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August 19, 2016, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	You know, there are times in one's life that you're tested, and you have to make a decision.
	And you learn something about yourself.
	You have to stand up for what you believe in.
	And those are usually times in which the standing up isn't easy to do.
	It's real easy to make easy decisions in life.
	Should I have chocolate cake or should I eat spoiled beets?
	The hard decisions are the ones in which you learn something about yourself.
	I was a guy who adamantly opposed Donald Trump when he was running for president in the Republican primaries.
	And I wasn't sure I could come around and endorse him or support him in the general election.
	I did a couple of months ago, and I shared this with the Rush audience the last time I was here.
	But you know, every day that goes by, I'm way more comfortable with this decision.
	There is a story in the news today that just ratifies I how I know I'm right.
	Bo Snerdly found this for me.
	For those of you who think that he doesn't earn his keep, he found this on BizPackReview.com.
	I don't know what that is, and I don't know why he was on that site, but he found this for me.
	If you learn anything else from me filling in for Rush today, then this story, I'll feel as though I've accomplished something.
	It has to do with Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter, buying jewelry online.
	There's apparently some hot shot online jewelry operation that sells to Beyonce, Rihanna, a lot of celebrities.
	It's called Lady Gray Jewelry.
	Ivanka Trump made an online order from Lady Gray Jewelry.
	Now you're probably thinking, so what?
	Listen to where this story goes.
	According to BizPack Review, the company's founders Jill Martinelli and Sabine Le Gayata were flattered to receive the order from Ivanka Trump.
	But see, they don't agree with Donald's politics.
	So they included in the shipment to Ivanka of something called an earcuff.
	What's an ear cuff?
	Does anybody know what an earcuff is?
	Allie knows what an earcuff is, so it's like it's like an earring except you put it on the top of the ear.
	Is that what it is?
	All right, I've learned something.
	Well, apparently Ivanka wanted one of those, included in the ship was the following note.
	Dear Ivanka, thank you for your web order.
	We're happy to let you know that the proceeds of your sale have been generously donated to the American Immigration Council, the Every Town for Gun Safety Organization, and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
	We hope you enjoy your new Lady Gray Helix cuff.
	Best Sabine and Jill.
	Now if that wasn't obnoxious enough, they post it on Instagram.
	These two self-important, self-righteous, holier than thou, sanctimonious snobs.
	Ivanka Trump wants to buy something from them, for which they ought to be flattered.
	She's a beautiful and successful young woman.
	And instead they decide to make her purchase all about them and how they aren't so unwashed as to dirty themselves with Donald Trump.
	This is how I know I'm on the right side when I back Trump.
	At some point, if you're in doubt as to whether or not you're in the right room or at the right party, just kind of look around you.
	We have some news today to share with the audience.
	First of all, Donald Trump gave a speech last night that was really remarkable.
	The media is focusing solely on the fact that he expressed regret for some of the things that he said during the campaign.
	There's a lot else in there that we're going to be getting to on the program today.
	Also some hard news.
	Paul Manafort has resigned as the Trump campaign chairman.
	Some Hillary Clinton news also in terms of the staffing uh Hillary Clinton has hired Ryan Lockheed to be the campaign spokesperson.
	Says she likes the way he handles things.
	So, by the way, that part was made up.
	Do I have to explain what I'm making up things or does the Russi audience get my humor yet?
	I haven't been here that long.
	I don't do the show that often.
	Anyway, you know what day of the week it is, which means that today...
	Well, I'm glad it's open line Friday because I have something to say, and this is my open line for a moment.
	I mentioned at the top of the program that I was somebody that was resistant to Donald Trump.
	Right now, the Republican Party and the conservative movement really is divided into three groups.
	I'm in this middle group.
	And I think that there are millions of us there.
	Donald Trump was not our first choice for some.
	He was their last choice.
	But he is now their choice.
	And we want him to win.
	And we want the Republicans to keep the Senate, keep their majority in the House.
	We want the governors that are running across the country that have conservative values and a Republican to win, state legislative members, and so on.
