Ep. 1569 - These SQUISH Republicans Endorsed Kamala Harris
Summary
As the 2020 Democratic primary race enters its final stretch, the squishes are uniting to oppose President Trump. More than 200 former Bush, McCain, and Romney staffers have endorsed Kamala Harris, while George W. Bush s daughter, Liz Cheney, has gone even further and endorsed her opponent.
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As the 2024 race enters into its final stretch, the squishes are uniting to oppose President Trump.
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More than 200 former Bush, McCain, and Romney staffers have endorsed Kamala Harris.
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George W. Bush himself refuses to endorse the Republican nominee.
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Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, has gone further and endorsed Harris.
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And of course, Dick Cheney's daughter, former Republican congressman, I should say,
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former Republican and former congressman, Liz Cheney, is leading the charge.
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These people have all had ideological and personal beef with Trump for years.
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But over the past few days, Liz Cheney has taken the squish vendetta
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If you look at Vice President Harris's speech, for example, at the Democratic Convention,
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it is a speech that Ronald Reagan could have given.
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It's a speech that George Bush could have given.
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And it's very much an embrace and an understanding of the exceptional nature of this great nation,
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Now, St. Ronald has been dead for a couple decades.
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And his memory has been used and abused by his enemies and supposed supporters alike.
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So let's just take a little side-by-side look to see if Kamala's DNC speech
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really channeled the spirit of the late, great Republican president.
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We are not going back to when he tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
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The key issue is we do not want socialized medicine.
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We are not going to let him eliminate the Department of Education that funds our public schools.
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We propose to dismantle two cabinet departments, energy and education.
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Compare that to Donald Trump, because I think everyone here knows he doesn't actually fight
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He doesn't actually fight for the middle class.
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Instead, he fights for himself and his billionaire friends.
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And he will give them another round of tax breaks that will add up to $5 trillion to the national debt.
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Our proposal is for a 10% across-the-board cut every year for three years in the tax rates
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for all individual income taxpayers, make a total cut in tax rates of 30%.
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If the deficit continues to grow, it will not be because the Congress cut taxes too much,
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When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom as President of the United States,
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We must not rest, and I pledge to you that I will not rest,
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until a human life amendment becomes a part of our Constitution.
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Seems like Reagan and Kamala are pretty different.
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Sounds to me like the Gipper could not have given Kamala's DNC speech because he vehemently
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opposed basically every substantive point she made.
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Seems to me like these squish Republicans are not quite as principled and conservative
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Conservatives, real conservatives supported them.
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And then the moment their power was threatened,
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they decided to stab us all in the back and switch teams.
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Is it any wonder conservatives decided to ditch that old establishment
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They burn down our cities, then they get called courageous.
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Instead of condemning the media, give them praises.
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That sounded like a different stinger than usual on this show.
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We will get to that unfortunate story in a moment.
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First, though, folks, when I drove into work this morning, I put my car seat heater on.
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You know that my products are mostly combustible.
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Well, when you're sitting indoors with a nice Mayflower,
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really, you could fill up the whole house with the wonderful scent of PSL
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I'm really irritated by the George W. Bush thing.
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I'm not saying I'm the biggest George W. Bush fan in the country,
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but I'm also not one of these people on the left or the right
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who blames him for every problem we've had in the last several decades.
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But I'm really irritated that this guy was supported by the Republican Party
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That this guy's family has been supported by conservative Republicans,
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even though the Bush family has never been particularly conservative.
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His family has been supported by conservative Republicans,
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his brother's governorship, his father's presidency,
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The whole family has been supported by conservatives for all that time.
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And then the minute that he's got some personal and ideological beef
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with a more conservative Republican presidential candidate,
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Trump has said very nasty things about George W. Bush.
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That's where the real beef was because Trump was running against Jeb in 2016.
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Sorry, Republican politics, all politics is a contact sport.
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What about coming together for your patriotic duty?
