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May 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #2
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It's the one and only Rush Limbaugh program here at the Limboy Institute, where we meet and surpass all audience expectations every day.
And we're doing that now in our 28th busy broadcast year.
If you're on hold, we got a lot of people that are upset at my characterization of the brain-dead Trump supporter.
Oh, they want to take issue with me.
I'm I'm if you're on hold, hang on.
We'll be getting we'll get into your calls here fairly quickly in uh in this half hour.
And I'll be glad to explain what I mean by that.
I've already done it once for the first caller.
I'll just tell you I'm not talking about every Trump supporter.
This one guy was acting that way on purpose.
Anyway, uh you want to send an email, it's L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Just just to finish this up, I warned everybody this is going to happen.
And I'm only mentioning this now.
It's not having nothing to do with a campaign.
It's it's just another one of these nyan ny-n-ye.
See, I told you so.
Way back when the whole family leave idea came up, when the first iteration of family leave was we need something like it had nothing to do with maternity leave.
This was separate family leave, it was maybe six weeks for people to deal with family disruptions and the elderness of a spouse, the elderness of a child, the elderness of uh ill ill illness of an elderly uh family member and so forth.
And everybody thought, oh, yeah, wonderful idea.
Make the boss pay for it, and boss have to go out and hire a replacement.
Yeah, make the boss pay.
You have paid family, yeah, these bosses have piles of money they're not using.
Sure.
Sure, just lay the land expense on them.
And I warned everybody that's not gonna work because you can't take six weeks off and not earn any money.
Most people can't.
We had the survey last week that a majority of Americans, if they had to, could not come up with $400 if they had a $400 emergency.
They have to sell something.
So you'd telling people, hey, guess what, Democrats?
This got you family leave, yes, six weeks, eight weeks.
Uh, what uh do I get paid?
No, you don't.
And of course, that was easy to predict that paid family leave would soon follow, which it did, but I said it's not gonna end there.
Paid family leave is going to now include your pet at some more down the line, and we have arrived at that day.
New York Post.
Pet owners deserve family leave too.
Bringing my adopted cat Jameson home with me in 2014 was one of the happiest days of my life, writes whoever wrote this.
Having to go back to work two days later after I brought my adopted cat home was one of the worst days.
I had to leave my new adopted cat at home to go to work.
While the rest of the country is hung up on the necessity of maternity leave or even the newly coined maternity.
One group continues to be overlooked when it comes to paid time off from work, and that is new pet owners.
Paternity leave is already a reality in the UK.
The U.S. pet insurance provider pet plan found that nearly 5% of new pet owners in the UK were offered time off to care for their new four-legged kids.
Not surprisingly, the UK is also light years ahead of the U.S. when it comes to maternity leave, offering up to 39 weeks of paid leave for new mothers.
While my co-workers with kids walk out the door at 6 p.m., no one seems to care that I also have a child at home awaiting dinner.
Talking about her pet cat.
So here we have it.
Paid family leave for the animals for the pets, and that's gonna come next.
You just you watch.
If it's already reality in the UK, it's not far off.
Okay, now the Democrat side of things.
As you know, in the first hour of the program, we recounted some of the some of the unfortunate oddball stuff that has uh attached itself now to the Republican campaign.
A 10-year-old kid saying to Ted Cruz, you suck!
Eight to twelve-year-olds being allowed to dress up as Mexicans and in Spanish shout the F-word to Trump supporters and they went to a rally.
The crews campaign suggesting that Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz's dad consulted with Lee Harvey Oswald before the JFK assassination.
And the allegation that Ted Cruz back in March was the zodiac killer.
So hateful, so mean, so sinister looking.
It's people were asking, would you could you believe it?
Ted Cruz's zodiac killer.
It was a public policy polling poll of people in Florida.
38% said yeah, I can believe it.
There were some not sure as if it was the yeah, and then the possibly and the maybes.
If you add all of them together, I get 38%.
Either definitely was the Zodiac killer all the way up to could be.
38% for that.
And a Democrat polling firm asks the question.
Public policy polling.
Well, this kind of uh stuff, if you will, is not contained only in the Republican side.
The Democrats have their own version of it.
There's a one of Bill Clinton's former concubines is a woman named Sally Miller.
Bill Clinton had an affair with her before he married Hildebeast back in the 1980s in Arkansas.
And she has written a book about it.
She's the press writing a book about it, and she's well columns about it, and the first column has appeared in the in the Daily Caller.
