{"id":380922,"date":"2021-02-01T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=380922"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:36:11","slug":"why-are-they-so-afraid-of-donald-trump-rising-from-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/01\/why-are-they-so-afraid-of-donald-trump-rising-from-the-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are They So Afraid of Donald Trump Rising from the Ashes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There\u2019s two different things going on if we go by the headlines. First up is a story about the Illinois Republican congressman. His name is Adam Kinzinger, and he has been anti-Trump for practically as long as Trump has been, and the headline of this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-01-31\/we-traffic-in-lies-a-house-republican-launches-campaign-to-take-back-our-party\">&#8220;A House Republican Launches Campaign to &#8216;Take Back Our Party.'&#8221;<\/a> That would imply&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379030\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Trump.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011821-Trump-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Well, let\u2019s read a little more before we get to the implication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Republican Party wrestles with its identity in the wake of former President Trump, an Illinois Republican is out to prove there is a GOP voter base that wants to give up the division and conspiracy theories that he says have come to define the party.&#8221; Is that what &#8220;Trump cult&#8221; is? Is that&#8230;? It\u2019s not even a cult. Yet they say it is. Is that what 75 million people think?<\/p>\n<p>The 75 million people who voted for Trump, they\u2019re just a bunch of conspiracy theorists? Is that all? It doesn\u2019t seem to me that they are the story. The story is what\u2019s happening on the other side. The story here is essentially how everything we thought was legitimate is rigged. We\u2019ve been playing the game as though everything\u2019s legitimate, and isn\u2019t, and it\u2019s rigged against us.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not a conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>But, anyway, the point Mr. Kinzinger, he says, &#8220;The biggest danger right now is that we\u2019ve become a party that dabbles &#8212; not just dabbles &#8212; we traffic in conspiracies and we traffic in lies.\u2019 &#8230; Trump\u2019s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill was a wake-up call&#8230;&#8221; I don\u2019t think&#8230; This is like the Trump-Russia collusion story, folks.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing here, and yet they\u2019re creating a whole brand-new favorite out of this. They\u2019ve already done it, actually, and just as they convinced people that Trump colluded with Russia, so they have convinced people that Trump gave marching orders to the people that did what they did on January 6. We\u2019re gonna come to find that it was not Trump supporters that did it.<\/p>\n<p>Pipe bombed were planted the night before, before Trump even made a speech about this. But, anyway, Mr. Kinzinger says that he\u2019s launching a movement to &#8220;take back&#8221; the party. Now, the next story has a different headline: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/536714-former-bush-officials-leave-gop-over-failure-to-disown-trump-report\">&#8220;Former Bush Officials Leave GOP Over Failure to Disown Trump.&#8221;<\/a> I got two stories on this, one from TheHill.com; the other from U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/536714-former-bush-officials-leave-gop-over-failure-to-disown-trump-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-380916 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-The-Hill-TEARAWAY-020121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-The-Hill-TEARAWAY-020121.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-The-Hill-TEARAWAY-020121-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-The-Hill-TEARAWAY-020121-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Dozens of members of former President George W. Bush\u2019s administration are reportedly planning to leave the Republican Party following the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, citing the party\u2019s ongoing embrace of [Donald] Trump. Sources told Reuters that as many as 60 former officials would leave the party in the coming days, with at least one also citing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s (R-GA) promotion of conspiracy theories as a reason for their exit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;If it continues to be the party of Trump, many of us are not going back,\u2019 said Rosario Marin, a former U.S. Treasury official, told the news service. &#8216;Unless the Senate convicts him, and rids themselves of the Trump cancer, many of us will not be going back to vote for Republican leaders.'&#8221; So they\u2019re gonna leave the party; Adam Kinzinger\u2019s group is gonna try to take it back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jimmy Gurule, a former Treasury undersecretary, added that the Republican Party as he knew it &#8216;no longer exists.\u2019 &#8216;I\u2019d call it the cult of Trump,\u2019 he said. &#8216;The number (of defections) is growing every day,\u2019 said Kristopher Purcell, a Bush White House communications staffer, according to Reuters.&#8221; So that\u2019s TheHill.com story on this. Unless the Senate convicts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hasn\u2019t it been learned that they don\u2019t have the votes to convict? There will not be a conviction. They\u2019re gonna go to the with this anyway, but there will not be a conviction, right? So these guys are saying, &#8220;Unless the Senate convicts him and rids themselves of the Trump cancer, many of us are not gonna go back.