{"id":213824,"date":"2016-06-22T18:52:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/22\/there_is_no_choice_but_to_support_trump_to_beat_hillary\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:52:28","slug":"there_is_no_choice_but_to_support_trump_to_beat_hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/22\/there_is_no_choice_but_to_support_trump_to_beat_hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Choice But to Support Trump to Beat Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Let me address something.  I\u2019ve had a couple of emails today, and I should mention this so that you don\u2019t think I\u2019m trying to sweep anything under the rug here.  I\u2019ve had emails today from people who say, “You sound awfully enthusiastic about this guy.  You know, Trump\u2019s not a conservative, Rush.  You should be out there pushing Ted Cruz.  With all this talk about getting rid of Trump, it\u2019s an opportunity to get Ted Cruz back in as the nominee.  You\u2019re a conservative leader.  You ought to be leading that movement.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Wait a minute.  I have not misled anybody at any point during this campaign.  From the moment the primaries began, I have been blunt-force up front with everybody about the objective here, which is to beat Hillary Clinton.  I don\u2019t care with what.  There isn\u2019t anything worse.”  We can\u2019t… Folks, we can\u2019t withstand — culturally, economically, politically —  we can\u2019t withstand another four years of what we\u2019ve just had the last eight, and that\u2019s what it would be, and it would be worse because it would be four more years on top of what are already 7-1\/2 (by that time eight) years of genuine destructive politics from the highest office in the land. <\/p>\n

For me, this has always been about one thing, and that\u2019s about beating Hillary.  Whoever the nominee of the Republican Party was going to be was going to get my support.  “What about conservatism, Rush?”  I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve changed a whit here, folks.  Other people have.  But for 27 years you\u2019ve been able to tune in here every day and be confident of what you\u2019re gonna get, and you\u2019ve been able to be confident that it\u2019s being honestly spoken to you. <\/line><\/p>\n

Do I wish Trump were better at certain thing? Do I wish Trump were more instinctive?  Of course.  But I think no matter who the nominee was, we were going to have problems.  Some people would have more problems than others, given who the nominee was.  But I can go through the list of people that might have been the nominee and I can pretty much recite what objectives from various Republicans would be.  But the greatest unifying aspect we have in this race is Hillary Clinton. <\/p>\n

And, look, I know, folks. Within the conservative movement and within the Republican Party and any other group that\u2019s, by definition, not liberal there are all kinds of people worried to death that various things are being abandoned here. Various concepts, precepts, principles are being abandoned.  And I know that there are people who think that we\u2019re gonna get slaughtered no matter what we do.  And, worse, I know some people who want us to be slaughtered. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s all kinds of people on our side who think the best lesson that could happen is if Trump gets beaten in huge landslide so that we don\u2019t make this mistake again.  I\u2019ve heard that philosophy argued one way or the other since the beginning days of this program.  And there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned: I don\u2019t ever see the advantage in losing.  I just haven\u2019t been able to find it.  I haven\u2019t been able to find victory in losing. <\/p>\n

And in this case, defeating Hillary and everything else that goes along with that is paramount to me.  I\u2019m by no means confident that it can happen, and I want to be, so I\u2019m looking for hopeful signs that this can happen, and I do think they\u2019re there.  I think she\u2019s a weak, weak candidate.  I think she has vulnerabilities left and right.  She is not loved. She\u2019s not adored. Her negatives? You talk about Trump? Her negatives are almost as high as his are to the point they cancel each other out. <\/p>\n

But my support for defeating Hillary Clinton is not meant and does not in any way signal that I am — what\u2019s the term? — going soft on core beliefs or core principles.  You know, my favorite phrase has become a cliche.  But I still like it.  “It is what it is.”  You have to be… I\u2019m the mayor of Realville.  You have to deal with what you have to deal with.  It doesn\u2019t do anybody any good to wish things were different.  Unless you have an opportunity to make them different.  And I don\u2019t think that makes much sense right now, but we shall see.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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