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For whatever reason conservatism isn\u2019t on the ballot here. Conservatism is not being rejected. Conservatism, on the other hand, can\u2019t find a way to unify, either. Conservatism couldn\u2019t find a way to win the primaries. But, on the other hand, conservatism, if there\u2019s a Hillary landslide or even a Hillary win — I know you asked specifically about a landslide. Conservatism is not going to be what\u2019s been defeated here, in my mind. I\u2019m not going to stop doing what I do if that happens. <\/p>\n
The effort to educate the American people will never end. The effort to persuade the American people will never end. The techniques, the procedures, the strategies will have to change, and I think we\u2019ll have to do a better job of informing people — or not informing them — a better job of having people understand that the things they think in their lives are going wrong are for specific reasons that they have voted for. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s stunning. Troy, it is stunning even now. Barack Obama with a 55% approval rating, are you kidding? That doesn\u2019t tell me that 55% love what Obama\u2019s doing. It tells me that a lot of people do not link Obama to what they know is going wrong. Everybody — well, not everybody. That\u2019s a bit of an exaggeration. Majorities of people admit the country\u2019s headed in the wrong direction. They admit that the job market is bad. They admit things are not right. They admit student loans are way too high, college education is not what it is. <\/p>\n
The problem is they\u2019re not associating that with the culprits. The culprits are the Democrat Party, and for whatever reason, the people of this country are blaming Bush, blaming Republicans, blaming Wall Street, blaming the banks, blaming whatever, going all the way back still to the financial disaster of 2008. Now, it\u2019s gonna be problematic if they win, landslide or not, they\u2019re gonna get Supreme Court appointments. But as long as you have kids and grandkids, and as long as you have this fervent desire that they have the same opportunities you had, you can\u2019t cave. <\/p>\n
By the way, back in those days, when I told you that I would tell you it\u2019s time to panic, panic did not equal giving up. Panic did not equal quitting. It might have meant moving to New Zealand for a couple years, but it didn\u2019t mean conceding. And I don\u2019t intend to concede. I still am not convinced that a Hillary Clinton landslide win — Democrats don\u2019t campaign on what they actually do. <\/p>\n
So there are a lot of explanations for this that do not include the American people actively, consciously, happily choosing Big Government socialism. There are a lot of people that do. I mean, there\u2019s 94 million Americans not working, but they\u2019re all eating, you know how the phrase goes there. Panic in the sense that it\u2019s time to get serious, yeah. But not in the sense that it means quit, never that.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Hey, folks, look, I know a lot of you are ready to throw in the towel if this ends up in a Hillary landslide, a Hillary win. I know you\u2019re probably ready to throw in the towel and forget this stuff. You\u2019re gonna think it\u2019s pointless, at this so many years and can\u2019t seem to triumph. Look, I can\u2019t win here no matter what I say because it\u2019s all gonna be categorized as a equivocating or excuse. <\/p>\n For example, when I say I don\u2019t look at this as a defeat of conservatism \u2019cause conservatism wasn\u2019t on the ballot, well, you could say, “Well, yeah, Rush, \u2019cause conservatism isn\u2019t even powerful enough to win a Republican primary!” And you might have a point with that, but at the same time conservatism not prevailing in the Republican primary may not be because conservatism is flawed, it may be for a whole host of other reasons. I\u2019m not in any kind of a state of denial here. I don\u2019t think this campaign was about conservatism, unless you want to redefine conservatism to be strains of nationalism and populism, which I don\u2019t do. Don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. <\/p>\n So there\u2019s things being blown up here before our very eyes that are gonna have to be reassembled. Regardless of who you want to blame, don\u2019t you find it frustrating as all get-out that whatever you call us, Republicans, conservatives, Libertarians, whatever you call us, that we can\u2019t unify around the simple concept of defeating Democrats? No matter who. <\/p>\n If we had nominated Cruz, we wouldn\u2019t have been unified. If we\u2019d nominated Rubio, we wouldn\u2019t have been unified. If somehow Romney had snuck back in there, we wouldn\u2019t be unified, guaran-damn-tee you. Take your pick. If Jeb had won the nomination we are looking at four to six million conservatives sitting home again, I\u2019m telling you. There\u2019s no recipe in that last primary where everybody ends up unified around the concept of defeating Hillary Clinton, and that is a huge problem. And more on that, of course, as the days and weeks unfold. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Here\u2019s Troy in Houston. Great to have you, sir. Hi. CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Appreciate your taking my call. RUSH: Yes, sir. CALLER: Having always said that you would tell your audience when you felt like it was time to panic or when you felt like we had lost the country, and seeing stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Obama-Dishonest.jpg\"\/)
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