{"id":268312,"date":"2018-03-20T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=268312"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:55:31","slug":"report-from-the-ground-illinois-gop-gubernatorial-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/20\/report-from-the-ground-illinois-gop-gubernatorial-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from the Ground: Illinois GOP Gubernatorial Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know something weird is happening. I don\u2019t want to be accusatory here, and I know Illinois\u2019s a big state. I\u2019m getting a lot of emails, Snerdley, on this gubernatorial primary out there. We have this — (interruption) We do? Well, you know, let\u2019s take this. I was gonna mention here that I\u2019m getting emails about the gubernatorial primary.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t normally talk about primaries here, you know, and I never endorse in primaries, but I know that some of the good people at National Review have stepped in and they\u2019re endorsing Jeanne Ives.<\/a> The incumbent governor, Rauner, is that how you pronounce his name? Not good in the eyes of many. And there\u2019s some polling data that makes it look like it\u2019s just a primary today.<\/p>\n

It looks like she could actually win this thing, and we got a call about it, Dan from Maple Park, Illinois. Dan, I\u2019m glad you called. What\u2019s up? What\u2019s with this? Why am I getting all kinds of emails about this, do you think?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Well, RINOs aren\u2019t exclusive to Washington and we\u2019ve got one as a governor right now. We have a state that\u2019s in economic turmoil because the taxes are so high. They\u2019re forcing businesses out, families are leaving, and we elected this governor on the basis that he was going to be an economic positive for the state. We knew he had liberal leanings socially but said he would keep those to himself and wouldn\u2019t do anything, but instead he\u2019s done things like begin social programs where the state is gonna pay for things, elective medical issues like abortion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where we don\u2019t have any money to begin with, and on top of that he made Illinois a sanctuary state. So we\u2019re fighting like crazy trying to get Jeanne Ives elected, at least get through the primaries, so we can have a viable candidate to vote for in the general election because for me as a conservative, I won\u2019t hold my nose and vote for Bruce Rauner.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: What about Jeanne Ives? I know she\u2019s a West Point graduate and she\u2019s been kicking butt in the debates or in a recent debate. But what is it you like about her?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, she\u2019s a mom, first of all, and I know that that motherly communication style comes through in the way she talks. She talks very plainly. She\u2019s very confident about what she says, and what she says is the truth, which is not what we\u2019ve gotten from Bruce Rauner. It seems to be lie after lie. Even in his commercials, they try to make it seem like Jeanne Ives is friends with the Democratic Party when nothing could be further from the truth, taken completely out of context. So I have no respect for Bruce Rauner because not only is he not honest, but he\u2019s proven to be a liar. And that\u2019s why Jeanne Ives is the candidate for me as a true conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the thing that surprises me is you said that this guy, Bruce Rauner, the incumbent Republican governor, is known to be leaning left on social issues but he said during the campaign he would keep those to himself. Why did anybody believe that? Social issues is how a Republican curries favor with the Democrats and the media. It should have been easy to see that this guy was gonna start championing those social issues because he\u2019s a RINO.<\/p>\n

I guarantee you he wants to curry favor with the local Chicago, Illinois, media and the Drive-Bys as well. So it shouldn\u2019t be have been a surprise to anybody he was gonna promote and start talking about those things, not keep them to himself. And if he\u2019s a RINO anywhere, he\u2019s a RINO. I don\u2019t believe in this “I\u2019m a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.” You\u2019re talking to a liberal. If anybody tells you that they\u2019re not a conservative if they\u2019re willing to bifurcate it like that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that makes total sense to me now, but in a blue state where it just seems like everything keeps going south, we had a chance to elect a Republican —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, everything is going south, including a lot of the people. They\u2019re moving out and they\u2019re not going west or east.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true. And I want to save our state because I believe Illinois is a good place to live and we\u2019ve got great work ethic and we could do a lot if we weren\u2019t saddled with all these taxes.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Yeah. Well, look, you\u2019re on the ground there and there hasn\u2019t been a whole lot of attention paid to this race in the national media. What is it look like? Does it look like she could actually win this primary or come close enough to force a runoff in it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe that she could because the people that are voting for her are passionate. They\u2019re gonna come out and vote in the primaries. They\u2019re not just gonna sit the home and worry about the general election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is Jeanne Ives on Trump?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think she\u2019s leaned either way to this point, but I can tell you based on her platform and the things that she believes in, there\u2019s not much distance between them. But I don\u2019t think that she\u2019s associated with him outright.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, I totally understand living in a high-tax blue state. I left one. I was accused of being selfish when I did it and I promptly rejected that. Why is it selfish just to not waste money? Somebody asked me, “What is the thing you spend the most money on?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Not even close. Taxes. I spend more money on taxes than anything.” Of course, that\u2019s not spending it. It\u2019s taken. I don\u2019t pay state or local taxes, property tax, but no state income tax. But without question, taxes are the number one deduction or expenditure. And when you start looking at how it\u2019s used and so forth, it\u2019s been a big bugaboo of mine for a long time. So I totally understand, you know, you elect a Republican and things get worse. I can understand the anger. Well, we\u2019ll see what happens.<\/p>\n

As I say, we never endorse in primaries, and I don\u2019t want to set a precedent here, because if I did, then every candidate in a primary would want time on the program. It\u2019s one of the reasons for the policy. But it\u2019s specific to primaries, too. There are too many of them to be completely up to speed and knowledgeable on all of them. So that\u2019s why the policy has existed. But, Bob, I appreciate the call. Thanks much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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