Ran today.
She was she was a legislative A in the Arkansas legislature, and Clinton was uh fresh faced.
She described him as having an Afro haircut, and he was very charming and flirtatious and all that.
Three months ago at it.
Uh back in uh in the 80s and 1983.
But try this headline from the from the Daily Caller.
I mean, we Republicans don't own this this reprobate.
So try this headline.
Alleged mitress, pardon me, alleged mistress calling, Bill Clinton is hung like a child.
That is a headline.
What do you mean?
Oh no.
Don't tell this bothers you.
Oh, it goes if even better than that.
Former Miss Arkansas Sally Miller, allegedly once Bill Clinton's mistress, wrote this week that the former president's manhood performed well, but it was a little boy penis that just never quite grew up.
In a sexually graphic column, Sally Miller wrote, quote, I have no doubt that Bill perfected his Lewinsky skills by practicing on women other than Hillary.
Although she didn't say Lewinsky skills.
Lewinsky, you know what a link Lewinsky is now.
I'm not going to go any further than that.
If you don't know what a Lewinsky is.
I'll tell you what, kids in high school today do not think it's sex.
That's one of the reasons Clinton got away.
That's not sex.
You kidding me?
That's not sex.
Writing for the American Mirror website.
Sally Miller recounted her alleged experience in a torid three-month affair with Bill Clinton in 1983 when he was governor of Arkansas.
Miller wrote that she and Clinton had 14 total rendezvous.
Bill's not the most handsome man I've known, but he made me feel like my breasts were the right size.
My legs were the perfect length.
I had an incredible body, and on top of all that, I was beautiful.
There aren't many men who know how to make a woman feel that way.
Miller went on to write that Clinton could sometimes be a clown in the bedroom, and I soon guessed why.
As long as our relationship stayed playful, I might not take a second look at the size of his manhood.
Yes, it performed well, but it was little boy size that just never quite grew up.
So now we move on to the Hillary Clinton soundbite.
She's in heap big doo-doo over this whole coal business.
And I have to tell you where this coal business started, and it uh Mike, I'm gonna change up the soundbite order because I just thought of something I want to I want to start at a different place.
I want to find the Obamas.
The Obama sound bites on this, and I'm having to go with the page bite business.
Hang in here with me, folks.
I'll eventually look up because it'll take two passes to find them.
Okay.
Uh not on page one, not on page two.
Here it is.
Grab sound bites eight and nine.
This is January 17, 2008.
This Barack Obama running for the presidency.
He is being interviewed at San Francisco Chronicle editorial board.
And they're talking about uh energy in the environment.
And somebody on the Chronicle editorial board said, Senator, you introduced a bill promoting coal conducted fuels, and then you said you'd only support them if they emitted fewer greenhouse gases than gasoline.
Now, all the scientific evidence points to coal being dirtier than pretty much anything else.
So how are you gonna square your support for coal with the need to fight global warming?
What I've said is that we would put a uh cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that uh greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
I imagine many of you say, well, where was that drunken?
We aired it a number of times, folks.
We aired this at all kinds of related sound bites.
This is Obama promising in 2008 to shut down the coal business by making it prohibitively expensive to operate.
And just last week, Peabody Coal, which is a giant coal firm, uh big big presence in St. Louis, announced they're they're filing for bankruptcy.
Obama has done it.
Obama has put so many carbon taxes and levies on the greenhouse gas emissions of coal-fired power plants that many of them are having to close down.
He telegraphed it, he promised people he's gonna do it, and despite this, all the union workers and all the Democrats and all the coal miner states voted for the guy.
The vast majority of them did, in West Virginia, in Pennsylvania, in Ohio.
And it was one of the many things about which I was incredulous.
You just realize what the man, the man has just promised to shut down your family's reputation livelihood on this on this stupid false premise of the hoax of man-made global warming.
And then here come people driving electric cars.
Where do you think you get the power for them?
You've got to burn coal in the power plant to have something to plug your car charger into for crying out loud.
If you're driving an electric car, it's coal powered.
It isn't battery powered.
The but the battery doesn't have any power until you plug it into a charger, which is connected to your power plant.
This is the kind of stuff drove us nuts back in 2008.
People just you talk about brain dead, your average Obama's important didn't want to hear any of this.
But there's Obama promising it back in 2008.
Same day.
Editorial board, same discussion, Obama then said this.
