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RUSH: Judy in Clarkston, Michigan. I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, my friend. I\u2019m calling regarding the news headline, “Growing Talk of Bush vs. Hillary in \u201916.” First of all, that just blew my mind, because what do we have, royal families in this country? The Kennedys, the Bushes, the Clintons? I said, “Next it\u2019s gonna be Chelsea and Sasha.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. (laughing) You know, I hear you, and I feel for you, and I\u2019m saying, “What the heck is this? Is this the best we\u2019ve got to offer?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Jeb\u2019s out there. I think what Jeb\u2019s doing in preparation for maybe running, is saying things to get the conservative backlash to him out of the way. I really think when he says, “Hey, people come in here as an act of love,” that\u2019s designed to tick us all off or tick the Tea Party people off now. Get it done with and over with and then out of the way, and move on.<\/line><\/p>\n

But look. I know they\u2019re setting it up that way in the Drive-Bys, but it\u2019s not a lock that Hillary is gonna get the nomination. Even then it\u2019s not a lock she wins. I don\u2019t even think it\u2019s a lock she gonna run. And if she does run, it\u2019s not a lock she\u2019s gonna get the nomination, and it\u2019s not a lock that Bush is gonna get it if he runs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If Jeb Bush did get the nomination, I wouldn\u2019t be done voting. I know that\u2019s terrible thing to say but if the GOP is that stupid… Like even his own mother said whatever it was. We\u2019ve got how many millions of people in this country, and I\u2019ll tell you what: My son or his wife, either one, would make a better president than Jeb Bush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but they probably couldn\u2019t handle the anal exam that they would get if they tried it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But mine could.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But they might not want it. What do you mean, “Mine could”? If your son or daughter are Republicans and it looks like they can win, they\u2019ll make it up about \u2019em!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I got you. But I had to talk to you. My head was just blowing off yesterday, and you\u2019re my sounding board. Sorry.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you can call any time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Call from the ledge, from bed, wherever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Call any time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll walk you back. Thanks much. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got Barbara in Middletown, New Jersey, who wants to weigh in on Jeb Bush. Hello, Barbara. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. What a great honor. Thank you so much-for-taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Yeah, that Jeb Bush. I think the GOP is really throwing away a great opportunity here. We all see what\u2019s going on. The media and the GOP is getting ready for the great anointment, and I just kind of thought to myself, “I wonder how many people are feeling how I feel, that I\u2019m not going to do it this time?” I mean, we did it with McCain, we did it with Romney, and they kind of know that we\u2019re just gonna fall in line. <\/p>\n

They know that. You talk to people, and they\u2019ll say, “Well, if it is Jeb Bush, I guess I\u2019ll do it.” But I\u2019ve been finding different, because I\u2019ve been calling Tea Party and conservative groups all over the country within the last couple of weeks. I\u2019ve been calling them and asking them if they wanted to sign on to this list that I\u2019m compiling, a statement, and it\u2019s become like a full-time job at this point. <\/p>\n

People are excited. I call them, and there\u2019s no doubt in their mind, they\u2019re enthusiastically asking to be signed up — you know, put on as a signatory to this statement — saying that they will not support a moderate, a RINO. They\u2019re not gonna do it. Just from calling all these different groups, I\u2019m amazed that from Alabama to California, New York, Maine, everywhere, everyone\u2019s feeling the same frustration.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I do think that the GOP is definitely throwing away a great opportunity to finally win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me run a theory by you. A friend of mine said, “What if Jeb really doesn\u2019t want this and is just saying things that guarantee he won\u2019t win, such as, ‘They\u2019re not coming here for anything other than love\u2019?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve got a guy who thinks that Jeb is trying to disqualify himself right now just \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t want to run and he doesn\u2019t want all these people trying to draft him. So he\u2019ll say something that he knows is not gonna be accepted and get it out of the way. What about that theory?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The purpose of that, sir, is because they\u2019re pressuring him to be the anointed candidate?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. My answer to that is, “If you don\u2019t want to run, just say so, rather than disqualify yourself.” I mean, yeah, I think Tea Party… We know that four million Republicans in 2012 stayed home. Stop and think. I still can\u2019t believe it. I mean, I believe it, but in 2012, four million Republicans stayed home for the very reason she\u2019s talking about here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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