{"id":3493,"date":"2016-05-04T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:13:42","slug":"how_any_conservative_can_consider_voting_for_hillary_boggles_the_mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/04\/how_any_conservative_can_consider_voting_for_hillary_boggles_the_mind\/","title":{"rendered":"How Any Conservative Can Consider Voting for Hillary Boggles the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Sharon, Tucson, Arizona. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just devastated that Senator Cruz dropped out. I was a Cruz supporter, but I will say that I will vote for Donald Trump. I will support him and vote him. I don\u2019t believe what the polls say that you can\u2019t beat Hillary. I think he can beat her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think so?<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Because everybody I talk to — a lot of my friends — are Trump supporters, and the thing they like about him is that he\u2019s cutthroat. He takes it to the media. He takes it to the Democrats. They\u2019re hoping he\u2019ll take it to Hillary, because Donald Trump is a winner<\/a>. No matter what. He doesn\u2019t want to debate you. He doesn\u2019t want to work with you. He\u2019s gonna do whatever it takes for him to win and get whatever he wants done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s what they like.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pardon me just a second. I\u2019m gonna talk about you in third person for a minute. Do you mind?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, did you hear that? Did you hear what this woman just said? Here we have a woman who is devastated that Ted Cruz dropped out, and she can make the case for Donald Trump as well as ardent Trump supporters. You\u2019re conservative, I\u2019m assuming?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s why I supported Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. And yet you think Hillary Clinton should be the focus?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do. She\u2019s the one… We know what\u2019s gonna happen if she gets elected.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Well, I want to share something with you. I\u2019m glad you called, because one of the things I have the potential to use in the program today is a piece from the Daily Caller by a young conservative named Jamie Weinstein<\/a>. He happen to be the boyfriend of Michelle Fields, the reporter that had the dustup the Trump campaign with Corey Lewandowski. I want to read this paragraph to you from his piece in The Daily Caller today. “But as bad as Hillary would be as president, there is little threat another Clinton presidency would end the American system as we know it.<\/p>\n

“You can\u2019t be so sure with Trump. What are the odds a President Donald Trump would attempt to become honest-to-God American dictator? Five percent? Ten percent? No one can say for sure, but certainly greater than any other presidential contender in my lifetime.” So here we have a “conservative journalist” at the Daily Caller — who, admittedly, his girlfriend had a dustup with the Trump campaign, and he mentions that at the end of the piece. But he\u2019s saying he\u2019s gonna vote for Hillary. At least she won\u2019t ruin the country. (snorts) But Trump could become dictator. Meanwhile, we\u2019re living in a near dictatorship, if you ask me!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, we are! Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you let these clowns get one more Supreme Court appointment, whether we call it a dictatorship or not, we\u2019ve got a generational domination — liberal domination — for two or three generations here. But this is… This is… He\u2019s not alone, either. I don\u2019t mean to be harping on him. He just had the guts to write it. There\u2019s a lot of young, idealistic, conservative journalists\/blogger, who think the same thing. They have so much hatred for Trump. Trump could turn America into a dictatorship. Hillary, she\u2019s not gonna do anything bad. Not nearly as bad as Trump will.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: That\u2019s enough of the Weinstein piece. But you get the flavor. “Ah, Hillary\u2019s a known quantity. She\u2019s establishment. We know what we\u2019re gonna get. She\u2019s not going to…” I want to get the exact phrase. “But as bad as Hillary would be as president, there is little threat another Clinton presidency would end the American system as we know it.” What in the world is happening now? You know, you talk about disconnects? What in the world is happening now? The America as founded is under direct attack. It\u2019s under direct assault.<\/p>\n

Up until seven years ago, it was disguised. But ever since Obama, it\u2019s right out in the open. There\u2019s no doubt about it. There\u2019s nothing going on that you can\u2019t see. They\u2019re telling us, “We\u2019re gonna put the coal business out of business.” We\u2019ve got 30 Democrat attorney generals filing a lawsuit that would essentially strip the First Amendment\u2019s freedom of speech clause away from anybody who disagrees with man-made global warming and subject them to prison — and you want to talk about Trump becoming a dictator?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve already got people who want to be dictators. They\u2019re called the Democrats, and they are well on their way. I know how frustrating it is that articulating conservatism as an antidote, as a fix or a new direction to go… There were times when the campaign I cringed. I\u2019m sure you did, too, over how certain things were said. But we\u2019re not in the arena. We\u2019re not running. Cruz and some of the other guys were. The most frustrating thing is to see what is happening that other people supposedly don\u2019t, and don\u2019t know what to make of it, when it\u2019s happening right in front of their faces each and every day.<\/p>\n

