{"id":315680,"date":"2019-07-16T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=315680"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:26:46","slug":"caller-wants-to-nominate-a-normal-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/16\/caller-wants-to-nominate-a-normal-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Caller Wants to Nominate a “Normal” Republican Instead of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let\u2019s grab Douglas on line 4, San Diego. Douglas, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks. It\u2019s wonderful to be here. Of course, I often… I listen to your show. For the most part, I enjoy it, and I\u2019ve often thought of, you know, topics I\u2019d like to tell you about. The one I want to pick today is I want to advance the point, basically stated, that Republicans can do better than Trump. I don\u2019t think… I\u2019m not a Never Trumper. Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol are Never Trumpers. I\u2019m just a nobody. But I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not a nobody because you\u2019re appearing on this program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, what I want you to understand —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are Douglas on the EIB Network. You have escaped the bonds of Nobodyness.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m very grateful for that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and it\u2019s a wonderful opportunity and I hope I make the most of it. What I want to say though, is —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. You think we can do better. Who can we do better with?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You said that we can do better than Trump, “Republicans can do better than Trump,” and so I\u2019m asking: Who do you have in mind?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: (unintelligible) …Trump Derangement Syndrome, and that will allow any normal Republican to get elected in 2020. Republicans can nominate a young, potentially two-term president, one that believes in fiscal conservatism. We\u2019re gonna have… In 2019, there\u2019s gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn\u2019t really care about that. He\u2019s not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it\u2019s been around.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s a difficult one. That\u2019s a difficult one. And you\u2019re right, that is true, that Republicans in Congress love spending taxpayer money almost as much as Democrats do. But it\u2019s not just fiscal conservatism. You can get other characteristics. And the point is, you need to acknowledge that what has happened to Trump would try lesser men. It\u2019s not fair, but that doesn\u2019t mean that we owe him a reelection.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand it. Look, I want to move forward. Time is limited here; so I want to… So you think any, quote-unquote, “normal” Republican could win now because the Democrats have gone so wacko left extreme. So the thing we should do is find a normal Republican to win, and they can win simply because the Democrats are so objectionable?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct. In Michigan, in the 2016 elections, Trump didn\u2019t win because he got a bunch of votes from people. A bunch of people left their presidential ballots empty because they didn\u2019t want Hillary Clinton. So I think the people that you would gain by nominating a normal Republican are greater than the people you would lose that are, you know, Trump supporters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Give me the name, then.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Give me some names of “normal” Republicans. I\u2019m not trying to put you on the spot! You\u2019re the guy with the opinion. I just want to know some names that you\u2019re thinking about here. Remember, this is your come-out moment. You\u2019re coming from nobody to somebody here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, um… (pause) You know, I — I — (sputters) That\u2019s not my place to do. Uh, I don\u2019t know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Aw, come on, Douglas!<\/p>\n

