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May 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It is the Rush Limbaugh program on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on the day of the Indiana primary.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushbo and EIBnet.com.
Ted Cruz apparently has had enough.
He has taken off the gloves and he is just pounding Trump as a pathological, psychological liar.
And it comes after Trump actually said that Cruz's dad met with Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald assassinated JFK.
That story originally ran in the National Inquirer, I think back in March.
And nobody picked it up because it's kooky.
I mean, it's absurd.
But Trump brought it up yesterday, or maybe this morning.
I don't remember the timeline exactly.
We've got a soundbite coming up of it.
And that may just have been the piece des résistance because Cruz has just, just unloaded on Trump today.
Let's get started with this.
By the way, there's some interesting stats coming up about this primary here today versus other primaries in the Republican Party and what Indiana has at stake today.
And I think all Indiana voters are very, very much aware what's at stake today.
They know they can prolong this by giving it to Cruz.
They can end it by giving it to Trump.
I think there's been enough media coverage here that the people of Indiana, we're going to know what they want.
We're going to know whether they want this thing to go on or whether they want this thing to officially end and be done with and over with and move on to the next stage by way of the vote tonight.
More on that in just a second here.
It was this morning on Fox and Friends, Donald Trump speaking with Ainslie Earhart, who said Ted Cruz's father says people should vote with the body of Christ.
And that means to vote for his son.
Do you think that resonates, Mr. Trump?
His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being, you know, shot.
I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
What is this right prior to his being shot?
And nobody even brings it up.
They don't even talk about that.
That was reported, and nobody talks about it.
What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, before the shooting?
It's horrible.
All right.
Now, I know that there are several Trumpists who are going to believe this, and they're going to defend it.
And, you know, like this brain-dead Trump supporter that Cruz crossed the street to talk to yesterday.
Boy, if there was ever a big red stop sign that says stop and don't do it, it was yesterday.
Well, what Truz is trying to do is he wasn't trying to persuade that idiot Trump voter.
He was trying to use the opportunity here to go viral on social media with a substantive issue response to this brain-dead Trumpist.
But it didn't work out because the audio wasn't any good.
You couldn't really hear much of what was going on.
All you could hear was the idiot brain-dead Trumpist going, Trump, Trump, Trump, Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Lieutenant.
Of course, that's what the media wanted everybody to hear.
So it didn't have the desired effect.
But Trump, before we get to Cruz, Trump had another endorsement yesterday.
The famous Lou Holtz released a video, Trump's Twitter feed did, of the Lou Holtz endorsement.
And this is what that sounded like.
I wholeheartedly endorse Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.
There are nothing but winners in Indiana.
Main reason I'm endorsing him, I've played his golf course.
I stayed in his hotel.
He does nothing but go first class in everything.
He wants his country to be first class as well.
Well, there you go.
The long standing coach of the fighting Irish played Trump's golf courses, and I've stayed in Trump's hotel, and it's first class all the way.
So you have there another Trump endorsement from another Indiana hero, Lou Holtz.
You know, moving on from Trump attempting to get traction on this idea that you know what else?
I'll tell you something.
Idiotic claim that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer.
Now, this is a sign of how far gone things are in America.
Somebody puts it out there that Cruz.
So that started as a joke on Comedy Center.
All right, started as a joke on Comedy Center, but the guy that called Obama his slang N-word.
Larry Wilmore started this.
That Ted Cruz is the Zodiac.
And do you know, folks, that there was a poll somewhere 38% of the people in the poll believed it?
38% believe that Ted Cruz is a Zodiac killer.
Ted Cruz was born in 1970.
The Zodiac killer started Zodiac killing in the 1960s.
So Ted Cruz is, and his wife's having to answer this garbage.
Heidi's having to answer this garbage.
Well, I can assure you, my husband is not the Zodiac killer.
I thought, well, here we go, Christian O'Donnell.
I want to tell everybody I'm not a witch.
Look, I've known Ted for a long time, and he's not the Zodiac.
Of course he's not the Zodiac killer.
And his dad was nowhere nearly Harvey Oswald before Oswald pulled the trigger.
They said Cruz is the liar.
No, his dad's not the Zodiac killer either.
Don't go.
Dad was in Canada at the time, I think.
Dan's not the Zodiac killer.
Snurdy says, trying to stoke the flames.
