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RUSH: \u00a0Rockford, Illinois.\u00a0 Scott, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re up.\u00a0 You\u2019re first today, and welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Rush, thank you very much.\u00a0 Third generation U.S. Navy dittos to you.\u00a0 As a student of the EIB Network working on my continuing degree, I understand from my teacher that conservatism wins every time it\u2019s tried.\u00a0 And we know socialism fails every time it\u2019s implemented.\u00a0 I\u2019m confused with what you said yesterday when you said we\u2019ve had decades and generations, if you will, of us paying for everyone else\u2019s stuff.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that the point of all this, Rush?\u00a0 When is it gonna stop?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 But let me ask you a question, and I don\u2019t mean to be picking a fight with you because you\u2019re not doing that with me.\u00a0 I really need to ask you a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 You also know I\u2019m the mayor of Realville.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 That means that I deal with what “is,” not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be. I deal with what “is.”\u00a0 Let me ask you pointblank: Is conservatism on the ballot in this presidential election?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 No, sir, it is not.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Given that it\u2019s not on the ballot, what, then, becomes the criterion for your vote?\u00a0 You personally.\u00a0 What? There\u2019s no wrong answer here.\u00a0 I am basically interviewing you.\u00a0 If conservatism\u2019s not on the ballot, then on what basis are you choosing to vote?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Well, if you give me just a second here, I base my vote on the Constitution of United States, which is being violated everywhere by all parties involved.\u00a0 But, given that, the way I look at this election, Rush, there\u2019s no way I can ever vote for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 I have extreme difficulty voting for Donald Trump because of the history that I know this man has.\u00a0 I look at it this way: If Hillary wins, we know exactly where she\u2019s going.<\/p>\n

If Trump wins, he has a very, very small window to squeeze through to become a good president — or if he\u2019s allowed to be just distracted by everything else, he can be just as much of a disaster.\u00a0 So the only play truly is Trump.\u00a0 My question is — as a student talking to the doctor — how do I rationalize what we learn from you and what I believe by knowing my history and the Constitution? What you came up with yesterday is nothing but more of the same, and that\u2019s what\u2019s killing this country.\u00a0 I live in Illinois, Rush, the state that has mastered unfunded liabilities.\u00a0 You put that on a national level with our unfunded liabilities? I guess we can just add more to it, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 We already are.\u00a0 Look, I\u2019ve got a break here.\u00a0 Hang on if you can, Scott.\u00a0 We will continue this on the other side of our obscene profit time-out.\u00a0 Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 And back we are with Scott in Rockford, Illinois.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So you\u2019re basically asking me how in the world we can support — anybody can support — what Ivanka Trump came up with, because it\u2019s just more of the same. It\u2019s another expansion of government, it\u2019s just another entitlement, why are we getting all excited about it.\u00a0 Is that essentially your question?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s essentially where my confusion comes from.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Are you confused because you think I endorsed it?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 No, sir.\u00a0 No, I can understand exactly why you said that you said and you just gotta do it and why he\u2019s gotta do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I was describing… What I have learned in the course of this program over the years is people — I\u2019m a very highly opinionated person, and so people assume I\u2019m opining on everything; when I open my mouth and say something, it\u2019s an opinion.\u00a0 Yesterday I was explaining.\u00a0 And I said a couple things that probably could have — I don\u2019t know that they did, but I\u2019ll bet they might have — really enraged some conservatives.\u00a0 Let me repeat those two things, and then we\u2019ll get into them in even greater substance.\u00a0 And don\u2019t worry about time here, Scott.\u00a0 We\u2019re here for as long as time as you have.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Now one of the aspects of Ivanka Trump\u2019s plan<\/a> was the equivalent of savings accounts, child care savings accounts.\u00a0 And I made the point that when those have been proposed by conservative think tank members in the form of school vouchers or health care savings accounts or other similar proposals to give people control of the money that\u2019s being spent for them — say on health care or education — those proposals have been greeted unanimously with support and applause on the basis that they are conservative<\/p>\n

<\/a>Because conservative think tanks created these ideas.\u00a0 The health care savings accounts, school vouchers, any number of other similar proposals.\u00a0 So here comes Ivanka Trump preparing it, and all of a sudden it\u2019s an entitlement, they say, and it\u2019s expansion of government.\u00a0 I just asked the question:\u00a0 Why, when conservative think tanks propose these things is it great conservatism and a great example of small the government or trying to make smaller government the reality, and when she proposes it, it becomes an automatic entitlement and expansion of government?<\/p>\n

Seems to me to be a little hypocritical.\u00a0 Now, there were parts of this proposal to do reek of entitlements like the Democrats come up with.\u00a0 George W. Bush did one, too, Medicare Part B.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had to live through this for I don\u2019t know how many years.\u00a0 But for me, Scott, it doesn\u2019t do any good to sit here and wring my hands and talk about what could have been — if somebody else had won the Republican primary, for example — or what has been.<\/p>\n