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CALLER: No. I\u2019m not working for any candidate, and, um, it would be, I think, a very Trumpy thing for Trump. You know, imagine if Trump somehow had, you know, God forbid, you know, some illness or something that he decided precluded him from running again and he decided, “You know, my fellow Americans, I thank you for this great honor, but, you know, I can\u2019t be your president again and…”<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just want to tell you something, Douglas. I appreciate you calling, and I think I understand where you\u2019re coming from. You\u2019re in the group of people that think all this negative media coverage of Trump is bleeding over and hurting everybody. But I\u2019m gonna tell you something. There were 16 normal Republicans that sought the nomination in 2016. Not a single one of them came close to winning the nomination — and if one of them had, there\u2019s not a single one of them who would have beaten Hillary Clinton. You gotta think about that. It\u2019s all well and good to think we need a normal Republican, but then you can\u2019t give me a name because you haven\u2019t taken this that far for some reason.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got to give me a name or you go back to nobody status!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Mark in Ottumwa, Iowa. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, old friend. I finally get to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you made it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I miss the days when you used to nuke the whales. Remember that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: We didn\u2019t nuke the whales. That was the animal rights update theme with Andy Williams. We had bombs and guns and explosions going off in the jungle. That\u2019s what it was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I was a Democrat and I still agreed with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you a Democrat still today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir, I am not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Friday, see if you can find Born Free by Andy Williams, the environmentalist wacko theme from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. If you can\u2019t find it in a hurry, no big deal, but let me know if you do. Anyway, you have metamorphized now, you\u2019ve moved from Democrat to Republican. Why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The ridiculous policies, the ridiculous mind manipulation, the choice of words to intentionally twist the intention. It\u2019s all preprogrammed, and if you pay attention you can see right through it all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think it is driving other people away, or is it succeeding?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not sure because I live in a fairly liberal community, and the people there are all hypnotized by Oprah, and they don\u2019t understand —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you telling me that Oprah owns Ottumwa?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, not Ottumwa. She owns Fairfield, which is where I\u2019m actually from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I see.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Your screener asked where I was calling from.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re in Iowa. Fairfield what? Fairfield, Iowa? Fairfield, Connecticut?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Fairfield, Iowa. Fairfield, Iowa.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fairfield, Iowa. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. So you had an earlier caller that suggested a, quote, unquote, normal Republican run, but he had no offer of candidate. I submit to you Lindsey Graham. Not that I\u2019m advocating that anyone run against Trump, but if you were to choose one, I believe Lindsey Graham has the qualifications.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You think Lindsey Graham. I knew this was gonna happen, we would have some people responding with names. What we had, if you missed it, folks, a few minutes ago a guy called and said Rush — he\u2019s a Republican — we can do better than Trump. The Democrats are so damaged we could win with a normal Republican. That was his phraseology. So I said, \u201cGive me a name, normal Republican.\u201d He said, \u201cI can\u2019t give you a name, any of them would be fine.\u201d So I knew we\u2019d be getting calls of people wanting to offer names. You think Lindsey Graham could be elected president. Why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Well, number one, when he thought Trump was colluding with Russia, he hated him. But once he found out —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that it was all a lie —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — he got right in the camp.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sorry. This is one of the problems of being a powerful, influential person. You know things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham is a friend of mine. I have played golf with Senator Graham.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have dined with Senator Graham. Senator Graham — and anybody will tell you — Senator Graham did the 180 after the John McCain funeral.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Okay. He\u2019s also very articulate. He appears to have the same conservative views. He\u2019s strong on Iran. He\u2019s strong on North Korea. He believes our economy is flourishing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re describing somebody — what\u2019s fascinating about it, you\u2019re describing somebody who is a dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporter, is what you\u2019re doing. That\u2019s who Senator Graham has become. Yeah, he\u2019ll have his moments where he steps off, like yesterday, Sunday, when he was on TV. He kind of distanced himself just a little bit from Trump with his tweets on The Squad and said, “Don\u2019t go after them personally. Go after their policies. Go after their socialism and communism.”<\/p>\n

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Did Trump really go after them personally? See, I don\u2019t think he did. It isn\u2019t personal to say: If you don\u2019t like it here, then go back to your native countries and fix \u2019em and then come back and show us how you did it. What\u2019s personal about that? Trump did not use any racial or racist language. He did not personally insult any of these women. He just categorized them for what they are. They don\u2019t like America. They hate America. And he asked \u2019em if it\u2019s such a rotten place, why don\u2019t you leave? But he didn\u2019t say don\u2019t come back. He said leave, go fix the places you left because they were so rotten and then come back here and tell us how to do it.<\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t even think it was personal. There was such an immediate reaction to Trump\u2019s tweets, and I was studying the reaction, happened over the weekend and I was immersed all Sunday afternoon in show prep. So I was in the thick of this. And I was trying to find as many reactions to this from the Trump support side as I could, and there were a couple of noteworthy — one was on Power Line<\/a>, I forget where the other one I found was.<\/p>\n

But one was called: The Greatest Unforced Error of Trump\u2019s Presidency, this kind of stuff, it\u2019s self-defeating. He didn\u2019t need — I said, well, what here did he say that crossed the line? What here did he say that was the unforced error? And I think it was two things. There is or was a belief that the Democrats were in the middle of a giant, divisive war, and they were, and they still are. Make no mistake about it.<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi is being challenged every day by The Squad. And they\u2019re accusing Pelosi of being a racist to the point Trump had to defend her. Cortez is running around saying that Pelosi\u2019s attacking women of color and so Pelosi got a small, little dose of what it\u2019s like to be a Republican every day. I gather one of the reasons for concern was that everybody thought the Democrats were shooting themselves in the foot, and Trump comes along and attacks these Squad members, and that allowed Democrats to unify, and that became self-defeating for Trump.<\/p>\n

As you know, I look at it another way. I think Trump is in his own way rehashing his 2016 campaign. I think what we\u2019re in the middle of today is exactly where we were in the immediate aftermath of Trump coming down the escalator in June of 2015. I mean, some subject matter differences, but people are reacting to Trump today exactly as they did the day he came down the escalator.<\/p>\n