This is absurd.
This is just totally absurd.
And meanwhile, everybody, Lion Ted, Lion Ted.
Meanwhile, Trump's out there talking about how the Zodiac killer, well, Trump's not, but the campaign's spreading that word, making Heidi Cruz answer it in this business.
Dad being consulting Lee Harvey Oswald, and why is nobody talking about it?
So here's Cruz in Evansville, Indiana this morning, three soundbites.
It was a little press conference.
I think it was at a diner.
I'm not sure.
Doesn't all this stuff happen at diners now in primaries?
It's one reason to keep your diner open.
You know, you make your bundle every two years when the campaign's rolling to down.
So it was a QA with members of the media, Cruz's dad, Raphael Cruz.
And here's Ted responding to that allegation that his dad had something to do with Lee Harvey Oswald.
It's just mind-boggling.
Donald Trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating JFK.
This is nuts.
This is not a reasonable position.
This is just kooky.
And while I'm at it, I guess I should go ahead and admit, yes, my dad killed JFK.
He is secretly Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his backyard.
The National Enquirer is tabloid trash, but it's run by his good friend David Pecker, the CEO, who's endorsed Donald Trump.
And so the National Enquirer has become his hit piece that he uses to smear anybody and everybody.
Yeah, well, fine.
You say what you want.
The danger is, you know, how many of these brain-dead tarts running around here believe this stuff?
38% believe he's a Zodiac killer.
I forget the poll sample.
I don't have it at the tip of my fingers.
I can't recall the National Enquirer article.
It was published back on April 20th.
You know what?
It's based on a photo that the Inquirer's Photo Expert says that it looks like Cruz's dad.
It's a photo of somebody that looks like Cruz's dad talking to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Cruz's father was in New Orleans at the time, which, of course, you know, New Orleans has a connection to the JFK assassination of one of the, no, Jack Ruby was in Dallas.
The New Orleans connection is, I forget the guy's name.
No, not the mafia guy.
There's some other New Orleans connection.
It was one of the many conspiracy theories that never panned out.
It was bogus.
Anyway, Raphael Cruz was over there.
Here's the next Cruz soundbite from this morning, just moments ago, really, at Evansville.
This man is a pathological liar.
He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies.
He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.
His response is to accuse everybody else of lying.
The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist.
A narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen.
Donald Trump is such a narcissist that Barack Obama looks at him and goes, dude, what's your problem?
I'm not so sure about that.
That's a close call there.
Obama's.
And here's the final.
This is Trump.
As I say, the gloves are off, and I think the frustration level has peaked here.
And this is Cruz with Trump as amoral and a serial philanderer.
I say pathological because I actually think Donald, if you hooked him up to a lie detector test, he could say one thing in the morning, one thing at noon, and one thing in the evening, all contradictory, and he'd pass the lie detector test each time.
Whatever lie he's telling at that minute, he believes it.
But the man is utterly amoral.
Morality does not exist for him.
One of the lies he engages in.
Listen, Donald Trump is a serial philanderer, and he boasts about it.
This is not a secret.
He's proud of being a serial philanderer.
And Senator Cruz has also been traveling the state of Indiana on the stump, and he's been making the point when he talks to these Trump supporters.
You know, he's not going to build a wall, you guys.
He's not going to send the illegals back home for good.
I don't know what you guys believe, but there isn't going to be a wall.
He's not going to build a wall.
He can't build a wall.
He says Cruz is telling us terrain on the border is not conducive to building a wall.
Trump says Mexico's not going to pay for a wall.
There isn't going to be a wall.
And furthermore, Trump's going to grant amnesty.
This is what Cruz has been trying to get through people's head.
And a number of Cruz supporters have been saying this for, in their efforts to promote Cruz, have been saying this for recent days, weeks as well, that Trump's lying about it.
Now, that's all part of a campaign.
People might start wondering about it now.
I mean, you're really out there when you say that Cruz's dad was with Lee Harvey Oswald and that Cruz is the Zodiac killer.
That kind of thing could start make you questioning other things that you've heard, depending on your degree of devotion to the Trump campaign.
But here we are in Indiana, and it would be very hard to say with any accuracy that most of the people voting in Indiana don't really know what's going on.
Quite the opposite.