When I was asked earlier about uh the issue of coal, uh you know, under my plan uh of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
Necessarily skyrocket.
He was going to reduce energy consumption and save the planet by making it prohibitively expensive so that people would not be able to afford everyday run-of-the-mill electronic appliances.
So Hillary has come along and she has promised to continue and shut down the coal industry.
And people heard her say it and reacted as you would expect.
They heard her when they didn't hear Obama.
So now Hillary's out there apologizing and claiming she was misunderstood, and she didn't say it when it when of course she did, and it is Democrat Party policy to put the coal business out of business.
They're doing it as we speak.
Leading into this, grab soundbite number three, CBS this morning, John Heitleman is talking with Nora O'Donnell about I just want this has nothing to do with coal.
This this has to do with the Indiana and other primaries tonight.
This is one of the reasons why this is happening is the nature of Hillary's campaign.
They're talking about Hillary and the likelihood she's going to lose Indiana today.
It is the case now that I believe the Clinton campaign thinks they're going to lose Indiana tonight, and they're worried that they're going to lose West Virginia also.
So look, the delegate math continues to be very favorable to her.
She'll still almost certainly be the Democratic nominee, even if he wins Indiana, wins West Virginia.
He doesn't pick up that many delegates, so it doesn't really solve his problem.
But she is desperate to make this race end.
After all these months of will Republicans have a contestant convention.
It's now the Democrats who are looking at the possibility that a stubborn Bernie Sanders is going to say, I'm going to fight all the way to the last day, not in California, not June 7th, but in Philadelphia this summer.
It is incredible what's happening on their side.
Bernie does keep winning, and she's getting all the delegates.
You people out there who think it's all rigged on the Republican side.
It is rigged on the Democrat side.
It has been rigged from the get-go.
And and Bernie knew it.
Bernie's off the reservation now.
Bernie was only ever supposed to be a placeholder.
He was there to provide her a little bit of opposition so she could craft an image as a fighter, a street fighter.
She wouldn't take any guff from a man.
And it was especially important that he was an avowed socialist so that she could appear to the right of him when she's actually to the left of him.
But then he started winning things.
And then Bernie's head started getting bigger.
And then Bernie's crowd started to tell him, you know, Bernie, you could actually win this.
And then Bernie got drunk on the possibility he could actually become president.
And he's living the dream each and every day.
And every day he stays in the race is a gift.
It's a day further than anybody ever thought he'd still be in it.
He's got nothing to lose here.
He's sticking in, and now she's going to lose again in Indiana, and she's going to lose West Virginia, which takes us this afternoon, just earlier today, on PMSNBC and Ray Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, interviewing Hillary.
You know what?
I let me take a break, because there's two bites here.
I want to get both of them in order, and to do that, I have taken a scene profit timeout.
Hang on, we'll come right back.
We're back with have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here are these two Hillary bites this afternoon, the MSNBC and Ram Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, is interviewing Hillary.
She says, hey, Donald Trump seized on something that you said last week about how you have a lot of experience with men who go off the reservation suggesting you were talking about your husband.
Oh, that's not true.
I was talking and thinking about my 2000 election, where I started off with Rudy Giuliani, who was making all kinds of intemperate attacks against me.
And in fact, I called him out for what I described as his temper tantrums before he dropped out.
And then I was running against uh then Congressman Rick Lazio, who was similarly going after me.
Why I have political experience in dealing with candidates who think they're gonna score points by you know being either negative about women in general or about me in particular.
Who believes that?
Brain-dead Hillary supporters, that's who believes it.
Yeah, she's had to deal with men who go off the reservation.
Uh uh and no, it wasn't about Bill, and Bill never has been off the reservation regarding her career advancement now, being off the bedroom reservation, yeah, constantly.
But he's never helped her career.
So she's talking here about Rick Lazio and uh Rudy Julie Ani.
I guarantee you, all these men that have told her she can do anything, all these men that she's had to deal with all of all of her career.
She got fired from the Watergate committee, got thrown met off of that because she was eagerly trying to deny Nixon due process during the Watergate committee hearings.
Um by the way, she has she has gone into West Virginia and she has told people, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I didn't say that I want to shut down the coal.
But she did.
She and Obama are doing it.
She's going to continue it.
You you you cannot be a big proponent of climate change global warming and coincide peacefully with the coal industry.
You just can't.
Your supporters won't let you.
They have been instructed, They've been indoctrinated.
