{"id":4115,"date":"2016-02-23T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:49:05","slug":"must_hear_rush_blows_the_lights_out_in_the_final_hour_what_this_election_is_really_about_and_what_s_really_at_stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/23\/must_hear_rush_blows_the_lights_out_in_the_final_hour_what_this_election_is_really_about_and_what_s_really_at_stake\/","title":{"rendered":"MUST HEAR!!! Rush Blows the Lights Out in the Final Hour! What This Election Is Really About and What\u2019s Really at Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There\u2019s another story here, folks, not sure how this is going to be received at the Rubio camp. &#8220;Lawmakers are flocking to support Marco Rubio\u2019s White House campaign after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the GOP race on Saturday. A slew of Republicans in Congress who previously backed Bush are moving to support Rubio as he battles GOP rivals Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Rubio\u2019s campaign announced ahead of Tuesday\u2019s caucus in Nevada that Sen. Dean Heller (Nev.) and Rep. Mark Amodei (Nev.) would be backing his campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And some representatives from Florida that were all Bush backers are now moving over to Rubio. Bob Dole says, &#8220;As much as I love John Kasich, you know, Rubio is probably a better candidate. And he\u2019s young.&#8221; I guess it means Kasich isn\u2019t, so Bob Dole on ABC &#8212; do we have this? Yeah, grab sound bite number 30. I mentioned this earlier. This is Rubio on The O\u2019Reilly Factor last night. Answer this for yourselves, but I\u2019m not sure that this is what on-the-fence, if there are any, conservative primary voters actually want to hear.<\/p>\n<p>RUBIO: As far as the 12 million here that are, look, I don\u2019t believe the American people support some sort of militaristic roundup of individuals, and I don\u2019t think you could carry it out, the sort of tactics that would require would offend the American people. And the good news is we don\u2019t have to do it that way. If you secure our border, if you secure our border, if you put in place mandatory E-Verify, if you put in place a mandatory entry-exit tracking system, if we prove to the American people that illegal immigration is finally under control, I think the American people will respond in a very rational, reasonable, but responsible way.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rubio-Fox-022316-B.jpg\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nRUSH: What he\u2019s saying here is if we ever get to the point where we could secure the border and prove it and announce to the American people that no more illegals are getting across, certainly not en masse, that we\u2019ve got it under control, he\u2019s saying the American people I think will be very fair and understanding about the 12 million or whatever the number is that are here and would not want to deport them and would want to find a way to keep \u2019em here, keep \u2019em united with their families.<\/p>\n<p>Now, over here, Trump: deport, deport, they gotta go, build a wall, no question about it. It\u2019s the signature element of his campaign. Cruz has now joined that aspect of it by acknowledging that he would support deporting all 12 million. So this is clearly the establishment line here that Rubio has taken. And we\u2019ll just have to wait and see how helpful or whatever else it ends up being.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Pam in Brentwood, Tennessee. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I have been listening to you since I was in college, and I\u2019m 48 now, and today was the first day I had to call in \u2019cause I was ticked off.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, no.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, Rush, I was. I just felt like you had an opportunity to share Marco Rubio\u2019s true, true stance on immigration, and that one snippet from O\u2019Reilly, and I realize you can\u2019t play it all, but you could have expanded upon it and shared exactly what he was saying.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, Pam, hang on, I want to find the sound bite, I want to play it for you, and I want you to &#8212; oh, look, I found it. It\u2019s number 30. We\u2019ve obviously got two number 30\u2019s here, so I don\u2019t know what number this is for you, but it\u2019s &#8220;Rubio tells the base what it doesn\u2019t want to hear&#8221; is what it titled and it\u2019s from Fox News last night. So Pam, I\u2019m gonna play this, and then you and I will talk about it, and if you\u2019re ticked off at me &#8212; and you\u2019re not the only one &#8212; for not telling the full story, you\u2019ll have your opportunity to do so. O\u2019Reilly\u2019s question is of Rubio, &#8220;Your vision is to deal with illegal aliens here who have broken our laws, how? What will you try to sell the voters?