I think the people of Indiana are very, very much aware of what the result tonight in Indiana means.
By the way, did you I just ran across this and I admissed it.
Are you aware that the experts expecting Hillary to lose tonight in Indiana and where else West Virginia?
That she's expected to lose both these places?
More on that as the program unfolds.
But my point is, I think the people of Indiana know that they can keep this going or they can end it.
They can vote for Cruz and keep this thing going and maybe create circumstances that would lead to a contested convention.
If they vote Trump, they're eventually essentially saying they want this to end because there has to be enough situational awareness now with all the media coverage and all the attention.
And we've had a full week of nothing but Indiana in the news.
So the people voting today have to know what's going on other than just which candidate they support.
The conventional wisdom is that Trump wins.
And if he wins big, that that kind of like ends it for Cruz.
Not that Cruz took it out, but just that it, in a realistic sense, ends it.
And of course, that calls it a question of what the late deciders do.
I think if the late deciders go Trump, you're going to see everybody claiming that the people of Indiana have made a statement, not just for their state, but for the Republican Party, that they think it's time to end this and unify or whatever.
If late deciders go for Cruz, then Republicans in Indiana want this to go on.
They want the contest to continue.
If they vote for Cruz, it means there's going to be some doubt about Trump, some insecurity about it, and they don't want it to end yet.
And they have to know that if they vote for Cruz, if the majority here tonight votes for Cruz, that's going to extend this.
It may not result in Cruz winning it.
Don't misunderstand, but it's going to extend it.
I think everybody knows the stakes.
Or the vast majority of people know the stakes.
It turned out supposedly pretty high.
So this isn't just about Indiana, insofar as Indiana Republicans and their preferences are concerned.
My perception is that in the minds of Indiana Republicans, this is it.
This is where they make the statement of what they think ought to happen in the campaign, not just whether they believe in one or the other of the candidates.
Just a little brief history lesson, because, again, many people think that things are happening in this campaign that are unprecedented.
And of course, that means there might be some skull thuggery going on.
There might be some controversy.
There might be some conspiracies happening out there.
People may have forgotten this.
Do you realize Mitt Romney did not get close to wrapping it up in 2012 until May the 29th?
It was May the 29th that Romney secured, received enough delegates to clinch the party's nomination with the inclusion of unpledged delegates, meaning he hadn't received enough delegates by virtue of the vote on May 29th, but the unpledged over there, our version of superdelegates, he could count out would put him over the top.
It really wasn't until the June 5th California primary that Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination.
How many of you remember that?
People forget Rick Santorum was the leader in the clubhouse for the longest time in 2012.
Romney pulled it out in the end, but it took all the way until June.
Now, people this year act like, ah, it's gone along long enough.
We got to stop it.
It's going to take anymore.
Well, 2012, but nothing like this because the covers were not pulled back enough to show this kind of sausage-making detail.
So we'll see what happens here in Indiana.
We've got a lot to talk about here today, folks.
And of course, your opinions on all of it will be sought.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, we will be right back.
Greetings, welcome back, El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
The post-mortems at the Republican establishment actually have already begun.
You ever go to a party and later that night you get together with other people that attended it the next day and you rehash it, and that's the post-mortem.
And sometimes the post-mortem is often more fun than the party.
That's where you go and you rip everybody that you didn't like at the party.
You make fun of everybody for what they did stupid.
Well, those things are called post-mortems.
The post-mortem of the Republican consultant class has already begun as people are starting to point fingers and blame at each other to explain why Trump was able to come in and hijack this campaign from them.
Because the consultants, along with the lobbyists and the donors, I mean, they really think the candidates are just commodities, folks.
I wish I could make this understandable.
Not that I can't, it's just it's going to be foreign.
Most people think the candidate is the iron-clad, iron-fisted decision-maker in everything.
It's a candidate and the candidate's vision and the candidate's ideas that drive the whole train.
And that's not the case in many campaigns.
In many cases, the candidate would be nothing without being told what to do every day by somebody.
Candidate would be nothing without a teleprompter.
Candidate be nothing without this or that.
And so the consultants and the donors and the lobbyists actually think they run the show and that the candidate, and it's not old cases, but the candidate is just a commodity.
Have you ever heard these guys talk about, yeah, he was a good candidate?
What the hell does that mean?
It's good, can't be followed directions.
