{"id":214814,"date":"2016-11-01T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/11\/01\/john_kasich_doesn_t_think_it_s_important_to_defeat_hillary_clinton\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:04:05","slug":"john_kasich_doesn_t_think_it_s_important_to_defeat_hillary_clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/11\/01\/john_kasich_doesn_t_think_it_s_important_to_defeat_hillary_clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kasich Doesn\u2019t Think It\u2019s Important to Defeat Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here is Robert in Southampton in New York.  Great to have you, sir.  Glad you waited.  I appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (muffled cell throughout) Hello.  Thanks for taking my call again.  I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  My question is having to do with Kasich.  Kasich just wrote in John McCain\u2019s name —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — completely, you know, throwing away his vote. But don\u2019t stunts like this illustrate the way nothing else can that the way the GOP — and perhaps maybe much of the conservative movement — is really just controlled opposition whose real concern is to “virtue signal” (sic) to the left while the country burns?  I mean, is it any surprise that with people like Paul Ryan and Kasich — and you got Egg McMuffin (sic) out there in Utah basically running a shadow campaign for Hillary.<\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, is this a good indicator of why nothing of any consequence has been conserved over the last 50 years? Not our borders, not our demographics, not marriage, not even women\u2019s bathrooms! I mean, they can\u2019t even hold… They can\u2019t even hold the line on that. (chuckle) It\u2019s just… I mean, is there any…? Is there any hope for these people?  I mean, I don\u2019t think so, but, I mean, when they do things like this… I mean, if it isn\u2019t controlled opposition, Rush, then why are there no corresponding figures like Paul Ryan or Kasich or —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Wait a second.  Are you saying “hold the position” or “controlled opposition”?  What are you saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I\u2019m saying that much of the conservative movement isn\u2019t meant to actually win because here we are at the bottom of the ninth with two strikes and we have people like Ryan, Egg McMuffin and now —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  No, I just… (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER:  They\u2019re putting —<\/p>\n

RUSH:  No, it\u2019s my hearing. If you\u2019re saying conservatism “holds its position,” you\u2019re right about something there, which I wanted to expand on.  If you\u2019re saying, “controlled opposition,” I don\u2019t know what that means, so that\u2019s why I was trying to clarify.  Look, I\u2019m gonna answer this after the break.  I think I know what you\u2019re asking me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, as to the previous caller from Southampton\u2019s question about Kasich admitting that he voted for McCain, folks, this isn\u2019t complicated.  He had a phrase called “controlled opposition.”  I had not heard the phrase, and rather than assume I know what it meant I looked it up, to the extent that I could.  The theory behind “controlled opposition” is this: That Republican elected elites work with the Democrats by controlling just how much actual opposition to the Democrats there is.<\/p>\n

And in this way, by maintaining controlled opposition, Republicans are able to stay in close association with Democrats.  Controlled opposition is a way of limiting how strident and successful conservatives are in opposing Democrats.  Here\u2019s the bottom line.  It\u2019s no more complicated than this.  John Kasich does not think that it\u2019s important to defeat Hillary Clinton.  Who cares why! All you need to know is that.  If John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, who has… Since he\u2019s the governor, he has the mechanisms to get ground game activity going to facilitate the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n

If he wanted to, he could do a lot to help Trump in Ohio.  Instead, he is choosing not to.  So John Kasich — and he\u2019s not alone. John Kasich has made it clear that defeating Hillary Clinton and Democrats is not his primary objective.  I don\u2019t… What more do you need to know?  The Never Trumpers have done the same thing.  The Never Trumpers have made it clear that, in their worldview, defeating Hillary is not the most important challenge in this election.  Defeating Trump is.  Keeping Trump out of power is viewed by many Republicans as the primary objective. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I happen to get the sense — I\u2019m pretty confident that I know this — that the vast majority of you firmly believe that the country\u2019s on the wrong path and has been for a long time largely because of Democrats and establishment types, and you want them stopped.  You don\u2019t want Hillary elected because you don\u2019t want a continuation of the last eight years.  You want the Democrats out of power.  You think the Democrats\u2019 priorities are not the best to maintain this country as founded, so you don\u2019t want Hillary elected. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t like the leadership of the country as it\u2019s currently constituted. <\/p>\n

You think there needs to be a change in leadership. <\/p>\n

John Kasich obviously doesn\u2019t.  John McCain\u2019s not gonna win anything, so he writes McCain\u2019s name in.  McCain\u2019s not gonna win, so it\u2019s not really a vote for McCain.  John Kasich doesn\u2019t want to do anything that might actually lead to Hillary Clinton losing.  That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying.  How else can you analyze this?  Help me out.  Am I missing something?  I mean, you can say, “He\u2019s making a statement of principle, Mr. Limbaugh.  He is diametrically opposed to Mr. Trump because Trump doesn\u2019t deserve to be in the Oval Office! He\u2019s reprobate. Trump\u2019s this; Trump\u2019s that.”<\/p>\n

Fine.  That\u2019s fine.  But the end result of that is that we continue with the kind of dangerous leadership that we\u2019ve had for the last eight years, which we don\u2019t want.  I don\u2019t think it\u2019s complicated.  You can talk about controlled opposition all you want.  I mean, it\u2019s clear that the Republican elites, this guy, he\u2019s making a joke, they couldn\u2019t even make a stand for bathrooms, for crying out loud.  They don\u2019t make a stand for the border.  They don\u2019t take a stand on cultural issues. <\/line><\/p>\n

But in the specific case of Kasich, folks, it isn\u2019t complicated.  It\u2019s obvious that John Kasich is not interested in Hillary Clinton losing.  Will people forget it?  No, Republicans won\u2019t forget it.  But what Kasich and others will rely on is all politics are local, you know, depending on what Kasich — can he run for reelection or is he term limited governor?  I don\u2019t have any idea.  Anyway, I\u2019m not even thinking about what people forget. <\/p>\n

To me, the world is the next eight days.  I don\u2019t care about 15 days from now.  The world is the next eight days, and we got people in the next eight days who apparently are okay with Hillary Clinton winning, people on our side who are apparently okay with Hillary Clinton winning.  I don\u2019t care the reasoning.  I don\u2019t understand it. <\/p>\n

They can tell me they think Trump\u2019s a reprobate, that Trump\u2019s this, Trump\u2019s horrible.  Isn\u2019t it interesting, I\u2019m supporting the party nominee and I\u2019m the bad guy. And they are subordinating, sabotaging the party nominee, and they\u2019re the good guys?  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  That\u2019s what I thought.  Kasich took the pledge to support the nominee.  He took the pledge to support the nominee.  The Drive-Bys are praising Kasich left and right for refusing to vote for Trump.  But they forget that he promised to support the nominee.  He\u2019s also term limited to two terms, so he cannot run after 2018.  I\u2019m pretty sure. I check this stuff on the fly.  I need to put an asterisk by it to make sure.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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