I deal with what “is,” and here\u2019s how I see things.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton has promised to expand the number of illegal immigrants and refugees pouring into this country in the hundreds of thousands.\u00a0 It is my belief that immigration of all the issues that are destroying or wreaking great damage in this country, immigration is number one, not because of who, not because of anything to do with race, simply because we are flouting the law.<\/p>\n

We are flooding the country with people who are not educated, who are not able to speak the language, and who are not capable of providing for themselves, and that\u2019s exactly what the Democrat Party wants.\u00a0 They are not becoming Americans; they\u2019re not assimilating; there\u2019s no effort to assimilate them.\u00a0 Look at California.\u00a0 If you want to find out what the future of the Republican Party is if Hillary Clinton wins, take a look at California.<\/p>\n

California is, as we speak, proposing to pass a law to grant national Obamacare or whatever replaces it to illegal aliens, j<\/a>ust by showing up.\u00a0 The price for settling a refugee that enters the country under Obama or Hillary is $67,000!\u00a0 This stuff has to stop — and, in this election, there is a candidate saying that he\u2019s going to stop it.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know if he really will, but we do know that Hillary won\u2019t.\u00a0 We do know the Democrat Party won\u2019t.\u00a0 For me, Scott, we\u2019re beyond ideology at this point because it isn\u2019t on the ballot.\u00a0 I regret that, I wish it weren\u2019t the case, but that doesn\u2019t accomplish anything by wishing something was that isn\u2019t.\u00a0 I just —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 I agree with you, sir, 100% on what you just said. Although I will take a sidestep from one thing, and that is: I\u2019m more worried about the future of the republic instead of the Republican Party.\u00a0 And I understand exactly what you\u2019re saying, and it makes all the sense in the world.\u00a0 We know what Hillary\u2019s going to do.\u00a0 Donald Trump, you just said it.<\/p>\n

He has a small window.\u00a0 He could actually be a good president but he has a tendency to be distracted in the subterfuge, and what concerns me the most is almost like what Chuck Schumer said the other day<\/a>.\u00a0 The man openly just said I\u2019m going to, if I become the Senate majority leader, we\u2019re gonna put people on the court that won\u2019t follow the Constitution.\u00a0 This thing\u2019s gonna self-destruct if we don\u2019t correct it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Wait a second, now.\u00a0 Don\u2019t misunderstand something.\u00a0 This is a classic example.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t advocating for the Republican Party.\u00a0 That\u2019s not my motivation here.\u00a0 I\u2019m simply telling you. Think of the Republican Party as the opposition to the Democrats.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t exist in California!\u00a0 I\u2019m not… Whatever I believe here and whatever you think I\u2019m advocating, it\u2019s not because I care what happens to the Republican Party.\u00a0 I care about what happens to America!<\/p>\n

And I know that any more of what we\u2019ve had the last eight years, it\u2019s gonna be America, but it\u2019s not gonna be the America you and I know.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t gonna be the America that was founded, and Chuck Schumer has just admitted that that\u2019s their objective.\u00a0 But they don\u2019t have to admit it.\u00a0 All we have to do is watch what they\u2019re doing.\u00a0 So the Trump proposal, whether it\u2019s an expansion of government, whether it\u2019s another entitlement and how conservatives been snookered again? (sigh) If you really don\u2019t want Hillary, I don\u2019t know what to tell you to do.\u00a0 I — I — (sigh)<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER:\u00a0 Well, there\u2019s nothing really to be said to do.\u00a0 I just have to, once again — catchphrase — follow my conscience, and it\u2019s probably gonna lead me as hard as it is to the polls for Donald Trump. (garbled)<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, but, no. I want to circle back to something you said.\u00a0 You called me under the premise that I am Mr. Conservative, and you want to know. You\u2019re attending the Limbaugh Institute, you think you\u2019re close to getting a degree, even though there aren\u2019t any here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to know what the professor really thinks about this in terms of whether this proposal that Ivanka put forth is actually conservative or not and are we making a mistake by not opposing it.\u00a0 That\u2019s what you\u2019re really asking. For the sake of conservatism, you want to know, if we keep biting the bullet and supporting and electing these things that we disagree with, what\u2019s it gonna do to us as a movement or what is it gonna do to conservatism? Is that close to one of the questions that you had?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 True, but I think the hardest part but that — if you expand on that, Rush — is the fact that even if we — even if we went through what you were explaining about the vouchers and things of that nature. Every single program that has been put out there immediately gets expanded and the doors are open and all of a sudden it\u2019s accumulating and everybody from everywhere instead of the intended target.\u00a0 And that\u2019s where all of these things go off the rails.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So just make sure I understand.\u00a0 So if this proposal, as written and submitted, ends up being enacted, then, in your view, it\u2019s a creation — it\u2019s the establishment — of a new entitlement, and it\u2019s only going to expand every other entitlement, because it\u2019s gonna continue the premise that government will pay people for their behavior?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 And it\u2019s gonna be another electron in the magnet of drawing people here illegally, period.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 This proposal… Give me the specifics.\u00a0 How does this act as a magnet to illegal immigrants?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Well, we already have this fictitious number of 11 million in the shadows. How they come up with that when they\u2019re this the shadows I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard that (garblved).<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 That figure is also a bunch of years old.\u00a0 It\u2019s gotta be more than 11 million by now.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 It\u2019s gotta be way over that.\u00a0 But we just saw that.\u00a0 They\u2019re allowing them to come in now. Regardless of where they\u2019re from.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even a nation or an origin or a race or anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s just people that aren\u2019t supposed to be here are coming across in droves.\u00a0 Once they\u2019re in here (garbled).<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, actually the actually —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 There\u2019s no plan to find them and stop them.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Wait a second, now.\u00a0 It\u2019s not quite as… What\u2019s the word?\u00a0 The number, if we can trust anything that\u2019s reported, the numbers are actually what is it down because of the status of the U.S. economy is not that strong.\u00a0 The people that are coming here to find work aren\u2019t coming, and some people are leaving because of that.\u00a0 So you combine these two numbers and there\u2019s some question over if the rate of illegal immigration is down or is the same or is up.<\/p>\n