He didn't go off message.
Now, you and I would think good candidate, somebody that can articulate what they believe with passion and could get elected, likability, all those things.
The consultants look at many of them, not all, but they look at candidates as Ken dolls to be molded and shaped and presented.
And this is why they're not allowed to speak other than what's on the prompter.
Everybody's afraid the candidate's going to go out there and say something that's going to blow everything to Smithereens, like, for example, saying that Ted Cruz's dad met with Lee Harvey Oswald before the JFK assassination.
Consultants live in mortal fear of things like that.
So Mike Murphy, who is the consultant-in-chief for the GOP, weighed in on the Today Show today about what went wrong.
Trump is selling what the grievance half of the party wants.
The big donors, they don't like Trump, but they don't love Cruz either.
You know, it's like, give me $3 million to switch from one kind of unpopular outcome to another hasn't been a good pitch.
So you see, it's the problem.
It's the half of the party is the grievance.
That would be you, the grievance party.
You got grievances.
You've got problems with the Republicans, but that's not the problem.
The problem is the donors, the donors don't know what to do.
You see.
And we will be back.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh.
We're going to start on the phones.
Is this guy ready to go?
I don't see a green.
Okay, Josh in Jackson Center, Pennsylvania.
Your first today.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Honored to be on with you.
Thank you very much.
I'd just like to ask you to please stop calling us Trump supporters names and try to get on board because Trump is going to get the nomination.
And our goal here is to beat Hillary Clinton.
I understand.
You're the only one that's going to be able to do it.
I understand the goal is to beat Hillary Clinton.
I understand that a lot of primary voters, that's what guides their vote.
Who's going to beat Hillary?
Because that's number one, the objective.
didn't call all of you Trump supporters brain dead.
But I'm glad you cited that, because I need to, that whole incident haunted me.
And I'll tell you because I've been in it.
A lot has happened to me in 28 years doing this show.
I have been in all kinds of circumstances.
I have not run for office, but I am treated in ways or have been as somebody who is or as somebody who wants that kind of power.
So I've been treated as somebody who needs to be exposed as a fraud or what have you.
And I have been subjected to stacked audiences when I guest hosted TV shows of people that were diametrically opposed to everything I believed and were in there for one reason only, and that was to disrupt.
And so I've been there.
I've been in that situation.
Cruz was in with that guy, the dark glasses guy, yesterday.
I can't tell you how many times.
And that situation, by the way, is one of the reasons I don't do any media anymore because that's just like talking to a reporter.
You cannot change their minds.
It's not the point.
They're not there to have their minds changed.
That guy was there to actually Cruz approached him.
I understand that.
But that guy was there just as somebody that had no desire to actively engage with anybody on any issue of substance whatsoever.
And Cruz crossed the street to engage a guy.
I tell you why he did it.
It was not trying to persuade that guy because it's a lost cause.
What Cruz was trying to do, I'm guessing here, but it's because of my experience guided by intelligence.
I think what Cruz wanted to do was get a video soundbite of him explaining the issues to a Trump supporter and telling the Trump supporter how Trump is not telling him the truth about things.
I think Cruz is frustrated that he hasn't been able to get much substance in this campaign because he's always been asked to react to this or that that Trump is saying or doing.
Cruz knows the media hates him.
He knows the media is against him.
He knows that he's not going to be treated with any kind of respect like Trump will be or like Hillary will be.
He knows all of this, just like I know it every time I find myself in a situation like I have chosen not to put myself in those situations anymore.
I had to learn early on, for example, that in a media interview, I actually thought in the early days that the media was really interested in what I thought.
You know, I was new.
There was nobody like me on the radio as a conservative nationally.
Maybe they're really.
All they wanted was to find ways of literally destroying me or harming my image or what have you.
I mean, my first appearance on Crossfire on CNN was a total setup.
You go in there and you go to the green room and the producer comes in and does the interview with you.
The pre-interview, sometimes these happen on the phone before your appearance.
Sometimes they happen in a green room.
And the producer makes you think they really want to find out what you want to talk about.
What is it you feel passionate about?
What is it that you want to tell our host or hostess today?
And the real purpose of the pre-interview, when it's conservatives, is to find out what ticks them off.
It's to find out what sets them off.
It's to find out.
