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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 a 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 know the timeline exactly.
We've got a soundbite coming up of it.
And that may just have been de PSD resistance because Cruz has 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 by giving it to Cruz.
They can end it by giving it to Trump.
I think there have 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 just a second here.
It was this morning on Fox and Friends, Donald Trump speaking with Ainsley 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 uh, 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 gonna defend it, and you know, like this brain-dead Trump supporter that that Cruz crossed the street to uh talk to yesterday.
Boy, do you if there was ever a big red stop sign that says stop and don't do it, it was yesterday.
On that well, that I know what Cruz is trying to do.
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 uh 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 Trump is going, Trump, Trump, Trump, Lant, Ly Ted, Lyon Ted!
Of course, that's what the media wanted everybody to hear.
So it uh didn't have the desired effect.
But Trump, before we get to Cruz, Trump had another endorsement uh yesterday, the famous Lou Holtz released a video, Trump's Twitter feed did of the Lou Holtz endorsement.
And this is uh what that sounded like.
I wholeheartedly endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.
They're nothing but winners in Indiana.
Main reason I'm endorsing him.
I've played his golf course, I stayed in this 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.
Okay now moving on from Trump, attempting to get traction on this idea that you know what?
You know what else?
I'll tell you something.
This 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, it started as a joke on Comedy Center, but the guy that called Obama his uh um 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 it.
Ted Cruz is Zodiac killer.
Ted Cruz was born in 1970.
The Zodiac killer started Zodiac killing in the 1960s.
So Ted Cruz's, and it is wife's having to answer this garbage.
Heidi's having to answer this garbage.
Well, what 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 near Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald pulled the trigger.
They say they said they said Cruz is the liar?
No, his dad's not the Zodiac killer either.
Don't go in Canada at the time, I think.
I Dan's not the Zodiac killer.
Snerdily says trying to stoke the flames here.
This is absurd.
This is just totally absurd.
And meanwhile, everybody lying Ted?
Lying Ted?
Meanwhile, Trump's out there talking about how the Zodiac killer Trump's not, but the campaign spreading that word, making Heidi Cruz answer it in this business.
Dad being consulting Lee Harvey Oswald, but why is nobody talking about it?
So here's Cruz this in Evansville, Indiana this morning, three sound bites.
It was a little press conference.
I think it was at a at a diner.
I'm not sure.
Doesn't all this stuff happen at diners now in primaries.
So one reason to keep your diner open, you know, you make your bundle every every two years when the campaign's rolling to down.
So it was a QA with uh members of the media.
Uh Cruz's dad, Raphael Cruz, uh, and here's Ted responding to that allegation that his dad had something to do with Lee R. V. 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 Inquirer is tabloid trash, but it's run by his good friend David Pecker, the CEO, who's endorsed Donald Trump.
And so the National Inquirer 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 like, I don't have it at the tip of my fingers.
I can't recall the um.
Yeah, the National Inquirer 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 of.
No, not the mafia guy.
There's some other New Orleans connection.
It was with one of the many conspiracy theories that never panned out.
It was bogus.
Anyway, Rafael Cruz was over there.
Here's the next Cruz soundbite from this morning, just moments ago, really, in 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, as I say, the gloves are off, and I think the frustration level has peaked here.
And this is Cruz with uh 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 a moral.
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 uh traveling the state of Indiana on the stomp, and he's been making the point when he talks to these uh 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 him the terrain on the border is not conducive to building a wall.
Trump's going to do it.
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 heads.
And number of Cruz supporters have been saying this for in their efforts to promote Cruz have been saying this for uh recent days, weeks as well, that Trump's lying about it.
Now, I mean that's all part of a campaign.
People might start wondering about it now.
I mean, you're you're really out there when you say that Cruz's dad was with Lee Harvey Oswald and Cruz is the Zodiac killer.
That kind of thing could start making you questioning other things that you've heard, depending on your degree of devotion to the Trump campaign.
But here we are in 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 I 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 what 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.
Um because there has to be enough situational awareness now with all the media coverage and all the attention, and that 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.
So 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 to question what the late deciders do.
Uh I think if the late deciders go Trump, you're gonna 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 crews, 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 if if they if they vote for Cruz, if the if the majority here tonight votes for crews, that's going to extend this.
It may not result in crews 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.
Turnout's 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.
Now, 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 skullduggery going on.
There might be some controversy, 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 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 didn't 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, it's going on long enough.
We got it stop it.
It's going, oh, I can't 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 uh in uh in Indiana.
We got a lot to talk about here today, folks, and of course uh 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 Rushbow having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
The postmortems at the Republican establishment actually have already begun.
Uh 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 postmortems, and 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 they were the candidates are just commodities, folks.
If I wish I could, I wish I could make this uh understandable.
Not that I can't, it's just it's it's gonna be foreign to me.
Most people think the candidate is the ironclad, iron-fisted decision maker and everything is the candidate and the candidate's vision and the candidates' ideas that drive the whole train, and that's not the case in many campaigns.