They've been programmed with the news that coal is the filthiest thing on earth.
It's the greatest polluter, it's yucco.
And and if you're going to emit carbon, you're going to reduce carbon emissions, you've got to stop doing coal.
And she's got a lot of money right.
Donors, they mean a lot of really fruit cake, literally wacko donors that give big money because they stand to make a lot of money on this fraud of of climate change.
So she's um she's she's really she's lying to these people in West Virginia and other coal producing states.
And there's this story here was this from the Washington Post.
This is the most incredible story about how Hillary dealt with the Lewinsky situation.
This is the most incredible thing.
I can't wait to share this with you.
But phone calls are coming first when we get back.
Okay, time to go back to the phones.
People patiently waiting, and we're gonna start with uh Kelly in Plymouth, Indiana.
Welcome.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
I I want to say I think you're wonderful, and it is a a real privilege for me to speak with you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Do I sense a butt coming?
There is a butt coming.
Okay.
Just a quick one quick comment, and then I'm gonna tell you my respectful disagreement with you.
Okay.
Um I have to believe that those disrespectful children were shipped in from elsewhere because I just don't think those were Indiana children that were swearing in disrespectful to Mr. Cruz.
Um my disagreement with you is uh you started off the show with your assessment of Indiana voters, and your words were that we were wanting to put an end to this.
That that that's why we're going to the polls and i Indiana just wants to put an end to this.
I don't think that the that that's the case at all.
It is not the case for me or for my husband.
For the first time, we've been told that our votes are going to make a difference, and that we choose we truly have a choice in candidates.
And in my voting history, that's never been the case.
It's already been decided uh when it comes to us.
So I just disagree with your comment.
Well, I didn't mean it that let me go back and put this in in context as I said it.
I what I meant was that the voters in Indiana are all profoundly supremely informed because it's been nothing but a week of intense media attention on a campaign.
And there are two things here.
Um Indiana people going to vote know that if they vote for Cruz, they're voting to keep this going and to extend this to a contested convention.
That's the only way to do this.
If they vote for Trump, then they're essentially saying they want the campaign to end, they want a nominee decided, they want to unify, get started here on unbeating Hillary.
It's not that they want to end the process because they're tired of the process.
It's because they're if if they've if m I it is how can this be not true?
If you if if the majority of people vote for Trump, there are a whole bunch of things they're saying.
They like Trump, they think Trump can beat Hillary, but also let's end this.
Meaning the campaign and move forward.
How did you did you take this to mean that I think Indiana voters are tired of all this and want to just over?
That's the way I took it.
I mean, you're uh uh quoting you was that we want to put an end to this.
And and I just didn't feel that was a fair assessment.
Well, by put an end to it, I I mean this ongoing never-ending uh prolonged battle that's gonna lead to a contested convention.
Some don't want that, and some do.
And if you vote for Trump today, I mean, in the two there's a bunch of reasons why you vote for Trump.
You like Trump, you want Trump to win, you think Trump can beat Hillary, you think that's the objective, but you also want I mean, you gotta know.
My whole point is you know what a vote for Trump means.
If Cruz loses this, it's over.
I guess I have hope in the people in Indiana.
Well, what do you hope they do?
I sure hope they don't vote for Trump.
Okay.
I I think this is just uh that's why you got offended.
Is you you you you you want this to go on because you want to go to contested convention because you want Cruz to win because you don't want Trump, and that's what your vote means today.
I think if we vote our conscious uh conscience and our morals, and we vote not just to put an end to it, not to be fed up with it, but to look at the issues and the people.
And uh that's the way that's the way I've always voted.
Well I'm sorry you misunderstood.
I meant the exact opposite of being tired of the issues and tired of the campaign and wanting it to all end and go back to watching leave it to beaver.
I didn't mean that.
I just meant can we get a winner, can we get this over with and done so we can move on, because the next stage of this is beating Hillary.
Whatever follows all this, that's the ultimate goal is to beat Hillary.
And my only I I was trying to praise the sophistication of Indiana voters to know what the result of their votes today will mean.
One of two things.
If Trump wins this, uh and the delegates to go along with this vote, I mean, Cruz is already 400 some odd delegates behind.
If he doesn't win this, his his last hope of a contested convention probably goes to a wayside because this is gonna put Trump combined with California, who is way up out there now, over the 1237 before we even get to convention.
My only point, you people in Indiana know this.
Right.
