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RUSH: Here\u2019s Dennis in Columbia, Missouri. Great to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I was calling about the distinctions that we need to make between the different kinds of Republicans that we have. We\u2019ve heard that there are establishment Republicans, RINO Republicans, right-wing or moderate Republicans. But we had four to five million Republicans that didn\u2019t vote in the last election, the 2012 presidential election. And, you know, we\u2019ve heard also that in the eighties there were Reagan Democrats. But we never heard that there were Carter Republicans. <\/p>\n

We never heard that there were Clinton Republicans or Obama Republicans. But those four to five million Republicans who didn\u2019t vote in the last presidential election made themselves in effects Democrats. And what is their symbol? It\u2019s a donkey, or a jackass. So those Republicans who didn\u2019t vote are what I would call “Jackass Republicans,” and we\u2019ve got a lot of stuff going on with all the Republicans who are running for president. And I\u2019ve got my own preferences, my own predictions about what I would like to see. But no matter who we nominate, if we don\u2019t get behind and rally behind the nominee, a bunch of Jackass Republicans are going to cost us this election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. What does that mean? You mean if the party insiders nominate another moderate wimp, are you saying we gotta bite the bullet and get behind the guy anyway for party…? Let me ask you this. Do you think if Trump is…? This is the real question, Dennis, old buddy, old pal. Let\u2019s just say, for example, if Trump gets the nomination. Is it incumbent on George Will to support him? Is it incumbent on Dr. Krauthammer to support him? Is it incumbent on Boehner and McConnell to say that they will support Trump? All this talk about if Trump doesn\u2019t get the nomination and goes third party, what if he does? They\u2019re always telling us, “You gotta support the nominee! Romney, McCain, you gotta support \u2019em.” Well, what if Trump gets it? Or what if Cruz gets it? Or what if Ben Carson gets it? What if one of these conservatives does get it?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Actually, I hope Cruz does get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think these guys have a duty to support the nominee, too?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think they do, because we\u2019re a party of conservatives. If they don\u2019t, we run the risk of having another Obama or another Hillary or somebody worse like Sanders. We\u2019ve got to get behind our nominee. Like I said I\u2019ve got my own preferences. I know what I want to be nominated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. There\u2019s no… One thing here, and then I gotta take a break. There\u2019s nobody on that side worse than Hillary, other than Obama, and they\u2019re identical. Sanders is not worse. Do not make that mistake.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you go to Las Vegas and you want to make a wager on who the two party nominees are, you know what Vegas thinks it\u2019s gonna be? Jeb-Hillary. Smart money, Jeb-Hillary. When this is all said and done, that\u2019s who smart money people think are gonna have sewn up the nomination. And they make that prediction, by the way, based on money. I mean, the Jeb Bush strategy is entirely based on out-raising everybody. <\/p>\n

You remember at the outset of this Jeb made one of these statements that he wanted to be one of the first candidates to win the Republican Party nomination without needing the base. There\u2019s only one way you can do that, and that is soak up all the money, deny enough money to everybody else, either in total or aggregate, and just eliminate anybody else from having a chance. The theory being money is the primary determining factor of who wins in politics. <\/line><\/p>\n

The same thing on the Democrat side. Hillary has the fundraising apparatus. It\u2019s been in place for years. Who knows how much of it she even really has and where it\u2019s all come from. It\u2019s been the Jeb Bush political team strategy from the get-go. And in fact the Jeb Bush strategy put together with the aid of the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican establishment encourages a whole lot of Republican nominees — well, candidates, a whole bunch of people, as many as possible divvying up the money, dividing the vote. Get a bunch of Tea Party people in there. Then get some other mainstream conservatives, get some moderates in, whatever it takes to split it all up, the more the merrier, because eventually they\u2019re all gonna drop out. Some are gonna drop out before the primaries, just don\u2019t have the money, where are their voters gonna go? That becomes then where the Bush campaign is theorizing they will Hoover them up. <\/p>\n

Now, the one thing that wasn\u2019t factored in all this was Trump. Back when they put this strategy together, I mean, nobody was factoring Trump. And even if they had, “Well, let\u2019s run a couple models here if Trump runs,” but nobody in any model had Trump doing what he\u2019s doing and performing the way he\u2019s performing, either in the polls or in terms of electrifying and exciting the base. <\/p>\n