&#8221; And here\u2019s what Senator Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>RUBIO: As far as the 12 million that are here, look, I don\u2019t believe the American people support some sort of militaristic roundup of individuals, and I don\u2019t think you could carry it out. The sort of tactics it would require would offend the American people. And the good news is we don\u2019t have to do it that way. If you secure our border, if you secure our border, if you put in place mandatory E-Verify, if you put in place the mandatory entry-exit tracking system, if we prove to the American people that illegal immigration is finally under control, I think the American people will respond in a very rational, reasonable, but responsible way.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And that\u2019s the end of our bite, and my comment was that I\u2019m not sure that that\u2019s what Republican primary voters want to hear because what it means is that once we get the border secure, we are not going to do anything about the 12 million here illegally except find a way to make them legal.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And that\u2019s simply not his stance, and I have to admire Marco Rubio for not exploiting the anger of the American people on this immigration situation. I look at myself as a realistic conservative. And the people I talk to and my friends who are of different political viewpoints all feel the same way. And it is unrealistic for anyone to think that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are going to deport 12 million people. And so Marco Rubio went on and discussed his E-Verify, and again, it may be the uninformed electorate, but if you read what that means, it means you come out of the shadows, you have to register. If you don\u2019t, you\u2019re deported. You also deport criminal illegals. And I don\u2019t get the fact that people aren\u2019t sharing his stance on immigration. And we know you know that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, because &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I felt &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; now you\u2019re gonna really hate me. You don\u2019t know, it\u2019s not your problem, Pam, but I\u2019m being beat up these past two weeks like you can\u2019t imagine. For every one of you, there\u2019s 10 Cruz people calling and there\u2019s 15 Trump people calling, and then there\u2019s four Kasich people calling. I can\u2019t win. This is what happens, and if I\u2019d endorsed one of them, it\u2019d be even worse. What you just described comes right out of the Gang of Eight bill. The E-Verify. I\u2019ve had it explained to me by no less than Senator Schumer. And that\u2019s my point here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I guess I\u2019m concerned that people listen to you and they cling to your words, because you 99-point-whatever percent of the time are usually right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Eight.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Eight, okay. Eight percent of the time you\u2019re usually right. And when you make it seem like it\u2019s a realistic option for Donald Trump &#8212; I\u2019m just giving you my interpretation &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. No, no. You\u2019re not clinging on my words. You now are interpreting them. I\u2019m just talking about what people are saying and how the base might respond to it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118468\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImmigrationsCautionSign.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nRUSH: Pam, I want you to hang on. No, this is important and I need you to hold on for a while. If you can\u2019t, maybe you can give us your number, we\u2019ll call you back when it\u2019s time to get back on it. I\u2019ve gotta take a break here. Mr. Snerdley will explain it to you. But I will expand on it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me close the loop on something here \u2019cause I want to move on. I\u2019ve got whole Democrat Stack here of things I want to get to. And I\u2019m gonna do it. Not gonna get sidetracked here by a bunch of stuff I\u2019ve already covered. Greetings. Welcome back. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a Breitbart News story, August 6th of 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/08\/06\/marco-rubio-says-he-wants-border-fence-visa-tracking-system-but-voted-against-both-to-pass-gang-of-eight-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Marco Rubio says he wants border fence, visa tracking system, but voted against both to pass the Gang of Eight bill.&#8221;<\/a> And then from the article it says this: &#8220;When the Schumer-Rubio bill hit the Senate floor, Sen. John Thune offered an amendment to required the completion of a border fence. Sen. Rubio joined all members of the Gang in voting against Thune?\u2019s amendment, which failed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Likewise, with respect to the implementation exit-entry tracking system, Sen. Rubio voted against an amendment offered by Sen. Vitter (R-LA), which would require the implementation of exit-entry tracking system in order to prevent foreign nationals from illegally overstaying their visas.