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RUSH: We go to Yuma, Arizona.  Duane, thank you for calling, sir.  You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Good.  Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Rush, I just want to say that I\u2019m gonna end up voting for Trump, and I hate him. I probably never would except these people pushing these Never Trump campaigns, like Bill Kristol and Ben Shapiro, and all these talking eggheads that want us to vote their way. They can\u2019t accept that we won\u2019t take an establishment candidate. It\u2019s making me want Trump.  I don\u2019t like Trump at all.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  This is interesting.  In fact, you used the word “hate.”<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You said you hate Trump.  You were a Cruzer.  You hate Trump, but you\u2019re gonna vote for Trump because you don\u2019t like what these third-party types are doing, Bill Kristol and some of the others.  What bothers you about that?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, I wanted Ted Cruz very badly because I wanted a conservative and a man with a good moral compass. And what we have is Donald Trump, who does whatever the wind seems to lead him to do, but he does it very effectively and he does it with panache and people want him because he\u2019s bold and will say what\u2019s on his mind.  But I want somebody who\u2019s grounded.  And now we have these people in the leadership of what seems to be the in-crowd, the Beltway, they\u2019re saying we have to have, I don\u2019t know, a Romney or one of these other candidates that won\u2019t win also, and it just seems like they\u2019re trying to make sure Trump doesn\u2019t win.  And that will just give it to Hillary, who I will not have.  I will vote for Trump happily over Hillary.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Let me interrupt you here and share with you why this is happening.  I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers excerpts from a column, an interview by a Wall Street Journal columnist by the name of Bret Stephens. <\/line><\/p>\n

And the headline:  “Trump Needs to be Destroyed in the November Election to Teach GOP Voters a Lesson <\/a>— Appearing on CNN, an opinion page editor from the Wall Street Journal left no doubt how he feels about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying not only will he not vote for him, but that Trump needs to be crushed in the November election as a lesson to Republicans.<\/p>\n

“Pressed by host Fareed Zakaria if he was going to get behind Trump as the Republican nominee, conservative columnist Bret Stephens got right to the point.<\/p>\n

‘I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump,\u2019 Stephens began tersely. ‘I will vote for the least left-wing opponent to Donald Trump and I want to make a vote that makes sure he is the biggest loser in presidential history since, I don\u2019t know, Alf Landon.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Then Stephens went off: ‘It\u2019s important that Donald Trump, or what he represents, this kind of quote “ethnic conservatism or populism,” be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party and the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape or form.  So they have to learn a lesson perhaps the way Democrats learned a lesson from McGovern in \u201972.'”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what I\u2019ve always told you, as far as the elites and the establishment, you people are gonna have to get your minds right.  You\u2019re gonna have to learn how big a bunch of screw-ups you are.  You\u2019re gonna have the biggest landslide defeat in history so that you finally learn never, ever again stray from what the establishment is commanding you to do.  And that\u2019s guiding a lot of this Never Trumpism.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Okay.  So we heard on CNN where they changed the narrative from, “What did Trump donate veterans groups and how much?” to now the narrative of the Trump press conference. “What a mean guy! He called us names! He called us sleeze, he called us lairs, he called us disohnest!”  So we got Chris Cillizza with a piece, the Washington Post: “Donald Trump Is Dead Wrong About the ‘Sleaze\u2019 Media<\/a>.” The Politico: “Trump Calls Reporter a ‘Sleaze\u2019 as He Details Veterans\u2019 Donations<\/a>.”  And they\u2019re all…<\/p>\n

These reports are all over the Drive-By Media now, how in the Trump press conference, “He called us names! He called us a sleaze! He called us liars! He called us dishonest!”  What they don\u2019t know, is there are all kinds of people out there (clapping) applauding it.  They probably do know that.  Here\u2019s is Bret Stephens.  We actually have the audio of Bret Stephens — just read his quote to you — the Wall Street Journal. Here he is. So Fareed Zakaria Global Position Satellite on Sunday morning.  Zakaria\u2019s question: “You have written eloquently against Donald Trump from the beginning. The rest of the Republican establishment has collapsed and surrendered and entered his not particularly warm embrace. Are you going to vote for Donald Trump in the fall?”<\/p>\n

STEPHENS:  I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump.  I want to make a vote to make sure that he is the biggest loser in presidential history.  It\u2019s important that Donald Trump and what he represents — this kind of ethnic, quote, “conservatism” or populism — be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party and Republican voters will forever learn their lesson, that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Trump has really gotten under these guys\u2019 skin, I think, on this whole immigration thing.  They think… (interruption) No, wait, wait, wait!  They are the arbiters of conservatism, Mr. Snerdley.  They are the ones that define it. They\u2019re the ones that tell us what conservatism is and what it isn\u2019t, and who is and who isn\u2019t is a conservative, and what\u2019s legit and illegitimate and so forth. I mean, that\u2019s who they are, and they\u2019re big open-borders people over there at the Journal, which is why I\u2019m guessing… I don\u2019t know for sure.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never met Bret Stephens, but I\u2019m guessing that Trump\u2019s position on illegal immigration is one of the things, although I\u2019m sure there are many more things that Bret Stephens…  Look, there are a lot of conservatives in the… Oh, I don\u2019t know. How would you categorize it?  Think tank conservatives, Washington media conservatives.  There are a lot of them want no part of this. “I mean, Trump\u2019s not in any way, shape, manner conservative.  This is the most damaging thing to conservatism that\u2019s ever come down the pike, and people think Trump is one.” <\/line><\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Damaging…?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

What do you mean, “so condescending”? <\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s the whole point!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the ruling class says, “Okay! Okay! You go out, and you\u2019re gonna learn your lesson. You\u2019re gonna go out there, you\u2019re gonna vote the way we don\u2019t want you to vote, and we\u2019re gonna let you know what a big mistake you\u2019ve made. You\u2019re gonna learn…” I\u2019ve warned people of this attitude.  The quote\/unquote “conservative movement…” (sigh) I don\u2019t have time to get into it right now, but just let\u2019s suffice to say that there are many who are as distressed as this guy is.  Bill Kristol\u2019s one.  George Will\u2019s another. <\/p>\n

You know the names. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re just totally distressed at a lot of things. <\/p>\n

Some of them are genuinely distressed over what this means for conservatism. <\/p>\n

Others, not so much; they\u2019re hiding behind that.  Some just don\u2019t like the fact that a non-establishment, nonpolitical professional looks like he can win this.  Conservatism\u2019s got nothing to do with it, really.  They\u2019re just hiding behind that as their excuse.  What really bugs them is that somebody totally unschooled in all of this can come along and make a mockery of them.  That\u2019s what\u2019s really driving it for many of them.  Some of them are genuine heartfelt conservatives scared to death over what this means for conservatism, not themselves.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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