But the point is… You know, we\u2019re getting off track again.\u00a0 The point is that there\u2019s a political party that wants to expand it; in fact, there may be two political parties that want to expand it!\u00a0 You know what a big danger is? Let\u2019s say Trump wins.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Trump wins and let\u2019s say he\u2019s being honest about everything he\u2019s proposing.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say he\u2019s serious about building the wall, he\u2019s serious about deporting these people, he\u2019s serious about trying to keep corporate manufacturing here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say all of this is true.\u00a0 Do you know what the Democrats in Congress are gonna do?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Oh, yeah, I do — and the Republicans will probably cave to it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Cave; try join.\u00a0 Because even if Trump wins, the establishment\u2019s not gonna go down a hole.\u00a0 The establishment\u2019s not gonna slink away in defeat.\u00a0 The establishment is gonna look at this as one inexperienced buffoon who happened to get elected versus all of them who know the ropes inside and out of Washington, and they\u2019re gonna make it their objective to deny this guy anything and everything that represents anything he campaigned on.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Oh, I agree with that completely.\u00a0 And then here comes the executive order thing.\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave the professor with this one thing, Rush, and that is this.\u00a0 If you can, sometime after this is all over with, answer how do we…? Forget liberal-conservatism, Republican-Democrat.\u00a0 How do we save the Constitution and the republic?\u00a0 Because, if we lose that, there\u2019s nowhere to go.\u00a0 Our U.S. Constitution is the stumbling block to anyone that wants to take over control of all of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I mean, the answer to this requires the correct starting point — and by that I mean, well, how did we get to this point where so few Americans have been taught about the Constitution?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Oh, I agree with that 100%.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So, well, follow me on this, now.\u00a0 So few Americans have been taught the miracle that is the founding of this country, literal miracle after miracle after miracle that came together for this country to be founded as it was. It\u2019s the first and only time in human history this has ever happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Agreed.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 And that special exceptionalism is not taught any longer.\u00a0 It\u2019s being lied about and distorted.\u00a0 So when you say, “When are we gonna get back to constitutionalism?” Well, do you start with education at kindergarten level? Do you start at elementary school?\u00a0 And if you do, you\u2019re talking, “Okay, 25 years to stop the direction we\u2019re going and reverse the ship.” If you think we don\u2019t have 25 years, how do we get back to constitutionalism?\u00a0 Well, when\u2019s the last time…? Honestly, now, Scott. When\u2019s the last time you think we had — for president — a genuine conservative on the ballot?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Um, I would have to say everyone goes to Ronald Reagan, but he was the last one that was even close to conservatism, and we had to go through (garbled) personally.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So that would be 1984.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So what does that alone tell you?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 That tells me that the education system at all levels has been infiltrated — and trust me, I ran into a newly accredited teacher that didn\u2019t even understand or couldn\u2019t even list the Bill of Rights, and she\u2019s a teacher.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019m not surprised.\u00a0 But if you maintain that the last genuine conservative candidate for president we had was 1984, Ronaldus Magnus, what does that tell you about the Republican Party?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 It tells me that —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 They don\u2019t want a conservative!\u00a0 They don\u2019t want one. That\u2019s why they didn\u2019t… They didn\u2019t want Ted Cruz.\u00a0 You know, people blame the media for Ted Cruz bombing out? (scoffs)\u00a0 The Republican Party didn\u2019t want Ted Cruz. The Republican Party… All of this, we\u2019ve discussed ever since this whole primary season began.\u00a0 At what point do you…? How do we get back to constitutionalism? How do we get back to conservatism?<\/p>\n