&#8221; This is all about this E-Verify system and the E-Verify card that would be handed out. &#8220;Similarly, the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill did not require the immediate implementation e-verify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, what Rubio said to Bill O\u2019Reilly is that these illegal aliens will pay a fine and pay back taxes. Now, Rubio\u2019s not the only one who said that. People who have &#8212; (sigh) this is very hard. I can\u2019t win. I tell people what they don\u2019t know and they don\u2019t want to hear it. But this business of leaving the country, getting back in line, paying fines and back taxes and so forth, it sounds good, but when the time comes it\u2019s never gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>Let me draw you an analogy. It\u2019s like Schumer. Whenever they talk about amnesty, they always say, &#8220;Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not going to include citizenship.&#8221; Right. It won\u2019t. I believe that, until the next day. After Schumer gets his bill passed that grants amnesty, it won\u2019t be long before he finds a camera and microphone and starts talking about the mistake they just made. And it\u2019ll be along the lines of compassion. &#8220;How could we have overlooked this,&#8221; he will say, or something like it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have just voted a system whereby the 12 million who are here can stay. But we\u2019re not gonna let them vote? It\u2019s outrageous. It\u2019s simply outrageous. How could we have forgotten it? These people have been here for who knows how many years, and they have been paying their taxes and they\u2019ve been working in America, they have joined the military, they\u2019ve become full-fledged citizens every way except legally, and now we\u2019re not gonna let them vote,&#8221; and that\u2019s how that\u2019ll happen, and it will be bleeding heart again. Because at the end of the day what this is &#8212; and this is the crux of the issue, and this is why it has been universally opposed by everybody in the Republican Party except for elected Republicans and the Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you want to call it, some people now say don\u2019t use the word &#8220;amnesty&#8221; because it\u2019s lost its oompff and it actually has a negative connotation because it\u2019s a tired, worn-out word. Whatever works, the objective of the Democrat Party is to take whatever people are in this country illegally and allow them to vote. That\u2019s all this is about. Everything else is a smoke screen. It\u2019s not about uniting families or keeping them united. It\u2019s not about compassion. It\u2019s not about economics. It\u2019s not about any of it. It\u2019s about expanding the Democrat Party voter rolls. All it is is a Democrat Party voter regulation program. And everybody talks all around it.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118464\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RubioGangof8.jpg\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nI have proven it. I have offered to support every aspect of what they call the Gang of Eight bill or whatever else they call it, amnesty, whatever. I\u2019ve offered to support it. I\u2019ve done this in person, not just on the air. I\u2019ve said, &#8220;I will support it if you put in a provision they can\u2019t vote for 10 years, 15, 25, 30, a number of years out, but they do not get the right to vote, they can\u2019t register to vote for a long time.&#8221; And nobody\u2019s interested. Anybody facing this issue head on knows exactly what this is all about. It\u2019s about Democrats voting. The Republicans &#8212; here we are hashing out old ground &#8212; the Republicans who join this have bought this notion that they can\u2019t win without Hispanic votes, can\u2019t win the White House without Hispanic votes, and the only way they can get Hispanic votes is to prove that they don\u2019t hate Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>And the only way, they are told, the only way they can prove they don\u2019t hate Hispanics is to sign on to amnesty or whatever we\u2019re gonna call it now so that the 12 million who are here can all of a sudden become legal and can vote. And after that magic\u2019s supposed to happen. Hispanics are supposed say, &#8220;You know, these Republicans are pretty nice. You know what, I like these guys now. You know what, I\u2019m gonna abandon the Democrat Party, I\u2019m voting Republican now.&#8221; That\u2019s what we\u2019re told is going to happen. Except we know that it won\u2019t. I\u2019m sorry to sigh, but it\u2019s frustrating.