Mark R. Levin's Blog, page 84

4/26/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Tuesday was primary night and as expected Donald Trump won all 5 states: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut. Trump’s performance in these states will not increase his chance of winning the nomination, because they have already been factored into predictions. Trump is going to roll through these and other blue states, but he won’t do so in the general election. The real race begins after tonight. Despite all of the pundits declaring Trump the nominee following Tuesday's results, he will face a much tougher road ahead than they want to admit. The race for the nomination will be determined by the ten primary races left after these five. After that, there are no parallels between Ronald Reagan and Trump. Reagan didn’t turn 69 and decide to become a Republican and conservative, like Trump did. Later, we are heading for some rocky water with the Republican and Democrat party. If people want to live under tyranny they will live under tyranny. People will have to live with the consequences of what they do or don’t do. However, it is not too late to remind ourselves of what kind of country we want.

4/25/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Donald Trump has been whining against the “Art of the Deal” for the last month. He certainly has been dealt by Ted Cruz in states like Wyoming and Colorado. Now Trump is complaining about collusion by John Kasich and Ted Cruz teaming up to stop him. There is nothing illegitimate about trying to stop the other guy from getting the nomination. In 1952 Robert Taft and his supporters sought to stop Dwight Eisenhower from being nominated by forming a coalition against him. Despite Taft’s efforts, Eisenhower won the majority and never complained about having to get it. This is part of the process. Right now, it looks like Cruz has read the “Art of the Deal” and Trump has not. Later, former Admiral John Kirby has become a mouthpiece for the Obama Administration of the worst kind. We were told that there were not going to be boots on the ground, and Kirby is denying that this was a position of the Obama administration. Now , 250 more Special Ops are going to be sent to Syria. Finally, UFC fighter Frankie Edgar calls in to discuss his fight at UFC 200 in Vegas.

4/22/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Inga Barks from KNZR in Bakersfield, CA fills in for Mark. With Rome burning you would think that President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron would be speaking about other things, instead of American bathroom policies. In addition, President Obama said the UK will go to the back of the que for US trade deals if they leave the European Union. It seems that he would rather do business with the larger European block. Later, Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia is giving felons their right to vote back. Most states do offer felon’s their right to vote. However, Gov. McAuliffe’s move appears to be politically motivated with the upcoming election, and his sincerity needs to be questioned. Also, elites and politicians are cramming policies down Americans’ throats these days without actually understanding there effects. For instance, Donald Trump wants to tax the rich, but this policy is going to affect those on the verge of being upper middle class rather than the real rich. Finally, Heidi Cruz calls in to discuss her husband’s campaign and why he is so principled.

4/21/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Is it too much to expect a Republican front runner to defend men going to the men’s room and women to the women’s room? Any sensible person would disagree with Trump and liberals on this bathroom issue. This is a big issue, because once again it gives you a look into the future of what Donald Trump would be like as the Republican nominee and as President. After that, we had an enormous opportunity to take our case to the American people. Instead, now we have to make our case to Trump supporters.. The man in the Oval Office needs to share our basic beliefs, values, and principles. Later, Trump has turned to one of the biggest lobbyist insiders in Washington D.C., Paul Manafort. Manafort should be asked about his former clients, especially the Kashmiri American Council and being bankrolled by the ISI, the Pakistan intelligence service. Why don’t the media ask him about this? After that, Ted Cruz calls in and explains that Trump’s bathroom view is the same as Hillary and Obama’s. Finally, Randy Barnett calls in to talk about his new book, “Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People”.

4/20/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Donald Trump won New York Tuesday night with 60.5 % of the vote, but that is not as important as the media makes it out to be. He won the amount of delegates he was expected to win in his home state. Trump got over 524,000 votes in New York, but Cruz got 531,000 in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is such a small state compared to New York with regards to population. If it was such a big win for Trump, he should have won way more votes than Cruz did there. Also, the claim that Trump can win New York in the general election is a myth, because Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had a combined total of 1.8 million votes in Tuesday’s primary. That is significantly more than all the Republican votes combined. The New York election turnout is telling us that these big blue states are not going to go Republican in the general election. If the Republican Party is going to win in this election, they will likely lose the popular vote and have to win it in the Electoral College. Later, in 1991 the Democrats invited Donald Trump to testify on the 1986 Reagan tax cuts. Trump claimed that they were catastrophic and helped to drive the country into a depression. Finally, there is a difference between government and country. President Obama doesn’t get it and neither does Trump.

