{"id":3994,"date":"2016-03-08T19:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:01:29","slug":"frustrated_drive_bys_are_desperate_for_a_limbaugh_endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/08\/frustrated_drive_bys_are_desperate_for_a_limbaugh_endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated Drive-Bys Are Desperate for a Limbaugh Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/70472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Audio sound bites, starting here at number nine. I mentioned this earlier. This is a panel on CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box. Joe Kernen and they\u2019re talking with Becky Quick out there, and their guest is The Politico chief economic correspondent Ben White, and they\u2019re frustrated trying to figure out where I am in all of this.<\/p>\n<p>KERNEN: You saw, like, Limbaugh, he was talking about Ted Cruz saying that this guy, it was like a treatise in constitutional conservative thinking. But then with Trump he said that the upside for a Trump presidency far outweighs the downside that all of his critics are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>QUICK: He\u2019s been fairly supportive of Trump over the last couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>KERNEN: If you had &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_119190\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush-Fox-reaction.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nQUICK: He keeps saying this is not an endorsement when he says it, but he says some pretty positive things about him.<\/p>\n<p>KERNEN: It\u2019s coming down to Cruz and Trump?<\/p>\n<p>WHITE: Yeah. That\u2019s the establishment\u2019s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And Limbaugh will not pick one. Limbaugh will not get off either one of them, the establishment\u2019s worst nightmare. I gave the answer to this on Fox News Sunday. It isn\u2019t a mystery. They so desperately want me to endorse somebody so that they can go to town on that. But I never do endorse. It\u2019s not an unheard of thing here. This is not anything that\u2019s unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>What I said on <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4008\">Fox News Sunday<\/a>, \u2019cause Chris Wallace asked me one question I was not anticipating. You know, they do these shows, and they give you, at least Chris does, he gives me the general topic areas. I don\u2019t want the specific questions, actually. I do some of my best thinking on the fly rather than if I just sit down and brainstorm things I want to say. I have gotten so accustomed to working this way, that\u2019s when I do my best, so I just want general areas.<\/p>\n<p>He asked me one question that I did not even conceive as a possibility. It wasn\u2019t a trick. He asked me, &#8220;How do you think this is gonna end?&#8221; And of course it\u2019s a good question \u2019cause it calls for, if fail to do this right, it calls for me to name somebody I think\u2019s gonna win. So my brain went into such fast action, I could barely keep up with myself. And I told Chris Wallace, when this thing is all over, we\u2019re gonna have a nominee because this always happens, these heightened battles and seemingly irresolvable arguments during a primary, people say the party cannot possibly unify after this and we always do.<\/p>\n<p>And I said we\u2019re all gonna realize at the end of this process at some point that the real objective is to stop the most destructive force in this country, and that\u2019s the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton. And at the end of all this, that will be the objective. It must be the objective. And it is what I most care about. I\u2019m not into endorsements to see what kind of power I have, see if the guy I endorse can win. I\u2019m not interested in basking in the light of whoever\u2019s hot at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_119180\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRunsAMER4HOME.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nMy objective &#8212; and I\u2019ve not hidden this &#8212; the Democrat Party has got to lose. We have got to beat them. We can\u2019t work with them, we can\u2019t cross the aisle, we can\u2019t do any of that. The Democrat Party has to be defeated. They are the most destructive force operating in this country today. They are single-handedly more responsible for the messes in this country than anybody else, and they\u2019ve got to be defeated. Whoever can do that is gonna have my vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about conservatism, Rush?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It goes hand in hand. If we don\u2019t have articulate, good conservatism, we\u2019re not gonna beat them. We can\u2019t beat them being Democrat-lite. We can\u2019t beat them crossing the aisle and meeting them halfway and showing them we mean them no harm. To me the two go hand in hand. And, by the way, that\u2019s not a unique position. I have always, in campaigns past, in years past, my objective has always been beat the Democrats, not nominate my favorite guy. I can\u2019t control that anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t endorse people because I don\u2019t control them, and I have no idea what they\u2019re gonna do after I endorse them. The last thing I\u2019m gonna do is endorse somebody that goes off the rails, jumps off the cliff, some oddball thing that people call here, demand I defend, and I can\u2019t. The primaries a losing cause doing that. You know, talk to anybody who has and get \u2019em to be honest with you and they\u2019ll tell you they\u2019d rather have it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Audio sound bites, starting here at number nine. I mentioned this earlier. 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Joe Kernen and they\u2019re talking with Becky Quick out there, and their guest is The Politico chief economic correspondent Ben White, and they\u2019re frustrated trying to figure out where I am in all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frustrated Drive-Bys Are Desperate for a Limbaugh Endorsement - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/08\/frustrated_drive_bys_are_desperate_for_a_limbaugh_endorsement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Frustrated Drive-Bys Are Desperate for a Limbaugh Endorsement - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Audio sound bites, starting here at number nine. 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