&#8221; So if there\u2019s no conviction, they\u2019re not gonna go back.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not gonna go back. The Republican Party will never see them again. You know, there is Democrat-sponsored legislation right now &#8212; it\u2019s pending &#8212; that would prevent any public building or artifact, even a bench, from being named after the 45th president. Even a bench! You know, I just put a bench in my backyard. I\u2019m gonna go out there; I\u2019m gonna put a plaque on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald J. Trump Memorial Bench.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See if somebody comes after me.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Kathryn put it out there. I would love to claim that. It\u2019s a beautiful bench. We go sit over there, look at the ocean. But listen. This is&#8230; Folks, every one of these people knew. You keep coming back to this fact that everybody knew about this contrived effort to cover up the behavior of the people who were attempting to get rid of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The more this goes on and the more American people learn, they\u2019re going to learn&#8230; You know, people say, &#8220;Well, Rush, I mean if everything\u2019s corrupt, how long is this gonna go?&#8221; You gotta understand something, folks &#8212; and don\u2019t argue with me. We\u2019re at a point here where it\u2019s still safe to say the majority &#8212; a majority &#8212; of the American people still don\u2019t quite know the truth of everything.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380941\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020121-Trump-PA-SKY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020121-Trump-PA-SKY.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020121-Trump-PA-SKY-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020121-Trump-PA-SKY-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason I say that is important. It is because we haven\u2019t reached threshold yet of public awareness and knowledge, which would create the pushback to this. I guarantee you, you just do a random man-on-the-street interview. Grab anybody you want, start talking to \u2019em about the Mueller investigation and you\u2019ll find very few who will be able to tell you that it was bogus, that it was never legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find people, to this day, who still think that it was a worthwhile thing to do, that if the president of the United States had indeed stolen an election we needed to get to the bottom of it. That\u2019s what you\u2019ll hear people say. You will not hear most people say, &#8220;That was bogus! There was never any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This thing was a total fraudulent investigation from the beginning.&#8221; We\u2019re not there yet. You gotta remember whatever the percentage of the American people that only get their news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times don\u2019t know anything. People that get their news here know the truth. People that get their news from Fox News, they know a lot of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re not anywhere near the threshold of a significant percentage of the American population yet realizing, &#8220;Well, Rush, what about the 75 million who voted for Trump?&#8221; I know. Even if that 75 million you have a large number who think Trump beat the investigation. You\u2019re not gonna find a majority of people who think the investigation was totally made up, bogus, and irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not gonna find that yet. That knowledge has not yet been disseminated widely enough in the American population. So if you\u2019re wondering why hasn\u2019t there been pushback on the fact that everything\u2019s rigged, most people don\u2019t yet know the extent of it, is the answer to that question. The other version of this story from U.S. News:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/top-news\/articles\/2021-02-01\/exclusive-dozens-of-former-bush-officials-leave-republican-party-calling-it-trump-cult\">&#8220;Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it &#8216;Trump cult.'&#8221;<\/a> It\u2019s basically a rehash of TheHill.com story, quoting different Bush administration officials. But they\u2019re all leaving the party rather than trying to recapture the party. It doesn\u2019t say where they\u2019re gonna go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/top-news\/articles\/2021-02-01\/exclusive-dozens-of-former-bush-officials-leave-republican-party-calling-it-trump-cult\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380918\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-US-NEWS-TEARAWAY-020121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-US-NEWS-TEARAWAY-020121.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-US-NEWS-TEARAWAY-020121-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-US-NEWS-TEARAWAY-020121-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;[T]hey had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen.&#8221; Can I ask you another question? What is so hell-bent about that? So what, Trump thinks the election was stolen. So what?<\/p>\n<p>Why is this something that everybody has to swear to &#8212; as though it is a religious requirement &#8212; that you can\u2019t worship unless you acknowledge this? And the Democrats have put this out. The Biden administration, the media, they\u2019re all saying, &#8220;You have got to admit it! You cannot say, you cannot deny, you cannot speculate that the 2020 election was not legitimate. You must swear that it was!