	There are millions of us in this category.
	We didn't want Trump.
	Maybe we wanted Cruz, maybe we wanted Rubio, maybe we wanted Rand Paul, maybe we wanted Carson, whomever.
	Kasich.
	But we want Trump to win.
	That's one group.
	And of all of the three groups, it's the one that you hear from the least.
	Well, I'm a member of it, and I want to talk a little bit about this today.
	Then there are the other two groups.
	There are the really, really adamant pro-Trumpers.
	They've been with Donald from the beginning.
	They found his message enthralling and refreshing, and they believe that we need someone like him.
	We need him, in fact, they believe, to change America and to fix the country.
	That group is there and they've been with Trump from the very beginning from when he declared his candidacy.
	And then you have the Never Trumpers.
	The people that will not support Trump, even though they are Republicans, they are conservatives.
	They believe that Trump is the wrong person.
	They believe that Trump would damage the Republican Party.
	They don't Trump to trust Trump to govern.
	They think he's irresponsible.
	They think he's reckless.
	And we all know that's the breakdown.
	Just about everybody out there who is a Republican or a conservative fits into one of those three categories.
	And we all have a right to be in any of those groups.
	You have an absolute right as an American to support Donald Trump wholeheartedly.
	You have an absolute right as an American to support Trump because he's the nominee and he's the best vehicle to advance as much of what you believe in.
	That's the group I'm in.
	And you have every right as an American to not support Trump.
	However, people on both of those extreme sides need to be called out.
	Not all of them, some of them.
	I want to start with the never Trumpers who can't keep their big mouths shut.
	Who every day have to come out and proclaim how awful Trump is.
	Or to stand up and an attempt to draw attention to themselves as to how enlightened that they are, that they won't lower themselves by getting down there in the dirt with Donald Trump, like we've got some clown today, the former finance chairman for Mitt Romney's campaign, Nirenberg, uh David Nirenberg.
	He writes an op-ed that appears on CNBC.
	He's endorsing Hillary Clinton.
	Oh, good for him.
	You got your two minutes of fame.
	You're a Republican that's endorsing Hillary Clinton.
	I'm referring to my friends at the Weekly Standard, which is a great magazine, the National Review, which is a great magazine, and quite a few others.
	It's one thing to say that you're not going to support Trump.
	It's one thing to say that you consider Trump even to be dangerous.
	You don't have to keep piling on every single day.
	Because what you are doing is you are demoralizing millions of people who might otherwise go out and vote for the Republican ticket and for other Republicans?
	We get it.
	You don't like Trump.
	We get it.
	You don't think that he's right for the country.
	You think he's the wrong guy and you think that it's bad for the Republican Party.
	Do you really need to make it the only subject you talk about day in and day out?
	I talk a lot about the sanctimoniousness of the left.
	This is the sanctimoniousness of an elite part of the right.
	Now in my own program in Milwaukee, I made a vow, wasn't so much a vow as a statement, that I was not going to criticize those people who couldn't bring themselves around to vote for Donald Trump.
	Because I understand where they're coming from.
	And I understand the reservations they've had with him because I had them myself.
	I'm not referring in this little diatribe here to those of you who just can't bring yourself to vote for Trump.
	I'm referring to those whose constant proclamations of their beliefs here are all about themselves and not about Trump and not about the Republican Party and not about the election.
	There's a lot of, hey, look at me.
	I'm special.
	I'm not one of those dumb Republicans that's gonna fall for Donald Trump.
	I'm a smarter one, I'm an enlightened one.
	I see through Trump.
	This is all about you posing for your own portrait of self-enlightenment.
	Well, what you're doing in the process is that you're damaging the cause that you claim that you care about by your constant on and on and on and on trashing of Trump and therefore trashing of anybody who would vote for Trump.
	Do you really want the Republican voter turn out to be so depressed this fall that they lose the Senate?
	What does that help?
	That they lose good members of the House of Representatives?
	Who does that help?
	There are Republicans in swing house districts that are now in trouble.
