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RUSH: Here\u2019s Nancy in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings, Rush. I\u2019ve listened to you probably since the late nineties, and all your sayings kind of stick in my head. I\u2019ve heard you say things over and over through the years, like one of them especially is “once a liberal, always a liberal.” The other one is “conservatism will always win.” I don\u2019t know why that\u2019s not happening this year. We\u2019ve got a guy, I mean, wouldn\u2019t it be great if someone who raises their hand and swears to defend the Constitution of United States would actually do it? I mean, guys like Ted Cruz just don\u2019t walk in the door every day.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Right. I know. I have said conservatism always wins. One of the things I\u2019ve really said is that conservatism works every time it\u2019s tried, and we are not there. But there is evidence today, you ought to take a look at news coming out of Ireland. Ireland has gone almost total conservative. Denmark is dialing back on its liberalism. Ireland\u2019s got 8% economic growth. They have reduced government regulation. They\u2019ve lowered taxes. They\u2019ve implemented the recipe and they\u2019re rebounding like crazy. And we will, too, if anything like that ever happens here.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, all of Washington knows it. Washington is not interested in conservatism working because conservatism, by definition, requires a deemphasized role of government in people\u2019s lives, and nobody in Washington wants government getting smaller. They don\u2019t want it becoming less consequential. In the case of this campaign, I think a lot of people supporting Trump think he\u2019s a conservative, not doctrinaire, ideological conservative, but they don\u2019t think he\u2019s a liberal Democrat, despite what Cruz has elucidated about Trump\u2019s donations and so forth.<\/p>\n

Forget all that. How does Trump make people feel? What does he sound like? One of the hallmarks of conservatism is to call attention to failures of government. Trump does that 90% of his speech is government failure. He\u2019s not a conservative when he talks about his fixes, but in terms of identifying the problem he comes across to many people who are not doctrinaire ideological conservatives. That\u2019s another thing to remember, Nancy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just a trust issue, Rush. I mean, we already know what Cruz is gonna do because he\u2019s already done it. But we don\u2019t know what Trump is gonna do. I mean, to me the guy is a loose cannon. I\u2019m afraid of him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but look, there\u2019s also this thing called a campaign. How many brilliant people do you know who don\u2019t have a likability factor, I mean, even in politics. I\u2019m not talking about anybody particularly here. But my point is it\u2019s tough for anybody that is a professional politician steeped in the dos and don\u2019ts of that business to stand up to Trump. Trump is a definition of a pure outsider in terms of form and so forth. And Trump doesn\u2019t have a prompter, he doesn\u2019t do speeches, there\u2019s no stump speech.<\/p>\n


\nHe\u2019s got themes he repeats, but every speech is different, every appearance is different. You never know what you\u2019re gonna get, therefore it\u2019s exciting, it\u2019s unpredictable. Nothing is the same. Every other politician it is predictable. You know what they\u2019re gonna say, you know what they\u2019re not gonna say, you know they\u2019re gonna play it safe. It\u2019s a tough thing to compete against. But then even so, Nancy, the point I was making earlier, even with all this in all these primaries there were more people not voting for Trump than voting for him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes. It\u2019s a shame that, you know, Rubio and Kasich didn\u2019t get out before this last Tuesday. I mean, I like both those people. Rubio is a fine man. I don\u2019t know whether Cruz would have picked up any more support —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me ask you this, because this is a good test question. Rubio, I think, is a fantastic conservative. I think that speech he gave getting out of Tuesday night was the best speech I\u2019ve heard in a year. However, let\u2019s say Rubio decided that he wanted to officially, big time make it a daily thing, throw in with Cruz, how many Cruz supporters would you think would say, “No, Gang of Eight<\/a>, he\u2019s gonna hurt us, he\u2019s not a real conservative, keep him away,” how many do you think would say that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know. Probably more than I would like.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wouldn\u2019t be one of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. The doctrinaires, no, no, no, this guy, he\u2019s not a real conservative, he was with Gang of Eight, he was with Chuck Schumer, he\u2019s gonna taint Cruz by association, we can\u2019t have that. There would be some that would say it. I don\u2019t know how many, but some would. And then you say, “Well, where\u2019s the unity?” Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, I think he\u2019d be an excellent VP pick. I think he and Cruz, and I think if he was with Cruz for four years or eight years or whatever, I think he would, you know, be the next president —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, standard political thinking. You think he\u2019d be a good VP, but problem is he hasn\u2019t won anything. He\u2019s won one election, some local elections to get elected senator.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: But in the national race there would be some question about whether he could help Cruz carry Florida, for example, in the traditional way people look at this. They\u2019re up against the unconventional here, and I think that\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna take to beat it. You have to think outside the box, do outside the box, because that\u2019s where Trump is. The aggressor sets the rules in any conflict. I don\u2019t think anybody knows what to do with him. I don\u2019t think anybody knows how to deal with it because I don\u2019t think anybody fully understands what\u2019s going on. Which takes me to JPod. Nancy, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. I was not being in disagreement or argumentative. I was merely posing questions that I think others would ask and getting your take on them.<\/p>\n

