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June 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your official E.I.B. Anchor Baby, Mark Stein, the presumptive guest host of the Rush Limbaugh Show, as I like to think of it, although uh some pledge supporters on the production team are now said to be demanding a contested production meeting during the first commercial break, and Mr. Snerdley is uh apparently trying to recruit a new independent guest host to take over in about fifteen minutes.
We'll see how that goes.
Might be going nowhere, but uh but the plans are well advanced.
Uh we're live at Ice Station E. I.B. here in far northern New Hampshire.
And we don't get a lot of we don't get a lot of celebrities uh up in this part of the world, but uh but is they're gonna be stampeding past uh this January because Lena Dunham share all of them, Hollywood celebrities uh when you're fleeing the Trump terror for Canada, do swing by and stay hello, say hello.
I'm the I'm the last right wing hate monger before the border, and you'll be missing me uh uh before this uh this thing's through.
Um Mr. Snerdley is down in New York running the show.
Don't worry about it.
He's fully in control, except that the president uh is uh right outside his window holding a one-on-one summit with uh Jimmy Fallon on the tonight show, and I gather the saw horses and the Robocops are already closing off the streets in preparation for the arrival of the uh three hundred and seventy-five car motorcade.
So if we lose contact with Mr. Snerdley, it's only because they've kicked the door down and tased him just to be on the safe side.
1-800-282-2882 is the number to call.
The big question now is what happens next.
If you think you know, then do call.
1-800-282-2882, because in this uh election season, nobody's an expert.
That means everybody's an expert, so what you say is as likely to happen as what anybody else says.
Primary season is over.
Uh well, except for the uh Democrat DC primary, and who cares about that.
And this great republic now has its choice of chief executive before it, one of these two people will be the next president of the United States, and it's a remarkable choice compared to any election in the last two and a quarter centuries.
Uh the wife of a previous president versus a man who has never held elective office or been in any kind of government service.
Uh that's an extraordinary that's an extraordinary thing to happen.
Uh f f for what is arguably the most powerful elected figure on the planet.
So this is a uh an election like no one has ever seen.
And as I said, the question for today's show is what happens next.
And before you start listening to any expert pundit, you should ask yourself whether they got anything right about the last twelve months, because if they didn't, there's no reason to pay any attention to them now.
And I make no claims to be a genius, not not this early in the show.
Uh, but I wrote a piece uh I think it was July tenth last year, so it's pretty much exactly eleven months ago.
And if you'd read that piece eleven months ago, you would know uh pretty much uh where we would be today.
Uh because it looked at the it uh it understood the reality of both the Trump phenomenon on the GOP side and the Sanders phenomenon on the Democrat side.
And the only difference is that Bernie lacked the killer instinct.
Uh, and that's why he's not the Democrat nominee.
He basically won.
He tied he tied her in Iowa, and he could have won.
He tied Hillary in Iowa, and he could have won uh if he'd had the killer instinct and he if he hadn't taken the email card off the off the table.
He he could have won.
But he didn't have the killer instinct.
And uh now I don't know what he's doing.
He's apparently gone back to Vermont to to consider his options.
He's uh across the Connecticut River from me.
If he waves, he well, his options Miss Mr. He could go third party.
You know, everyone's going third party.
The par no one wants to be the party of the first part or the party of the second part.
This election everyone wants to be the party of the third part.
And that's this talk that Bernie could go third party, and uh who knows what who knows whether he's going to uh he he might as well.
He's like uh the next time he runs, he's gonna be eighty-three or whatever.
So he might as well do it now, because it's his it's his moment.
But it's interesting, it's it's interesting.
W what was striking about last night, I don't know if you had the misfortune to see Hillary Clinton's uh acceptance speech, which was one of her let credit where it's due, it's one of her least worst acceptance speeches because she didn't do that thing she does uh where she sounds like a uh speak your weight machine or the voice that tells you to put your seatbelt on in the car.
So she wasn't doing all that screeching chalk on a blackboard thing.