	Because everybody knows that the Republican Party is divided and Republican turnout might be lowered.
	Well, I blame a good chunk of that on the people that are out there that are just obsessed with mocking and ridiculing every Trump supporter.
	And for that matter, unnecessarily piling on to Trump.
	And how about that?
	Okay, we get that you don't like Trump.
	Your contribution to the bashing of Trump is unnecessary.
	We have enough of that from the media and from the left.
	Don't worry, they'll handle the pounding on Trump for everything that Trump does or everything that Trump says that they don't like.
	We really don't need your contribution on this.
	That pretty much is covered.
	That job is taken care of.
	He's running against the Hillary Clinton sleaze machine.
	He's running against the mainstream media.
	They're going to have more than enough material to hammer him with that we really don't need to have.
	This constant carping from the right wing peanut gallery as to how terrible he is.
	As I say, I am not referring to the people who are merely expressing an opinion.
	I'm referring to those that have to be so unbelievably over the top about it and can't, if they're a columnist, write about any other subject.
	And yes, I am talking about you, Jonah Goldberg, who I like and whose stuff I read.
	Can you write any column, Jonah, that isn't about Donald Trump?
	Or you're trying to draw so much tension to yourself with your anti-Trump beliefs and how terrible and awful that Donald Trump is just to put yourself in a different category and be noticed.
	In other words, it's all about you.
	Some of us don't appreciate it, even if we agree with a lot of the points that you make.
	But then there's the other side.
	There are a lot of people who backed Trump from the beginning, who now evidently don't want Trump to win.
	Because they insist on promoting divisiveness and rancor even though their guy won.
	I'm turning my attention out of the other side.
	Trump, yes, he won by running against the Republican establishment.
	He won.
	He now is part of the Republican establishment.
	He's the nominee.
	Yet you have some people out there that have developed a cottage industry now and trying to keep bashing every other Republican And conservative, even though your guy won.
	Well, how does that help?
	I firmly believe, and I guess I'm in the minority here, I firmly believe that Trump can still win this election.
	He's running against a lying criminal.
	That does help his cause.
	I believe he can still win, but he's not going to win if the people who claim that they support him are kicking people out of the tent saying you're not pure enough.
	I'll expand on that in a moment here.
	Yes, I have a few things that I like to say as long as I've been given this platform.
	My name is Mark Belling and I'm filling in for Rush.
	Now, some people may think that I some people may think that I was being a little bit too harsh on the never Trumpers.
	Well, I've got a few harsh things to say on some, some, not most, some of those who claim to be adamant pro-Trumpers.
	Why do you insist on poking in the eye those that are coming around to back your guy?
	Well, they're not enthusiastic enough, or they're still part of the problem.
	Maybe they are, but you need them right now.
	And if you want Trump to win, you can't keep insulting people who are willing to vote for and even support Donald Trump.
	I was part of something back in Milwaukee.
	Congressman Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
	His district is in my listening area.
	He's the southeastern corner of the state of Wisconsin.
	He had to put up with a Republican primary challenge this month.
	The guy that ran against him never had any chance of winning.
	He was a terrible candidate.
	You should have heard the radio commercials that he was running.
	They were as snide and obnoxious and condescending as anything that you ever hear from the left.
	They were trying to sell something that Ryan's district wasn't buying.
	They tried to claim that Paul Ryan was a betrayer.
	He ran that Paul Ryan lacked a soul.
	Well, the people in Ryan's district, who are people who listen to my program, they didn't buy that.
	They know Paul Ryan.
	They may not agree with him, they may not agree with him on everything.
	And they also understand that being Speaker of the House means that he's going to be taking stands that they might not may not like.
	But they think that he is a conservative.
	They believe that he has served his community well, and they know that he is in touch with his district.
	Ryan got 84% of the vote.
	But he had to come home and take this threat seriously.
	His volunteers had to go out and campaign, and in the meantime put up with nothing but insults from people who claim that they're from the Donald Trump wing of the Republican Party.
	If you are from the Donald Trump wing of the Republican Party, the problem right now is not Paul Ryan.
