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RUSH: Did you hear what Trump said? Well, that\u2019s like asking, Did you ever hear what I said? Trump said, “I\u2019m a conservative but at this point who cares. We have got to straighten out this country.” Yep. He said, “I\u2019m a conservative. Of course I\u2019m a conservative! But who cares? What does it matter? We have got to straighten out this country.” A lot of people think that conservatism is how you do it.<\/p>\n

Here is Alfonzo in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Great to have you on the program, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush! I love you man. I can sum up the Trump campaign in four words: “I hope he fails.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hillary Clinton and the Democrats are like arsonists that burn down your house. Trump paid for the gas, he paid for the matches, and he paid for the cab ride to your house. Now he wants to turn around after your house is burned down and tell you, “I\u2019m gonna make your house great again.” I can\u2019t choose between Hillary Clinton and a Hillary Clinton donor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trump says those are his old days, that he\u2019s gonna eviscerate Hillary Clinton now. He\u2019s gonna rip her to shreds in his campaign. He\u2019s going to beat her. He doesn\u2019t deny having donated to these people, by the way.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Well, you know, I just… I — I don\u2019t believe it. I don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I know how you feel about Trump, but why are you for Cruz? Are there affirmative reasons why you are supporting Cruz?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. I voted for Cruz when I lived in Texas and he ran against [David] Dewhurst, and they all said he couldn\u2019t do it, and that he wasn\u2019t an outsider. He is the epitome of the Tea Party. He\u2019s not the establishment. He is America. He\u2019s the flag. He\u2019s… I\u2019m against the establishment and everything they\u2019ve done. You know, Trump wants to get things done? Well, we\u2019ve gotten $19 trillion in debt with the things are getting done. Frankly, I\u2019d like them to not get anything done. Go play golf! Go away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you don\u2019t believe Trump? You —<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: No, you actually don\u2019t believe Trump is going to do anything that he says he\u2019s going to do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do not believe Lyin\u2019 Don.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lyin\u2019 Don. All right. Okay. We got you. Lyin\u2019 Donald. You\u2019re not gonna vote for a Hillary donor or Hillary. I don\u2019t want that option. Alfonzo has thought about it out there, and… Well, Alfonzo, thanks for the call. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

Brian in Davenport, Iowa, you\u2019re next. Your turn. Make it count. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: One common thread woven throughout the years of your political commentary, Rush. Your values, your principles are steadfast and they are never changing. You have already told us how to vote. If people really listen to the values, the principles that you talk about on a daily basis, it\u2019s not that hard to figure it out who you\u2019re voting for, and I do hope you\u2019re voting. You know, it\u2019s a liberal —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course I vote. What do you mean? Of course I\u2019m voting? I voted in the Florida primary, and I\u2019m gonna vote in November. Of course I am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, absolutely. I believe it. You know, what? It\u2019s a liberal attribute to, uh, put your party first and then think about your values and principles maybe if it\u2019s convenient. But a conservative attribute is to look at your values, your principles, the things that you believe in, and then make an educated decision on that. You know, an analogy I could use is how you talk about Apple all the time. You\u2019ve never gone out and told everybody what to buy for an iPhone or an iPad. You\u2019ve talked about your excitement over getting a new product, you\u2019ve talked about your disappointment of battery going dead. But then they fixed it. “Oh, man it\u2019s great,” you know?” So here I am. I\u2019m out shopping for an iPad, thinking about gettin\u2019 one, but you never… I don\u2019t know anybody that calls in and accuses you of being an Apple endorser or —<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Oh, they\u2019re out there, believe me.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: All kinds of people think I\u2019m shilling. But I\u2019m not. You\u2019re right, I don\u2019t. I just share my passions with people, is all I do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, I\u2019m listening to the things you say about Apple, I like the things that you say. There\u2019s some pros, there\u2019s some cons. But, you know, Rush, people, if they really listen to you, they\u2019ll know who you\u2019re voting for. You have to! People want you to tell them how to vote, but they don\u2019t want to sit down and look at the things that you believe in and the things they believe in and make an educated decision. The same people that want to slam you every day for not endorsing their candidate, those hardcore people are gonna be the same people that won\u2019t listen to you when it comes to down to their candidate losing, and you\u2019re trying to get everybody to rally against the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that is absolutely true, and you obviously are very perceptive and sharp, and you listen deeply. You\u2019re not somebody — thank you, sir — catching the surface waves out there, if you will. And I appreciate that. And you\u2019re absolutely right. To me, the objective is stopping the Democrat Party. I don\u2019t know how else to say it. They are the most destructive force in America today. I could make the case that everything many of you think is wrong in this country can be traced back to Democrat Party or American liberal policies or power.<\/p>\n

“Power” meaning power over education (from K all the way up through the university level) to power over the pop culture. But everything that\u2019s happening — all the cultural rot that is called tolerance, all the cultural rot that is called modernization and so forth, all of this — all of this has origins, and the originals are liberalism, socialism, the Democrat Party, you name it. And they have to be stopped. And there is… Now, unlike our last caller, I don\u2019t think there is anybody running on the Republican side that comes anywhere close to the destructive nature…<\/p>\n