She's had some I would say she's had some vocal training.
Um it's not quite natural yet.
It still sounds she still still sounds slightly uh stilted and weird to me, but the delivery uh was uh actually quite competent uh for her and and non-offensive.
But what was striking about the moment, here is the first woman to be nominated as the candidate of a major party in American history, and there's no sense of a glass she ceiling being shattered.
She did all the things, oh the glass ceiling, we've shattered the glass ceiling.
She did all the stupid glass ceiling talk, the unprecedented thing.
It doesn't feel like that.
And it and we all know why it doesn't feel like that, because we know that this isn't uh Margaret Thatcher or Ankala Merkel.
Uh we know that this is just someone who was married to the previous president, which isn't a glass ceiling, it's just Ava Perron.
Actually it's not Ava Peron, uh because Ava Peron was charming and charismatic.
It's more like Madame Mao after uh after Chairman Mao was uh wound up pushing up daisies.
That's what it is.
And uh Madame Mao has won the Democrat nomination.
And that's why there was no sense of elation or history.
Uh and and even then, even as a sleazy, corrupt cronyist who happens to be married to the previous president, she couldn't take this thing without this very bizarre uh business of the Associated Press uh deciding before the big psp finale in California yesterday,
on Monday night, they called around, they called some superdelegates who don't vote until the end of July, but they decided to call them in advance and see who they were thinking of voting for, and announced that Hillary uh was the uh winner of the Democrat primary uh the evening before the California vote.
And we don't know it doesn't have to it doesn't have to deter a lot of people from voting for it to make a difference.
But if you're told that your vote has no point, that the that the winner's already announced, and you're in California and you got a trek to the polls and stand in line, uh a certain percentage of people aren't gonna bother to do that when the Associate Press has already declared Madame Mao the winner of the primary.
And uh Bernie Sanders supporters are right to be um uh uh uh upset about that.
But the fact that she couldn't even be dragged across the finish line.
This charmless wooden speak your weight machine couldn't even be dragged across the finish line without the assistance of the Associated Press saying breaking news, breaking news, the superdelegates had a primary in North Superdelegateville, and they've delivered the votes to Hillary.
The fact that she couldn't even be dragged across the finish line without the assistance of the Associated Press tells you something about her strength as a candidate.
Uh when when you listen to the commentary and you uh watch the cable uh news, everybody seems to be assuming, all the experts, which means the people who've got the last year completely wrong.
All the experts seem to be assuming that at some point the normal laws of US politics will kick in.
Uh the Wall Street Journal has uh something on this today.
They they they're comparing Trump's uh uh utterly unprofessional operation as they see it, with Hillary's, and they go, uh quote, Mrs. Clinton has twenty-one press aids.
Wow, that's that's amazing.
Twenty-one press aides.
Fantastic.
That's great.
That's great.
Uh twenty-one press aids.
She's she's running for president.
She's got twenty-one press aides, including a communications director, a lead press secretary, a day-to-day spokesman, a traveling press secretary, a rapid response director, a rapid response spokesperson, because obviously it would be and totally unreasonable to expect the rapid response director to do his own spokespeopling.
So the rapid response director has to have a rapid response spokesperson.
And a variety of handlers dedicated to regional and specialized handlers.
These are the people who come up with the amusing ethnic dialects that Mrs. Clinton speaks in when she's addressing African Americans or Hispanics and pretending to be your abuela and all this.
So she's got regional and specialized handlers.
And she's got a rapid response spokes uh rapid response story.
I'm sorry, I do apologize to the rapid response director.
I may have disrespected him by accidentally uh placing the rapid response spokesperson before him in the hierarchy in the chain of command.
She's got a rapid response director, a rapid response spokesperson.
She's probably got a rapid response deputy spokesperson.
And then as the Wall Street Journal says, a variety of handlers dedicated to regional and specialized outlets.
I may be wrong, it might not be the ethnic thing.
It might be all the sexual identity stuff you've got going on now.