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118490\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rush-Flag-Under-Seige-Z.jpg\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nAnd now we\u2019ve closed the circle. And now we\u2019re back at why Donald Trump is in the race and why Donald Trump is running away with it. You can get as deep or as shallow in the analysis as you want. But it\u2019s about a last chance, a last-gasp effort at preserving the culture that developed after the founding of this country. It\u2019s no more complicated than that, folks. The country\u2019s under siege from all quarters, and recently the Democrat Party has joined those who have put the country under siege.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in this instance I\u2019m not even talking about anything other than perception right now. Candidates go out and say or do anything, the perception that people have of what they say or do is going to largely determine the reaction. They\u2019re not gonna spend time going deep and deep into, &#8220;Well, what they really meant was&#8230;&#8221; They\u2019re gonna knee-jerk react because that\u2019s how important the issue is. They\u2019re not going to take any chances with it.<\/p>\n<p>So if somebody comes along and says, &#8220;I\u2019m gonna deport 12 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fine. I hear you, and I hope to hell you\u2019re telling me the truth, because I support you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m gonna deport \u2019em. They gotta go.&#8221; Donald Trump. &#8220;They gotta go. I\u2019m gonna build a wall. Who\u2019s gonna pay for the wall? Mexico.&#8221; Right. They\u2019re not taking the time to ask if he really means it. They\u2019ve already decided that he does. It\u2019s that important to a lot of people. It\u2019s about preserving a distinct American culture which is under assault, which is under siege. And it\u2019s being brought to us by the Democrat Party, which is trying to register all kinds of new voters all the time \u2019cause they need a permanent underclass of people incapable of taking care of themselves, incapable of providing for themselves who will always be counted on to vote Democrat to be taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>And under these circumstances, people scratch their heads to this day and cannot understand why a single Republican would ever sign on to this. And if you want to know what happens to Republicans that do, the name is Jeb Bush. A hundred million dollars, and it may actually be $115 million could not erase the baggage that Jeb Bush was carrying around, that people assumed he was for amnesty. It\u2019s that simple. That\u2019s what happens. That\u2019s where we are.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re also back reminding everybody that the establishments of both parties continue to be in denial, and maybe they\u2019re not. Maybe they know by now how fully opposed they are and they just got their backs up and they\u2019re going, &#8220;Well, screw you. We\u2019re still gonna get what we want. You\u2019re the serfs. We\u2019re the elites. We run the show. Screw you. You may have some temporary victories here, but we\u2019re gonna get this done no matter how and no matter where, whether you\u2019re looking or not, we\u2019re gonna get it done.&#8221; That\u2019s their attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Their attitude is not, &#8220;You know what? The American people really don\u2019t want this. We better modify this.&#8221; That\u2019s not it at all. That doesn\u2019t permeate the establishment mind. If you don\u2019t support what they want, you have to be taken care of, you have to be defeated, you have to be rendered irrelevant, you have to be cast aside, whatever. It\u2019s that polarizing an issue and nothing\u2019s changed on it.<\/p>\n<p>I have a little headline for you here. New York Post. The New York Post is reporting new legislation is being pushed that would give illegal aliens the right to vote in certain New York City elections. &#8220;The proposal &#8212; which is winning support from the city?\u2019s black and Hispanic activists &#8212; was recently discussed at a Black and Latino Legislative Caucus event in Albany.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York conservatives oppose this attempt to boost the Democrat Party enrollment. New York State Conservative Party Chairman, Mike Long, threw cold water on the idea. But if this thing were to succeed, here are the numbers. This proposal to grant illegal aliens in New York City the right to vote would result in 1.3 million new voters, noncitizens voting, undocumented.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2017 elections, they\u2019d be able to vote for mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president, and city council. Just city elections. That\u2019s 1.3 million noncitizen residents &#8212; about 500,000 of whom are &#8220;undocumented&#8221; &#8212; would be able to vote. That has been proposed in New York City. It\u2019s not federal elections, just New York City elections. But it\u2019s already underway, you see, folks. So discussions of, &#8220;Well, if we make the border secure and then&#8230;&#8221; No, no. No. We don\u2019t have time for any of that. We\u2019re on the cusp of losing the country.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the anger.