But the Bush team, best I\u2019ve been able to tell, is not even nervous yet. I mean, some of them are, but overall they still think their strategy of owning all the state apparatuses and therefore controlling the delegates and all of the power that has been built up over all of these decades by the Bush political apparatus is simply unbeatable, and that all of this is just a show that is going on. It explains Jeb\u2019s temperament of pretty much flatline, not up or down. I\u2019ve even had people say, “You know, Rush, I don\u2019t even think Bush wants to run in this race. Jeb Bush doesn\u2019t even strike me as somebody that\u2019s excited. He certainly doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s having fun.” <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had some smart people, “You know what, Rush, I think somebody made him run. I think whoever runs that whole apparatus, whoever really wants to get their power back in Washington, Jeb\u2019s the one that they chose to get it back for \u2019em. But I don\u2019t think his heart\u2019s in it, Rush.” I\u2019m hearing — you wouldn\u2019t believe — you probably would believe it. You probably hear much the same thing, depending on who you talk to. But despite whatever the plans are, nobody factored Trump. Nobody could have. And they are bamboozled by that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jason in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Glad you waited. You\u2019re up next, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hello, Rush. Longtime listener, first-time caller. I\u2019ve been going ecstatic over, like, how all the Republicans in the establishment are bleeding blue over Trump. Like case in point. Up in New Hampshire where Jeb Bush was crying about why\u2019s everybody going after him, I\u2019ve been a conservative forever. They don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, are you asking me why that is?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s your thoughts on that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: On what specifically?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, like the disconnect between the establishment and Republican Party, \u2019cause they assume that everyone who likes Trump is a low-info voter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this attitude of the elites — the inside-the-Beltway establishment, ruling class, or whatever name you want to use for \u2019em — precedes Trump. Now, in my 27 years of doing this… I was thinking about this the other day. Has this changed and I\u2019m just late to the party in seeing it…? Let me rephrase. Has this always been the way it is, or am I just late to the party in seeing this, or is this something new? Is this divide…?<\/p>\n

Well, the reason I ask it this way is I know full well that back during the eighties the establishment of the Republican Party despised Reagan, before he was elected and even afterwards. They were embarrassed of him. I mean, they quietly supported him. You know, human nature is that everybody wants to bask in the glowing light of victory. So Reagan had his suck-ups.<\/p>\n

And he had his groupies that were — some of them — members of the establishment and so forth. But they couldn\u2019t wait to get to his second term and take over. So it\u2019s not new in that sense. But what aspects of it are worse than they\u2019ve been since I have been paying attention in that focused way? And I think it is different and worse. Let me explain what I mean when we get back. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t go away, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, here\u2019s the bottom line. In the 27 years that I\u2019ve been doing this program, I have never seen the Republican Party — the establishment itself, I mean, the RNC — more hostile to its base. And that\u2019s saying something. It was hostile to its base in 2010. It\u2019s been hostile to its base a lot. It was hostile to the base back in the eighties with Ronald Reagan. But you go back to 1992, \u201993, that campaign where the Republicans won the House for the first time in 40 years. Was that the Republican base that pulled that off?<\/p>\n

It was not. It was Newt Gingrich. He was a back bencher. He was part of the Republican minority, obviously, in the House. And he was part of the Bob Michel minority. Newt\u2019s day is go back to when the Republicans couldn\u2019t even count 200 members. I mean, they had barely 150 at times. It was a monumental achievement. It was aided of course by dramatic shifts in the media and a bunch of Democrat scandals like the House Bank and the House Post Office. But it wasn\u2019t long after that freshman class…<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s still there from that freshman class, for example? I mean, Boehner, John Kasich, Dick Armey. All these names that you knew, look at what became of them. As they were there, they moderated. They became less and less conservative as time went on, because they lived inside the Beltway, worked inside the Beltway, and no matter what else you want to say, the establishments and primarily the liberal establishment run that town. <\/p>\n

But the hostility that exists today I think is more open than I\u2019ve ever seen it, and I have never — until recently — believed that the Republican Party would actually favor losing and define it as winning as I think they do today. I think the Republican Party would be happy to lose, even a couple of elections, if they could you didn\u2019t find what is now known as the conservative base. Now, explaining why?<\/p>\n