She was she made a reference last night uh to it's about embracing uh people uh for how they love uh whatever that means.
I d so maybe this is where uh she's got these specialized people uh to uh uh help her when it comes to people talking about how they love in ways with which she may not be familiar.
Anyway, uh she's got a rapid response spokesperson, rapid response deputy spokesperson, and the Wall Street Journal says this is what it takes to drive a coherent national message.
But she hasn't got a message.
I don't even understand how you can say this.
She's got twenty-one press aids and no message.
What are they doing all day?
Uh Bernie had a message.
His message is uh we need to be more like Venezuela, and you can quibble with that, but it's a message.
And she she was reduced in the absence of a message.
She played the woman card, and then Trump clobbered her and said uh you're uh married to the you're the enabler and the apologist for the greatest abuser of women in American politics.
And so she she gave up the woman card, the wom the the w the woman card, someone left her woman card out in the rain, and she don't think that she can take it 'cause it looks so long to make it, and it's all melted.
Woman card gone.
So then she took Bernie's message.
She took Bernie's message, basically, and moved to the left.
But she's got twenty-one press aids and no message.
Twenty-one press aids and no message.
And the clever people in the Republican Party say Trump Trump needs to be more like Hillary.
Why hasn't he got he's got he hasn't got twenty-one press aides.
He's got that one uh lady, Hope uh what's what's her name?
Hope we we uh I I met her in uh Burlington, very nice lady, Hope Holland, and he's got um uh Corrie Lewandowski, and he's got like two other people, that's it.
So he's got she's got more people on her rapid response team than he's got on his team.
Uh and so Mitch McConnell would like uh w would like Trump to be more like Hillary.
So he says, I think it's time for him he said this yesterday at some think tank or other, uh, because he's plugging a book.
If you've read Mitch McConnell's book, by the way, call up 'cause we'll test you on it, see how far you've got at it.
If you've actually bought and read Mitch McConnell's book, uh and by the way, it doesn't count if you're the ghostwriter of Mitch McConnell's book.
You've got to actually be a a real customer who's read who's read it.
Hope Hicks, Hope Hicks, that's the name of the lady.
Um and uh Mitch McConnell said, I think it's time for him to look like a serious candidate for president, which means that you need to think before you speak.
You need to apologize when you make a mistake, and you need to get on script.
And if Trump had taken Mitch McConnell's advice, he'd have been knocked out of the race three weeks before Iowa.
And that's the point.
None of the rules.
This th there's been what they call creative destruction.
The rules during the primary season were blown up by Trump.
And the Wall Street Journal and Mitch McConnell are now assuming that the rules are going to reassert themselves and that this will be a normal election from here on in.
Will it?
Uh maybe.
I don't really know, actually.
It's a great imponderable that.
But basically, if uh if if Trump had followed these guys' advice, he'd have been knocked out round about the second debate.
He'd be gone.
He'd be history.
He'd never have got anywhere.
Mark Stein in for Rush, uh call me with your thoughts on this next phase of the world's longest and most unpredictable presidential nominating process.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in Farush as the next phase of the presidential election begins.
It has been heralded by moves from uh various Republicans, some of whom you may even have heard of, to uh what's the word for this?
I'm not sure they they've had this before.
Is it disendorse, de-endorse?
Uh de un endorse.
Unendorse.
Thank you, Mr. Snodley.
I don't want to I don't want to get this right they've they've unendorsed Trump.
Uh yeah, Mark Mark Kirk.
It's like when, you know, they they were warming up to Trump.
Uh they were like Caitlin Jenner in the eighties when um when uh she began her transition and then she met uh whatever the what what's the name Chris Chris Kardashian or whatever she's called.
She met Chris Kardashian, and then she decided she liked Chris Kardashian, so she began detransitioning.
And that's the way uh Mark Kirk and Lindsay Graham were.
They and they decided they were ready to transition toward Trump, and they began their transition, and then they decided they were going to start detransitioning.
