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RUSH: Here\u2019s Terry in Naperville, Illinois, which is a great, great town. We own Naperville. We\u2019ve been big in Naperville ever since we started there. It\u2019s great to have you, Terry. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, Rush, you had mentioned something earlier about how Donald Trump cut a commercial and that all the media has played that commercial for free, and that he\u2019s a master manipulator of the media.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that got me thinking kind of something that irritated me about your show over the last several weeks, and it\u2019s that you utter the word Trump more than he does, and that\u2019s no small feat. And I understand your audience gonna walk a line, half your audience are Trump supporters, half of them are somebody else, but I don\u2019t understand why you give so much free airtime in the defense of a non-conservative. And you\u2019ve said Trump is a non-conservative, so I understand defending him against the left-wing attacks, that makes sense to me. But every time some nobody throws an attack at Donald Trump you spend a good portion of your show, you know, knocking it down, and I just don\u2019t understand that. There\u2019s a real conservative in this race.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: Well, there\u2019s more than one. Were you thinking of Ted Cruz?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019ve said that Ted Cruz is the most bona fide conservative in this race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who said?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you said —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Who said that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I did?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You said that Ted Cruz is the most staunch conservative in this race.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought I wasn\u2019t extolling the virtues of Cruz enough?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. You said that one time. You said Donald Trump is — you haven\u2019t is he\u2019s fantastic, but you\u2019ve defended him a thousand times for every one time you mentioned Cruz. And I understand this isn\u2019t about you supporting Cruz. I don\u2019t expect you to do that. You have to walk a line. I get that. I just don\u2019t understand the constant — you know, I listen to the show three hours a day, 15 hours a week, and it\u2019s Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. Even when it really isn\u2019t about Donald Trump, it\u2019s Donald Trump. And when you go to a break you say “an obscene profit time-out,” and that\u2019s because you know what the value of your airtime is worth and you\u2019re giving this to a candidate who frankly needs it the least. I don\u2019t get that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, A, I appreciate you listening as often as you do. I really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I can\u2019t tell you how much I appreciate that. My view of this is that I do here today what I\u2019ve always done, and that is arrive here and take a look at the things and people I believe in being under attack and, when necessary, defend them. By the same token, you know, I have been open about what I think the value of Donald Trump in this campaign is from day one. And I think Ted Cruz is coming as close to anybody as emulating what Trump is demonstrating. Trump is demonstrating that every one of these things the Republicans have been frightened into silence over are unnecessary to be frightened of.<\/p>\n


\nYou don\u2019t need to be frightened of the media. You don\u2019t need to be frightened of political correctness. You don\u2019t need to be frightened of being conservative. You don\u2019t need to be frightened of anything. You can go out and say what you actually believe and you can get away with it and you can triumph. For seven years we\u2019ve had to sit here and listen to the Republican Party stand mute, afraid to say anything for fear of what the media\u2019s gonna say about \u2019em or what the president\u2019s gonna say about \u2019em or what anybody else is gonna say about \u2019em. There hasn\u2019t been any opposition whatsoever from the Republican Party leadership to what has been happening in this country seven years. Along comes somebody who is voicing opposition to it and promising to do something about it, and his name happens to be Trump. I can\u2019t ignore it. I\u2019m cheering what he\u2019s doing. I\u2019m cheering what Ted Cruz is doing.<\/p>\n

This is nut-cracking time, as far as I\u2019m concerned. Mrs. Clinton cannot win this election in November. The Democrat Party cannot win this election. If they do — well, I don\u2019t even want to think about it. So this transcends ideology for me right now. I haven\u2019t abandoned mine. I never will abandon mine. I am not gonna be fooled into voting or supporting somebody who is a closet liberal making himself look like something that he\u2019s not. Do not worry about that. But I think at this stage, where we are, the Democrats have to lose, and the people supporting them have got to be stopped. These political wins that they\u2019re having, victories that they\u2019re having each and every day, the attack on the Constitution has gotta stop. Immigration, it\u2019s got to stop.<\/p>\n


\nThere has to be a reimposition of common sense, application of existing law on so many things. The Constitution is being rendered irrelevant. It\u2019s got to stop. And if it\u2019s not stopped at this next opportunity to stop it, then it\u2019s gonna be another four years to try to stop it. So the objective on this program has not changed. It\u2019s exactly what it\u2019s been since the first day of this program. And that\u2019s to educate and inform people about liberalism and promote conservatism in the opposite way of doing things. And until somebody comes along and tells me that Donald Trump is actually a Democrat running a stealth campaign to actually get Hillary Clinton elected and can make me believe it — there\u2019s no evidence of that, there\u2019s no evidence that Trump is not what he is, and don\u2019t forget, I know him.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not an unknown quantity to me. I have spent a lot of time with Trump. And by this I mean I know a little bit about him, not that I\u2019m afraid to be critical of him, but I know a little bit about him. And he\u2019s not a Democrat. He is not a liberal. He may not even think in those terms, in terms of ideology. But whatever\u2019s happening here, folks, has not changed focus at all. I\u2019m the one constant the last 27 years in American politics, if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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