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the fear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img id=\"eZObject_118457\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump-pose-b2-1.jpg\" align=\"middle\"><\/a>It\u2019s not just immigration, but it\u2019s the biggie. There\u2019s all kinds of other associated, ancillary issues that comprise this. There\u2019s some other things to add to it, just adds a couple exclamation points.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Caller: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/02\/22\/poll-almost-60-percent-of-democrats-think-socialism-is-great-for-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Almost 60% of Democrats Think Socialism Is Great for America.&#8221;<\/a> Remember what this is about, now. It\u2019s about preserving the original American culture &#8212; and make no mistake: It\u2019s under siege, and has been for a while, and it\u2019s losing. &#8220;A clear majority of Democrats believe socialism has a &#8216;positive impact on society,\u2019 according to a poll by the American Action Network (AAN).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The political and economic system that wreaks havoc across the world from Venezuela to North Korea is enjoying widespread support in the modern Democratic Party.&#8221; Socialism is a fraud. It\u2019s never worked. But it\u2019s seductive. &#8220;A telephone poll of 1,000 likely Democratic primary voters found that when capitalism and socialism were polled head to head, socialism won by percentage points, with just 25% of respondents saying they favored capitalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not a poll of college students, folks. These were likely Democrat primary voters. In other words: The Democrat base. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are not the radical fringe the Democrat Party. They represent rank-and-file mainstream Democrats now. That\u2019s just one poll. There is yet another poll. This one is a poll fielded by a Republican firm called OnMessage Inc., and it basically has the same results. It starts out, &#8220;Maybe Newsweek was right some time ago, &#8216;We are all socialists now.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrat voters &#8212; every age-group, every gender, every race &#8212; view socialism favorably, according to the poll. This is within the Democrat Party. I saw on television the other day a woman, a Democrat being interviewed about this very thing. And the reporter expressed shock. And the Democrat woman (she was in her forties), said, &#8220;Why? We have socialism now,&#8221; and she listed off the things. &#8220;We got Medicaid. We have Obamacare,&#8221; and she listed off all kinds of federal programs that, to her, &#8220;We have socialism now, and I like it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s taking care of my family. Why would I answer a poll question, &#8216;No, I don\u2019t like socialism\u2019? We\u2019re living under it.&#8221; That\u2019s a Democrat voter, just an average woman on the street. But that\u2019s not even the worst. There\u2019s another question in the poll. &#8220;Please tell me if you agree or disagree with the following statement. Most of the media in our country is controlled by corporations who are more interested in profits than telling the truth. Before a corporate-owned media entity covers a campus rally for racial equality, they should first prove that they are not biased against the content of the rally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118470\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rubio-tie.jpg\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nA majority voted &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before the media can be allowed to cover an event, they must be educated on it and agree with the premise of the protesters, otherwise they wouldn\u2019t be allowed to cover it. A majority of Democrats support that, and I imagine if you find a Democrat on the street and say, &#8220;Do you really believe that?&#8221; they\u2019d say, &#8220;Well, yeah. That\u2019s the situation we got now. Everybody knows the media\u2019s on our side. Why should we change that? Why would we give up the media being on our side? Why should I give up my Medicare? Why should I give up my Obamacare? We got socialism now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pam in Brentwood. Okay, Pam. Now, you want to get your 2?? in on this.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, you said a lot, and if I\u2019m going to be completely honest &#8212; because I think that\u2019s what we all need to be at this stage of the game &#8212; I was not aware of the entire Gang of Eight bill. I did not know details and how you explained them and the votes that Mario (sic) and the Gang took. But I will say this, Rush. We are on a precipice, and we have got to face reality. And as you\u2019ve mentioned and said on your program many times, there is no perfect candidate. In this election, we need somebody who can bring this country together and not divide it like the current candidates are. And I\u2019m speaking of Donald Trump. I feel like he\u2019s exploiting the American people and their anger. I\u2019m angry, too, but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: May I interrupt you here for a second? And don\u2019t worry, you\u2019ll have your time. But I\u2019ve gotta stop you on something.