And I have yet to be in a pre-interview other than with a couple of people at Fox.
I have yet to have anything in a pre-interview actually reflected in the real interview that I did on any shit.
So I don't do them anymore.
I just do not trust.
I have no evidence to believe that any of those people want to help me look good.
And by that, I mean they don't want to get out of the way.
Let me be me.
Whatever I do, they're going to take it out of context in further reports.
They're going to castigate me.
They're going to chop it up and make it appear to be what they think I am and so forth.
And I cringed when I saw Cruz cross the street because I knew exactly what was going to happen.
And the reason I call the guy brain dead is because that's how he acted.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Lion Ted, Leon Ted.
He had no desire to engage Cruz.
Cruz was being polite, crossed the street, wanted to engage the guy in conversation about issues.
And I was cringing when it happened.
I cringed when it was over because it wasn't going to work.
And the audio was so even if Cruz was trying to create something viral that could be on social media that would show him politely and graciously encountering a Trump supporter and explaining the issues and hoping that that would go viral.
I didn't have much of a chance because the audio wasn't good enough for that to happen.
All the Trump people were shouting this or that, encouraging this guy.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
Line 10, line 10.
And Trump, you know, Cruz was polite and he was everything that you would want somebody to be.
And he's being mocked and laughed at and made fun of as a square, as a nerd, as a loser, or what have you, which is exactly right in line with what's happening in our culture today.
It is the renegades, and it's been this way for all the renegades and the whatever you want to care, the people that do not stay within the guardrails of morality.
They're the ones that are celebrated and praised.
They get rich, they're made heroes, they're made celebrities out of.
And people that don't do that are just dull and boring and dry balls and usually tagged as conservatives or what have you.
So I was not calling all Trump supporters brain dead.
You've heard me talk about the Trump people.
You've heard me lionize the Trump people.
You've heard me on this program celebrate the Trump people and explain to people why certain people in Trump support him.
This guy was no different than a code pink protester.
And so that's my reaction.
I'm sorry.
I wasn't able to separate the personal experiences I've had just like that over the course of my career.
And I knew it wasn't going to work when I watched it happening and I watched the replay.
I knew it wasn't going to work.
And frankly, there's a part of me that still, even though I know the drill and I know the lay of the land and I know the reality and I'm the mayor of Rielville, it still bugs me when doofuses like that end up the winner in a circumstance like that.
But welcome to America 2016 or whatever it is.
There was no way.
Now, as to your point about getting on board with Trump, let me tell you something.
I know what was his name?
Toby or something?
Josh, let me say this is another reason why, for any of you who want to, I don't endorse.
Can you imagine the phone calls I would be getting today asking me to defend this Zodiac killer stuff and Cruz's dad meeting with Oswald before the assassination?
Exactly why.
There's a whole lot of explanations for the way I think, operate, and act just in the last two days of the Indiana primary.
Now, do not misunderstand.
I am not complaining about it.
I'm just laying the land out.
What was sad to me about it was that Ted Cruz had no chance in that thing yet.
There was no way that was going to turn out positive for Ted Cruz.
Not possible.
Deck was...
Well, I don't have...
No, it's not up to me to tell him.
He's got people around him who know this.
If I know Cruz, he looks at those kinds of things as challenges.
If he can get to somebody like that, then he's got a chance.
I'm sure he looks at every one of those things as a golden opportunity and so forth.
Can't blame him for that.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
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So let's recount this.
What started this week?
However you want to characterize the week, the week of insanity, the week of the crazies, the week of the unbelievable.
It started.
Here we are.
This is a presidential campaign, a presidential primary campaign.
And it's hard to pick a starting point of when all this lunacy actually began, but the latest round of it, the starting point has to be the august former Speaker of the House, a Republican, being interviewed by the professor of history emeritus at Stanford University, suggesting that Ted Cruz is Lucifer.
Satan, the devil, El Diablo.
And he's the most miserable son of a BI itch Boehner said he ever had to work with, even though he never did work with him.
The media lapped that up like a dog that hadn't had any water in a week.
Just slurped that up and started running with it.
It couldn't be happier.
Because a Republican had called Ted Cruz Lucifer and the devil.
And it just descended from there.
And a series of things that just seem unbelievable.
Carly Fiorina slipping off the stage and Trump saying, boy, Cruz is not even enough of a man to catch her and save her.
