{"id":214671,"date":"2016-10-14T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/14\/why_i_decided_to_keep_doing_this_show_regardless_of_who_wins_the_election\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:49:20","slug":"why_i_decided_to_keep_doing_this_show_regardless_of_who_wins_the_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/14\/why_i_decided_to_keep_doing_this_show_regardless_of_who_wins_the_election\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Decided to Keep Doing This Show, Regardless of Who Wins the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Cindy somewhere in South Carolina.  Great to have you on the EIB Network.  Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hello, Rush.  I cannot believe I\u2019m talking to you.  I have been trying to call for years and years.  And, if it\u2019s okay with you, I would like to preface my question with a personal story that you helped me through.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  When Bill Clinton was elected, there were so many of us who really didn\u2019t want to see the light of day.  And I turned on your show for comfort, and a young lady from Louisiana called in and you said, “It\u2019s gonna be okay.  We will get through this.”  But, at this point, as far as our country has gone down with all the presidents, really, and I\u2019ll include George Bush in that, with not vetoing any spending bills, that type of thing, I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s gonna be any comfort if she\u2019s elected, and if we lose you, we\u2019ve lost something great, great, great —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Why would you lose me?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Well, I thought you said they were talking about that —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh.  Well, they\u2019re gonna come after me, but they —<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Will they have a way to get you?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  Look, I was gonna try to ignore these sound bites I have already promoted, but now you\u2019re bringing it up so I\u2019m gonna play \u2019em in the next half hour.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  But I know where you\u2019re leading with this.  Your setup here is will —<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Can we survive —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  — four to eight years of Hillary Clinton with open borders and no jobs.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Now, I know what you mean.  You\u2019re not asking if you\u2019re gonna live or die.  You\u2019re asking what kind of country is it gonna be and is it gonna be a country that we recognize. You want to know, can we ever restore it if we lose it in this election, that\u2019s pretty much what you\u2019re asking, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  If they win they will vote for her in four years, and I don\u2019t see the Republicans having a chance.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Right.  Well, let me deal — I was trying to hurry you along \u2019cause of this. (end of segment tone) There\u2019s the tone.  I have to take a break.  I\u2019ll deal with this on the other side.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I\u2019m not evading the question.I\u2019ve been thinking how to answer the caller before the break at the bottom of the hour.  She basically wanted to know: Can we survive Hillary winning? She didn\u2019t mean life or death.  She means: Will there be an America? (sigh) You know, the best way for me to answer that is to tell you a little story.  My partnership agreement with my broadcast partners here expires at the end of this year, December 31st.  And for the last year, I actually thought about, “Do I really want to keep doing this if Hillary wins and gets the Supreme Court? What\u2019s gonna be the point?”<\/p>\n

I asked myself over and over, and I toyed with the idea of not renewing on the basis that what will be the point of all this? If we lose and she wins, what are we gonna do?  I mean, playing the role of Paul Revere and warning everybody, “The Liberals Are Coming”? It\u2019s a little bit too late for that.  But then I decided that that would be easy, too easy — to quit, concede, give up — and I realized that no matter what happens in the election, they are still going to need to be opposed, and efforts are still going to be needed to make it as hard for them as possible to succeed. <\/p>\n

So I decided to go ahead and re-up.  We kept the announcement of that very, very quiet. We didn\u2019t ballyhoo it for reasons I requested. But I made the commitment to do it for four more years. So I found a whole bunch of reasons to continue and stay here and do it.  It\u2019s just… I couldn\u2019t ever really reach the point where I wanted to say, “It\u2019s not worth fighting,” \u2019cause I never really believed that and I didn\u2019t want to convey the impression that I thought that.  So I\u2019m going to be here. <\/p>\n

And, I don\u2019t know… I\u2019m gonna be dealing with it as it comes, and I can\u2019t tell you what that\u2019s gonna be.  I\u2019m gonna be dealing with whatever happens, whoever wins. I\u2019m gonna be dealing with whatever happens on a daily basis using the same principles and beliefs and hard-core character that I\u2019ve brought to the show each and every day.  There\u2019s nothing else we can do, and I could do other things but I don\u2019t want to.  I\u2019ve chosen to continue on here, folks.  I think it\u2019s the only mature and reasonable thing to do.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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