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RUSH: Okay. I need some guidance here. I need some assistance. I just had to walk out of the studio. It\u2019s part of getting set up and ready for the big program, folks, getting set up, wired up and all that. I\u2019m walking out and out of the corner of my eye I see a big headline on CNN, and I stopped and looked at it, but the sound was off. I didn\u2019t have time, I had no idea what they were saying. I only saw the headline. I had to keep moving. The headline said: “Conservative Host: The Future of the GOP Hangs on Ohio.”<\/p>\n

Do you know who\u2019s saying that, Snerdley? I don\u2019t want to step into something here before — Ana Navarro was speaking at the time on CNN, but she\u2019s not a host of anything. I have no idea. But the future of the GOP hangs on Ohio? You know what\u2019s happening out there, folks? It\u2019s incredible. The establishment is once again demonstrating exactly why they are being rebelled against.<\/p>\n

Greetings. Great to have you. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.<\/p>\n

So what happened between the time we were last here and this moment when the program began? There\u2019s a story out there that says both Kasich and Rubio are thinking now of revising their pledge to support the nominee. Now, take the context and details out of this for a second and ask yourself a question: Isn\u2019t that exactly why the Republican Party is in trouble? It has elected officials who go out and make promises, they make promises during campaigns, they make promises all the time, and then they break them.<\/p>\n


\nNow, you might be saying, “Well, this is a pledge they should break, Rush, I mean, Trump is really dangerous. We can\u2019t afford to have Trump in there.” And, you know, the panic has really set in now. We\u2019ve got a great audio sound bite roster today that pretty much tells the whole story of the day, from all aspects. Some great opinion pieces out there on the absolute end of America if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. I\u2019m gonna share all of this stuff with you.<\/p>\n

Carly Fiorina is out there warning people, all of you anti-Trumpsters, you better stop attacking his voters. That\u2019s not the way to do it. If you keep attacking his voters and if you succeed in defeating Trump for the nomination, you\u2019re gonna have gazillions and gazillions of ticked off Republicans that are not gonna vote for whoever it is you engineer this nomination for. And she\u2019s exactly right. If it at all perceives that Trump is the de facto or actual winner of this thing and they find a way to take it away from him, there\u2019s gonna be hell to pay. His voters, who knows what they\u2019ll do and who knows what Trump will do, go third party or what have you, but she\u2019s exactly right about this.<\/p>\n

I know everybody\u2019s struggling, “Well, if we can\u2019t attack his voters and we can\u2019t attack him, how do you defeat Trump?” Well, you know, you could have taken him seriously earlier on. How many people thought Trump wasn\u2019t in it for real up until February? How many people thought Trump was gonna implode? How many people stood aside and how many people chickened out? How many people refused to attack Trump because he\u2019s just gonna turn around and attack you, didn\u2019t want to deal with it.<\/p>\n

By the way, you don\u2019t think the Democrats are afraid of that? I\u2019ve got two stories, you know, this is amazing in itself — (interruption) Oh, it was Buck Sexton? Buck Sexton was the host on CNN, who has been a guest host on this program, that\u2019s why I said I gotta be careful who it is they\u2019re talking about. It was Buck Sexton. I guess he wrote a piece for CNN, which they put up about an hour ago, or a couple minutes ago. Anyway his point was the future of the GOP hangs in Ohio. Which means the future of the GOP hangs on John Kasich? And that\u2019s what they\u2019re setting up today.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you, you Cruz people, you ought to be fit to be tied, because the Drive-By Media and even some people on Fox News are suggesting if Kasich wins Ohio today that he\u2019s the new hero, he\u2019s bigger than Cruz, he\u2019s more important than Cruz. Has he won a state? He has not won a state, has he? Rubio\u2019s at least won a state. Cruz has won nine or 10 or 11 states. Kasich, does he even have 50 delegates? I don\u2019t have the delegate count, but look what they\u2019re doing. If Kasich wins Ohio, that means he beats back Trump and that means the race — it\u2019s why I said yesterday, if you really want to beat Trump, you need Trump to win both Florida and Ohio today. You need Kasich and Rubio out of this race. That\u2019s the last best hope that people who want to defeat Trump have.<\/p>\n