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, who does these kind of things? Communist organizations demand this. Socialist organizations demand fealty, in terms of mind thought. It\u2019s communists that tell you how you must think in addition to how you must live and behave. But they don\u2019t stop at that. How you must think. You are committing a crime against the state if you even allege or allude to the fact that this election was not legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>So here come these former Bush officials. &#8220;[T]hey had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen. But with most Republican lawmakers sticking to Trump, these officials say they no longer recognize the party they served.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some have ended their membership, others are letting it lapse while a few are newly registered as independents, according to a dozen former Bush officials who spoke with Reuters,&#8221; and here\u2019s Jimmy Gurule quoted again: &#8220;The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I\u2019d call it the cult of Trump.&#8221; So what? If Trump wants to think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why is it mandatory that Trump come out and say that he thinks Biden legitimately won? Why? &#8220;It\u2019s \u2019cause it\u2019s necessary for the peaceful transition of power.&#8221; No, it isn\u2019t, because we\u2019ve got that. We had a peaceful transition of power. Who\u2019s in the White House? Biden. Did anybody try to stop him? No. &#8220;What about January 6?&#8221; As far as I know, Biden\u2019s in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Who gave the inauguration speech? Biden. Who prevented people from showing up and hearing it? Biden. The Washington establishment made sure that there was no crowd at the Biden inauguration. Trump had nothing to do with any of that. Trump can\u2019t determine who shows up and who doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s not his show. It\u2019s Biden\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253557\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryRussian-Hack-Democrats-Hillary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryRussian-Hack-Democrats-Hillary.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryRussian-Hack-Democrats-Hillary-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>When did Hillary Clinton swear that Trump\u2019s election was legit? When was she said to have to do this? Hillary Clinton was allowed for four years to claim that Trump\u2019s election was illegitimate. Stacey Abrams. Stacey Abrams, for four years, has run around calling herself the governor of Georgia. What is more cultlike than making somebody swear to something that isn\u2019t true?<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton was not elected president, and yet she\u2019s out there for four years maintaining she was, and her supporters believed that she was. I\u2019m telling you, folks, there\u2019s no cultlike behavior here from Donald Trump. This is eerie stuff. This is really strange and eerie stuff. Joe Biden was inaugurated, he gave his speech, he\u2019s issuing executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s doing his best to wipe out every bit of evidence that Trump was ever president. What do you mean there\u2019s cultlike Trump people preventing the peaceful transfer of power? There\u2019s no such thing. We had a peaceful transfer of power, as evidenced by the fact that Biden\u2019s in there and nobody tried to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>And yet these people continue to claim that until Trump comes out and claims that Biden is the legitimate winner, that we\u2019re not gonna have a complete, peaceful transfer of power. What a crock. What an absolute crock. Mind control, thought control, you name it. The stuff stops with these people.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Margaret, San Jose, California, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey. Pleasure and honor to speak with you. I wanted to let you know that I sent your name to Lourdes, France, with Order of Malta for your healing. I wanted to say to you you\u2019re scaring me and you\u2019re confusing me because last week, several people called in and said that we\u2019ve lost our republic.<\/p>\n<p>And then you answered, &#8220;Well, I hope you haven\u2019t lost hope.&#8221; But you continually say every day and drill into our heads that everything is rigged, that they\u2019re gonna make &#8212; Democrats are gonna make &#8212; certain that they never gonna lose again, they\u2019re gonna pack the courts, they\u2019re gonna get statehood.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I said they\u2019re gonna try. We haven\u2019t&#8230; I just said &#8212; and I\u2019m glad you called. I just said we haven\u2019t reached anywhere near the threshold of public opinion being informed on this. Most Americans simply&#8230; (sigh) Would you say that half the American people access the news via ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The answer is &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379319\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011921-Rush-MAGA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011921-Rush-MAGA.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011921-Rush-MAGA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-011921-Rush-MAGA-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If they do, it means they don\u2019t listen to this program. It means they do not know the extent to which the game is rigged against them. They\u2019re gonna find out at some point. They don\u2019t know yet. We haven\u2019t reached the threshold.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What kind of power do we have? They have the media. They have the corrupt federal agencies. They have the corrupt Republicans and weak Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why are they so afraid of Donald Trump being born again from the ashes? Why are they so afraid? They don\u2019t think they\u2019ve won this yet.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But they cheated him the first time. They\u2019re gonna do it again. He hasn\u2019t got a prayer to try and run again 2024.