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Bush has said in 2020, he did not vote for Trump.
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This is a man whose family is supposed to be dedicated to public service,
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but they throw it away because of a personal gripe.
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And of course, the defenders of this kind of thing will say,
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You know, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush threw some punches at each other
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when they ran against each other for president in 1980.
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There has been a divide in the Republican Party between the more conservative wing and
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the more liberal wing for at least going all the way back to World War II and really even
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Though when you get a little further back than that, the distinctions become more historically
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But certainly since World War II, you had two wings of the party.
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You had the Goldwater wing, the conservative wing of the Republican Party, and you had the
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Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party, which was more liberal.
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And well, you saw this in the Goldwater race, but then you saw this later on.
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The divide was probably most clearly exemplified by the divide between Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
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George H.W. Bush was the moderate, more liberal Republican.
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And then George H.W. Bush, when Reagan invited him onto the ticket, he moderated some of his
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Most notably, he became pro-life in order to become vice president.
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Previously, the Bushes had been very in favor of abortion.
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Prescott Bush, I think, supported Planned Parenthood.
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Then the moment that the more moderate liberal establishment wing of the party took over,
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then they demanded the votes of the conservatives.
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But they never really wanted to give us very much.
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It just seems like for years, the conservative wing of the party has gone along with the Bushes.
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And has gone along with the more moderate establishment, chamber of commerce, kind of
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Conservatives supported George W. Bush for president twice.
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And we felt it was for the good of the country.
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Why aren't you pulling your weight in the Republican coalition?
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We talk about how we have this really important coalition brought together, most notably by
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Ronald Reagan, between the libertarians and the traditionalists and the religious right
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and the peace through strength kind of foreign policy thinkers.
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Then you get kind of moderate Republicans for then the presidency of George W. Bush.
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Then the nomination of John McCain, certainly more moderate than the nomination of Mitt Romney.
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And the conservatives still came out and we voted and we didn't ditch these people.
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And we didn't throw all of these temper tantrums that the GOP squish establishment is doing now.
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We did our duty and supported the nominee of the party.
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But then the minute you get a more conservative presidential nominee, who was the most conservative
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president of my lifetime, Donald Trump, who actually used the phrase from Ronald Reagan,
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You see a resurgence of the Reagan wing of the party as opposed to the Bush wing of the party,
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a resurgence of the Goldwater wing of the party as opposed to the Rockefeller wing of the party.
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Then that's the moment when all the squishes go home and Bush gets off the field and Cheney
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endorses the Democrat and Cheney's daughter endorses the Democrat.
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And a bunch of staffers for Bush and McCain and Romney.
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And it's not the Trumpers who broke the political coalition.
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Now, speaking of President Trump, Trump and Harris face off tomorrow night at the presidential debate.
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We are going backstage to cover the debate live.
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You'll get to see reactions from the most trusted voices in conservative media.
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But in addition, you can also hear from Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring for full coverage and analysis.
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It won't belabor the point too much, but Dick Cheney, good grief, man.
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He writes, in our nation's 248-year history, there's never been an individual who's a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.
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He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.
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As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our constitution.
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That's why I'll be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
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There is something delightful about this endorsement, which is, those of you who maybe don't remember so clearly,
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during the Bush administration, as much as the left hated Bush, and they called him Hitler, and they put little mustaches on his posters,
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they thought that George W. Bush was Mother Teresa.
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They thought he was Nelson Mandela compared to Dick Cheney.
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Dick Cheney, they thought, was truly Darth Vader.
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And now you have the left just giddily embracing Dick Cheney.
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The Bushes always were a little bit politically sus.
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They definitely came from the more establishment liberal wing of the party.
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Dick Cheney, however, was a conservative member of Congress.
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Way back when, when he was a member of Congress, this guy was a real conservative.
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He was one of the first guys to come out and endorse Reagan in Congress.
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He was on a whole host of issues, domestic and foreign.