	The problem is Hillary Clinton.
	The problem is the New York Times.
	The problem is the Los Angeles Times.
	The problem is a mainstream media at an establishment that is mortified of Donald Trump winning.
	That is who you need to focus your attention on.
	Instead, the people who support Paul Ryan had to put up with two, three, four, five weeks of insults.
	They were told that Ryan's a betrayer.
	No, he's not.
	But when you say that, you're saying that the people who support Paul Ryan are betrayers.
	There are a lot of people who support Paul Ryan's stances on trade and immigration and other issues.
	And that wing of the Republican Party is as necessary to Trump winning as the people that are more to the Donald Trump side of things.
	The primaries are over.
	Trump won.
	We had a convention.
	He accepted the nomination.
	Now, admittedly, Trump himself sometimes provokes this stuff.
	He has this total inability to let some things go.
	He hears some Republicans not expressing enough warmth for his campaign and he feels a need to fire back.
	And as I said, I've said before, I think that some of those people that don't like Trump need to hush themselves up as well.
	If you want to beat Hillary Clinton, which is a tall order, this is a remarkable machine that they have.
	If you want to beat her, you need to start developing some alliances here in which the people that are behind Donald Trump from every wing of the Republican Party and every wing of conservatism start getting along with one another and treating one another with respect.
	And I see a lot of problems on this coming from people on both sides.
	Again, I'm not criticizing most never Trumpers.
	And I'm not criticizing most of the adamant pro-Trumpers.
	I'm criticizing those that are so full of themselves that on both sides here are taking advantage of the Trump campaign and taking advantage of the fact that not all Republicans are on the same page to promote disunity and move themselves forward.
	There are some charlatans on the right.
	They've tried to hijack the Tea Party movement.
	They're focused solely on running primary elections just because they need jobs to pay their consultant fees and align the salaries from their super pack leadership.
	Those people are as to blame for the divide that we have right now as anyone else.
	Mark Belling in for Rush.
	If you've missed any portion of Russia's show this past week and catch up by joining the member site side of the website, that's Rush 247, and you can do that by going to Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Time for me to give you the phone numbers.
	It is 1-800-28282.
	Did I say that right?
	1-800-282-288-2 is the phone number here.
	I spent the first half hour of the program talking about the frustration that I have with people on the extreme wings of conservatism right now that seem to be hellbent on leading the party to a humiliating defeat.
	On the one hand, you have pro-Trumpers that are almost willing to sacrifice Trump's election because they want to purge the Republican Party of virtually everybody.
	And then you've got people on the other side that believe that Trump would be so damaging that they're willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater and let everybody else lose, as they both sides just draw attention to how wonderful and enlightened they are by not being part of this whole Trump movement.
	Whether you're enthusiastically for Trump or for Trump just because he isn't Hillary Clinton, your votes count the same.
	And if you want to win, you've got to start getting along.
	Now I want to talk about on the program today the speech that Rush that Rush that Trump gave last night in North Carolina because this is the first indication of the influence on the campaign of the new leadership of the campaign.
	I was very impressed by it.
	Clearly, you have to find a balance between the letting Trump be Trump and running a campaign that has discipline and message.
	Successful presidential campaigns focus on two or three or four points and hammer them home relentlessly.
	Remember Bill Clinton's campaign of ninety-two run by Carville?
	It's the economy stupid.
	They just honed and focused and focused and focused and hammered on that.
	You need to do that.
	On the other hand, to take Donald Trump and put him in front of a teleprompter and make him constantly stay on a script as they were trying to do, that doesn't work either.
	It's like taking a wild animal and putting them in a cage.
	They're going to resist the cage.
	You have to find a happy medium here in which Trump speaks on the issues that are true to Trump and when he believes in, but also keep him focused enough on the fact that he doesn't keep wandering off all scattershot and focusing on things that don't matter.
	I thought it was a sincere address, while clearly written by someone.
	It seemed to come from Trump.
	And it wasn't just the I regret some of the statements that I've made and some of the things that I've said, which I do think he needed to do.
