{"id":214365,"date":"2016-09-08T16:33:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/08\/the_silence_of_the_never_trumpers\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:27:49","slug":"the_silence_of_the_never_trumpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/08\/the_silence_of_the_never_trumpers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of the Never Trumpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/73046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<section>RUSH: In case you\u2019re wondering, <a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/09\/07\/the_shaming_of_the_never_trumpers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I spent a considerable amount of time on the program yesterday reading and analyzing<\/a> a very long op-ed opinion piece from the Claremont website. It was a piece written anonymously.\u00a0 And I didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0 I mean, it was a hard-hitting piece.<\/p>\n<p>It was a piece that basically savaged Never Trump conservative intellectuals for not realizing the stakes of this election. How anybody could do anything that would support Hillary had this author beside himself. And he was just lobbing grenades at these people with every paragraph.\u00a0 There hasn\u2019t been a whole lot of reaction to it.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t found a whole lot.\u00a0 Bill Kristol with a couple or three tweets made a guess as to who it is that wrote it and called it a bunch of sophistry and didn\u2019t take it seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/09\/07\/the_shaming_of_the_never_trumpers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img id=\"eZObject_127241\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rush-Claremont-Inst-_-Rush-Points-_0917-B1.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>And there\u2019s a post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/439803\/scott-walker-davos-class-and-rest-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Review Online<\/a> on their Corner blog about it that really doesn\u2019t even react, just uses the piece as a reason to say something else about Scott Walker, who was not really in the piece.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll explain that.\u00a0 There hasn\u2019t been &#8212; I searched some blogs, and I didn\u2019t see any reaction to this at all.\u00a0 What do you think that means?\u00a0 What do you think no reaction to it means?\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s one way that it hit home, that it hit home so that people don\u2019t want to react to it, just ignore it when somebody hits you with legitimate criticism, ignore it, don\u2019t amplify it, don\u2019t respond to it.<\/p>\n<p>And then the other school of thought is that it was so off the wall that nobody took it seriously.\u00a0 But it was the kind of piece that if you are a conservative intellectual and a Never Trumper it was written right for you and aimed at you, it would be the kind of piece that would really tick you off and so you would think there would be some reaction.\u00a0 So far, none.\u00a0 But it\u2019s early.\u00a0 They may still be digesting.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: In case you\u2019re wondering, I spent a considerable amount of time on the program yesterday reading and analyzing a very long op-ed opinion piece from the Claremont website. 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