Keeping Kasich in this thing is not the answer. All they\u2019re doing with that is angling for a contested convention where the establishment can work their magic, quote, unquote, and deny the will of the people as expressed by votes in the primary season. That\u2019s what Kasich represents. Now, if you happen to believe that Trump represents the end of the Republican Party, if you happen to believe that Trump represents the end of the United States of America, but more specifically, if you believe that Trump represents the end of the Republican Party, then I guess you can do whatever you think you have to do to save the party. But if you ask me — and nobody did — what the heck has the party been doing lately to recommend itself to people?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got some incredible Kasich sound bites. He says he just recently learned all the things Trump\u2019s been saying. He\u2019s been so focused on his own campaign — so focused on running Ohio, so focused on being a good governor and so focused on preparing for the debates — that he\u2019s not familiar with all these bad things Trump\u2019s been saying. That\u2019s why he hasn\u2019t been out there condemning them. But I\u2019m serious. The only guy that has a chance to beat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz, folks. At this stage, and if people\u2019s votes are going to be the determining factor…<\/p>\n


\nAnd believe me, that\u2019s what the establishment\u2019s trying to set up is the erasure of your votes by going to a contested convention. Look at this. This is from the Daily Caller: “RNC rules Committee Member: Every Delegate at GOP Convention Not Bound on First Ballot<\/a>.” Oh, really? We\u2019ve got a committee member on the rules committee saying: “No, delegates don\u2019t have to vote the way the voters did in the first ballot.”<\/p>\n

Well, then what the hell are we doing here? (interruption) Kasich is at 63 delegates. Trump\u2019s got… Here\u2019s the latest. These numbers float because there\u2019s so many different ways of apportioning or assigning delegates, but the ballpark numbers are Trump 469, Cruz 370 — 99 behind — Rubio at 163, Kasich at 63. And the future of the Republican Party hangs on John Kasich? Who, by the way, George Soros just donated two or $300,000 to? (interruption) You didn\u2019t know that? (interruption)<\/p>\n

Oh, you didn\u2019t know that? Let me find that here in the Stack. “Soros Associate Gives $200,000 To Pro-Kasich Super PAC<\/a> — Scott Bessent of Soros Fund Management, an investment firm founded by liberal mega-donor George Soros, has given more than $202,700 to help John Kasich\u00c2\u2019s presidential campaign, according to FEC records.” I saw this developing on the news today that Kasich\u2019s gonna be the big winner. All Kasich has to do is win Ohio and he is the big winner of the day today.<\/p>\n

North Carolina\u2019s got more delegates than Ohio has, but it\u2019s a difference in winner-take-all, apportion how they\u2019re divvied up and so forth. I think it\u2019s 75 in North Carolina. Ohio gets a lot of attention because of its importance in the general election. “A Republican National Committee Standing Rules Committee member told the membership Friday that convention delegates are not bound to cast their votes at the convention according to primary vote results in the first round of voting.<\/p>\n


\n“Curly Haugland of North Dakota, a longtime member of the RNC Standing Rules Committee, sent a letter to the RNC membership at large about this issue. He explained how he came to the conclusion that all Republican delegates who participate in the 2016 Republican National Convention are unbound on each ballot round, including the first.” First I\u2019ve heard of this. But now we\u2019ve got a rules committee guy asserting it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s except for a from the letter: “As most of you know, I have been defending the right of the delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote according to their personal choice in all matters to come before the Republican National Convention, including the vote to nominate the Republican Candidate for President, for several years. Here is something I recently discovered that most of us did not know, including me! Binding delegates to the results of presidential preference primaries first appeared in the Rules of the Republican Party in 1976. …<\/p>\n

“Without the use of force to bind the votes of delegates to the results of the primary process, primaries are nearly worthless ‘beauty contests.'” This guy\u2019s admitting it. I\u2019m just… I want to remind you, there\u2019s no way John Kasich… If you believe that the primaries matter and if you believe that the primaries are where we choose the nominee, you want Kasich and Rubio eliminated today. You have to coalesce all of the anti-Trump support behind one candidate. That would be Ted Cruz. That\u2019s the only prayer you\u2019ve got, those of you who are anti-Trump.<\/p>\n