I would have saved her.
If Carly Fiorina had been my running mate and fell off the stage, I'd have dropped everything and gone and get her.
Cruz just looked at her.
What a guy.
And then Heidi Cruz had to deal with this Zodiac killer allegation about her husband, who wasn't even born when a Zodiac killer was Zodiac killing.
And then Ted Cruz's father, alleged by the National Inquirer, to have been in consultation with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to this is not insignificant stuff.
And it's happening in a presidential campaign, a presidential primary.
All leading up to the vote today in Indiana.
Oh, oh, and I can forget this in a 10-year-old kid in the audience to Ted Cruz.
You suck!
And there's Cruz politely responding to the young man and saying what was true 25 years ago, young man, young people are to be respectful of their elders.
But today, that kind of statement is laughed at and hooted and hollered at to the point of ridicule.
Because most liberals today use their kids to advance their perverted ideas of politics.
Where's the audio sound?
I think it's number 25.
Let me see if I can find it here.
I had it ready to go yesterday.
It didn't get yes.
Let me set this up.
This was in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Actually, this was aimed at Trump.
It was during protests outside a Trump campaign event.
A group of Hispanic children between 8 and 12 and some adults were seen holding signs supporting Bernie Sanders.
They were slamming Trump.
8 to 12-year-old kids flipping Trump off the middle finger, shouting expletives, the F-bomb at cars full of Trump supporters as they drove to the Trump rails, 8 to 12 years old.
And they're dressed up as Mexicans, some of them wearing sombreros bigger than they are.
All encouraged by their parents.
All there had to be there.
8 to 12 had to be there with the permission of their parents.
Somebody had to drive them there.
Somebody had to allow them to dress up this way.
Liberals even used their kids to advance their corrupt notion of politics.
So here's how that sounded.
That was all in Spanish.
Every bleep that you heard was the F-word out of the mouths of 8 to 12-year-olds.
F-U, F-U.
I mean, these guys, obviously, having been influenced by our current Secretary of State, the haughty John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam.
All this happening in the context of a presidential campaign.
Now we have the Republican consultants class beginning to point fingers at everybody explaining how did this all happen?
What was the breakdown?
Where did it go wrong?
And you heard Mike Murphy made the point, well, donors had nowhere to go.
We had a lunatic over here.
We had a lunatic over there.
We had Cruz as a lunatic.
It Trump's a lunatic.
Donors didn't know where to go.
Donors didn't.
So you see, it's the donors, the consultants.
They determine the direction of the party.
The consultant chooses Canada.
Happens to be a commodity here.
But you'll notice as the consultants point fingers at blame, they never point fingers at themselves.
They don't seem to understand that they advised the party right into being prime time for Trump.
I mean, they're the ones advising the party to go along with amnesty.
They're the ones advising the party to drop social issues.
I'm going to tell you something, you Republicans.
Let me tell you what, I've told you this for 25 years.
I'm going to tell you again.
You may hate the social issues.
You may hate that your wives nag you about it.
You may be embarrassed to go to conventions with religious people or social issue-oriented people, but you can't win the White House without them.
You have never been able to win because they are anywhere from 24 to 28 million votes and you cannot win without them.
Now, we've gotten to the point now where I think the Republican Party would be content to lose for as long as it takes to get rid of conservatives and the social media, the social movement people out of the Republican Party.
I mean, for crying out loud, we had George Will writing a column suggesting the objective of all Republicans is to keep Trump out of the White House.
George Will in his column actually suggested that the objective here is for Hillary Clinton to win all 50 states.
If Trump's a nominee, the job of Republicans is to vote, make sure he doesn't get to the White House.
And that will set the stage, he said, for Ben Sassa in four years.
If we keep Trump out and Ben Sassa, people don't have four years to wait.
That's the problem.
People do not have four years.
Four more years of this.
And a lot of people think it's irretrievable.
And that's what they don't get.
Many years ago, when the idea for family leave and then paid family leave came up, I warned everybody, folks, that's just the starting point.
It's not going to end with family leave.
They're going to have to go paid.
And then beyond that, it's not going to end with paid family leave.
People are going to start demanding family leave for all kinds of reasons, such as to take their pet to the vet.
Well, it now happened.
Another El Rushbo prediction has come to pass.
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