{"id":235342,"date":"2017-05-30T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=235342"},"modified":"2017-05-31T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:18:13","slug":"an-example-of-the-cultural-divide-mrs-clinton-is-the-hero-of-liberal-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/30\/an-example-of-the-cultural-divide-mrs-clinton-is-the-hero-of-liberal-women\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Hillary Had Left Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Darrell in Seattle. Glad you waited. You\u2019re up next, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m fine. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I want you to imagine — keep your hand over the cough button. You may start laughing hysterically. Imagine Hillary Clinton had character. Her presidency would already be over. If she would have left Bill Clinton publicly in \u201998, she could have raised money, started a campaign, and rode into Washington on a white horse, a champion of women everywhere. And I\u2019ll tell you, the only thing that the Democrats are gonna be able to do to recover, begin to recover, is to sacrifice Hillary Clinton at the altar of our criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, well, now, this is quite an —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — crisis too. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you, this is very intriguing. Let me see if I understand. You\u2019re saying that if Hillary Clinton had character she would have left Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and if she had done that, there\u2019s nothing that could have kept her out of the White House. She\u2019d have become the champion of women and whatever, whoever else and she would have rode in there on a white horse. She\u2019d be president today, maybe emeritus forever, and so forth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe so. And if the Democrats wanted to turn their fortunes around, they would sacrifice Hillary Clinton on the altar of the criminal justice system. If she is indictable, indict. If she is enough evidence to convict, convict. Then pardon her. Then she would have been flushed down, instead of breaking the glass ceiling, she would have been flushed down in history.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. I need to stop you because of time. I don\u2019t mean to be rude. This is classic. You are one of the greatest illustrations of the cultural divide that exists, the moral, cultural, values divide that exists, because today, as she is and as she sits or waddles or stands with the anti-seizures glasses walking in the Chappaqua Memorial Day parade, she already is the champion of American women. She already is at the pinnacle. She can\u2019t get any higher as the champion of American liberal women. You\u2019re of course right on the money for a certain segment of the population. The second thing is the Democrats — well, I got break here. But I\u2019m gonna continue this. Stay with us out there, Darrell.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, is Darrell in Seattle still on the phone? He\u2019s not there. Okay, so you hung up on Darrell even though I told Darrell to hang on out there? I will continue — his point is — Snerdley and I were arguing about this during the break. Snerdley thinks that if Hillary had left Bill, that she would have owned American politics for as long as she wanted to be in it. And I don\u2019t think that. I think Hillary Clinton, she can\u2019t get any more prominent and powerful in the Democrat Party than she already is.<\/p>\n

Now, maybe she could have branched out and become more popular elsewhere. But I think this illustrates the culture divide we face, because on the left, remember, everybody\u2019s a victim. Hillary was a victim all of her life. Hillary left Wellesley to go Arkansas to be with this hick and to manage his career or maybe take over when he got wherever he was going. She could have had it all. Her reputation, strange as it sounds, when she was at Wellesley, the Northeastern liberal elite establishment thought Hillary Clinton could write her own ticket.<\/p>\n

Even though she failed the bar exam three times, they thought she was one of these people that could write her own ticket. And when she gave all that up to go to Arkansas to be the wife of the attorney general at the time who was gonna then run for governor, she became a victim. And then she became another victim 10 times over with all the cheating.<\/p>\n

\"\"She hung in there and it was Hillary Clinton that kept his career viable and his presidency viable. If she had left him during the Lewinsky scandal, that would have been the end of his presidency. She would have taken his presidency with her. Not that he would have been impeached, but if she would have left that would have ended the days where the Democrat Party felt they owed her.<\/p>\n

But what Darrell thinks is — and maybe some of you do, too — that having done that, if she had had the character and the self-respect to say, “I\u2019m not putting up with this anymore. And I\u2019m getting outta here,” it would have given her a brand-new stature, an independence.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t jibe with the feminism of the day. You think it does, but it doesn\u2019t. The feminism of the day said that you can\u2019t have a man make you happy, the primary reason. A relationship can\u2019t be the primary reason you\u2019re happy. Anything other than you and you\u2019re selling out to the culture, to the dominant patriarchal culture. So being in a relationship, wanting to get married, all that stuff, that was the model for women that kept \u2019em subjugated. You had to branch out from it. But she didn\u2019t do that. She hung in there with Bill and protected the Democrat Party and did so she remained a victim. To this day she remains a victim, overcoming all of these things.<\/p>\n

Running for president she was overcoming being a victim of the Obama movement in 2008. I think if she had left Slick Willie in 2008, it would have been one of the most confusing things for feminism, not knowing quite how to deal with this, because feminism\u2019s first devotion is to liberalism, not women. People don\u2019t understand this. Feminism, civil rights, global warming, climate change, it\u2019s all devoted to an ideological agenda.<\/p>\n

Climate change is not about climate change. It\u2019s about the people in it getting rich off of an ever-expanding, growing, controlling government. Ditto feminism. It\u2019s all about expanding the government and government control over people. It\u2019s about creating victims. When you successfully turn somebody into a victim, you have automatically made them a dependent on you. When you convert somebody to a victim, you are essentially telling them they have lost the power necessary to solve their own problems. And you create within them a mentality that they can\u2019t overcome their own problem because they\u2019re victims.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the great thing about victim status if you\u2019re a leftist: It creates armies of dependent people who forever think the world\u2019s unfair to them, particularly Republicans and conservatives, and a built-in excuse for failure. And with all these failures, they still need to eat, they still need to have cable TV. That\u2019s where the government comes in. For Hillary to launch herself out of victim status by abandoning her husband, maybe taking Chelsea with her, who knows, I don\u2019t know that that would have necessarily improved her stature with the left.<\/p>\n

And if she had done it, I think it would have…Because of the way it was structured, I think it would have blown feminism through the roof. (interruption) What\u2019s after victim status? (interruption) That\u2019s right. (interruption) Okay. (interruption) That\u2019s right. Exactly right. (interruption) Snerdley asked me, “What follows victim status?” ‘Cause you don\u2019t remain a victim forever. You first become a victim, and then you become a “survivor.” You are a “Trump survivor.” You are an “abuse survivor.” You are a whatever — and when you\u2019re a survivor, you are a double victim! I just… (interruption)<\/p>\n

If Hillary had left her husband, do you think 14 million people would have bought her book, as opposed to nobody buying it? (interruption) If she…? (interruption) Well, okay. You may have a point there. If she\u2019d have told the truth about it, that might have been interesting to people. They might have decided to buy the book and so forth. Here, let me… We just had a sound bite come in. Grab sound bite number 26. This is a fairly good example here — if you want to hear some identity politics, if you want to hear how Democrats look at the world — and this buttresses many of the points I have saliently made today.<\/p>\n

Here is Bernie Sanders this afternoon at Brooklyn College delivering the commencement address…<\/p>\n