You know people on the Republican side that don\u2019t like America. They\u2019re all over the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is loaded with people who have never believed in America\u2019s greatness and do not want America to be great because they hate capitalism. They hate the founding, whatever. They do not want this country to be great. They do not want this country to be exceptional in any way. They are delusional and deranged in many cases. These people at one time were college students themselves back in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

They happen to be running the country today, in many ways, in many regards. And, to me, that is the ultimate objective, which is why I told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday… He asked me in a trick question about what I thought was gonna happen when all this was over. I said, “It\u2019s a trick question,” because it\u2019s the only one I didn\u2019t correctly anticipate that he would ask, and I just gave the stock answer on unity, that I think — I hope — that when the time comes, everybody\u2019s gonna realize who the real enemy is. But that may not happen. You just said that the rule of principled people is to put all of that before party.<\/p>\n

Well, to some people the party is the principle.<\/p>\n

To the establishment, the party is everything, because that\u2019s where they are. That\u2019s where their careers are. That\u2019s where their identity is. That\u2019s where their own self-esteem is. That\u2019s where their connections are. It\u2019s where they matter as being in tight with that entire establishment. So above all else, it must be preserved and held onto. I think one of the biggest myths, if you will, is the idea that the Republican Party\u2019s a Conservative Party. It hasn\u2019t been in a long time. You could say compared to Democrats, maybe.<\/p>\n

<\/a>But as structured, it never really has been a Conservative Party. It has been where the conservatives in America are, but the party itself has never really embraced conservatism. It\u2019s been forced to accept it occasionally, with Ronaldus Magnus being an example, and there are some others, of course. But I\u2019ll tell you something, folks. My theory about Cruz — and it\u2019s not a theory. I don\u2019t know how many people in the GOP-E would admit to it. But did you see George Will\u2019s column? Did you hear about George Will\u2019s column over the weekend?<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never seen any like it. I have never in my life seen… George Will actually said that the job of the Republican Party, if Trump is the nominee, will be to lose the presidential election by 50 states. If Trump is the nominee, the GOP must work hard to lose all 50 states. Because the party and preserving it is paramount. And going back to the theory that if Cruz is the nominee and the party wants him to lose… By the way, the party\u2019s got all kinds of different people in it. There\u2019s not a unified position.<\/p>\n

Some of them are more opposed to Trump than they are Cruz. But officially, if they had to pick — and it\u2019s not hard, once this is explained. If it\u2019s Cruz versus Trump, you have the establishment deciding which one they prefer, you have to understand that they think that both are going to lose in a landslide. You start with that. Many in the Republican Party, in the conservative media, Republican media — many in the Republican Party — have already given up. They have already assumed that both these guys would lose and lose big.<\/p>\n

So, given that that is a reality, they have then factored, “How do we benefit the most or how do we lose the most?” And the way they\u2019re calculating this is, who would they rather never have to deal with again? And that\u2019s Cruz. Because there are a lot of Cruzes, in the sense there are a lot of principled conservatives out there. There are a lot of people that want to shake up the establishment. There are a lot of Republicans who would like to follow in the footsteps of Cruz.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s only one Trump, meaning there aren\u2019t a whole lot of people out there who could be Donald Trump tomorrow if they wanted to be. But the Republican Party is filled with potential Ted Cruzes. So they don\u2019t think they have to worry about another Trump ever again, \u2019cause he\u2019s the only one there is. But Cruz? Well, there\u2019s a lot of potential Cruzes out there. And how do they get rid of them once and for all? And the answer to that is, Cruz getting the nomination and losing 50 states.<\/p>\n

And then they can say, “See? We told you! We told you that if you nominated this guy, it was gonna be Goldwater all over again. You keep telling us…” They will say, “You keep telling us that we pick these RINOs or these moderate, these Northeastern liberals like Romney or these moderates like McCain and Dole, and they lose all the time. What happens when you guys run? You guys lose in landslides! You guys lose. Just go away — and take your abortion with you, and take your gay marriage with you. Take your social issues with you and just go away, because we can\u2019t win with you guys.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the dream.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s all based on the fact that there\u2019s a lot of potential Ted Cruzes. There\u2019s a lot of principled conservatives out there. But Trump is a genuine — you know this — outsider that they don\u2019t know how to deal with. He has his own money, doesn\u2019t need any part of the apparatus. They don\u2019t figure there\u2019s very many of those, if any. So that\u2019s where I think they line up on all this. And of course, the Cruz people think he can beat Hillary and the Trump people think he can beat Hillary — and they think he can beat Hillary in a landslide.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have any polling data that… Uh, uh, uh! But we do. We just got a poll today that shows Trump beats Hillary by three points. First time that\u2019s happened. But what a disconnect! The party big wigs think we are destined to lose big, and the supporters of both Trump and Cruz think their guy can beat Hillary — and I happen to agree with them. And even if I didn\u2019t, I wouldn\u2019t go conceding anything in freaking May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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