RUSH: Pat in Greenville, Texas. Welcome, sir. Glad you waited. You are up next.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I want to just say quickly, you are at the top, you and the election are at the top of our prayer list about every time. I have two questions that are related. What happens to these great American cities when all this business and these people and the commerce that they do are just deserted, more or less? How we gonna make up for that?<\/p>\n
And kind of even more important to me personally is all of these liberals are moving to Texas and a lot of conservatives states, but particularly here. And we are a conservative bulwark, and so what happens — every election Texas is a little more blue and a little more blue. What happens when these people come and turn us into blue states?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, if that happens in Texas, you can forget about winning the presidency unless we convert some other state to it. Now, there\u2019s a lot of variables in your question. The first question is, what\u2019s gonna happen to all of these cities — I assume you mean these blue cities, these Democrat cities like Minneapolis and Chicago and Portland, New York, these cities are essentially still in lockdown and shutdown.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you what they\u2019re planning on. They\u2019re planning on Biden winning and all these states being bailed out. That is the plan. And that\u2019s the bet. The bet is that they\u2019ll be able to tolerate two more months of basically being shut down or in a form of lockdown, just enough to make sure that the suppressed economic activity in these cities will be enough to prevent great economic recovery numbers nationwide so that Trump cannot use them as part of his campaign.<\/p>\n
The objective, they think they\u2019re gonna win. And after they win and Biden is elected, then they\u2019re going to bail out these states and these cities. That\u2019s the plan. If they lose, well, then those bailouts are not necessarily guaranteed. That would keep Trump in the Oval Office. And he is going to see no need to reward these people for their efforts to damage his presidency and to damage his campaign.<\/p>\n
I think these blue state governors and cities are playing with fire. And I think they\u2019re doing so by playing with the lives of their own constituents that I think is gonna come back and bite them in the rear so bad they\u2019re not gonna know who and what did it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The lady\u2019s last question, what do we do about all these liberals leaving their own disasters of states and moving to places like Texas and Florida and North Carolina, bunch of these displaced liberal Northeasterners moving to Texas. Isn\u2019t this eventually going to turn Texas into a blue state, she said.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it could. It could. But if you look at the borders, the border counties in Texas that border on Mexico, they\u2019re already purple. And that\u2019s immigration. That\u2019s illegal immigration. That is already a sign. That\u2019s not migration from the Northeast or from the upper Midwest. I saw that, and that was very sobering.<\/p>\n
Now, we\u2019re probably not in danger of losing Texas right now, but there\u2019s a bigger problem that we face. I think it was earlier this week there was some Never Trumper, and even if I remembered his name, I wouldn\u2019t mention it to you. And he\u2019s not alone. There\u2019s a bunch of these people out there saying that the only hope for the Republican Party is a massive defeat. Just lose and lose big. That\u2019s the only way of getting rid of the Trump influence in the Republican Party, and then after a massive defeat, the Republican Party can then begin to reassemble itself, put itself back together into a proper, functioning political party.<\/p>\n
And what struck me about this — and it\u2019s not just Never Trumpers, although they\u2019re singing from that hymnal, I don\u2019t understand all of these people who think somehow by losing they win. And it pinpoints a problem that we have. Up until Donald Trump the Republican Party never looked at itself as something that was designed to win. It was supposed to lose. Lose with honor. If it lost, which was going to happen because we\u2019re the minority party, this is what the people that led the party believed.<\/p>\n
This is what the Romneys and the McCains, you know, this group of people that led the Republican Party, their belief was — like McCain knew he wasn\u2019t gonna be elected president. That\u2019s not why he ran. He ran to put it on the resume. He ran to make sure that his life and his resume were complete. He wanted the honor of having started out John McCain, son of John McCain, goes to Annapolis, serves in Vietnam, shot down, Hanoi Hilton, all that, caps it off by running for president. He knew he gonna lose, especially after he shut down his campaign in the middle of the financial crisis. Expected to lose. Romney expected to lose. They didn\u2019t really think they were gonna win.<\/p>\n
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But losing with honor, losing with good manners, losing in such a way that the left and the Democrats still respect you in the morning was the objective. And now we have somebody who doesn\u2019t even understand the concept of losing, doesn\u2019t want to lose, does not think there\u2019s any value in losing and believes, in fact, in the exact opposite, and that\u2019s winning. And the reason this is important — let\u2019s look at Texas. If you just look at demographic shifts, it\u2019s only a matter of time before we lose it.<\/p>\n
If your attitude is that the Republicans are not really about winning but about maintaining and losing with honor, losing with dignity, then eventually we\u2019re gonna lose Texas. Eventually demographics are gonna takeover. You\u2019re gonna have the shift from the Northeast and the upper Midwest, and the illegal immigration is gonna have its impact. And eventually Texas is gonna go blue. And they think this is going to happen and nothing can stop it.<\/p>\n
Now, naturally people who do not think about winning would have that attitude. So this Never Trumper that I saw earlier this week — and there\u2019s a bunch of them — who literally believe that the only salvation going forward is for the Republican Party to lose. Then it can get rid of all these bad influences led by Trump, sweep everybody away, including talk radio, including Fox News, get rid of the conservatives in the Republican Party, start brand-new, and go back to what the Republican Party was. A bunch of moderate RINO\u2019s who had their own leaders that the left accepted but they were any expected to win.<\/p>\n
