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The GOP Professionals Don't Understand What's Happening in Their Primary
The Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 29 July 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 07/29/2015 4:54:32 PM PDT by COBOL2Java

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RUSH: Chris in Raleigh, North Carolina. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Dittos, Rush, and I would like to say that the reason why Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump are liked in this country is because you're not out trashing the country on a daily basis.

RUSH: Interesting observation. You think that's all it is?

CALLER: You know, you listen to Trump and when he talks about somebody, he says, "I met this great guy," or, "I did this great thing," or, "I go to this wonderful golf course, I met these awesome people," and you don't hear that anywhere else. You don't hear that from anyone else. We haven't had a positive person that talks like that since Ronald Reagan.

RUSH: Well, you know, now, you put it that way, and that is an interesting observation. A lot of people, what you're hearing as upbeat and positive, other people hear as braggadocios. Trump bragging about the people he knows, the people he knows are the greatest people, and the business projects he's doing are the greatest projects. The people that don't like him are the losers, and so forth. But he is upbeat and positive, and he's -- I mean, his whole slogan is here: "Make America great again."

There's nobody opposed to that (oddly, other than people on the left). Like I mentioned the other day, and like I read the other day, the Democrat Party is made up of two groups of people: Those who hate America and those who really, really, really hate it. In 1968, the Democrat Party of us made up of liberals who loved America and those who hated it, and they had a war with each other at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago.

The Democrat Party today doesn't have that kind of divide, but there still is a divide, those who just hate America and the one that really hate it. But Trump is positive that way. "Greatest golf course! Greatest building! Greatest supporters! Greatest people! Greatest country! We're gonna make mincemeat out of China! We're gonna teach 'em a lesson." And, you're right. You don't have politicians talking like that. That's considered to be impolite or not politically correct.

Patty in Longview, Texas. You're next. Your turn. Hello.

CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call.

RUSH: Yeah, you bet.

CALLER: An honor to talk to you.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: I'd like to share with you why I'm actually leaning to supporting Trump. I am a Latina, and the reason why I really, really like him is because he treats me like an American. He hasn't pandered to me like Bush speaking Spanish. I left all that. I don't want to hear him speak Spanish. I'm in America. He is the only one that has not done that, and I have felt like a true American like I used to back in the eighties when I first came here. And as far as McCain, you had a caller that this country owes McCain because he's a war hero. This country has paid them, paid him and everybody and then some. So, no, McCain is not owed anything. So Trump's comments about McCain did not change my opinion.

RUSH: Well, I understand that. The point that I should have made to the guy... You're talking about Louis who called, I think, from Omaha, and the point I should have made him is what Trump is actually... These are not his words; these are the words of an analyst looking at all this. But the analyst said that one of the differences in Trump is Trump is not devoted to making heroes out of people involved in losing causes, and too much of America today has become devoted to heroes in losing causes.

We're not interested in losing. As George Patton said, "Americans love a winner." Americans think they are winners. We're not losers, and we don't want to honor losers and have that be what we're known for now. I'm fascinated by analysis like that, people trying to explain what is inexplicable, to them, and that is, why so many people support Trump. Do you realize the number of political professionals who don't have the slightest idea what's going on?

I mean, you get right down to it, and it's their job to understand why people vote for whoever. They are befuddled over this support for Trump, and they're having trouble separating themselves personally from their business. They don't understand it. In their playbook, in their formula, Trump should be ticking everybody off. Everybody should be running him out of the campaign. He's so brash. He's so politically incorrect. He's so offensive." And the exact opposite happens.

When Trump does this stuff which they think should get him run him out of the business, he gets more popular, gets more support, and they don't think it's really because of that. They think it's temporary and not very deep, and, as such, is going to be evaporate at some point, and that's largely a hope. But try this on for size, 'cause this is where I think we are. Let's do a hypothetical for the fun of it.

Let's assume that Trump stays in and goes all the way and is really, really, really close to getting the nomination and has done it in his new way and has got deep and loyal support. Do you think the reaction of the Republican establishment is going to be, "Wow, this is cool. We got a lot to learn from this," or are they gonna forever reject it and disdain it? Probably the latter, right? Because Trump is never going to get past being an interloper. That's what Reagan was.

You know, when Reagan was president, everybody wanted to be in the light. Everybody was a Reagan advisor. Everybody was the consultant that told Reagan how to win because success has many fathers and failure is an orphan. But Reagan was always considered an outsider or an interloper, and when he was gone after his eight years, okay, it was time to erase them, and it was time for the establishment to get back to business as usual. You know, Republican voters are...

Whether they're consciously aware of this or not, they are aware of it. They're aware that the winning formula is not adopted. And when it wins, it's rejected and not supported, in large part. It makes them angrier and angrier and just deepens their support for the outsider candidate, in this case Trump. So we'll see where this all goes and where it all ends up. 'Cause I'll tell you, the professionals have no idea right now. I mean, you'll hear 'em on TV. "He's gonna be gone by the time school starts.

