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RUSH: Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Paul, thank you for your patience, and hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great to speak with you, Rush. I don\u2019t mind waiting at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You mentioned at the beginning of the show today that there\u2019s an election in Chicago, and right you are. The mayoral election is going to be held where the new hizzoner is going to be picked —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The day of the living dead is Election Day in Chicago.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. The skids have been greased, the checks have been cashed, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and it will happen or something worse than that will happen. But, anyway, Rahm didn\u2019t have any problem in the financing area. Politico reports he raised $10.6 million in individual contributions, most of them big-ticket contributions of a hundred thousand or more. And just coincidentally, these were all made just before the deadline, before campaign finance rules took effect limiting contributions to 5K. That went into effect January the 1st. Notable among the contributors was a man who appeared at CPAC the week before last, and in a very carefully delivered speech from handwritten notes gave the impression he was a conservative. I\u2019m referring to The Donald, Mr. Trump. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I saw that, I didn\u2019t understand that, either. I didn\u2019t understand Trump giving money to Rahm. There\u2019s gotta be a reason for it. I\u2019m gonna ask Trump about it. I\u2019ll get an answer for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, wait a minute, it gets worse. If you go to the Illinois State Board of Elections website and look at his total contributions, he also gave multiple contributions to Rod Blagojevich. Yes, Blago, two contributions. He also gave two contributions to the Cook County Democratic Party.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Look, look, look, look, look, look. Trump\u2019s got a whole bunch of real estate going up in Chicago, he\u2019s got a bunch of condos, he\u2019s got a couple of buildings. I don\u2019t know what the status is. I think they\u2019ve run into some problems. This is all from the top-of -my-head memory.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: So what does that make him, Rush, a political opportunist, right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you\u2019re doing business in Chicago, what are you gonna do? If you want to build a condo high-rise in Chicago, there is the Chicago way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, look at all his other contributions. He\u2019s also given money to turncoat Republicans, Charlie Crist, Arlen Specter, both of them turncoats, and you go down the list they\u2019re all RINOs. What we have here is a dyed-in-the-wool RINO that the RINOs have picked to be their hired gun, so to speak, to run for the presidency.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look. Look. Trump has expressed a desire. He\u2019ll answer these questions. He\u2019ll answer these — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m sure he has other skeletons in his closet, but right now he\u2019s got a dead fish in his closet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute now. Out of the blue here you\u2019re dumping on Trump. You reminded me of something. There\u2019s a great episode of The Haney Project tonight and I got so caught up in this — it occurs on one of Trump\u2019s courses out in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. I forgot to mention this week, tonight and next Tuesday\u2019s night\u2019s the finale, and they\u2019re both great shows. Tonight\u2019s got Al Michaels. Al Michaels and I play a round, NBC Sports, Sunday Night Football. It\u2019s a great show, and I forgot totally to mention it. I feel remiss here. But I gotta ask you, what do you got against Trump? I mean Trump is not yet for sure running for anything. What\u2019s the deal?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I have nothing against Trump. What I want him to do is to be forthright about what his beliefs are. He was very noncommittal on most subjects when he made his speech at CPAC, and why would somebody make a 50K contribution to a political hatchet man of the other party a few weeks before he appears at a conservative political action conference? This contribution was made on December the 23rd of last year in the amount of $50,000.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s so they don\u2019t find him at the bottom of the New York reservoir with a cement swimsuit on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there was an offer made, I\u2019m sure, that he couldn\u2019t refuse, but the offer was made by the RINOs in the Republican Party who want him to be the hired gun.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, look. You claim you got nothing against Trump here, but you clearly do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, what I have against Trump is that he has not been straightforward with everybody so far. He needs to come clean and explain why he —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But he\u2019s not running for anything. If he decides to run, I guarantee you, you\u2019ll be among the many asking these questions.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll be very interested to see how he explains it. But his speech at CPAC is very unconvincing to me, and not only that, but the committee — okay, you\u2019ll remember his appearance at CPAC was a surprise appearance. Okay, to quote Virginia GOP chairman, former chairman Frederick, he said, ‘This was the most important event at CPAC. Trump came out of the closet in the sense of revealing he is a conservative.\u2019 Well, he didn\u2019t reveal he was a conservative as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/line>RUSH: Look, relax out there. Relax. I mean you\u2019re sounding like the left does when they hear Sarah Palin\u2019s name.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I want a genuine Republican to carry the banner for the party this year, not another RINO, and as of right now Trump\u2019s a RINO.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is a genuine Republican a RINO? That\u2019s what we\u2019re still trying to determine here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What does RINO mean? Republican-in-name-only.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, the Republican establishment we would all think are RINOs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So what we\u2019re looking for is a conservative, not a genuine Republican.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Trump\u2019s not a conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not saying he is. (laughing) Did you lose a lot of money at one of his casinos or something?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, people that have invested with him have lost billions over the years, as you know he\u2019s bankrupted half a dozen companies. So his claim to be a tremendous financier is due strictly to the fact that he\u2019s worth more out of jail than in jail to the banks that loaned him money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, there\u2019s some personal animus going on here or something that you don\u2019t want to own up to. I mean out of the blue, out of the blue here we are in the midst of a Hall of Fame show, and you hang on, he\u2019s been on hold for an hour and 45 minutes. That means he\u2019s passionate about this, folks. So something about Trump, something about Trump&hellip; <\/p>\n