4/19/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Tuesday is primary day with voting commencing in New York State and some people pretend that they don’t understand how the delegate system works. They should take some context from the election of 1800, one of the most amazing of all elections in American history. As it is today, the matter of selecting the state electors was reserved to the states back in 1800. In addition, none of the candidates in 1800 complained about the system being corrupt. Also, Donald Trump knew the intricacies of the bankruptcy system and eminent domain, yet is out-maneuvered and out –managed when it comes to getting delegates in states that don’t have primaries. He claims to be for the little guy, but has failed to meet with the little guy to make his case. Meanwhile Ted Cruz is the one outmaneuvering Donald Trump and persuading delegates to support his cause. Later, it looks like there are problems in paradise for the Trump campaign. Paul Manafort has taken over the campaign and displaced Corey Lewandowski. Finally, Joe Biden thinks he knows better than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what is best for Israel. He and others need to stop meddling in the affairs of Israel.

4/18/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

Neither Donald Trump nor his supporters believe in voting. Hawaii? Kentucky? Nevada? These were all caucuses that Donald Trump won. Was the process rigged there, because there was no primary, no vote? The most un-democratic part of the process is the winner-take all primaries where a candidate can get 45% of the vote and then walk away with all the delegates. Is that fair? After that, Michael Carter, former President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association calls in to talk about his NY values when he was helping others during the 9/11 attack and his pick for president. Later, Bernie Sanders is using Palestinian propaganda when talking about Israel. A bus in Israel blew up due to an act of terrorism Monday . It’s obvious that Israel is not planting these bombs, but terrorists are. This is the problem with the Marxist mentality, the facts don’t matter. Nothing will change his mind when it comes to the challenges that Israel faces. Also, we have Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton promoting Marxist propaganda and Trump promoting populism. What America needs is a liberty movement and a conservative president to turn this country around. Finally, Ted Cruz calls in to discuss the ‘rigged system’ Trump keeps talking about and Trump’s NY values.

4/15/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

America has an electoral college, because we don’t believe in populism or mob rule. Dr. Ben Carson needs to understand the facts and history properly. Carson is shredding the Constitution by suggesting the circumstances have changed so that we don’t need the Electoral College any longer. After that Donald Trump has been whining every step of the way about the Republican Primary. Trump is making it clear that the Republican Primary rules are only ok when he wins. On the other side, Ted Cruz has not complained once about the process. Later, many of us have lost faith in some of the places, organizations and people who we thought were conservative. The best thing we can do now is to stop paying attention to those who are not truly conservative and listen to those who are. Also, Ted Cruz is not against the police, firefighters or emergency responders. He would have voted for the Zadroga Act if it wasn’t part of a disastrous omnibus spending bill which had many bad elements to it, including Obamacare and amnesty. Cruz would gladly have supported this bill on its own merits. Finally, Ed Morrissey calls in to discuss his new book, Going Red: The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President--and How Conservatives Can Win Them.

4/14/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

The Republican primary system is not set up to stop Donald Trump. If anything the system helps him as he has 37% of the popular vote in the primary but has 45% of the delegates. If we are going to play by Trump’s rules then he should return 8% of his delegates to make the process fair. Also, it is going to be very difficult to unite the party around a man, Trump, who threatens to bolt if he doesn’t get his way. This will only give the election to Hillary Clinton. If Hillary becomes President, we will have no one to thank but Trump and the pseudo-conservatives who are abandoning their principles to support his antics. Later, Ted Cruz has out organized Donald Trump in Nebraska in collecting delegates. Nobody from the Trump campaign showed up for Nebraska. The fact is the Trump team has gotten its clock cleaned when it comes to getting a hold of delegates. He needs to clean up and organize his operation if he wants to cross the finish line.

4/13/16 - Mark Levin Audio Rewind

On LevinTV Marco Rubio said he wants the Republican presidential nominee to be a conservative and that Cruz is the only one who fits that criteria, but fell short of a formal endorsement. Since then the media has questioned Rubio's rhetoric, wondering why the he didn't just outright endorse him. Rubio's sort-of endorsement was for a distinct purpose. He wants to make sure his delegates are bound to him on the first ballot at the convention, so that they can’t support whomever they wish. If Rubio formally endorsed somebody it would appear that his delegates were free. After that, Hillary Clinton is proposing massive new tax increases that exceed one trillion dollars over 10 years; this is utter madness. Hillary's idea is called stealing and is not investment, but robbery. The government already has received a record amount of taxes at $1.48 trillion in 2016 and doesn’t need anymore. Later, the Democrat Party is the party of slavery and the Republican Party was founded to combat slavery in 1856. In present times, the policies of the Democratic Party have done much to destroy the African American culture and family.