So they've now unendorsed Trump, you know.
Uh and they might endorse him again uh in forty-eight hours time.
Who knows?
It's it's in I know like you, I'm waiting to know who Mark Kirk.
Uh who is he again?
Who is he again, Mrs.?
He's the secret is Senator for Illinois.
You sure You are you sure about that?
I don't know.
Anyway, this guy, Senator from Illinois, it's big news.
He de he endorsed Trump, he de-endorsed Trump, uh and next week he'll be thinking of unde-endorsing Trump.
Uh he you you stick your endorsement in, you stick your endorsement out, in, out, in, out, you shake it all about.
You do the Trumpy rumpy, and you turn around, that's what it's all about.
Uh and that's that's on the that's on the Republican side.
On the Democrat side now, uh NBC trucks have been sp have been spotted pounding up across the river from me, pounding up the interstate, uh, heading for uh Burlington, Vermont, where Bernie's last stand is apparently expected imminently.
Uh last night, Mrs. Clinton said this was her message to the to her Democrat uh friends.
She said uh to be great we can't be small.
We have to be as big as the values that define America.
And we are a big hearted, fair-minded country.
Not just for people who look a certain way or worship a certain way or love a certain way.
You know, because people uh love all kinds of ways.
Uh Bill Clinton loves a certain way.
He he generally doesn't ask.
That's just the certain way that he loves.
And we have to be a big hearted and uh embracing country, not just for people who look a certain way or worship a certain way, or love a certain way, or use the bath from a certain way, uh, but for all, indivisible.
And this election is not about the same old fights between Republicans and Democrats.
This election is different.
It really is about who we are as a nation.
It's about it's about well, I can't believe she's got twenty-one press secretaries.
Twenty-one press secretaries.
Who twenty-one press secretaries wrote this stuff?
It really who this election is different.
It really is about who we are as a nation.
It's about millions of Americans coming together to say we are better than this.
It's about millions of Americans coming together to say we can get a better speechwriter than this.
Hillary Hillary could well, we could sing We are the world, we are the children, we are people who look a certain way, we are people who love a certain way, we are people who use a bathroom the certain way.
And this is all she's gotta say.
This is the message.
The Wall Street Journal said, Well, this is what Trump needs.
If if he had 21 press aids, he'd have a professional message like this.
He had a message he could stay on like this.
He could be using that phrase love a certain way all over the country.
This is the message uh that Mrs. Clinton is gonna ride all the way to the White House.
Believe it when you see it, because I don't reckon this is uh this is gonna quite work out the way it is.
I mean, this is the thing.
This is just bland Pabulum.
This is nothing.
And it's not gonna be enough.
And I don't know, and this is the this is the question.
When there when you've got someone who is so controlled, so managed, so stuck with her poll tested lines, and you're up against someone who plays smash mouth and doesn't care what he says, and sometimes that works, uh and sometimes he can talk about something else entirely.
We don't know how that's gonna play out.
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Um the uh th th the reason Hillary is the the nominee, these two candidates sum up uh th what's happened, the the the dysfunction, frankly, of the Republic's political institutions in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Cause Hillary is the ultimate insider.
She uh represents that hard shell of the Democrat country club that uh poor old Bernie Sanders, the old coot from Vermont banging on the door, in the end was not able to penetrate.
Uh she's the nominee because she's Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton, and William Jefferson Clinton uh uh treated her like a bit of used toilet paper stuck to his shoe, and so people felt sorry for her, so they got her a Senate seat in a state she'd never lived in, and now she's uh gonna be the first woman president as as as she sees it.
It's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing.
No see in serious c and and it will be and it will put a permanent asterisk if were she to win next to this historic achievement.
Uh because in other countries, your first woman leader gets there on her own on her own grounds.
I uh I've mentioned before that I've sat in parliaments around the world and I've looked at female leaders arguing with each other, and none of them were there because they were married uh to a particular bloke.
That's nothing to do with shattering the glass ceiling.