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t think&#8230; Well, I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re gonna succeed in doing with Trump. But I refuse to say these peoples\u2019 days of losing are over. That\u2019s not true. They\u2019re gonna lose and they\u2019re gonna lose big down the road. This is not what the American people want, and they\u2019re gonna find out.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So you think the people have power to do something even though &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes. It\u2019s called informing everybody. I do think that power exists. Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay. Well, I needed hope. I need some hope here, because I\u2019m feeling like there is no hope.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you also need truth. You need reality, which is what we deal with here.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, stick with me on this. We had news today about how thousands of Americans who work at the Keystone pipeline had no idea what was coming. They had no idea Biden was gonna shut it down. Yet we had all this talk of the Green New Deal during the campaign, and all this talk of the Green New Deal mentioned what was gonna happen to oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>It mentioned &#8212; proudly, happily &#8212; what was gonna happen to coal. And yet the Democrat Party still voted for these people. Unionized workers still voted for these people. What does it tell you? It tells you they don\u2019t know what the hell they\u2019re voting for. They\u2019re voting for somebody with a D next to their name. That\u2019s all that mattered!<\/p>\n<p>They had been convinced that Trump was a bad guy, that Trump was this and that; he had to go. Well, guess what they\u2019re gonna found out find out? They\u2019re gonna find out Trump was protecting them. They\u2019re gonna find out Trump was reason they had a job at the Keystone XL. They\u2019re gonna find out that just like in West Virginia and other places, that Trump is the reason they had jobs in the coal industry.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them already know, in fact. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2021\/01\/29\/its-about-conformity-not-climate-change\/\">Keystone XL is a different thing.<\/a> They\u2019re gonna find out in Portland and in Seattle that it was the Democrat governors there that perpetuated that mess, not Trump. The media blamed Trump for nine months for all the civil unrest in Democrat cities and states. So these Keystone XL pipeline workers, now John Kerry\u2019s out there telling them, &#8220;Well, you\u2019re gonna have even more options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2021\/01\/28\/climate-change-the-gateway-for-leftists-to-control-every-aspect-of-your-life\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380387\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012821-Keystone-Guy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012821-Keystone-Guy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012821-Keystone-Guy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-012821-Keystone-Guy-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;You should go out and sell solar panels.&#8221; You think that\u2019s what they want? They are acting exactly as what you would expect people who didn\u2019t know what was coming to act. I\u2019ll guarantee you, a bunch of people that work at the Keystone pipeline voted for Biden. Just guarantee you. A lot of people are union people, you vote for the Democrat, guarantee you.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not gonna be happy with this &#8212; and there will be pushback. The more John Kerry and these guys keep talking about their future of selling solar panels, there\u2019s gonna be a pushback at some point. We\u2019re just not there yet. You think we are because you listen to this program and think everybody listens to this program, but everybody doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of Americans still watch ABC, CBS, NBC, and read the New York Times and the Washington Post &#8212; and that\u2019s the competition. And we know that they lie. We know that they\u2019re fake news. We know they\u2019re making it up and we know that people that read them and watch them treat them as gospel. They\u2019re the Bible. Do you remember last weekend&#8230;? We had the audio sound bite of this.<\/p>\n<p>George Stephanopoulos tried two or three times to force Rand Paul, senator from Kentucky, to admit on TV that the election was legitimate. &#8220;Come on! Just say it, Senator! Just say it.&#8221; Like it was the most important thing in the world that he had to say. Stephanopoulos was screaming at Senator Paul, &#8220;Say it! Why can\u2019t you say it? The election of Biden was totally legitimate!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;This is weird. What does it matter? George, your guy is in the White House. What the hell does it matter what Senator Paul thinks?&#8221; Senator Paul, by the way, never said it. He refused to give Stephanopoulos what he wanted. But this is the thing. When the left cannot win an argument and they know that they\u2019re wrong, they scream at you to just agree with them, and that\u2019s what was happening the Sunday show.<\/p>\n<p>This Week with George Stephanopoulos. &#8220;Just say it! Why can\u2019t you say it?&#8221; What difference does it make, George?&#8221; But it mattered, it mattered that Rand Paul say it because Stephanopoulos knows it isn\u2019t the fact that he thinks it is. And this is how you win it, by forcing your opposition to admit it. Forcing. Thankfully, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There&#039;s two different things going on if we go by the headlines. First up is a story about the Illinois Republican congressman. 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