Yep.
Thank you.
All right.
I was not I'm glad if you took it that way, you're probably not the only one.
I did not mean this as an insult in any way.
I was trying to talk about the high degree of awareness and knowledge and sophistication of the Indiana voters because of a full week's saturated media focus on this.
Everybody knows what the various outcomes possible tonight mean.
Now, I don't expect if Cruz loses to unexpectedly get out.
No, uh but I don't see if if if Trump wins this tonight, coupled with his way out and front lead in California and the momentum coming off the five stapes five state sweep in New England last week, the Northeastern states, momentum is just added and added to the Trump campaign, and it is not gonna be any real doubt of Trump Trump's ramping this up.
And I'm all I'm saying is that people that vote in Indiana have to be aware of this.
But I if you think that I thought the main reason people in Indiana would vote today would be to end it or not end it.
That's not those are just the two practical results of what happens tonight.
And I'm of the opinion people in Indiana know it.
But it doesn't in any way predict the outcome.
I have no idea what the outcome is gonna be.
The polling data is all over the place in this state.
Polling data is just it's it's hard to get a read for it.
So all you have to look at other kind of tea leaf momentum.
That's why the stuff that happened yesterday and the day before matters.
You know, ten-year-old kids saying to crew, you suck.
I mean, it doesn't actually help the momentum.
And then this Rafael Cruz was there with JFK.
Or with Oswald and JFK, I mean, 38% believing Cruz is a stupid stupid zodiac killer?
I mean, those things all are factors in creating momentum attitudes, impressions.
And the people of Indiana fully aware of all this.
Here's uh I got another one of North Little uh Rock, Arkansas.
David, you're next.
It's great to have you.
Hi.
Rush, this is a great day and great honor.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um my question is, has not Trump and his supporters pretty much acted like the liberal media and the liberals in smearing and innuendo and half truth on our candidates.
Well, I gotta be very careful how I answer this, because you're you're you you you may be seeking have me say something that would equate Trump with the the liberals and the left wing media uh in in terms of uh of technique.
I think that's just what happens in campaigns.
Uh the things that have happened in this campaign uh in this week are really outrageous and and uh unfortunate.
But I'm I'm not I'm not gonna get drawn into saying that our guys are acting like left-wing liberals, sort of you're not gonna catch me doing that.
The objective here is to is to keep focused on Hillary Clinton as far as I'm concerned, and I'm I'm not gonna say or do anything here to be allowed to be misinterpreted into thinking I think people on our side are worse than she is or just like liberal Democrats.
Uh I know what you mean that stuff is being said that's untrue and they're totally making it up.
Uh and that's what you equate with the left and and uh and how they operate.
I get I get your point.
Uh I I just I guess my real reaction, I don't think that's the correct reaction to all of this.
But if I'm not trying to talk you out of it, if that's your thought.
Let me.
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And here's Chris in St. Louis.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you.
Hey, Russ.
Great day.
Uh long time no talk to you.
Um I wanted to talk about that uh guy, Ted Cruz had that little thing with yesterday.
Um here's my theory.
It seemed to me he decided to pick out in I'm a Trump supporter, okay.
The guy that probably wasn't the most with it, okay.
And it because I think Cruz wanted to make it as an opportunity to make like Trump supporters look like idiots.
Well, it kind of backfired on.
I just wish the guy would have had a little bit more upstairs to actually question what Cruz is asking him when he brought up the second amendment that Trump supported Bill Clinton.
That was twenty something years ago.
People change.
I was a Democrat up until Obama's second term.
Never again.
I mean, it took me a while for him to basically put my life into the hole.
I make okay, I'm middle class, make a decent amount of money, but goods and services keep going up in my wage state of thing.
Um I think Cruise is part of the establishment.
He would not get my vote.
Um not going to sit there and call him line 10, whatever he does lie about all politicians lie about things.
Okay.
Um but I think that he picked that guy out, because I mean I know it's Indiana, but you look like a Hoosier.
The guy was missing Teeth, and he really didn't have the substance upstairs.
Well, let me let me jump and explain things.
I be uh I look, first thing is I understand people being offended.
Um if you're a Trump supporter, my calling the guy brain dead.
I was describing not his actual existence.
The role he was playing there was of brain-dead Trump supporter who was not interested, closed-minded, not interested in what Truz had to say.
My problem with this is I I can't not make this personal because I've had this kind of thing happen to me.