As you know, the number of guests I do on this show you can count on one hand over the course of a year, but I\u2019ll call Trump and see if he wants to come on the program and talk about all this. We\u2019ll see. He may. I don\u2019t know. I intended to tell you about The Haney Project show tonight. It\u2019s Al Michaels and me at Trump National out at Rancho Palos Verdes, and it\u2019s a shame they couldn\u2019t have made a two-hour special out of it because it was a laugh riot. We taped it over two days, Al Michaels and I played a round of golf one day and the next day Haney and I go out, and there\u2019s some instruction and stuff. The finale is a week from tonight, and we shot that at Cabo San Lucas down in Mexico, the Baja peninsula. We shot it at a Discovery Land\u2019s property which is just stunning called El Dorado. It\u2019s a Nicklaus design. It used to be a public golf course property, and Mike Meldman discovered it, took it over, bought it, and has turned it into just a fabulous place right there on the beach at San Jose del Cabo. <\/p>\n

Haney wasn\u2019t around when Al and I played. It was just Al and I out there. Al and I played on I guess a Thursday, Haney showed up on Friday, it was a two-day shoot. Hank was not there when Al and I were motoring around the place. But in the finale I took George Brett with me to close the loop. He was with me in the first episode, took George Brett. Fred Couples was down there just spending some time before going to LA for the Northern Trust Open, which he ended up playing pretty well in, and he has a little cameo, a couple appearances in the finale next Tuesday night. That was a hoot. So, it\u2019s The Haney Project tonight with Al Michaels and Trump\u2019s not in it so, if you got problem out there — (laughing). In fact, Trump called us. We\u2019re playing golf and Trump called us. Trump\u2019s a funny guy. Al and I were on the driving range after the round, we\u2019re looking out. It\u2019s a crystal clear day. You could see Catalina. <\/p>\n

There was no smog or anything, and Trump calls, he\u2019s a constant salesman. They put his call on the speaker and we\u2019re talking to him and he says, ‘Look, guys, look out there. This is the best course in California. Hands down, there\u2019s not a course that compares to it.\u2019 I said, ‘Wait a minute. Have you ever heard of Pebble Beach?\u2019 He said, ‘Hell, Pebble Beach. Look at Pebble Beach. When you\u2019re at Pebble Beach, where are you?\u2019 I said, ‘Well, Carmel — the bay.\u2019 ‘Exactly. Exactly right. You\u2019re on a bay. But when you\u2019re at Trump National you\u2019re on the ocean. You got an ocean to look at, not just a little bay.\u2019 He starts talking about the greatest course in the country, greatest layout in the country. (laughing) Wherever you are with him, whatever it is, it\u2019s the best. And if you don\u2019t believe so, he\u2019ll tell you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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