{"id":294229,"date":"2018-12-10T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294229"},"modified":"2018-12-11T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:42:29","slug":"a-lifelong-democrat-academic-on-why-she-supports-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/10\/a-lifelong-democrat-academic-on-why-she-supports-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifelong Democrat Academic on Why She Supports the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Virginia somewhere in North Carolina. I\u2019m glad you called, Virginia. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, sir. How are you, Rush?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-284955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-050118-EIB-Caller-FEMALE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-050118-EIB-Caller-FEMALE.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APP-050118-EIB-Caller-FEMALE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Doing well. Doing well.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good. Good. Well, I\u2019m calling because I want people to know that I\u2019m an academic, I\u2019ve been in academia almost 40 years. I\u2019m a feminist. I\u2019m a strong pro-choice individual. I\u2019m an agnostic. I\u2019m a registered Democrat that was brought up in a very staunchly Democrat home. Even as a kid I sat and watched all the Democrat conventions on television. My grandfather was very staunch Democrat; so was my father, and I\u2019m one of those people that you would think would not support Trump, and I did. I supported him, I voted for him, I still support him.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019d really like to talk to my fellow Democrats, if any of them are listening, and tell them that they really need to think about supporting Donald Trump. I\u2019m very concerned, even about those people that have supported him, because I see wobbling going on. And I think that there are people out there, and I hear them calling in to your show and they talk about how maybe they\u2019re reconsidering supporting Trump in 2020 or even supporting him right now.<\/p>\n<p>And I believe they\u2019re getting confused by all the ersatz that\u2019s being put out there, all the junk. And I would ask them to really think about, you know, don\u2019t make a change, support this man, he\u2019s really fighting for us. And he\u2019s the only person who really comes out and tells us how things are. I don\u2019t always agree with what he says or the way he says it, but I think he\u2019s the only one out there that really, really has the American public\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, he\u2019s certainly the most prominent. Look, there\u2019s a few Republicans in the House who do. But you\u2019re right, there\u2019s not a one of them that could do what Trump is doing, and certainly not a one of them that could have gotten elected president on the agenda. The thing is, Trump got elected to do just what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-247466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TrumpDemocrats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TrumpDemocrats.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TrumpDemocrats-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And he got elected as the person that he is. He\u2019s not a surprise to anybody.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s correct. And, you know, you can disagree with him at times. But, you know, we\u2019re not voting based on his morality. We\u2019re voting based on him saying that he\u2019s going to do what he has promised to do. And when he came down the escalator and he started talking about immigration, that was the thing that really changed my mind. I have supported Hillary Clinton in the past. I even gave her some money, which I really regret that I had done. And I had, during the election, people calling me up asking me to support Hillary. And I told them absolutely not. It shocked them. I told them I was going for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You probably lost them for a while as friends, then.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, you know, I still get emails from people asking me if I\u2019m supporting Trump. And being an academic I have to be very careful about what I say and do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, you do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It is terrible.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re engaging in quite the courageous and brave act here into publicly copping for this. Virginia, thank you. I appreciate your taking the time to give us a ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALLER:  I&#039;m a feminist. 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