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RUSH: Here is Wendy in Houston. Wendy, you lead off today. Great to have you with us on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my goodness. It is such an honor to talk to you. Thank you so much for everything that you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, and my children love your books, so thank you, thank you. Start with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So thank you. Huge honor. I just want to call, because I\u2019m listening to this, and I am a huge anti-establishment, cannot stand all of that, but yet I still don\u2019t get it with the Trump thing because he doesn\u2019t stand for our conservative beliefs and values, whereas there is a candidate who does. Cruz stands up for what we believe in, and he is anti-establishment. So I don\u2019t understand how Trump can continue to say these things, especially have the audacity to support Planned Parenthood and all that he did on Saturday, and still the people won\u2019t leave him who consider themselves to be conservative when there\u2019s a very viable option. So I\u2019m hoping you can help me understand.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I\u2019ll say this again, and I need you to hear me this time. The majority of Trump\u2019s support base is not the Republican base.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The majority of Trump\u2019s support base is not conservative. There are quite a few, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re the majority. And if they are the majority of the Trump support base, it\u2019s a very, very tiny majority. His coalition — it\u2019s really ironic — the coalition that Trump has put together is exactly what the Republican Party has been telling us conservatives they need to do to win.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: While they have been blowing us off, while they have been lying to us, they\u2019ve been saying, “No, no, we can\u2019t win with just you guys. We need to go out and get these –” Well, Trump\u2019s doing it, and they don\u2019t want any part of it. In the second place, remember Jeb Bush said that he was gonna win the nomination without the base. Guess who\u2019s doing it? Trump.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So go figure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. But then Trump, I don\u2019t understand why people don\u2019t get more fired up against him, why people are not standing up against him and going with Cruz, who is standing up against the establishment, plus the values. What are your thoughts there?<\/p>\n

RUSH: My theories are probably just the same as yours. You know, you\u2019ve got any number of alternatives to Trump.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Cruz is the leading alternative right now.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Yes. But he\u2019s just at 18%, I think you just said; is that correct?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s tied at 18% in South Carolina. But he\u2019s outperforming. In every election he outperforms what the polling says. I think Cruz is the — ah, what\u2019s the term? He\u2019s the sleeper out there. It\u2019s Cruz that\u2019s sneaking up on everybody. Everybody\u2019s focusing on Trump.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So what is it gonna take to wake everyone up to cross that line? If Trump comes in and makes it big in South Carolina in this primary, then what is it gonna take? Is it just a done deal? What do you think it\u2019s gonna take?<\/p>\n

RUSH: To do what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: To wake everybody up, to switch over —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wendy, I think everybody\u2019s awake on our side.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is what you gotta come to terms — everybody\u2019s awake. And there are a lot of people — you\u2019re putting me in a very difficult position here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. I\u2019m not complaining to you. You don\u2019t know, \u2019cause I don\u2019t wear my blood on my sleeve. You know, I don\u2019t bleed and whine and moan and complain to the audience about things that happen to me because I\u2019m bigger than that. But you would not believe the number of people that are coming at me as though all of this is my fault, that I could have stopped this way back when if I would have just been a leader, if I would have just done this or that.<\/line><\/p>\n

I have been sitting around observing. I have been a conservative all my life. I\u2019ve been doing this radio program as a conservative for 27 years. There is no doubt anywhere all across this country who I am and what I stand for. There\u2019s no misunderstanding. Well, there might be some misunderstandings among people that doesn\u2019t listen, but there\u2019s no misunderstanding that I am a conservative and that — well, arguably, the Mister Big of the vast right-wing conspiracy. It\u2019s a challenging position I\u2019m in here because there\u2019s some things I probably shouldn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got two responsibilities here, folks. I\u2019ve got my responsibility to you, the audience, which I put at number one. My responsibility to this program, my career, my job, not my career, but this is the thing I\u2019ve chosen to do. There are all kinds of people who depend on me doing it and doing it well. That\u2019s my number one focus. I\u2019m not the leader of the conservative movement. I\u2019ve never sought that. I\u2019m not denying any — already right there, “Wait a minute. You mean you\u2019ve been lying to us?” No, I haven\u2019t been lying to you. It\u2019s not my job to get votes for people, damn it! It\u2019s theirs! What more do you want me to do?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The best thing I could tell you, folks, I guess, as I assess all this, is this is not an election, with a competition of philosophies. We\u2019re way beyond that. People are not gonna rely on philosophy to accomplish anything. You can have the best philosophy in the world, I don\u2019t care what you call it, and it\u2019s not gonna mean anything if you\u2019re up against somebody who succeeds at making people think he\u2019s gonna break balls, kick butts, take names, put people in prison, fix the country, make the country great again, whatever the hell that means to people. You can philosophize all day long in competition against it, and we\u2019ll see you in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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