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This whole notion of working together, bringing the country together? We\u2019re way past that. We\u2019re never&#8230; We\u2019re not gonna unify with the liberal Democrats. We\u2019re not. There\u2019s no candidate out there that can forge a kumbaya. These people have to be defeated, Pam.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Do you not&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They have to be defeated. There\u2019s no unity here. There never, really, has been in this country, anyway. It\u2019s always been a contest for leadership.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, let me ask you this question. Do you truly believe &#8212; truly (giggles), with every ounce, every fiber in your being &#8212; that we can truly defeat the mind-set that is now occurring in our country? Do you not think that we have kind of crossed a line now where we\u2019re going to have to find a candidate that&#8230;? I\u2019m as conservative as you\u2019re going to get, and I understand now that I have to be realistic with who I think can actually win and defeat Hillary Clinton in November.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118471\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/509088522_large.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nRUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You even shared a while back the candidates now, if you would get Kasich out, if you would get Carson out, if you would get one of those out, those votes most likely, they\u2019re negatives of Donald Trump, surpass his&#8230; his &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, other people are saying that. I haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But you were reciting polls or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. Right. Nobody knows. We do have a preliminary indication that some Jeb Bush voters are going to Trump. But there\u2019s not enough days that have gone by for that to be known. I\u2019ve gotta ask you to hold on. We\u2019ll continue the conversation here, Pam, after the bottom-of-the-hour break here, \u2019cause this is important. This whole business of&#8230; There\u2019s two things I want to tackle with you here. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH; Now back to Pam in Brentwood, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi there.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, two things. I want to be understood on this. You said that we need to have somebody bring the country together, and a lot of people talk about bringing the country together, unifying us, making factions of people who disagree somehow come together. I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s gonna happen. We\u2019re too divided. And they are not interested in it, Pam. The people on the left, they don\u2019t want to reach common ground with us. We are gnats to them, or worse. We are the Gestapo to them. We\u2019re Nazis to them. We are standing in the way of whatever they want.<\/p>\n<p>These people have to be defeated. They have to be overwhelmed. And then after they\u2019re defeated they cannot be allowed to bully whoever wins into cowardice and caving in. It\u2019s going to be tough. Winning an election is just a tiny first step. After we win the election, it\u2019s gonna take perseverance to prevail over all the attempts to subvert the winners of the election and to corrupt what\u2019s going on, knowing they still own a lot of the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>But if you believe in a certain cultural America, it\u2019s under siege. There\u2019s nothing to join with on the other side in preserving it. They want to tear it down, transform it, and rebuild it. They have to be defeated. This is why the Republican Party\u2019s worthless. They don\u2019t even think this way. <img id=\"eZObject_118474\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/538508935_large.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nThe Republican Party\u2019s thinking about showing they can work together, they can cooperate, make Washington work. Sorry; we\u2019re so past that, we\u2019re so far past that, it\u2019s irrelevant. We\u2019re talking about holding on and preserving the country as founded. And it\u2019s gonna be really, really hard.