The only prayer you\u2019ve got, because I guarantee if they go this contested convention route (and that\u2019s clearly what they\u2019re aiming for), you think they\u2019re gonna put Cruz in there after they deny it to Trump? No way, Jose. (A little Spanish lingo.) The establishment is gonna put one of their northeastern moderate-liberal guaranteed losers in there. In fact, the way I\u2019m reading things there are some Republicans thinking it is worth losing for 25 years in order to deny Cruz or Trump the nomination because of what that would mean for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Super-Duper Tuesday, Super Tuesday 2. It is what it is. I want to read to you an excerpt from a column that ran I believe it was Sunday at the New York Times. Ross Douthat is a brilliant conservative columnist. He has a piece. I think it\u2019s once a week, maybe twice in the New York Times. And he\u2019s in the group of people that\u2019s very, very worried about Trump and what his nomination would mean, not just for the party, but for the country.<\/p>\n

The excerpt: “Trump, though, is cut from a very different cloth. He\u2019s an authoritarian, not an ideologue, and his antecedents aren\u2019t Goldwater or McGovern;” meaning people that preceded him, guided him, people that you might consider in the same league. Trump\u2019s antecedents are people “like George Wallace and Huey Long… No modern political party has nominated a candidate like this; no serious political party ever should. Because such figures speak — as Wallace did, and Long, and Ross Perot, and others — to real grievances, the process of dealing with them is necessarily painful…”<\/p>\n

I mean, their complaints with legitimate. The grievances they cite are real and people are experiencing. So it\u2019s tough to deal with these candidates like Trump. It “often involves a third-party bid and a difficult reckoning thereafter. Trump would be no exception: Denying him the nomination would indeed be an ugly exercise, one that would weaken or crush the party\u2019s general election chances, and leave the GOP with a long hard climb back up to unity and health.”<\/p>\n

Okay, now, that sets up the three-point shot here: “But if that exercise is painful,” denying Trump the nomination… If denying Trump the nomination is painful, “it\u2019s also the correct path to choose,” writes Mr. Douthat. “A man so transparently unfit for office should not be placed before the American people as a candidate for president under any kind of imprimatur save his own. And there is no point in even having a party apparatus, no point in all those chairmen and state conventions and delegate rosters, if they cannot be mobilized to prevent 35% of the Republican primary electorate from imposing a Trump nomination on the party.”<\/p>\n


\nSo this probably suffices as an opinion or thought shared by many in the establishment, and that is, “Whatever we do, we cannot allow Trump, and we\u2019ve gotta use everything at our disposal. Hell, it\u2019s our party! We run the party. We run the chairmen of the delegations. We own the states, we run the national convention, we run the state conventions — and hell\u2019s bells we\u2019re not gonna sit around and let 35% of the Republican primary electorate nominate this guy! If we\u2019re worth anything, if we\u2019re worth our salt — if what we do as Republican leaders and establishment kingmakers matters — we have got to deny this man the nomination of our party.”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what\u2019s going on out there right now. It is what is informing pretty much every bit of thinking, from Mitt Romney to Kasich to everybody else in the establishment. And they go on to say that they would much rather end up being a minority party for many, many moons — drifting aimlessly in the wilderness — rather than have Trump be the standard-bearer and the nominee. So that\u2019s why all of these people are focusing on Ohio today and John Kasich.<\/p>\n

John Kasich winning Ohio, they all believe, gives them the power\/the right\/the necessary energy and indication of support that they can go in and take control of this entire nominating process and do whatever they have to do to deny it to Trump. So that\u2019s why they\u2019re all claiming the future of the GOP today hangs on Ohio and what Kasich represents for them. Mitt Romney\u2019s in there running around doing appearances with him, get-out-the-vote efforts and so forth.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see how this ends in a positive way no matter what the outcome is. If Trump succeeds and gets the nomination, what are these people gonna do? I mean, they\u2019re gonna be homeless. Here\u2019s another thing to think about. This is very… This is something I think everybody has to think about within this context. Let\u2019s say they succeed in taking it away from Trump. Does anybody…? Do they think that Trump\u2019s gonna say, “Okay, well, that was fun. That was a fun six or seven months,” go back to Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower and resume his life?<\/p>\n

