Posted on 03/01/2016 1:42:45 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Here's Rich in Saginaw, Michigan. Back to you, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: I'm good. Thank you for calling, sir.
CALLER: Well, I think I got a solution for you.
RUSH: For what? Wa wa wa wa wait. A solution for what?
CALLER: Why the conservatives can't understand why all of us want Trump in there.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: Us meaning the working guys, like in Michigan. In my factory, everybody's got a Trump sticker on their hard hat. We're ready to go to work for this guy.
RUSH: Are you a union member, did you say?
CALLER: Oh, no. Nope. I'm not, and I'm actually a registered Democrat.
RUSH: So you're a registered Democrat, you're a middle-class working guy, blue-collar Democrat Reagan era. If this were the Reagan era, you'd be voting Reagan, probably, and be considered a blue-collar Democrat?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Okay. But now it's Trump, and you're ready to go for Trump, why, instead of say Cruz or any other conservative?
CALLER: Well, kind of. It's kind of like a few callers ago he said that us guys are low-informed voters. I mean, just 'cause we didn't march out of somewhere with a Harvard degree or whatever, I guess we're not qualified to vote for the president of the United States. I feel like that's the whole thing. It's like we're not important, yet here we've been carrying the country on our back with taxes for years and years and we get no appreciation whatsoever.
RUSH: I'm telling you, folks.
CALLER: These people are always looking past us, always giving something to this group or that group.
RUSH: Look, I totally agree with that. In fact, I am of the same frame of mind you are. The question is, so many conservatives are asking why are you thinking Trump is the answer to that and not, say, Ted Cruz?
CALLER: Well, I'll tell you. One good thing is, Mr. Trump has done things in real life. We need results. Congress is like a bunch of three-year-olds playing with Legos. If they put it together and it doesn't work, they don't care, they just take it apart and start all over again. Mr. Trump has vetted himself in the real world. He's a successful businessman. He's someone that we should be looking to for answers. These guys just talk amongst themselves. At the end of the day does it matter? No, they still got their big pensions and their health care, while we're out here slugging it out the waiting for answers that never come.
RUSH: Is there anything Trump says or has done that bothers you, that alarms you, that gives you any pause?
CALLER: Well, I don't know. He's kind of like one of those guys on the line. Sometimes, you know, we get in a heated discussion and somebody might say something that's maybe a little over the top or something, but for the most part I kind of like being the John Wayne in America as opposed to the we're gonna get slapped from every little country that's around the world. I'm tired of being disrespected. We're the biggest armed forces in the world. Why would we even take crap from anybody? It's ridiculous.
RUSH: Well, totally. The question actually is not that. Many people are upset with people like you because they don't understand how you can look the other way at some of the things Trump says and some of the ways he insults people and makes fun of people with disability -- this is the criticism I hear. They don't understand why you look past all of that and --
CALLER: Well, okay. I'm sorry, Rush, go ahead.
RUSH: No, go ahead. It's your turn.
CALLER: Well, I think the time for political correctness patty-cake stuff, we're getting nowhere with this. We really need to, you know, pull up our pants and be Americans again. Make people responsible for the things they do. I'm sorry. You know, there's a lot of handouts going on and there's a lot of special things that people are getting while the rest of us stand here and we're ignored, or even worse than that, we're insulted --
RUSH: Exact --
CALLER: -- by the conservatives and the liberals.
RUSH: I'm telling you, he is voicing exactly the element of this that the establishment has not yet figured out, and that is the class aspect of this. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. In order to detail this, remember here what he said in this call, and I'm gonna share with you some thoughts from both Charles Murray and Angelo Codevilla about this in the monologue section of the next hour, because Rich here is exactly the kind of voter and citizen Murray and Codevilla have analyzed and explained. And it's uncanny the class aspects of this. It's not that having class divisions is new. It's the way they manifest now versus the way they did not used to manifest just a short time ago, a generation or two ago.
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Link to the Codevilla article that Rush talked at length about:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/donald-trump-is-the-next-barack-obama/
Guys like this caller support Trump because he’s going to throw politically correct BS and crappy trade deals on the ash heap of history.
You hear that, Hannity?
That’s a great American.
Rush, jump onto the train. Everywhere i go i hear his name mentioned. I was at a Euchre party the other night and all i heard was inquisitve people saying, “what’s Trump”.
I did not hear the call, but I have been chuckling at all the polls that say Hillary will beat Trump. Do Not believe any of it, out here in liberal lala land of Los Angeles, the Majority of Proud Working Class Democrats as well as a rather sizeable percentage of ‘well to do’ Blue Dog Democrats are fully behind and in support of Donald Trump, maybe not in Public, but in Private it is a whole new Ball Game!
Hear Rush try and push Cruz
Thanks for the link. The article says it all.
The caller gets it... The reason nothing sticks to Trump is TRUMP HAS VETTED HIMSELF IN THE REAL WORLD.
This was an outstanding response!
America: PUT on your big boy pants and quit with the patty cake, PC nonsense.
Boy, doesn't it? Still, the large numbers around here wearing blinders shows how emotion is, once again, trumping reason (pun intended).
But not only do opposing sets of wrongs not make anything right. As I have argued (Sophocles did it a lot better), trying to stop the cycle of political payback with another round of it, while not utterly impossible, is well-nigh beyond human capacity. - Codevilla
Victims of Lawful Plunder
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.
Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws! Until that happens, the few practice lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons. But then, participation in the making of law becomes universal. And then, men seek to balance their conflicting interests by universal plunder. Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.
It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution — some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.
“The Law” - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
This could’ve been my cousin!
He’s hauling cattle at this moment and I’m keeping him updated throughout the day.
He’s a die-hard Trump fan. :)
Can’t be because I keep reading that he’s pushing Rubio .
It’s as simple as the nose on your face. Trump builds things. Big things. Creates jobs. Lots of jobs. Writes payroll checks. Buys things from vendors. Lots of things. Creates commerce and promotes the economy. And is successful about it. He proves daily by his own actions that capitalism works! Something working people can relate to and are starving for. Success breeds success.
Also is big on cutting taxes, cutting regulations, cutting the EPA, cutting government waste, corruption and fraud. Making education local. Making trade deals that actually benefit American workers for a change. Wants to strengthen social security and medicare which working people have paid into all their lives. Wants to straighten out the health care disaster that politicians have screwed up.
Is big on securing the borders against illegal aliens and Muslims and rebuilding our military. And bombing the crap out of ISIS. And is not P/C about any of it. Talks their language because he’s worked among working people all his life. It is his native tongue. He’s not a glib, smooth talking lawyer or phony politician. Working people love America, love success, love security and love Trump’s positive message about making america great again! Bold strokes! Bold leadership! Man of action!
And it’s NOT Uni-Party all talk, no action, business as usual. It’s a rebellion of, for and by the people. It’s about the people, stupid.
Screw the politicians. They’ve FUBAR’d our country long enough.
Am I coming around to like Trump? You can bet your sweet bippy I am. And if he gets it, I’m all in for Trump!
Hillary can’t even fill up an elementary school gymnasium with supporters. While Trump has so many people show up that coliseums and the associated parking lots can’t hold them all. It’s just patently ridiculous to hear the LSM tell us that she’d beat Trump.
Well Jim okay, but did you see the post about small fingers?
Are you sure? I don’t want you to make a big decision about something like his without seeing some vital information.
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Thanks. I couldn’t agree more.
Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3403924/posts
Thank you, Jim!
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