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing is, &#8220;Rush,&#8221; &#8212; and this is not just you &#8212; &#8220;Rush, we can\u2019t deport 12 million people. We\u2019re never gonna &#8211;&#8221; Who says? All that is is a conversation stopper. We are the United States of America. Who says we can\u2019t get rid of people who are here illegally? It\u2019s not a question of we can\u2019t. It\u2019s a question of do we have the resolve to? Do we have the desire to? Does it makes sense to do it? Are we gonna do it &#8212; and, believe me, even if we win on this, the people opposing it are gonna be firing ammo at whoever wins like you can\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n<p>But if we\u2019re serious about stopping this transformation of America, it isn\u2019t gonna be easy, and winning an election is not gonna send a signal to the other side to stand down, you lost. They don\u2019t look at it that way. This is a fight between socialism and capitalism, freedom versus tyranny, however you want to categorize. There isn\u2019t any overlap. The only things that we may have in common with them are what people want for their families. But we can\u2019t even agree on the definition of a family with half of these people. So I don\u2019t think all the putting our hands together and coming together and unifying and working and making the country come together and common ground, we\u2019re so far past that, if we\u2019re serious about what we want.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And I didn\u2019t mean to be touchy-feely when I was referring to that. I think there\u2019s a way you can unify people. Well, we know there is, because his name was Ronald Reagan. And I feel like we have been given a gift, the Republican, the conservative movement, whatever you want to call it, we\u2019ve been given two gifts, and they are Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. And if this is not the time where we can bring a candidate who has those qualities as much as we can look for them in a candidate on our side right now to win this election, I believe we will start seeing a shift in tone and we will start converting minds. Listen, I was at Mario\u2019s rally in Franklin, Tennessee, this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And there were supposedly going to just be a thousand people, and they had to open it into the parking lot. There was around five to six thousand people. That was their estimate. He was the closest thing that I have ever experienced to Ronald Reagan in my entire adult life. I just feel like that argument that we can\u2019t start bringing people to our side, in quotation marks, is not valid right now because we are now in a great position because there are so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, I\u2019m not even making this about Rubio or any candidate right now, but you\u2019re making my point. You\u2019re citing the eighties and Reagan, and you mean his landslide victories as bringing people together. Well, then why aren\u2019t we still together? What the hell happened? Two landslides. We had the greatest economy the country\u2019s known in our lifetimes. We had low unemployment. We had burgeoning job growth. We had individual and personal wealth that was going like crazy. We brought down the Soviet Union. Why are we still not unified? How did the left tear that down? &#8216;Cause they sure did.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118473\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reagan-Conservatism.jpg\" align=\"middle\"><br \/>\nBecause even when Reagan was bringing everybody together, they didn\u2019t stop. The Democrats in Congress were aligning with Soviet communist client states in central America and Grenada and wherever else they could find to undermine Ronald Reagan. Teddy Kennedy was going to the Soviet Union and telling Soviet leaders: do not fall for anything Reagan does for you, Reagan is a trick, Reagan is a bad actor, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>They were doing everything they could to undermine Reagan during his entire eight years. They hated Reagan as much, if not more so, than they hated George Bush, because Reagan was more successful than George W. Bush. It was brutal. It was vicious. And if the country had been brought together, and if the country during those eight years had actually learned that it was conservatism and Reaganism that led to all of that bounty and the end of the Soviet Union, the Democrats would have never stood a chance. They would have been ended.<\/p>\n<p>But it was just four short years later and here comes Bill and Hillary Clinton. And why? Because the next president got rid of Reaganism. The next president started making deals with the Democrats to show that we can do deals, to show that we\u2019re nice guys, to show that we can get along. My point is, we had the greatest economic circumstances in our lifetimes and the Democrats were not interested, Pam. They didn\u2019t want to participate, because it left them out of power.