But this statement — and Jamie Weinstein, he\u2019s a Millennial. He\u2019s a young guy. “[T]here is little threat another Clinton presidency would end the American system as we know it.” What in the world is already underway? The open borders, the quest here for amnesty, not to mention the refugee problem. The entire structure of American society is under assault. So is the whole concept of Western Civilization! I really remain convinced that an activist minority is making all this happen. I know some of you say, “How can you say it\u2019s a minority when they win the White House?”<\/p>\n


\nBecause I don\u2019t think Obama could have gotten elected telling anybody he was gonna do this. He\u2019d-a gotten some votes, don\u2019t misunderstand. But he wouldn\u2019t have won the landslide he won by with announcing this as his agenda. What would happen to federal spending, what he\u2019s gonna do to the immigration system, what he\u2019s gonna do to the health care system. If Obama had told you your health care costs were going up as much as they have — if Obama told you that everything, every aspect of Obamacare — if they were honest about it from the get-go about rationing and all that, how many people do you think actually would have voted?<\/p>\n

What did they think Obamacare was? They thought it was gonna be free health care for a lot of people — mostly the uninsured, the poor — and they thought it was gonna become more affordable. They were lied to about it. They wanted to believe the lies, but nevertheless they did.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Checking the emails during the break. A couple of people said, “Rush? Rush, thank you for trying to keep everybody good frame of mind today, but don\u2019t feel so bad for Cruz. He can be back in four years in 2020.” Folks, I know that. We don\u2019t… I\u2019m gonna just tell you the truth. We don\u2019t have four years, and it isn\u2019t gonna be four years if Hillary Clinton gets elected. If she gets elected… This is what… I don\u2019t understand anybody who calls themselves a conservative or anybody calling themselves Republican — I don\u2019t understand anybody — voting for Hillary.<\/p>\n

Anybody who is a Republican or conservative that thinks they\u2019re gonna vote for Hillary doesn\u2019t think the country is in the dire straits that I think it\u2019s in… I\u2019m prepared to acknowledge that there are many people that do not think that we are in a crisis. You and I know that most of the establishment Republican Party doesn\u2019t think that \u2019cause they\u2019re not affected by it. They\u2019re gonna prosper no matter who wins elections — unless, of course it\u2019s Ted Cruz, and that means conservatism would be ascended in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n


\nYeah, they\u2019d rather have Hillary Clinton. You give Hillary four years? How many Supreme Court justices are already writing their own eulogies, for crying out loud. The next Democrat president is gonna have three or four Supreme Court justices. The left on the Supreme Court is not a bunch of judges. It\u2019s a voting bloc. The left does not put judges… Well, they\u2019re judges, but that\u2019s not why they\u2019re on the court. They are ideologues. They are activist leftists to advance the Democrat Party agenda. Right now there\u2019s only four of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

And maybe on some cases a fifth depending on how Anthony Kennedy wants to go.<\/p>\n

But you let Hillary Clinton be elected, and they\u2019re gonna get their fifth and their sixth and their seventh. When 2020 comes along, yeah, there\u2019s gonna be a presidential race, and, yeah, the country may be in such dire straits that we\u2019ll get a Republican. But why do we…? I\u2019d rather not have to deal with five or six or four leftists on the Supreme Court for another 30 years. It\u2019s all good and well to talk about people\u2019s future career prospects running for president in four years, but that seems to assume that Hillary\u2019s gonna win and that\u2019s what this means last night, and it need not.<\/p>\n

And I honestly… I tell you truthfully. I don\u2019t know how anybody… I am gonna project here my own view of things on other people. I\u2019m gonna project. I assume my view is common-sensical. I assume my view is noncontroversial. The Democrat Party is why we are all animated, it\u2019s why we\u2019re all energized, it\u2019s why we\u2019re all involved in this. It\u2019s to stop them. It\u2019s what 2010 was about. It\u2019s what the Tea Party was about. It\u2019s what 2014\u2019s about. It\u2019s what conservatism is about. It\u2019s about stopping the Democrat Party. It\u2019s about stopping Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about putting the brakes on the Obama agenda.<\/p>\n

And anybody who says that they\u2019re gonna vote for that agenda who also claims to be a Republican or conservative must not see the existential crisis that I see. And that\u2019s makes me really curious. How do they not see it? Because we\u2019re living it. It\u2019s a great puzzlement to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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