http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/11/libertarian_caller_conservatives_love_bernieLibertarian Caller: Conservatives Love Bernie
January 11, 2016
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RUSH: Cleveland. This is Nate. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Hello.
RUSH: Hey, Rush. All right. So I got two points for you. Number one, I wanted to correct something you said when you said the Democrats are shifting so dramatically to the left and Bernie is such a leftist.
RUSH: Well, he is.
CALLER: You know, after Ronald Reagan, you saw the rise of what's called Third Way Democrats, who liked the deregulation and trickle-down, it's why Hillary and Bill were so corrupt. This is a direct reversal of the ethos from the 1950s. The Democrats and the Republicans were always into this Democratic socialism. In the 1950s Eisenhower had a 91% tax rate. You know, capitalism is the foundation of this country, but the idea used to be bottom up, consumers create demand which creates jobs so you feed the roots. Now, Reginald Maximus, your hero, created a huge shift to the right for both Democrats and the Republicans, Clinton and Obama are --
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Who's my hero?
CALLER: Reginald Maximus.
RUSH: Ronaldus Maximus, Ronaldus Maximus.
CALLER: Sorry about that. Okay, so my take on this is Democrats are simply going back to Eisenhower economics. This used to be a Republican idea. This was not dramatic leftism. And this is why there are so many conservatives going over to Bernie Sanders. Let me make point number two before you jump all over me for that, okay?
RUSH: There aren't any conservatives going over to Bernie Sanders.
CALLER: Ooh. I challenge your listeners to look it up. There's a bunch of 'em.
RUSH: Where do you go look it up, conservatives for Sanders on Google?
CALLER: Yep. Go for it, do it.
RUSH: You can put 'em in a phone booth, for crying out, what is this?
CALLER: It's a large group of Libertarians who are Tea Party --
RUSH: I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, you're from the Rand Paul faction. I knew it. The only way it could possibly explain you is that you are from the militant Libertarian sect. I love you, Nate, I do. But it's a lost cause to try to -- (laughing) -- Bernie Sanders. (laughing) Conservatives for Bernie. he-he-he. And that Eisenhower is the genuine leftist out there. Look, you may have a point about pre-JFK Republican and Democrats, FDR liberals, but after the JFK assassination is when everything changed and when the left wing lost it in this country and moved closer and closer and closer to Soviet Union-style philosophy, and Bernie Sanders is that. Bernie Sanders is perfectly qualified. He's a total economic dunce, which is exactly what every hard-core liberal is.
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RUSH: I also, just for the fun of it, I went out there and I Googled, and you know what I found? I found articles from last year in The Atlantic, Salon.com, the LA Times, the Daily Kos, a bunch of radical left-wing websites and publications, who all ran stories on "Bernie Sanders conservatives." It was incredible how in sync these stories happened to be.
It was last year, and the numbers are admittedly small, but they're trying to make a big deal. And these stories were done to enhance the image of Bernie, soften the image of Bernie as a flat-out and unmistakable socialist/leftist. That was the purpose of it. The numbers we're talking about here is infinitesimal, and it might not have even been conservatives. They could have just make the assumption that all Republicans are conservatives -- which, of course, is not the case. Some of the stories call it "Republicans for Bernie" and then assume they're conservatives.
But regardless, it's not that many. You know, these stories talk about four or five people; then they extrapolate. So our Libertarian caller was not making it up. But it was obviously an in-sync and combined effort a bunch of left-wing politicians to enhance Bernie's appeal, to make him look like something he's not.
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