	He showed for once a little bit of humility, but also showed that I think that he is dedicated to winning, and he showed a commitment and caring for the country, which is the reason why he says that he's running for this in the first place.
	People keep talking, well, is there another pivot, another pivot, and is this going to hold?
	Is Trump going to run off and says he's going to be one way and then go back the other?
	All of those are fair questions.
	I was impressed by this.
	And I think he's in the game.
	And I think he can still win this election.
	Look what he is running against.
	He's running against an opponent with very, very high negatives.
	And I think that the people who have adamantly decided that they're not going to vote for Clinton, they're more they are more locked in than the people who have adamantly decided that they're not going to vote for Donald Trump.
	Let's go to the phones right now on the Rush Program.
	Carmel Indiana and Dan.
	Dan, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show with Mark Belling.
	Yeah, I was uh I'm a crew supporter.
	And uh as a cruise supporter, I think it'd be important for us to vote for Trump because the Republicans will not stop her just like they didn't try to stop Obama.
	And yet I believe if uh Trump does start doing something illegal or whatever that everybody's afraid of, then I think that Democrats will stand up and stop him.
	So I don't I think we have more worry about from Hillary than we do to worry about from Trump.
	Well I I'm not gonna take your bait on the first point about Republicans not trying to stop Obama because I think that they have tried to stop Obama, but that's neither here nor there.
	I was wandering all over the map in the primaries.
	I initially supported the governor from my own state, Scott Walker.
	His campaign lasted about four minutes.
	I then backed Marco Rubio.
	He fizzled.
	I then got behind Cruz, and I was fairly convinced that Ted Cruz was the guy.
	I thought that he represented enough of the anti-establishment wing, but also strong conservative policy uh background that he'd be the ideal candidate.
	Well, he lost too.
	So I struck out once, I struck out twice, and I struck out a third time.
	I'm with Donald Trump for the reasons that I mentioned earlier.
	And I do understand that not everybody is going to be there.
	And I also understand that some of the people who are really adamantly pro-Trump have been very frustrated with the Republican Party and think that it's just another version of the Democrats.
	I understand the people who are anti trade and people who are really strong in the immigration issue think that the Republicans haven't been there.
	The point that I'm trying to make in the little rant that I'm doing here is that everybody needs one another right now.
	And whatever you think of the Paul Ryan wing of the party or the Ted Cruz wing of the party, or even the Jeb Bush wing of the party, the problem is Hillary Clinton.
	Not only is she worse than any of the people that you seem to be so angered with in the Republican Party on virtually everything, she is a corrupt, lying, dishonest person who will take this country, which has been sliding for eight years and make matters undeniably worse.
	And if it happens with a wipe out of everything Republican everywhere else, we aren't going to have any line of defense.
	So I guess I'm encouraging people here to start thinking with their heads and not with their egos because a lot of this is being driven by ego.
	Thank you for the call, Dan.
	Let's go now to Canton, Ohio.
	Tom, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
	Good afternoon, Mark.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	This is absolutely, I think, an imperative time in the course of American history.
	It's just unfortunate that right now we have the huge polarization within the uh Republican party.
	And what I feel that a lot of these folks that are not necessarily on board with Trump andor the never Trumpers is that they have not thoroughly looked at the Republican platform.
	They put out a beautiful platform at the convention, and all folks need to do is get online and check out the platform, understand the differences of what the vision for America is.
	That was put together by many people.
	Obviously, Mr. Trump has a huge influence as to a lot of the direction in it, but it is not all Donald J. Trump.
	No, but what they don't like is they don't like Trump.
	And I get that.
	There are things about Trump that a lot of people, including myself, don't like.
	I get where they're coming from.
	My criticism of them isn't merely that they're not supporting Trump, that they are bending over backwards to not only trash Trump, but trash everybody who supports Trump individually.
	And I think that they reveal something about themselves.
	This notion that Trump and Hillary are equally bad is absurd.
	If you believe in anything and you claim that you're a conservative, you can't be coming to that conclusion.
	They are not equally bad.