You know, that\u2019s such a violation of common sense. Why in the world would a party want to wash its hands of the people who secure it victory? Well, I\u2019m sorry, this is above my pay grade. I can give you some reasons, but none of them make any sense to me, until you start talking about attitudes. “Who\u2019s elite and who\u2019s not, who embarrasses us and who does not, who do we want in our club and who do we not want in the club?” and why don\u2019t we want them in the club and this kind of thing. <\/p>\n

Money has always been a determining factor in politics. Money has always been the mother\u2019s milk of politics. I\u2019m asking myself, “The pursuit of money, personal money — personal enrichment — seems to be the primary objective of people.” The pattern is, you run for office, you get elected. You serve. But who do you serve? You end up serving so that you\u2019re either taken care of while in office or you have a very, very cushy job with a lot of big salary and perks and benefits when you leave. <\/p>\n

And that would be K Street and lobbying. <\/p>\n

So in that case, who are you serving? How do people who arrive in Washington penniless end up leaving multimillionaires? While they are in office they are accruing all this. The fact that the Treasury of the United States is in Washington and there are trillions of dollars there is a huge drawing card for why people want to go, and it\u2019s clear that the Republican Party now has turned over its policies and its future to donors. <\/p>\n

The donors even have a name now: The Donor Class. You have the Donor Class, you have the base, you have the Pundit Class. There\u2019s various divisions of the Republican Party. I never see this taking place on the Democrat side, though, is the thing. It may exist, but I never see the Democrat Party act like or look like it\u2019s embarrassed of its base. I would be embarrassed of that base if I were a Democrat. <\/p>\n

I never see the Democrat Party make a single move to wash their hands of any element of the coalition that votes for them. I just don\u2019t see it. It may happen. It may happen behind the scenes. But I don\u2019t see it. I see a party that does everything it can to get votes from virtually every place it can, and those people that they have decided they\u2019ll never get they seek to destroy — and that would be us, conservatives. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean it when I say I think the Democrat Party considers their greatest enemy to be us. Not ISIS, not terrorism, not a genuine foreign threat. It\u2019s us. They see us as the real threat to their power, and I think the Republican establishment sees us the same way. We\u2019re the threat to their power. Not ISIS, not terrorists. We are. And, as such, we\u2019re the ones that have to be attacked and impugned daily, discredited or what have you. <\/p>\n

I think more and more people are waking up to it now and seeing it for what it is. And I think the elites have always had a belief that everybody wants to be like them. Everybody wants to be in their club, and so everybody did things to try to curry favor with the people in the elites, the ruling class or whatever. That\u2019s changed now. There is disdain for it, and I don\u2019t think they quite know how to deal with it. So they\u2019re in a state of denial about it. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Peggy Noonan column today<\/a>. I wasn\u2019t gonna mention this for a host of reasons, but I\u2019m gonna go ahead and mention it here because it helps to answer the question. Peggy Noonan, for lack of a better way of mentioning it, is part of this ruling class in Washington. That is her world, and it always has been. When I first met Peggy Noonan, she said, “Oh, you\u2019re the guy that has all the truck drivers in his audience, right?” <\/p>\n

I\u2019d never heard that one before. Truck drivers? By the way, “truck drivers in your audience” was a put-down. So Peggy left Washington recently. She\u2019s been out there talking to you, people like you, and she has been shocked at what she found. And she\u2019s now a believer. She thinks what\u2019s happening outside Washington\u2019s real. The way she describes it today is, “America is in play,” meaning all of this support for Trump.<\/p>\n

But more than that, all of this opposition to the fixtures of Washington is real. It\u2019s not fringe. It\u2019s not tiny. It\u2019s not made up of kooks. It is more and more mainstream, and she has been stunned! She writes that she\u2019s stunned to learn that there are Hispanics that feel this way and that there are African-Americans who feel this way, and that there are blacks and Latinos and Asians and you name it. <\/line><\/p>\n