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about a great country to them. It\u2019s not about the American people doing the best they can do for themselves. That\u2019s actually bad news for the Democrat Party, because all that means is people don\u2019t need government, people don\u2019t need the Democrats, people don\u2019t want them, they\u2019re not dependent. Bad, bad news. Can\u2019t have that. Why do you think Ted Kennedy decided to reinstitute amnesty and illegal immigration during Reagan\u2019s second term? They had to undermine it somehow. And we went along with it because we accepted a promise that we would secure the border and those three million in 1986 would be it. And here we are talking 12 million, which I think is probably closer to 15 or 20 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of abundance, in the midst of economic prosperity like we hadn\u2019t known since the postwar boom, the Democrat Party was trying to tear it down and succeeded. There isn\u2019t a Jesus Christ running that\u2019s gonna unify everybody. And I hate to say it, Jesus Christ didn\u2019t, either. Unity is one of these things that sounds wonderful, sororities love it, fraternities pretend to love it so they can get inside the sororities, but it\u2019s nothing more than a dream. This is a world governed by the aggressive use of power, the aggressive use of force, and if you want to maintain both, you have to fight for it each and every day. It\u2019s never permanently won. You never permanently convert people.<\/p>\n<p>Even average, ordinary Americans who ended up having economic prosperity they\u2019d never known in the 1980s, were talked out of it. In four short years, they were convinced it was phony. They were convinced it was a party that we didn\u2019t deserve, and we ran up all these deficits (which was a lie), and we had to now start paying it back. Sam Donaldson at ABC News said, &#8220;We\u2019ve got a big credit card bill, folks, because of the Reagan eighties and we gotta pay it back.&#8221; BS! That\u2019s what we\u2019ve got now! The deficit was coming down with Reagan!<\/p>\n<p>The national debt was stagnant. It wasn\u2019t growing under Reagan. Well, it was, but the deficits eventually were brought under control. And in 1994 we actually balanced a budget for the first time in my lifetime. All that\u2019s gone, because we have not had a Republican Party that accepts conservatism and fights for it and preserves victories when we get them! So every day&#8230; Do you ever notice what we talk about? We talk about stopping things. Every Republican think tank, every conservative media whatever, organization &#8212; including this show &#8212; every day is devoted to how do we stop them?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have time to get around to what we want to advance. We\u2019re too busy stopping. They\u2019re not talking about stopping anything. They\u2019re on the march! They\u2019re on the march and succeeding with things that ten years ago you would have never thought would ever happen. Gay marriage? Today in a lot of cities, you can walk into any bathroom you want claiming you\u2019re a &#8220;transgender&#8221; and you decide to present female that day, so you walk into the ladies\u2019 restroom. That\u2019s becoming a matter of law.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago you\u2019d have been laughed out of this country if you\u2019d have thought that would ever happen. They are not stopping anything, except us. But they\u2019re on the march advancing each and every day. We talk about stopping things. Now, you can correlate all this to the current presidential race, and maybe answer some questions you have about why and how people are doing, not doing well, doing poorly or what have you.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_118472\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/511835894_large.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nBecause the American people, I\u2019ve just described how they feel about all this. Mine is the most common view. Everything I just said is what a majority of conservative-oriented, cultural Americans believe. They\u2019re scared to death over this! They\u2019re frustrated; they\u2019re ticked off; they\u2019re angry. They want to do more than just stop something every day. They\u2019re tired of being overrun. They\u2019re tired of not having allies in the centers of power where this stuff can be stopped. It\u2019s not hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>But it is.<\/p>\n<p>Because once you accept the task at hand and what has to happen, winning the election, that\u2019s equivalent being born, and we\u2019re an infant, and we\u2019ve got people coming at us that are gonna try to wipe us out and eliminate everything and pretend it didn\u2019t happen, corrupt, sabotage, undermine. Whoever the next president is, and whoever\u2019s running the next Congress, and whoever nominates the Supreme Court justice, if it\u2019s a conservative, you have no idea what\u2019s gonna be brought to bear!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re gonna need people with such backbone and guts and steel and iron to hold up and to withstand what\u2019s gonna come at \u2019em, you can\u2019t even imagine it. But it\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. So it\u2019s all of that that informs me each and every day here, folks, as to what happens on this program, analyzing what\u2019s going on out there. This is for keeps! 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