"He's not gonna make it, doesn't really want to win this. He's just in this." They're telling themselves that all of you people supporting Trump are gonna be just devastated and sad and gonna end up feeling betrayed and used when Trump gets out, leaving you high and dry, and they're worried you're gonna be so mad you're just not gonna vote in the next election. It's gonna be handed to Hillary. That's the fear they have of what Trump ultimately represents.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: limbaugh; rush; trump

1 posted on 07/29/2015 4:54:32 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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In the GOPe playbook, Trump should be ticking everybody off. He's so brash, so politically incorrect, so offensive." And the exact opposite happens, he gets more popular, gets more support. The GOPe think it's temporary and not very deep....largely the GOPe hope, rather than a political analysis.

The establishment candidates know now, that, in Trump, they're dealing w/ nitroglycerin. That's red white and blue nitro---b/c everything out of Donald's mouth is a Fourth of July salute to "let's make America great again."

Reaganesque, even, in his love for country.

B/c Americans have had it w/ hate-America pols like Obama trashing their country......the greedy Hillary lying-in-wait like some low-rent crook so the Clintons can get their grubby hands on the US Treasury.

2 posted on 07/29/2015 5:25:44 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

I haven’t had it with Obama and Hillary. I’ve had it with Rove, all the Bushs, Boehner, McConnell, Romney, McCain, Graham, and all the other Anti American crooks in the GOP. We can deal with the Democrats after the GOPe is destroyed. They chose sides when they bribed Democrats to vote against the conservative in the Mississippi Senate race.


3 posted on 07/29/2015 5:40:43 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: COBOL2Java

Rush Limbaugh is the favorite radio talkshow host of Republicans because he’s outspoken in his Republican values, is unafraid to tell the truth, is flamboyant, and speaks in an entertaining way.

Those are the same qualities that Donald Trump has, so no wonder he’s the favorite Republican presidential candidate.

Neither Rush Limbaugh nor Donald Trump can be removed from their high places by dull competitors. In the Republican presidential race, the dull competitors include most of the non-Trump candidates, particularly Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who trail the Donald even in their home state of Florida. No wonder they’re falling by the wayside.

Only Ted Cruz and possibly Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have enough charisma to seriously compete with Donald Trump for the hearts and minds of Republicans. It’s hard to believe that any of the others will be able to appear on the same stage with Donald Trump during the debates without being overshadowed by him into oblivion.


4 posted on 07/29/2015 6:03:32 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: COBOL2Java

Rush Limbaugh = free speech..let the ratings decide.
Donald Trump = free markets…He DID build that…let the competition decide.

HOORAY Rush
HOORAY Trump

The likes of Donald Trump hired you and gave you a paycheck because YOU had value and it would become a mutually beneficial arrangement…to build, to create, to restore, to assist, to service, to represent, to make lives better.

The POS parasitic politicians took a lot of that money (your time of life) you worked hard for to feed YOUR family and take care of YOUR needs...before it ever got to YOU.

On top of it all, the POS political UNIPARTY has put YOU, YOUR children, YOUR grandchildren and YOUR great-grandchildren, etc., etc. in DEBT SERVITUDE in perpetuity.

He’s not a professional politician. We need him and 535 more and hundreds more in the states like him. These other POS liars, conmen and thieves have corkscrewed the country into the ground and forced us, our children and grandchildren into debt slavery…

http://www.usdebtclock.org

Debates in the House of Representatives on the First Report on Public Credit 9–18 February 1790
James Jackson (Ga.)

But it is doubted with me whether a permanent funded debt is beneficial or not to any country.

The same effect must be produced that has taken place in other nations; it must either bring on a national bankruptcy or annihilate her existence as an independent empire. Hence I contend, sir, that a funding system, in this country, will be highly dangerous to the welfare of the republic; it may, for a moment, raise our credit and increase the circulation, by multiplying a new species of currency; but it must, in times afterward, settle upon our posterity a burthen which they can neither bear nor relieve themselves from. It will establish a precedent in America that may, and in all probability will, be pursued by the sovereign authority until it brings upon us that ruin which it has never failed to bring, or is inevitably bringing, upon all the nations of the earth who have had the temerity to make the experiment.

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/875

Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One...

6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…

7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game…

10. “Divide and govern”…

11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks…

http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm

/clinton-bush and all elite parasitic politicians


5 posted on 07/29/2015 6:37:52 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Liz
B/c Americans have had it w/ hate-America pols like Obama trashing their country......the greedy Hillary lying-in-wait like some low-rent crook so the Clintons can get their grubby hands on the US Treasury.

What you said! BTTT

6 posted on 07/29/2015 7:00:45 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*ou)
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To: COBOL2Java
"The GOP Professionals Don't Understand What's Happening in Their Primary"

Yes, they do. They know exactly what they're up against. We all know it, too. We also know that Walker is the only candidate who has a record for de-funding that constituency.

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."


7 posted on 07/29/2015 8:23:50 PM PDT by familyop (Stampedes driven by fallacies of the most base and simple kind as issued from decaying brains.)
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To: COBOL2Java
The GOP Professionals Don't Understand What's Happening in Their Primary

Yep and plenty of them are posting here.

8 posted on 07/29/2015 11:48:54 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: COBOL2Java
"The Democrat Party is made up of two groups of people: Those who hate America and those who really, really, really hate it."

Can't be repeated often enough.

9 posted on 07/30/2015 1:41:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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