In other words: Inside the Beltway they think all of this anti-Washington stuff is a bunch of conservative fringe kooks. Peggy went out there — she\u2019s been talking to people, she\u2019s traveled the country — and she\u2019s found out that every demographic under the sun is represented by these people who are unhappy with the leadership that they\u2019re getting in all of Washington. Not just Republicans, not just Democrats, but the whole shebang. <\/p>\n

She writes as though she\u2019s made a discovery, that her eyes are open to this now, and she thinks it\u2019s real. That means that a lot of other people inside-the-Beltway probably think so, too. So guy\u2019s question was about Jeb. “Hey, you know, I\u2019m a conservative, too!” The Jeb campaign is not gonna react to any of this. They\u2019re simply relying on the fact that all of this is what has to play out in order for Jeb to get the nomination based on he\u2019s gonna have all the money. That\u2019s their thinking; that\u2019s their strategy. <\/p>\n

Oh, Peggy was also shocked to learn that this opposition to Washington isn\u2019t based on issues. It\u2019s based on attitude. It\u2019s not based on specifics. You know, the inside-the-Beltway crowd says, “Come on, Trump! Tell us your specifics!” Peggy was shocked to learn they don\u2019t matter. It\u2019s gone beyond specifics. It\u2019s gone beyond policy. It\u2019s much greater than that. It\u2019s much more important than that. It\u2019s much more important than just attitudinal.<\/p>\n

There is a genuine fear that we are losing the country, and the people inside the Beltway? The furthest thing from their mind is that we\u2019re losing the country. They think that\u2019s the silliest thing they\u2019ve ever heard. “What do you mean, ‘losing the country\u2019? We\u2019ve had the national debt for as long as we\u2019ve had a nation and it hasn\u2019t hurt anything. Don\u2019t sweat it! What deficits? Doesn\u2019t matter! We\u2019ve got it under control. Don\u2019t worry about it.” <\/p>\n

They do not understand, and if you look at the life circumstances, the economy inside the Beltway, what\u2019s the unemployment rate, 3% there? What\u2019s the average salary there? I guarantee you it\u2019s much higher than it is outside the Beltway. The exact opposite of what the founders intended has happened. A great divide has been created now, and the people leading and running the country really don\u2019t have much in common with the people voting for them. <\/p>\n

And some in the Beltway are starting to figure it out. Some when they figure it out say, “Well, screw them! It\u2019s not my job to make them understand what I\u2019m doing. They\u2019re not capable of it anyway,” and people are aware of this, and the anger is genuine, and it\u2019s real. And it does span parties, and it does span ideologies, and it is all demographics. How big it is remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh. I\u2019ll give you an example. There\u2019s a story that Peggy Noonan tells in her column, and the point of the story is that she learns that a bunch of Latinos actually like Trump, and she can\u2019t believe it. She\u2019s shocked and stunned, as are some of the Latinos that she\u2019s talking to. They don\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n

You see, the Republican Party, stupidly, you talk about inexplicable things, the Republican Party literally to this day still believes the reason it\u2019s not winning the presidency is because it\u2019s not getting enough of the Hispanic vote. And for that reason alone they keep saying we need to do amnesty, and all they\u2019re doing is guaranteeing that the Democrat Party is gonna own this country. It\u2019s a Democrat Party voter registration drive and for the life of me, I\u2019m telling you, they don\u2019t see that. <\/p>\n

The Chamber sees a bunch of low-wage workers, Chamber of Commerce and that bunch, but the Republicans actually that they need Hispanic votes if they\u2019re gonna win the presidency. It\u2019s the biggest disconnect. So when they run into Latinos, Hispanic people who support Trump, their world is literally turned upside down. That just does not compute. They think every Hispanic hates conservatives, conservatism and would probably hate Trump. They do not, I\u2019m telling you, they do not understand. <\/p>\n

Now, how they got off the deep end like this, I haven\u2019t the slightest — well, I think they\u2019re falling for Democrat media tricks that have been played perpetually for decades, for years, it\u2019s just become conventional wisdom. It\u2019s one of the most amazing political tricks the Democrats have played, and if it\u2019s not that, then the Republicans are not really Republicans, they just call themselves that. That\u2019s the only other way to explain this. And I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case. I wish I had a couple more hours on this today because we can go as deep in this as you want it to go but time is gonna prevent that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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