Many cases the candidate would be nothing without being told what to do every day by somebody.
Can't it be nothing without a teleprompter?
Can't it 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 all cases, but the candidate is just the commodity.
Have you ever heard these guys talk, yeah, he was a good candidate?
Well, what does that mean?
Scoot can't be followed directions, he uh didn't go off message.
You know, you and I with a good candidate, somebody that can articulate what they believe with passion and and could get elected, uh, likability, all those things.
The consultants look at many of them, not all, that they look at candidates as Kendall's 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 gonna go out there and say something that's gonna blow everything to Smith Arena's, 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 three million dollars 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 it's the half of the party is the grievance.
That would be you, the grievance murder.
You got grievances, you 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 gonna start of 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, Russia, honored to be on with you.
Thank you.
Very much.
I'd I'd just like to ask you to please call stop calling us Trump supporters names.
Yes, and and you try to get on board because Trump is going to get the nomination, and our goal here is to beat Hillary Clinton.
I understand.
I understand the goal is to beat Hillary Clinton.
I understand in a lot of primary voters, that's what guides their vote.
Who's gonna beat Hillary because that's number one the objective.
I didn't call I didn't call all of you Trump supporters brain dead.
Let me I'm but I'm you know, I'm glad you you you cited that because I need to.
That whole incident haunted me, and I'll tell you because I've been in it.
You know, I've 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 uh I am treated in in ways or have been as somebody who is or or as somebody who wants that kind of power.
So I've been treated as somebody who needs to be uh 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.
Uh and so I've been there.
I've been 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 don't, they're not there to have their minds changed.
That guy was there to uh actually Cruz approached him.
I understand that, but that that guy was there with just as a as a uh somebody that he had no desire to actively engage with anybody on any issue of substance whatsoever.
And Cruz crossed the street to engage 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 being 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 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, and maybe they're really that not, they were all they wanted was to find ways of literally destroying me or harming my image or what have you.
I mean, I I 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 should I don't do them anymore.
I just do not trust.
There's there's I have no evidence to believe that any of those people want to help me look good.
And by virtue, and by that I mean they don't want to get out of the way, let me be me.
Whatever, 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 uh 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 called a guy brain dead is because that's how he acted.
Trump!
Lie Ted!
Lion 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 literally l I was cringing when it happened.
I cringed when it would when it was over because I've I it wasn't, it wasn't gonna 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.
Uh, 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 Ted, line Ted, and Trump, you know, Cruz was polite, and he was 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 uh uh 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 uh and usually tagged as conservatives or what have you.
So I was not calling all Trump supporters brain dead.
You have 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 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 gonna work when I watched it happening and I watched the replay and knew it wasn't gonna work.
And frankly, there's 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 Reaville, 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 he's what was his name?
Toby or something was.
Josh.
And he said, this is another reason why.
For any of you who want to not 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 of the Indiana primary.
Now do not misunderstand.
I am not complaining about it.
I'm just laying the land out.
I'm what was sad to me about it was that Ted Cruz had no chance in that thing yet.
There was no there when there would there was no way that was going to turn out positive for Ted Cruz.
Not possible.
Deck was to that's that.
Well, I don't have no, it's not up to me to tell him.
He's got people around him who know this.
I've I I 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.
If he can get to some I'm 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 what started this week?
Uh 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 it Ted Cruz is Lucifer.
Satan, the devil, il 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 not even enough of a man to catch her and save her.
I would have saved her.
If Carly Fearina 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.
It's a and it's happening in a presidential camp, a presidential primary.
All leading up to the vote today in Indiana.
Oh, oh, and I can forget this in the 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 and didn't get yes.
Let me set this up.
This was in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This is actually this was aimed at Trump.
It was during protests outside a Trump campaign event, a group of Hispanic children between eight and twelve, and some adults were seen holding signs supporting Bernie Sanders.
They were slamming Trump.
Eight to twelve-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 rallies.
Eight to twelve 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.
Eight to twelve 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.
Woo!
Oh!
F***!
You don't know!
Oh!
F***!
Oh!
F*** the asshole!
Woo!
I can't do it!
Hey!
I can't do it!
Keep it back!
You chapo!
That was all in Spanish.
Every bleep that you heard was the F-word.
Out of the mouths of eight to twelve-year-olds.
F you, F you.
I mean, these guys, obviously, having been influenced by our current Secretary of State, the haughty, John Kerry, who uh who once served in in Vietnam.
All this happening in the in the context of a presidential campaign.
Now we have 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 cruises and lunatic, Trump's 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 can't candidate just 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.
They're the one I'm gonna tell you something, you Republicans, let me tell you what, I've told you this for 25 years, I'm gonna 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 uh 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 and the social uh movement people out of the Republican Party.
I mean, for crying out loud, we and George Will writing a column suggesting the objective of all Republicans is to keep Trump out of the White House.
George Will and 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.
We keep Trump out in Ben Sassock and people don't have four years to wait.
That's the problem.
People do not have four years.
We 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.