Or is he going to realize that he has assembled and put together a pretty significant political movement that could be used to redefine the Republican Party or start a new party? My point is that if these people are not careful… No matter what happens here, they\u2019re gonna lose the Republican Party or a significant percentage of it if they\u2019re not careful the way they go about this. And the way they\u2019re going about it is fraught with danger because they are, once again… As many Republican voters think, the establishment is once again maneuvering itself to take away the voice of American Republican voters.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it\u2019s going to be seen, and that\u2019s not gonna stand \u2019em in good stead.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites and then after we get through some of these, your phone calls are coming, so hang in, folks, because it is your turn coming up. This is Kasich this morning in Westerville, Ohio. He went in and voted and then spoke with reporters. Now, this is the last thing he said. I saw him say this and I told Cookie, “You gotta get me this.” Here it is.<\/p>\n

KASICH: It really is pretty amazing where I came from. We all hear these stories, you know, but the stories could be about you, too. This one just happens to be about me. To have started —<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Stop the tape and recue it. I want to make sure that you got this. “It\u2019s really pretty amazing where I came from.” He\u2019s got a reporter gaggle there. This is outside the place he voted. He\u2019s been answering questions. He\u2019s gotten a little frustrated at a couple of the questions, and he\u2019s just about to dismiss them and then (imitating Kasich), “No, no, wait, wait, I have one more thing for you, one more thing. You know, it really is pretty amazing where I came from. We all hear these stories, you know, and the stories could be about you, too.”<\/p>\n

This is how he is attempting to sound humble. “But this story just happens to be about me today, it\u2019s all about me today,” is what he\u2019s saying here. My story is really pretty incredible, and I just want to tell it to you. I know you all have your stories, too, but today it\u2019s about me. Now, that\u2019s the tone. Here\u2019s the whole bite again.<\/p>\n

KASICH: It really is pretty amazing. Where I came from we all hear these stories, you know, but the stories could be about you, too. This one just happens to be about me. To have started —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape and recue it. I want to make sure that you got this. It\u2019s really pretty amazing where I came from. He\u2019s got a reporter gaggle there. This is outside the place he voted. He\u2019s been answering questions. He\u2019s gotten a little frustrated at a couple of the questions, and he\u2019s just about to dismiss them and then, “No, no. Wait, wait. I have one more thing for you, one more thing. You know, it really is pretty amazing where I came from.<\/p>\n

“We all hear these stories, you know, but the stories could be about you, too.” This is how he is attempting to sound humble. “But this story just happens to be about me, today. It\u2019s all about me today,” is what he\u2019s saying here. My story is really pretty incredible, and I just want to tell it to you. I know you all have your stories, too, but today it\u2019s about me.” Now, that\u2019s the tone. Here\u2019s the whole bite again.<\/p>\n

KASICH: It really is pretty amazing where I came from. We all hear these stories, you know, but the stories could be about you, too. This one just happens to be about me. To have started here and as an aide all the way back to Nixon and all the way back to Church and all the way back to my family, and then to come in here today and cast a vote for myself for president of the United States, it\u2019s pretty remarkable. But, you know, at the same time I say it I just want y\u2019all to understand, if any of you ever see me — and I had apologized to somebody here just the other day as I wasn\u2019t — didn\u2019t respond as appropriately as I should have. If any of you ever see me getting out of control, I want you to take me aside and I want you to say, “Remember what you told us at that press conference,” okay? ‘Cause I just want to be with God, helping my country. That\u2019s all I really want to do, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you should have seen the media gaggle. No, no. They\u2019re standing there blank faced. They\u2019re standing there blank faced. The cameramen, their mouths are open. Everybody\u2019s, “Uhhh.” It\u2019s the funniest thing. He starts out, he\u2019s trying to be humble, you see. “Hey, it\u2019s all about me today. Look where I came from! It\u2019s remarkable. Somebody from where I came from actually cast a vote for himself for president today! It\u2019s incredible. It\u2019s remarkable. I\u2019ve been there be with… I was back there with Nixon. I was back there with Church. I was back there with my family.<\/p>\n