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He was extremely conservative, ardently pro-life.
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He did become more Wilsonian as he was Vice President.
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But still, this guy had pretty rock-ribbed right-wing bona fides.
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And then over the 2000s, they started to break away.
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Again, that seemed to have been a personal issue.
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But where is the loyalty to the millions and millions of conservatives
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who supported these people in their whole careers in public life?
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Now, this signals something bigger than just the Bushes and the Cheneys hating the Trumps.
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This signals something bigger than personal political gripes.
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Democrats are now fully the party of the political elite.
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Explicitly or implicitly, they're the party of the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens,
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the Bushes, the Bushes, the Cheneys, the even beyond those families.
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88 corporate leaders have endorsed Kamala Harris in a new letter.
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That includes the CEOs of Yelp, Box, all sorts of other stuff.
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James Murdoch, 21st Century Fox CEO, son of Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing media mogul.
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If Harris wins the White House, they say the business community can be confident
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that it will have a president who wants American industries to thrive.
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This is the biggest evidence yet of a realignment.
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You know, we always hear the Libs say that the parties switched.
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The parties always switch conveniently whenever the Democrats do something really horrible.
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The two parties don't wake up one day and say, okay, from now on, you Republicans,
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And we Democrats, we're going to be the Republicans.
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And so as they apply their principles to changing circumstances,
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sometimes the specific policies that they embrace do change.
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And the specific constituencies they speak to change.
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Now, some Republicans are misinterpreting this.
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They're saying the GOP is the party of the proletariat now or something.
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You know, we're the party of the lowest prestige echelons of society.
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You know, workers of the world unite or something.
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There's still the party of, well, communists for that point.
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But also, they're still the party of the very, very poor.
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I don't think the very, very poor are voting for Republicans.
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The Republicans are not the party of the big corporate leaders.
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Republicans are the party of small to medium-sized businesses.
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Republicans are the party not of the destitute,
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not of the illegal migrants who have come across the border,
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flown in by Democrats a lot of the time all over the country.
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Those guys are still going to be more likely to vote for Democrats if they do vote,
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and their kids are going to be more likely to vote for Democrats.
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Republicans are the party of the middle class, the lower middle class,
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of guys who don't hang around with this crew here,
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with Yelp and Box and Snap and 21st Century Fox.
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I like people in the middle class, in the lower middle class,
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But it's important to note, just so we know what the political stakes are,
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the ensconced political establishment is entirely Democrat.
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Used to be, the Dems would say, the big business supports Republicans,
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The political establishment, up to and including Dick Cheney,
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former CEO of Halliburton, former vice president,
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guy with that kind of crazy-looking grin who just invades all the countries in the world,
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And they have a lot of power, and they can wield that power pretty effectively.
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Trump did something yesterday that was historic,
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and I think many people didn't pay attention to it.
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Yesterday is the feast of the Nativity of Mary,
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You know, there's not much written in Scripture about Mary's,
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at least the second century from the Proto-Evangelium of James,
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which discusses the Nativity of Our Lady of Mary.
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and some people are not going to be familiar with this picture.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe is an image that appeared on a tilma,
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on a worker's garment, about 500 years ago in Central America.
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I certainly believe it to be, a miraculous image.
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The story is, 1531, this guy Juan Diego is walking around the fields,
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and he sees an apparition of Mary, you know, Our Lady.
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And that, you know, people are a little skeptical, of course.
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Roses do not exist at this point in Central America.
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would be one proof of the miraculous nature of this apparition.
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But as he unfurls it, there's this image on the tilma.
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And the image is this woman clothed with the sun,
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So the images that come from the book of the apocalypse.
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well, there are a lot of things that are weird about it.
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No one really seems to know how this image got there.
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would not sketch out the painting before applying paint.
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By one distance, she appears to be kind of native,
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Despite being in a church with all sorts of smoke,
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just the fabric should have just lasted 15 to 30 years or so.