I mean the calls back then were, “You can\u2019t win. This is an embarrassment. Get out of the race. You\u2019re not serious.” That\u2019s been replaced by, \u201cYou\u2019re a scumbag, you\u2019re a racist, you\u2019re a pick, you need to resign, you need to be impeached.” But it\u2019s the same stuff. The other reaction to it was that telling them to leave, I think, caused some people, “Oh, my God. That\u2019s so over the top. Oh, there\u2019s no coming back. Oh, my God. Unforced error. Oh, my God. Telling them to leave, oh, that\u2019s a horrible thing, oh no.”<\/p>\n

And again the fear was that it was unifying the Democrats. Maybe, but I also think it\u2019s identifying them. I think it\u2019s linking these Squad people with the whole party, which I think is a brilliant tactic. I also think, folks, that this is gonna have really \u2013 well, I am such a powerful, influential member of the media that certain things I say will be heard and reacted to by the opposition. And in saying something here, I could end up helping them, which I don\u2019t want to do. So that\u2019s sometimes why I draw myself back and don\u2019t go full-throated.<\/p>\n

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But let me just go ahead and say it since I teased it. I actually think all of this is gonna end up hurting Bite Me as well, which I think is one of the objectives of the Trump campaign, because I believe that there is a theory that Biden would be the toughest to beat. Not because of his link to Obama, and not because of Biden himself posing some great threat. It\u2019s just that he\u2019s normal compared to the rest of these people running for office and the rest of the Democrat Party, and there is a belief within the Republican hierarchy that the Democratic Party is not this radical left party yet.<\/p>\n

They get all the attention, they get all the news, but that the bulk of the voters of the Democrat Party is not madcap, extreme, radical leftist, that they\u2019re more in line with Biden, which equals Obama, and Biden\u2019s trying to facilitate that. So this could end up doing damage to Biden by associating him with it, making he come out and defend it. Anything that can radicalize Biden is also viewed as a positive by the Trump campaign. I just think there\u2019s so much more going on here than what you get in the daily, hourly, surface treatment of this by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s much more going on here. I don\u2019t believe that this was an unforced error. I don\u2019t believe it was an embarrassment. I don\u2019t think it was insulting. I don\u2019t think it was any of this. Telling these people that if they don\u2019t like it here to leave? That\u2019s been a time-honored, American saying, bumper sticker, attitude for as long as I can remember. I think the Democrat Party\u2019s famous for this. They all promise to leave if Trump won the election or Bush won the election — and Trump and Bush won, and they never leave. They\u2019re the ones always threatening to, always promising to, but they never do, do they?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We may have the savior. Yes, we had the call from Iowa. Remember that guy? (summarized exchange) “We need a normal Republican, a normal Republican to run, because the Democrats are so radical, any normal Republican could win. Now, we don\u2019t owe Trump anything!” I said, “Well, give me a name.” (impression) “I — I — I — I don\u2019t know any names.” I said, “Well, then your quest to become somebody has failed, because if you\u2019re not gonna give me a name here…”<\/p>\n

Well, we have a name! A Republican has thrown hit hat into the ring. It happened on CNN right now earlier this afternoon<\/a>. The hostette, Brianna Keilar, was asking a member of Congress — a Republican from South Carolina — about his possibility of running for president. “So you\u2019re considering a primary run against a sitting president. Tell us why, Mark Sanford.”<\/p>\n

SANFORD: There is little to no — I guess I\u2019d say no — discussion of debt, deficit, and government spending in Washington these days. I\u2019ve watched two Democratic presidential debates, and there\u2019s been zero discussion on both of them as to this issue. The president said we\u2019re not gonna touch the very things that drive debt and spending. So I think that we\u2019re walking away into one heck of a financial storm, and there\u2019s no discussion. I was just sitting on set and listening to people discussing both sides of the president\u2019s comments. I think that they\u2019re noxious and they\u2019re weird and they\u2019re all those different things that people are discussing. But there is, again, plenty of discussion on that front. The place where there\u2019s no discussion is the way in which interest is the largest growing expense in the federal government!<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, there you have it. I mean, how can you stop this guy? Mark Sanford: “Everybody\u2019s talking about how weird Trump is, but nobody\u2019s talking about the interest and how interest on the debt is the largest growing expense of the federal government.” (interruption) “The” Mark Sanford, yes. “The” Mark Sanford! (laughing) How many years have people tried to scare everybody about at the deficit? How many years, how many decades have politicians tried to scare us about the deficit, the national debt, (Sen. Jim Sasser pronunciation) “the dafycit,” any number of things? Yet here we\u2019re still here, and the great jaws of the deficit have not bitten off our heads and chewed them up and spit them out.<\/p>\n

“Well, it\u2019s coming, Rush.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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