Instead, the guy who shattered the glass ceiling uh was this guy Trump.
Uh he came along, everybody made jokes in June uh last year as he as he came down the escalator at Trump Tower.
But in fact, he shattered, he actually shattered the glass ceiling and bust into the political club.
And so on the one hand, you have uh somebody who says, Well, this is gonna be business as usual.
Uh you the little people out there, you leave it to us.
You leave it to Hillary and all her pals and buddies and cronies, uh Sid Blumenthal and all the other people who are gonna be coming back to the White House, all the people who are in in the inside the circle.
You're not in the circle.
Actually, all the kind of people that uh that they're trying to investigate.
Uh the State Department on Tuesday uh uh defended its claim.
I think Buck mentioned this yesterday, that uh that the Republican that it would take seventy-five years for them to provide the emails uh that have been sought in connection with uh this email investigation.
In other words, they'll have all the emails ready to hand over by the year twenty ninety one, right?
This they don't even care anymore, do they?
These these are the emails from from uh from basically, I think it's three or four from four aides to former Secretary Clinton.
There's uh Cheryl Mills, there's some uh Ken Patrick Kennedy, is he is he one of the Kennedys?
Is he he's he's got the name they're all half of them are called Patrick.
I don't know whether he is but uh so they've got uh Cheryl Mills, Patrick Kennedy, some other guy it will take there's four people and yes they can comply with the cr request to provide the emails but it will take seventy-five years seventy-five years.
So in 2091 we'll all know what was in Cheryl Mills's emails.
Except there isn't going to be an America in 2091 on that timeline, so you won't have to worry about it.
At the same time members of the nine eleven families are asking for the uh to be given a day in court.
Did you remember 911?
If you if you're among the older members of the audience you might remember it.
It it happened as the name suggests on the ninth month, the 11th day, back at the beginning of the century, 2001.
And uh the guy who uh was the mastermind behind it, this big hairy guy called Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he's been on this fabulous Cuban beach vacation for uh over a decade now and they still can't manage to bring him to court.
Military lawyers prosecuting alleged nine eleven plotters are asking that family members of the victims be allowed to testify in court before the trial begins of their because of their advanced age and general health concerns.
So they're concerned that the family members will die bec before this thing gets to court.
They've had fifteen years.
These are military this is military justice, by the way.
And again, this is the state of the Republic in the second decade of the twenty first century.
They've had three times as long as the Second World War well two and a half tim two and a half times the full length of the Second World War, but getting on for four times the length that America was in it.
Let's call it let's say they've 1939 nineteen forty five two and a half times the length of the Second World War to bring one guy to court and they can't do it.
And some of the witnesses are getting up there, they're in their seventies Lee Hansen, eighty three, whose son, daughter in law and granddaughter were killed aboard United Airlines Flight one hundred five when it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
This guy lost everything he lost his son, his daughter in law, his granddaughter and his nation, his country and everyone who's knows anything about the sclerotic and dysfunctional American court system, from the crummiest little nothing little traffic court,
family court, nothing court, all the way up to the Supreme Court, knows that you're always told, oh well, you know, it's very hard getting a court date and the courts have to prioritize and you're not really a priority.
Okay, 911 isn't a priority.
And this guy Lee Hansen can't get a date in court after fifteen years to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed behind bars or to get him executed or to get him you know set up for ten years of appeals.
The father of Todd Beamer, no one remembers Todd Beamer anymore.
He's the guy who was on flight ninety three and he said let's roll and it was briefly the catchphrase of the area of the era.
And then the years go by and nobody rolls and nothing happens and it becomes let's roll over and let the Iranian mulers tickle our stomachs and some rinky ding nothing nickel and dime Benghazi militia make fools of us and and so there's no more let's roll anymore.
David Beamer is the father of Todd Beamer who was a passenger on that flight.
He never got to see his son ripen into Middle age.
David Beamer is seventy-four now.
