care plans saying we can lose money reporting out right on schedule.
All of these, every time you open the paper, you crack the web or do whatever, and you find problems in Obamacare, your reaction should be mission accomplished.
It is designed not to work.
It's designed to implode on itself.
Brief, brief break.
We will be back with more after this.
Don't go away.
Andy in Brooklyn, glad you waited, so you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
Yeah, you bet.
I just wanted to say that for less than 30 years, every election cycle, the GOP leaves millions of conservative votes on the table, allowing the DNC to come in and just scoop them up.
And I call them the default Democrats.
Now, this voting block is probably the biggest secret in politics because where it comes from.
And Rush, it comes from union rank and file membership who are 50 to 60% conservative people.
Now I'm not talking about the leaders, I'm not talking about the business agents.
I'm not talking about any of the executive people.
I'm talking about the guy who swings the hammer, the guy who fights the fire, the nurse, the teacher.
These are staunch conservatives.
And they're cowed into silence because of the fact that they're a creature of the DNC.
Okay, well, how does how does any candidate go attract them?
Well, I believe, I believe, first off, that Trump is a destiny candidate, and he's the man, and he's got the credibility to actually extend an olive branch to this group.
And I know this for a fact because the last 30 years, he's providing good paying union jobs for thousands of families in New York City.
And I gotta tell you, Rush, I know because I was one of them.
And it I believe that uh a man like Trump could be the man who could finally end this destructive feud that's that has existed between organized labor and the GOP.
Because I'm telling you right now, it has done nothing but hurt both parties.
And by bringing them together, I guarantee you first off, this will estimate this campaign.
This is interesting.
This is it we we have here, in many people's view, we have a messiah.
We have here a magician.
That Donald Trump can heal wounds that have existed, festered.
I got pus coming out of them for decades.
The amount of faith that people are placing it.
That's interesting.
I uh uh I know that there are a lot of union employees, union workers that are not Democrats, and we know this because they've tried to avoid having to pay dues because they know it all goes to the Democrat Party.
Anyway, Andy, I appreciate the call.
There's a guy dressed up, it looks like a panda suit to me anyway, who's taken over a TV station in Baltimore, threatening to blow it up with a uh with a car bomb, and uh the cops and everybody's on the scene there were been following it here.
There's nothing yet to report other than that.
Back in a sec here.
There is a town in Germany that is beginning to embed traffic lights in the sidewalks so people can see them as they're texting and emailing on their phones because they're not looking up and they're walking in front of traffic, so they put traffic lights in the sidewalks in this town in Germany.
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