Sorry. That isn\u2019t who makes up the Republican Party. The Republican Party is made up of people who want to win, who want to defeat the left. And that\u2019s why they do not abandon Trump. It\u2019s why they will not abandon Trump no matter what tricks the left comes up with. So how do we stop Texas from going blue? Simple. You compete. You stop treating all of this as a fait accompli. You don\u2019t simply accept Texas is gonna go blue, there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it. You compete for these people.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Trump is doing. That\u2019s why Trump is such a godsend for our party. He is competing. He is out trying to get as many people in this country as he can to join his movement. He\u2019s not trying to lose. He\u2019s not trying to clean things up and make the party something that it isn\u2019t. He\u2019s trying to rename it, reshape it so that it is a party of victory. And what\u2019s the slogan? Make America Great Again. America first.<\/p>\n
Everything he\u2019s talking about is real. Everything that he believes, everything that\u2019s part of his campaign, sloganeering, whatever, his agenda. It\u2019s about America and being great. It\u2019s about America returning to great prominence. It\u2019s about America being first again in the ultimate, most positive of ways. And he is attempting to bring as many people into this movement as he can. And that\u2019s how you do it.<\/p>\n
You sure as hell do not do it by losing. Who the hell wants to join a party that just lost on purpose, as a means of somehow cleaning itself up? There\u2019s not a reasonable people with a sense of common sense anywhere that wants to join a party that just lost on purpose. But yet all of these former Republicans somehow seem to think that that\u2019s the ticket.<\/p>\n
We have a guy who is the president who\u2019s the leader of the party who is obsessed with winning because of what it means for everybody. And there are other moderate, RINO Republicans who somehow are offended by this. Trump has implemented elements of an agenda that they have devoted their lives to advancing. And yet they\u2019re miserable. They\u2019re unhappy. And they hate Trump for doing it.<\/p>\n
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Now, why? Is it because Trump\u2019s the one doing it and they couldn\u2019t find a way to do it? Maybe they couldn\u2019t find a way to implement their agenda \u2019cause they don\u2019t have the slightest idea how. Maybe they don\u2019t care because that\u2019s not their objective. Maybe their objective is just to be considered smart, qualified for this think tank or that think tank or this magazine or that magazine, but actually doing the heavy lifting of implementing an agenda? Why, they said all these years if they couldn\u2019t do it, nobody could.<\/p>\n
Trump in three years demonstrated the utter incompetence of all of these supposed conservative leaders. And that had to anger them and shake them up as well. But look, politics isn\u2019t beanbag, and it\u2019s not for the faint of heart. And you don\u2019t just sit there and say someday we\u2019re gonna lose Texas. Not if you mean it. Not if you\u2019re serious. Not if you\u2019re in this because you really love your country and you want to save it from the ravages of the radical left.<\/p>\n
You have to compete. You have to compete for the minds and hearts of the American people. That\u2019s what Trump is doing. And you see what that is making happen to him. You see what they are attempting to do at him, and yet he doesn\u2019t give up, he doesn\u2019t back off, he doesn\u2019t tone it down, he doesn\u2019t change, he doesn\u2019t beg for better treatment. He just keeps piling it on \u2019em. He\u2019s showing how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
Can you imagine if we had an actual party apparatus that was unified by Donald Trump and wanted to help him accomplish his agenda? We would be living in a much different party. We would be living in a much different presidential campaign. And we would be living in a much different country.<\/p>\n
Look at this, folks. Ann Romney, the wife of Mitt Romney will team up with Michelle Obama and Hollywood liberals in a comedy special designed to get out the vote. Ann Romney is going to team up with Michelle (My Belle) Obama in a comedy special? Are these two women funny?<\/p>\n
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So she\u2019s gonna team up with Hollywood liberals in a get-out-the-vote effort, and the get-out-the-vote effort is a get-out-the-vote against Trump. I mean, it is just astounding, the opposition and the obstacles that Donald Trump has to go through in order to see to it that he has a chance of having his agenda implemented.<\/p>\n
The thing is, the only thing left in this country that\u2019s allowed to be joked about is Trump and white people and Christians. That\u2019s who you can legally make fun of now. Ann Romney probably admired in the Mormon community in Utah. So who knows what impact this is gonna have. But I think it\u2019s a dreadful mistake. I think it\u2019s pure, petty, personal, nose-out-of-joint stuff.<\/p>\n
And all this talk about Donald Trump\u2019s manners offend me and Donald Trump\u2019s tweets offend, those are just convenient excuses for people who just can\u2019t admit that they can\u2019t hold a candle to Trump in any of these competitive ways that would be necessary to beat him.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We are literally in a fight for the soul of this nation. We are in a fight to preserve the American founding and to preserve the American way of life. We are in a fight to preserve Western civilization. And I\u2019m sorry, folks, but you don\u2019t do that by losing. You don\u2019t do that by hoping your party loses in a massive landslide so that somehow you get to put the pieces back together because there aren\u2019t gonna be enough pieces to put back together to make anything sensible out of it. How in the world does a massive rejection, which equals a defeat, how in the world does that set you up for massive success down the line? But yet this is what we\u2019re getting from our Never Trumpers and a whole bunch of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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