And the prosecutors are having to plead in order uh to get uh some of these witnesses into court because they're pushing up the ed uh against the edges of American life expectancy.
I know this personally.
I've I'm now in the uh about to be in the fifth year in uh I think it's the um what's it called?
The District of Columbia Latrine of Justice.
Is that what it's called?
District of Columbia Latrine of Justice.
Uh oh no, my mistake, it's a typing error.
The District of Columbia Superior Court.
My my mistake, I beg your pardon.
Anyway, I'm there about to enter the fifth year of of some uh of some hellish thing there.
We got some judge there, a judge there who takes uh three years to issue interlocutory appeals.
I won't bother explaining what that is, but it's something that shouldn't take three years.
But she takes three years.
Uh her name is Vanessa Ruith, uh I think, uh Ruiz, R U I Z. Uh Vanessa Ruiz, uh and she takes three years to issue interlocutory appeals.
Not because she works on them for three years, so they're brilliant.
She works on them like every other judge for ten minutes the day before they're due uh and then just uh and then just uh prints it out.
But she takes three years to do that.
Uh and and one of my witnesses actually did die.
That's how crazy this thing is.
Uh one of my witnesses actually did die before the cases come to court.
So these so that so what these nine eleven guys are worrying about actually happens.
Witnesses die.
Because the these judges can't bring anything to court.
That's why I don't care about the Trump thing about the judge.
He's had he's had that case for six years.
Six years for a case that should take tops six months.
But nothing can happen here.
The cold joint is seizing up.
And it's easy to say, well, why should Trump University uh get into court uh and slide ahead for six years?
Why should that Stein guy uh what's the big deal about him being in the uh District of Columbia Latrine of Justice for five years?
But this is nine eleven we're talking about.
And for two and a half times as long as the second world war, American military lawyers are trying to prosecute Halid Sheikh Mohammed.
He's won.
Don't you get it?
He won.
You seized him, I think he was uh arrested in Malaysia, captured in Malaysia, and you brought him to Gitmo, and at Gidmo he lives in fabulous conditions.
He is a sell to himself, he's in beautiful weather.
Uh they have uh when I was down there, I they had the best backlava pastries I've ever tasted.
Uh money no object.
He's he's one.
When he's been when you've been waiting for trial for fifteen years, America lost and he won.
And this and this is what is at issue in uh the forthcoming election.
The idea of a great nation seizing up, living on the capital of its glorious past, unable to prosecute a war crime in less than a decade and a half, as uh as the family members of those murdered on that day day uh uh die off.
Why isn't every American ashamed of that?
And and Hillary Clinton isn't gonna do anything about that, because as we know, we've just heard the State Department say with a straight face that that Hillary Clinton's age will need seventy-five years to comply with a freedom of information request.
So we'll find out what was in Cheryl Mill's emails in the year 2091.
And this is why the whole thing Mitch McConnell, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
He should uh he should Mitch McConnell this this guy needs to stay on script.
He needs to stay on message, he needs to hire twenty-one press secretaries.
It's staying on script that's killed the joint.
That's killed the joint.
The guys who stay on script can't do anything about this.
Where's Paul Ryan?
Where's Paul Ryan and fifteen years to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to justice?
Where is he on that?
Mark Stein in Farush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush as the swimsuit round of the US election comes to a close, and we are now in the final showdown these next five months.
Let's go to Debbie in Naples, Florida.
Debbie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to be here.
Um you had opened the show by posing the question of where to where do things go from here.
Um as a person who has never doubted for a minute that Donald Trump was going to be the nominee.
I do believe that he's gonna win in the fall, and I think he's gonna win bigger than anybody anticipates right now.
That's uh that's interesting because uh there's Democrats, there's Republicans, the independents seem to be uh breaking Trump's way at the moment.
And I'll tell you why, because I'm one of those people.
I've identified as a Republican my entire life, and I'm in my early fifties now.
So we're talking a long time.
I no longer identify myself as a Republican.
I now consider myself an independent.