Here is John Podhoretz, who, he might resent it if I included him in the club known as the establishment. I don\u2019t know if he would or not. It\u2019s a toss-up. But, nevertheless, he does have a lot in common with undoubted members of the establishment who are trying to figure out what happened. I mean, if he\u2019s not establishment, he certainly is on the same page with them where Trump is concerned. So he\u2019s the editor of Commentary, has a column at the New York Post. His father is Norman Podhoretz. He\u2019s got great pedigree. Exactly right. It\u2019s a long piece. I\u2019m just gonna summarize this in two of his paragraphs.<\/p>\n

“So,” he says, “what I\u2019m suggesting is –” Well, I need to set this up. His theory is all rooted on the 2008 Great Recession and that, when it happened, who got bailed out? A lot of people got hurt. The mortgage business, the subprime. Who got hurt there? Individual Americans, mortgage holders. But who got bailed out? The banks. People already rich, people already with second homes in the Hamptons. People who already have everything they want in life, they got bailed out. That\u2019s when Santelli came along and started talking about the Tea Party and this and that, after 2008.<\/p>\n


\nSo in his piece, Podhoretz says imagine that that had happened in 2006, not \u201908. Imagine it did not happen, that whole collapse did not happen in 2008, happened in 2006. There wasn\u2019t a presidential race going on. Imagine everything the same, but imagine the little guy getting bailed out. Imagine everybody whose mortgage was destroyed having that mortgage forgiven. He says there wouldn\u2019t be a Trump today. Now, admittedly that\u2019s the game of “if.” So that\u2019s the setup. Here\u2019s the final two graphs.<\/p>\n

“What I\u00c2\u2019m suggesting is that the weird timing of the meltdown and the rise of Obama hindered and delayed a reckoning for 2008 that everybody would have expected as a matter of course had the crisis hit earlier. Now, there were certainly suggestions of extra-political populist rage along the way. The Tea Party was one, though it focused on size-of-government issues, and Occupy Wall Street was another, though its anti-banker message was swamped by every far-left bugaboo on earth.” Occupy Wall Street was a phony created thing anyway in response to the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

“But the signs were easy to misread — obviously, since almost everyone misread them. And this is why, I think, the meaning of Trump is being misused and misunderstood. He says he wants to ‘make America great again,\u2019 but I don\u00c2\u2019t think that\u00c2\u2019s what his acolytes hear.” So Podhoretz is reacting, Trump said (imitating Trump), “We\u2019re gonna make America great again, make America great. We\u2019re gonna win so much you\u2019re gonna get tired of winning and you\u2019re gonna say, ‘Mr. Trump, can we settle this? I don\u2019t like it we\u2019re winning too much.\u2019 No, I never lose. I never lose. We\u2019re gonna win, win, win, we\u2019re gonna make America great.”<\/p>\n

He says you\u2019re not hearing that. That\u2019s not what you hear. What you hear, he writes, “I think they hear that he is going to turn his vicious temper and unbalanced rage on the large-scale forces they feel are hindering them. They want someone punished. Could be China. Could be Muslims. Could be Mexicans. Could be bankers. Could be the GOP ‘establishment.\u2019 Whatever.” Trump is the guy that\u2019s gonna get even with \u2019em for once. Trump\u2019s the guy that\u2019s gonna punish \u2019em.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Podhoretz thinks you Trump supporters hear. It\u2019s not you know he\u2019s gonna make America again because you know he can\u2019t make America great again. No. And you know it and you know that isn\u2019t gonna happen and that\u2019s not why you support him. You support Trump because you really think he\u2019s going to act out your rage. He\u2019s gonna take it to the bankers. He\u2019s gonna take it to the Mexicans. He\u2019s gonna take it to the illegals. He\u2019s gonna take it to the ChiComs. He\u2019s gonna take it to the Vietnamese. He\u2019s gonna take it to the Japanese. He\u2019s gonna take it to whoever. He\u2019s gonna punish \u2019em for you.<\/p>\n

Except, Podhoretz writes, Trump won\u2019t be the punisher. “The qualities that have given him appeal to part of the GOP primary electorate would be destructive with a national electorate seven times the size. If he is the GOP nominee, the gender gap — 12 percent for Romney in 2012 — will open into a Gender Grand Canyon.”<\/p>\n

So he thinks you\u2019re not hearing Trump\u2019s gonna make America great again. He thinks you hear Trump as a guy who\u2019s gonna get even with everybody who screwed you. And nothing\u2019s gonna change for you except those people are gonna get theirs, and that\u2019s why you like Trump, and that\u2019s why you put up with whatever Trump\u2019s saying. Is that right? Is that who you are? I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it, myself.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Podhoretz\u2019s theory, get-even-with-\u2019em-ism, to me that describes Obama. I think that\u2019s what the entire Obama administration has been. But he wants to get even with the founders and everybody who believes in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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