I mean, conservatism better exist outside talk radio and Fox News.\u00a0 How does conservatism find its way into the body politic?\u00a0 I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand — conservatism brand, Republican brand — has been summarily destroyed over the years.\u00a0 These are very tough questions and really, really difficult answers to deal with honestly.<\/p>\n

Just espousing theory, conservative theory and trying to have it take\/settle in with people? Well, it\u2019s not working.\u00a0 And so how do we…? If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism — and I do — well, then, where do we start?\u00a0 We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law.\u00a0 And then you look at what we\u2019re up against, an entire Democrat Party<\/p>\n

This is not even Bill Clinton\u2019s Democrat Party, anymore.\u00a0 This party, the Democrat Party of today, is so off the rails and so radical, we had a poll yesterday that whites and Christians and Catholics are leaving the Democrat Party.\u00a0 Now, I thought that should have been happening for 20 years, but they\u2019re finally waking up.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have any more detail on that than that at this moment.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, as I said yesterday — and I guess it enraged many — there\u2019s politics and there\u2019s ideology, and I guess what enraged people was, “Who the hell…? What? Politics is ideology, you doofus!” I imagine some people said that. Well, not this year.\u00a0 Can somebody point to me the conservative on the ballot?\u00a0 “What do you mean, Rush? Are you admitting Trump\u2019s not a conservative?”<\/p>\n

(snorts) Damn right I am! Folks, when did I ever say that he was?\u00a0 Look, I don\u2019t know how to tell you this.\u00a0 Conservatism lost, in the primary, if that\u2019s how you want to look at it. We had Cruz; we had Rubio.\u00a0 By the way, I\u2019m the guy… I got in trouble for this, too.\u00a0 You remember when the conservative movement was disavowing Marco Rubio early on in the primaries?\u00a0 The same conservatives, many of the same who are now and have been trying to disavow Trump.<\/p>\n

They wanted to throw Rubio overboard because of his Gang of Eight heresy.\u00a0 And I remember, I\u2019d had my fill of it, and I remember saying on this program… I came to his defense.\u00a0 I said, “I\u2019m getting sick and tired of hearing how Marco Rubio is not a conservative.\u00a0 He is.\u00a0 All you have to do is listen to him,” and I got grief for that, too.\u00a0 It really is… I made the point yesterday that at election time the left, no matter how much they hate each other, they hate us more, and they unify.<\/p>\n

They come together when it\u2019s time to win.\u00a0 When it\u2019s time to beat us, they come together.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t figured that out, and I don\u2019t know. A lot of people say, “Well, yeah, Rush, that\u2019s because we got a lot of highly principled people who are not gonna sell out the just for the sake of winning.” Okay.\u00a0 To each his own.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t know what… What do you want to do? Trump and his daughter propose this thing, it had conservative elements in it like the savings account option.<\/p>\n

I was not surprised by caller reaction to it.\u00a0 “Hey, Rush, if the federal government\u2019s passing out money, it\u2019s about time those of us who\u2019ve been paying for it for 20 years got some of it back!”\u00a0 What are you gonna do?\u00a0 Tell \u2019em, “You\u2019re wrong. You\u2019re betraying conservatism! I think you should die!” (choking back laughter) What are you gonna tell \u2019em?\u00a0 Is that their… (laughing) Is that what they want me to say?<\/p>\n

Well, look, it\u2019s the eternal question.\u00a0 We had a guy earlier, “When is this going to stop?”\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna stop when you nominate a conservative.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna stop when there\u2019s a conservative that can win elections.\u00a0 That\u2019s when it\u2019s gonna stop.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t gonna stop then because when that happens, you better be prepared for more hate and more opposition than you\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 If a conservative was elected president — and I wish it would happen.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve wished it would happen for 25 years.\u00a0 You know what the left and the media would mobilize to do to deny this conservative?\u00a0 That\u2019s why whoever the eventual conservative winner is had better be charismatic, had better be loved, had better be able to directly communicate with the American people — and I\u2019m not saying being Ronald Reagan Jr., anything of the sort.\u00a0 I\u2019m saying what it\u2019s gonna take.<\/p>\n

Because the degree of opposition is… Even what we\u2019ve seen now, we haven\u2019t seen anything.\u00a0 But the establishment\u2019s gonna come together to protect themselves regardless of ideology.\u00a0 I wish conservatism was on the ballot.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: \u00a0Rockford, Illinois.\u00a0 Scott, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re up.\u00a0 You\u2019re first today, and welcome to the program, sir. 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