I'm so disenchanted with what's become of the Republican Party and the spineless bunch of people that are in Washington.
I don't want to be associated with those people anymore.
Uh and and so you basically look on this election then between uh as as one between the Democrat candidate and uh and Trump who represents whatever he's representing, he's not representing the old style Republican Party.
Well, he to me, he's a person that kind of transcends politics, and everything that you said in the opening hour of the program is exactly the reason why I'm supporting him.
I I don't make decisions like this lightly.
And when I did the math on who the other people are that were running and what they are going to bring to the table and what Donald Trump is willing to do, there was no decision in my mind except to select him as my as the nominee.
And I'll tell you the main reason why, and I know you've written extensively about this.
To me, every single problem that's in this country stems from illegal immigration.
Everything.
There is nothing that you can't tie back to that.
From problems with health care, taxes, schools, terrorism, it all goes back to that.
And he's the only person that was running that I truly believe is going to do anything about that issue.
Well, I think you're right there, Debbie, and the and the thing about this is if you don't like Trump and these people uh like uh Hugh Hewitt today, the radio host who call is calling on the convention uh to to basically ignore the votes and find someone else to make the nominee rather than uh Trump.
All they had to do this time last summer was steal his issue, Debbie.
And and and uh he was the one who who brought that issue up.
It got it got traction, and uh at the time that Jeb Bush was still doing his illegal immigration is an act of love routine, and uh if it was no, I have to say, and and it finally dawned on me, and I I try to think of myself as an informed person, but I the light bulb went off for me at some point about a year ago, that the Republicans that are in Congress really have no intention of doing the things that they claim every two and four and six years that they're gonna do.
Because they're not they're not doing anything to indicate to me that they mean any of the things that they say.
And I think one of the reasons why they're so afraid of Donald Trump being president is that they're finally gonna be in a position to put up or shut up, and it's gonna become obvious to everybody where they stay.
It's already obvious to me.
All these pseudo-intellectuals like George Will and Steve Hayes and all these other pundits who are have been ridiculing people who support Donald Trump and calling us clowns and fools and morons.
Well, you know what?
Guess who's gonna be the nominee?
Guess who was wrong?
Right, right.
And in fact, that is the nature of of democracy.
If they want if they want something else they uh they they should be in in some other kind of country.
But but you're right, uh there's a difference.
That's the thing.
For for for most of this century.
You look at John McCain in 2010, when he he's campaigning uh i in even numbered years uh when there's a big Tea Party movement, he's let's build the danged wall, danged wall, the danged wall has got to be built.
Let's build the danged wall.
Uh uh danged drops out of his vocabulary the minute he's elected, and it's all back to comprehensive immigration reform, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The difference between odd year how they talk in odd years and how they talk in even years has actually discredited, discredited uh elective politics in this country.
Mark Stein for Rush, lots more still to come.
You know, just to go back to what Debbie was saying a moment ago, John Kerry gave a commencement address, I think it was at Northeastern uh a couple of weeks ago, so in the season of graduations, and he told these graduates, you're about to graduate into a complex and borderless world.
Uh oh yeah, who said?
And if I don't want a borderless world, what polling station do I go to to vote that out?
Borders are the fundamental organizing principle of the modern world.
Borders are why the Dominican Republic isn't like Haiti, and why Jordan isn't like Syria, and why Belize isn't like Guatemala, uh, or Trinidad like Venezuela, they've just got a little bit of water in between.
And it's why the United States isn't like uh Mexico.
I mean, this is utopian madness, what Kerry said.
And yet everyone just applauds when John Kerry, the Secretary of State, stands up and hails the dawn of the borderless world.
For a start, everyone assumes when they say stuff like that, that a borderless world is going to somehow be like Sweden.
It's not.
It's gonna be like Sudan.
It's gonna be a brutish, uh, violent and thuggish place, a borderless world.
And yet when uh John Kerry stands up and says, oh, it's gonna be a borderless world, everyone thinks that's uh that's polite and sensible.
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