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<\/p>\nRUSH: Robert, West Palm Beach, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (garbled cell) Hey, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak to you. I\u2019ve been listening 20 years and finally got through. Let me get to the point quick. This whole John Paul Stevens thing really brought home something to the forefront in my mind. How in God\u2019s name do these Never Trumpers — and I\u2019m talking about the ones who claim to be conservative. How do they justify basically endorsing Hillary without endorsing her when they know damn well that the Supreme Court is at stake? They know we would have lost the Supreme Court! How can they claim to be conservatives?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, see, that is, sadly, the question — and it\u2019s a great question. How in the world can these Never Trumpers, these intellectual conservatives who have been advocating for and writing and submitting conservative policy papers for decades…? How could they have supported anything that would result in Hillary Clinton appointing justices to the Supreme Court that would keep it in ownership of the left for the rest of their lives and longer? And the only answer I can come up with is at the end of the day, they really aren\u2019t conservatives, first. They can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: On CNN\u2019s New Day today, Fredo Cuomo spoke with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski about Trump\u2019s tweets about Justice John Paul Stevens calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n
CUOMO: Nobody\u2019s asking to repeal any amendment. But the point is you guys are using it as a bogeyman.<\/p>\n
LEWANDOWSKI: Somebody did ask to repeal it. Somebody did ask, and it —<\/p>\n
CUOMO: He\u2019s a retired Supreme Court justice, and it\u2019s a distraction, and it keeps us apart. I just don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
LEWANDOWSKI: This is a former member of the highest court in the land —<\/p>\n
CUOMO: I know who he is. But he\u2019s not a player in this.<\/p>\n
LEWANDOWSKI: — making this recommendation. He is a player!<\/p>\n
CUOMO: No, he\u2019s not. He doesn\u2019t lead an organization. He\u2019s not an elected official. There\u2019s no momentum behind any call like this in Congress.<\/p>\n
LEWANDOWSKI: Chris, he was a colleague of one of the nine individuals —<\/p>\n
CUOMO: I know who he is.<\/p>\n
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LEWANDOWSKI: — in the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n
CUOMO: I know who he was.<\/p>\n
LEWANDOWSKI: He still has influence amongst those individuals. He\u2019s trying to influence those people to make decisions based on a tragedy which took place in Parkland. This justice went so far to make an outrageous, outlandish claim to potentially repeal the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n
CUOMO: He\u2019s not a player.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop it. Stop it. This is so silly. Here\u2019s Fredo Cuomo demonstrating he\u2019s not qualified to be in this job. If Justice John Paul Stevens is irrelevant and doesn\u2019t mean anything, why did the Washington Post publish his stupid op-ed? And after that stupid op-ed was published, liberals, before they realized what was happening, quickly ran to embrace it because it is exactly what their long-term objective is, repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate all weapons from law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no two ways about this. This is exactly what they want just like they want amnesty for every illegal immigrant in the country, but they don\u2019t dare say so. Well, Justice Stevens came out and wrote the op-ed, and there it was; it was right there in the Washington Post. And that is all that\u2019s required to give it weight, to give it serious consideration. And some leftist leaders ran to embrace it.<\/p>\n
So here now comes Fredo Cuomo, “He\u2019s nobody! He\u2019s not an elected official! He doesn\u2019t run an organization. He\u2019s a former justice. He\u2019s a former justice. It doesn\u2019t mean anything to anybody!” Fredo, you\u2019ve gotta be very careful, because you\u2019ve just disqualified 80% of the liberal commentariat, if that\u2019s what they have to have in order to have credibility. If they gotta be a member of an organization, if they have to lead an organization, if they have to have some current position on something, you\u2019ve just eliminated over 80% of your support base as being qualified to weigh in on something, because they don\u2019t have any weight, they don\u2019t have any meaning, nobody listens to him.<\/p>\n
This guy is a former Supreme Court justice. Fredo Cuomo. “He\u2019s a bogeyman. You guys are using him as a bogeyman. Nobody\u2019s seriously talking about repealing the Second Amendment.” The hell they\u2019re not! And the hell they haven\u2019t been! Where else does this go? If they don\u2019t mean that, if they don\u2019t mean ultimate confiscation of all weapons, then what is this about?<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s right, Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s about assault weapons. We just want to eliminate assault weapons. It\u2019s like the Parkland school kids are saying, they\u2019re fine with a pistol in the home.” Yeah, not for long. It\u2019s patently obvious what they want. They have been forced now to admit it, and now they got leaders like Fredo Cuomo trying to walk it back and hide it back under the rock that they\u2019ve been using to hide it all of this time.<\/p>\n
Trump tweeted, by the way, yesterday, “The Second Amendment will never be repealed. As much as Democrats would like to see this happen, and despite the words yesterday of former Supreme Court Justice Stevens, NO WAY. We need more Republicans in 2018 and must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court!”<\/p>\n