	I get the fear that Trump is going to redefine Republicanism as to something that it currently is not.
	I understand that.
	You can however, when Trump is elected president, you can fight those battles then.
	You're not going to be able to establish anything, any Republican Party that stands for anything when Hillary Clinton is running the presidency and the Democrats have control of the United States Senate.
	She'll understand that that's probably only a two-year thing.
	They will go as far to the left with regard to the judicial nominees as Obama did.
	They'll try to roll the doubt the Republicans in the Congress.
	All of this is a result of people that I think are taking advantage of this schism within the Republican Party to advance themselves.
	And as I say, it's working on both sides.
	Thank you for the call.
	I made reference in the last segment to some of these primaries that are being run.
	Let me explain to you why some of these operatives show up to start running against prominent Republicans.
	There are only so many elections in the United States.
	There are only a hundred members of the Senate and only thirty three thirty-four of them come up every two years.
	Most governors are elected on four-year terms.
	We have so many political operatives and so many people that want to get involved in the political action committee racket, the pack business.
	There aren't enough elections for them.
	Take the United States Senate races right now.
	There are probably twelve to fourteen races that are competitive across the United States.
	All of those candidates on both sides, they've got their consultants, they've got their media team, they've got their own packs in place that are going to back them.
	Same thing with the House.
	There are probably 25 to 30 house races that are truly competitive in the United States.
	All of those candidates, Republican and Democrat, have their staffs in place, they have their backers in place, and so on.
	What you have are a lot of people who aren't part of that loop.
	And they understand that there's big money to be made in American politics.
	You put together a political action committee that has run supposedly independent of the candidates' campaign.
	You can raise money in an unlimited amount from whomever you want, and you get broad latitude on how you spend your money.
	Well, this is a dirty little secret that's been exposed by a few people.
	A lot of those political action committees do nothing, virtually nothing, but pay themselves big salaries.
	They make a lot of money doing this.
	They're called scam packs.
	The Paul Ryan opposition did not exist because anybody thought Ryan was going to lose.
	I was there in Wisconsin and it was comical.
	They picked a goofball candidate that no one liked.
	They had a bunch of out of state operators coming in and doing all sorts of things that offend Wisconsinite sensibilities.
	But you know what they did?
	They raised a lot of money.
	Well some of it from the left, I suspect, but probably a lot of it came from consistere conservatives.
	I've got a story here from Politico.com that crossed a few days ago called How We Killed the Tea Party.
	It was written by a guy who hijacked, it was part of an operation to hijack one of these conservative Tea Party organizations that had initially been formed by people who weren't in it for the money.
	They were in it because they were interested in some of the issues that were first raised by the Tea Party movement.
	But a lot of people realize that if they took control of these organizations, they could use them to raise a lot of money.
	And where do you think that money has gone?
	It's as bad as some of the charities that are out there that spend all this money on administration.
	Well, this is what's going on on the right.
	There are some people who are in it because we care.
	There are people like myself and Rush, who are in it because it's our jobs, and we have some credibility on the line when we lay out our opinions to people, but then there are hacks and hucksters.
	For them, politics really is a game.
	They often talk about the establishment being dirty.
	Well, they're just as dirty.
	What they are are parasites.
	And they're sucking the life out of the conservative movement.
	They foment division because they want to have division because it allows them to run these campaigns and raise this money all for themselves.
	Well, if you don't ever win anything, you're not going to change public policy.
	If my side doesn't win, Obama care, train wreck that it is, it's there for four years.
	There's not going to be a border wall of Hillary Clinton wins.
	There's not going to be a sincere attempt to go after terrorism if Hillary Clinton wins.
	But some of these charlatans that are out there promoting all of this divisiveness and raising all of this money for their phony little pack operations, they don't care about that because they're getting rich off of it.
	And as I say, there is blame here on both sides, and it's the voters that are being sold out.
	I'm Mark Bellingham for Rush Limbaugh.
	Mark Bellingham for Rush, back to the phones, Clamath Falls, Oregon.