“But I just want to tell you guys, I\u2019m just a good guy trying do things. If I ever — if I ever — I want you guys pull me aside and say, ‘Remember that press conference where you promised me that you\u2019d keep me in line?'” They\u2019re just standing there, their mouths wide open. It\u2019s self-absorption, folks. It\u2019s so easy to spot. This is total self-absorption. This is somebody who you heard the old phrase “believes their press clippings.” I mean, here\u2019s a guy that hasn\u2019t won a primary yet.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a guy that\u2019s got 63 delegates, and he\u2019s hearing the establishment media talking about how the future of the Republican Party hangs on him, and he believes it, and he wants everybody to know it, that he\u2019s important today. Here\u2019s another one. Same place, outside the polling place in Westerville, Ohio. A reporter asks, “You mentioned that new ad with the women quoting Donald.” We have that ad coming up, by the way. Have you seen that ad? (interruption) You\u2019ve seen that? (interruption) Well, do you know that\u2019s a Mitt Romney PAC that did that ad?<\/p>\n

That ad could have come from any feminazi PAC, but that ad came from the Mitt. That ad… There is so much instructive about that ad. Once again, it\u2019s firing blanks at Trump. This is incredible. As a primary tool, it misses the mark so widely, it\u2019s impossible to describe what a miss it is. Anyway, we\u2019ll get to that in just a second. But Kasich\u2019s being asked about it by a reporter. You mentioned the new ad with the women quoting Trump. You weren\u2019t aware of these things that Trump had said before?”<\/p>\n

KASICH: I really was not. I really wasn\u2019t. It took for me to see the Friday video, and then I actually, 48 hours ago, asked [Communications Director] Chris Schrimpf to make me a list of all the quotes, which I had not really seen before. You know, things move fast in a presidential campaign. You don\u2019t really focus on… I focus on what I\u2019m gonna be doing at my next event. I focus on who is winning the golf tournament that I\u2019m interested in. And that\u2019s about it. It was really the first time that my eyes were really opened.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What a load. He\u2019s trying to… His excuse why he hasn\u2019t condemned Trump is what this is about. “I didn\u2019t know he was saying any of this! You know, I\u2019ve been so focused on my own campaign. Isn\u2019t it remarkable? Look at a guy coming from where I come from, McKees Rocks outside Pittsburgh! I cast my own ballot for myself as president. It\u2019s really incredible. I didn\u2019t notice this other stuff going on. I had to get a guy to furnish me list of Trump quotes.<\/p>\n

“I had no idea. I mean, you really don\u2019t focus on what other people…” How about in the debates? Well, focus on what I\u2019m gonna say next in a debate. I\u2019m not really paying any attention. I\u2019m going to my next event. I\u2019m focused on who\u2019s winning the golf tournament. It\u2019s really the first time my eyes were opened about Trump. I had no idea he was saying this stuff.” Okay. Fine.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more sound bite, then to the phones. Charlie Rose, CBS This Morning, with Kasich, not happy with him.<\/p>\n

ROSE: You had very high polling numbers in Ohio, close to 80%. Yet you\u2019re running is that very close race with Donald Trump in your home state.<\/p>\n

KASICH: Well, Charlie, you know how crazy this year is. You report on it every day. I mean, we\u2019re gonna win Ohio, and then it\u2019s a whole new ballgame, and I will be off all across the country. I\u2019ve had more attention in the last two weeks than I\u2019ve had really since I started this campaign. And it\u2019s because I haven\u2019t been wrestling in the mud with anybody. And I think the people will reward me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Charlie is exasperated Kasich is not wiping the floor with Trump in Ohio. Charlie thinks that this ought not even be close, that Kasich ought to be winning by double digits. “Hell, you\u2019re the governor! Everybody wants to move to Ohio based on the way you talk about it, and Trump\u2019s almost beating you there. What the hell are you doing wrong?” And Kasich says, “Well, it doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s a whole new race when I win Ohio today. You watch.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re banking on, folks. I\u2019m just telling you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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