Now, to Fredo Cuomo, “He\u2019s a nobody, he\u2019s a nothing, he doesn\u2019t lead anything, he\u2019s a former Supreme Court justice.” And that doesn\u2019t matter? That makes it even more appalling. Folks, if you ask me, a Supreme Court justice is supposed to be a constitutionalist. Supreme Court justices, at the top of the heap of judges, swear an oath to defend and protect the Constitution.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s a former justice, who, by the way, has been kind of a left-wing radical for a number of years, including his time on the court, to suggest that it\u2019s outmoded, it was written in the 1800s, has no appeal to today, why, we just might as well repeal it.<\/p>\n
Here, on that point, give me line 2. This guy\u2019s not ready to go next, but Matt, get yourself together here. I\u2019m gonna count down from 10 and I\u2019m gonna come to you. Are you ready? I didn\u2019t want to go to you immediately \u2019cause you\u2019d be choked up and you\u2019d be nervous because you weren\u2019t prepared to be next, but you are next. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Matt, Bristol, Connecticut. You\u2019re next. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I\u2019ve been listening to you most of my adult life. It\u2019s a great honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I hear the argument that when the founders wrote the Second Amendment they couldn\u2019t imagine weapons of today. I would argue the fact they were more likely to foresee the evolution of firearms than the advent of the internet or cable news when they wrote the First Amendment.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Precisely! There\u2019s no way the founders could have ever dreamed of the technology we have today. They could not have dreamed of the mechanisms we have to freely speak and broadcast it and amplify it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And with guns, I would maintain to you the founders were immensely prescient on guns. They knew that guns were killers of mass targets back when they had them.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hm-hm. Much easier to —<\/p>\n
RUSH: There were bombs back then, there were rockets. Remember the rockets\u2019 red glare in the star-spangled? They knew all about what rifles and their ammunition could do. And they also understood free speech. They understood its clinical, constitutional importance to freedom. That\u2019s why it\u2019s number one. That freedom to assemble, right to property, number one. They knew. It\u2019s what makes it a brilliant document. They knew.<\/p>\n
But, you see, this is how the left works. If they were to ever succeed with the argument, “Hey, the founders, a bunch of racist slave owners, if those guys had known what was gonna be become of guns, they would have never written the Second Amendment.”<\/p>\n
Well, you could also say, “Hey, these founders, these racist slave owners, if they ever could have envisioned the internet and cell phones, satellite communique, they would have never written the First Amendment.” If the left ever thinks they can use that to persuade people, they will. They\u2019re trying it here on the Second Amendment. They\u2019ve been trying it for a long time.<\/p>\n
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In fact, every aspect of the Constitution they hate. They always try as something to ratify their belief that the founders never intended this. The founders could not have foreseen what our society has become, if they had known, they would have never. You think the founders wanted there to be hundreds of millions of guns in America? No way.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve used that, they\u2019ve trying to persuade people to join them in confiscating guns and eliminating the Second Amendment, repealing it. If they ever make any headway on it they\u2019re gonna try it on Amendment One because believe me, if there\u2019s an amendment they\u2019d really love to get rid of more than number two and that\u2019s number one. They\u2019re already doing it without getting rid of it.<\/p>\n
On college campus they are effectively silencing people that they don\u2019t want to hear. And you are seeing more and more surveys where these social butterfly social snowflakes, whatever, actually think that violence is appropriate in certain circumstances where threatening speech is uttered, violence is called for.<\/p>\n
So make no mistake who these people are. Do not undersell them. These people will throw this country and this Constitution upside down the moment they think they have a chance to. They don\u2019t like it, folks. They\u2019re not seeking common ground. There isn\u2019t any anyway. They\u2019re not interested in compromise. In fact, to them, compromise is death.<\/p>\n
If anybody on the left ever agrees to compromise on one of their core beliefs, they are certain that that will be seen as something less than full commitment to the cause, and they will never allow that to be said or seen. So they\u2019re never gonna compromise. We\u2019ve gotta stop believing the illusion that there is something to compromise about and that there are people to compromise with because neither are true. They\u2019re not interested in it.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t want to peacefully coexist with you. They don\u2019t want you around. They don\u2019t want to have to deal with you. They don\u2019t want to debate or argue. They don\u2019t even want to hear what you think, much less find any overlapping common ground that we can come to mutual agreement on. That, to them, would be selling out. And their leaders will never permit it.<\/p>\n
Our leaders, on the other hand, are seeking it, to show them that we don\u2019t hate them, to show them that we\u2019re not what they think they are. It doesn\u2019t matter what they think we are. All they think is, we\u2019re not even qualified. We don\u2019t have any rights. Their opposition is to one thing: conservatism and everything that it is. Their primary number one enemy is conservatism and conservatives, us. It is not external threats to the United States. It\u2019s us.<\/p>\n
They view us as the nearest obstacle to their utopia or to their dreams or to their success. We are the immediate obstacle standing in the way. They want no part of us. This is how young people are being taught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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