	Annie, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
	Hi, how are you today?
	I'm great, thanks.
	I've been a Trump supporter since day one, and after Trump's speech last night, I just wanted to make an appeal to the cruise supporters a month ago.
	Rush had a gal on.
	She was a cruise supporter, and she said that the election was over for her, and she and her husband would never vote this year, which was appalling to me.
	And then I had a gal in my house trying to sign me up to be a precinct leader last week that said she and her husband were cruise supporters.
	They'd never vote for Trump.
	They weren't gonna vote this year.
	And you know, I voted since I was twenty-one, I'm now sixty-one.
	And I haven't always liked who I voted for, but I voted, you know, reluctantly.
	And last election with over twenty-three million evangelicals staying home, look what we got.
	So I think that evangelicals have to stop waiting for a choir boy to run for office and get behind the man that's gonna give evangelicals a voice and not try to silence us.
	And so I just hope that that you know, cruise supporters like you can get over their offenses or concerns and um gather together so we can make a difference.
	You know, Trump's a fighter, he's not gonna back down, he's not a career politician, and he's not gonna put up the president.
	It isn't just getting behind him.
	It's understanding that Trump isn't the only person on the ticket.
	And that's why I say that this thing works both ways.
	There are a lot of people who supported Cruz or Rubio or some of the others.
	Well, guess what?
	There are several Republican United States senators that are probably very close in ideology to these folks.
	They're gonna go down too if everybody is so demoralized and stays home.
	I I I appreciate that some people are saying, okay, I'm gonna go out and I won't vote in the presidential election, but I'll vote for these other Republicans down the line.
	But a lot of the casual voters who are getting this pounding on Trump from the right, they're going to stay home all together.
	What does that accomplish for those people who think that Trump isn't pure enough on Republican issues?
	There's damage that's done by the constant promotion of this divisiveness.
	As I mentioned, there are hang ups that I've that I have with Donald Trump.
	I think he addressed some of them in that very outstanding address that he gave last night.
	I do have concern that Trump, on some issues, may pursue an agenda that is not the one that I believe in.
	I think that he might be too far to the left, for example, on some social issues.
	But I know this, and it's a pretty easy calculation for me.
	I have a 100% there is a 100% chance that Hillary Clinton will be a terrible president.
	There's a good chance she'll even be worse than Obama.
	There's about a 50% chance Donald Trump will be really good, about a twenty-five percent chance that he'll be okay to fare, and maybe a twenty to twenty-five percent chance that he's going to be a poor president.
	That's how I evaluate things.
	Well, I got a seventy-five percent chance of things being pretty good, as opposed to a 100% chance of a nightmare.
	That's that math is very, very easy for me to figure out.
	I think what you have right now in the conservative movement, especially with social media now giving everyone a platform, there are a lot of people who want everyone to look at them as they take this stance either being one toward purging the entire Republican Party of everyone, or on the other side not wanting to associate themselves with Donald Trump, feeling as though we can ride out Hillary Clinton.
	And I've heard a few of them say, Well, we wrote out Obama.
	Did we?
	Look at the world around us right now.
	Look at ISIS.
	Look at what's going on in Syria.
	Have we really ridden this out?
	Look at the time bomb that we now have with a brand new entitlement that's going bust Obamacare.
	Did we really ride it out?
	Is this the direction that our country can just sustain forever?
	Anyway, my name is Mark Belling, and I'm filling in today for Rush Limbaugh.
	A lot of things going on in the news today.
	The State Department now acknowledging that maybe there was a connection of the hostages with the $400 million in cash that was in the plane.
	Could it have been that Obama lied to us?
	Are we being lied to again?
	I do want to dive into the whole Ryan Lochy story and what happened down there and how what apparently was a tall tale just spiraled out of control on him.
	a lot of things to discuss on today's program, and we're going to continue to discuss this divide within the Republican Party right now created by the candidacy of Donald Trump.
	Hillary Clinton is the most dishonest person, in my knowledge, ever to become one of the major party nominees for president.
	Not only that, her policies are terribly wrong.

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