I've been inv uh uh that may not be the way to put it.
I've been involved in things like this.
My experiences uh as host of this show in dealing in situations like that are many and varied and multifaceted.
Now, I just want to tell you something about Ted Cruz.
I mean you can believe it or not.
Ted Cruz did not cross that street.
Um thinking that he was what did you say?
How did you you you you described Cruz talking, approaching that guy in a way I disagreed with, and I've forgotten exactly how you described could you roll it back on to find out what how he described.
Uh no, that's no I want what crew is what he said Cruz crossed the street thinking.
Um, not the Hoosier.
It's not that.
It's it it what his objective in crossing the street was wrong.
What do you have signed?
What he said Cruz are gonna cross the street and do.
Um keep going back further.
Um I wanna I think Cruz wanted to make it an opportunity to make Trump supporters look like that's n he like idiots.
That is not why Cruz crossed the street.
He didn't he saw uh opportunity here.
He was not trying to make the guy look like an idiot.
Ted Cruz is trying to make himself look like who he is.
Let me just tell you, Ted Cruz, I don't look, I don't talk to Ted Cruz, I don't talk to people in a campaign, any campaign.
All I'm doing is imagining.
I've been in these circumstances.
I've been faced with this.
And Ted Cruz is not trying to make somebody look like an idiot.
Ted Cruz is trying to tell this guy that he is believing wrong things about Ted Cruz and that he's believing wrong things about Trump.
Ted Cruz crossed that street in earnest.
Ted Cruz crossed the street wanting to be honest with the guy.
Ted Cruz crossed the street knowing that that guy thinks he's lying Ted, knowing that that guy thinks he's an idiot, knowing that that guy thinks he's establishment.
Ted Cruz thought he would cross that street and use that guy as an opportunity to tell everybody they're wrong in what they think about him.
If I'm Ted Cruz, I'm frustrated to the heavens at how I've been characterized by the Trump campaign and by the media.
Lucifer, Zodiac killer.
Um, and some of these other characterizations of no fun and and serious and all these other insults.
And I think Cruz cares deeply about this country and is just as worried as everybody else is that we're losing it.
And he's got specific beliefs about how to save the country, and they are rooted in the Constitution.
But he can't get past Lion Ted with people.
So he sees a Trumpster across the street.
He sees an opportunity.
It wasn't a ridicule the Trump guy.
It was try to tell everybody watching that bit that Trump or that Cruz is not who they think he is.
And that's what was that I've learned you can't do that.
Not in a circumstance like that.
Um it's it's one of these really frustrating things.
How many of you, if I may make this personal for a minute, just to illustrate, how many of you, even after 27 years run into people who've never listened to me, you do, and you like the program, and you hear people say the weirdest, stupidest things about me that you know are not true, and you try to tell them they won't believe you, they won't listen, they don't want to believe it, but you force them to listen, maybe, and then they change their mind.
That's all Ted Cruz is trying to do is change some people's minds who have believed a bunch of BS about him, not because he wants to make them look bad, but because he wants to get elected to save the country.
He's serious about that.
He's not a liar, he's not a reprobate.
His character is as is as great as anybody's could be in 2016 America.
He is serious all the time.
He may have trouble looking like a regular guy.
He may have trouble looking like he laughs and goes to ball games so forth, but he is just as committed to saving the country as anybody the hell else is in this campaign and beyond.
So he's looking, we're down to the last gasp here.
This is Indiana.
The election is the next day.
He sees some Trump people across the street.
He looks at it as one last opportunity to get through to people, not to ridicule them.
He's hoping to gain their respect.
He's hoping to make them understand that he is not what they think of him.
That's all it is.
The frustrating thing is I know that doesn't work.
Never has worked because you're immediately on the defensive when you do it.
You're talking to this guy who's got this smirk on his face who doesn't want to believe anything he already doesn't believe.
So he sees he sees Cruz walk the street, cross the street, and all he sees is an opportunity to humiliate Cruz.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
Lion Ted, lion Ted, line Ted.
Meanwhile, Cruz doesn't give up.
He keeps trying to tell a guy who he is, keeps trying to tell a guy what's important, keeps trying to tell a guy Trump's lying to him, blah, blah, blah all this stuff.
It took Richard Nixon close to ten years to change the perception of him the media built.
And it happened in a town hall meeting on a national TV show that nobody knew was coming in 1968.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
Sit tight, we'll be back after this.
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