Posted on 03/09/2016 3:57:47 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: There's an audio sound bite I want you to hear. Now, last night Trump had his victories, a big one in Michigan. And he was scheduled to do another victory press conference, not a victory speech, but a victory press conference with many of the audience consisting of members of the golf club in Jupiter where the event was held. And, as the media noted long before it began, the podium was flanked by samples of Trump products.
There was Trump water. There was Trump Steaks. There was Trump wine. There were other Trump things there. They were obviously there as placeholders. But I think it was used to refute Mitt Romney's claims that all of those Trump businesses have gone belly up or kaput. And Trump, as he says, you hit me, I'm gonna hit you back, and so it was time to hit back on these allegations that his businesses are either underwater, bankrupt, broke, or what have you. It was a one-hour-plus press conference, stream of consciousness appearance, tour de force, whatever you want to call it.
I have a lot of e-mails from people who think this is the most hilarious, this is the best, this is the whatever. I've never seen anything like this kind of press conference. I actually thought Trump has been better than he was last night. There was something about last night that was a little off to me, not that it wasn't good, and not that it wasn't funny, but I don't know. I can't explain it, other than to say I was just a bit mildly surprised at the rave reviews people sent me when it was over. And again, it's a minor point, and it's really not the point at all. But I want to share with you a sound bite of Dr. Krauthammer on the Fox News Channel when the thing was all over. Bret Baier brings Dr. Krauthammer on to analyze what we've just seen.
KRAUTHAMMER: I don't think I've ever heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago. That was quite a performance, and it was very weird. That was a performance, that was live television, that was reality television, and that nobody can do, and that has its appeal. I think that's gonna be really dangerous, 'cause he often can go off the reservation comparing himself to, what was it, Abe Lincoln, his number two, in how presidential he is. That's a little bit weird, but he's been able to carry it off. I think people have a sense of humor about him, which is good because otherwise they'd be terrified. And that's what has been carrying him through. In the end it will be a one-on-one and it will get a little more serious.
RUSH: So that's a funny line. "I haven't heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago." That may be one of the lines of the campaign. But these guys are clearly flummoxed in trying to understand this. I mean, you've got people saying this is a sacred process, the presidential race, the election for president is a sacred trust, and this guy, he's just soiling it, he's just making a mockery of it.
And then here's Mitt Romney over there on Jimmy Kimmel Live reading mean tweets and everybody is trying to figure why it is that the American public is not repulsed by this, why they're not worried. This is a presidential campaign, and it is a personal reality show. And everybody's trying to figure out why the American people are unbothered by it, and I can explain it to you. As a member of the media and as a student of the media, I can explain it to you if you want, but I'm not gonna take a whole lot of time to do it now because it really doesn't matter. The bottom line is people are not bothered by it, a number of people aren't. Some people are, is the point.
Mitt Romney Reads Mean Donald Trump Tweets
But can you think back, who was the last president -- seriously, now -- who was the last president you can think of who treated the office and everything about it with utmost reverence and respect? Who was the last president you can recall that did not mock the process, the job, the position, the behavioral manner, the level of decorum, everything about it, who was the last president you can think of who treasured, loved, and adored the office of the presidency and would not do anything he thought would bring dishonor to it?
That president is George W. Bush. And maybe if you want to go back, his dad, George H. W. Bush. And then you go back to Ronaldus Magnus. I wouldn't put Obama in that discussion. I wouldn't put Bill Clinton in that discussion. I wouldn't put any single Democrat in that discussion. My point is this. The only one of those presidents, when you answer that question that's relevant right now, is George W. Bush, demographically, generationally.
What did it get him? And remember, now, I'm asking the question in the context of everybody wringing their hands over what Trump is doing to damage the sacred trust. Trump is making a mockery of it, how Trump is lowering it and it now is no different and no better than a reality show on TV, and this is not what presidential campaigns are supposed to be. It's in that context that I ask the question.
George W. Bush treated the office of the presidency with reverence. George W. Bush told me over and over again, whenever I had a chance to be with him, I would constantly ask him, why aren't you pushing back on all this stuff they're saying about you and your administration and people in your administration? They're destroying your judicial nominees. They're out there destroying you. They're claiming you lied, people died. They're claiming you knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
And when he would talk to people privately, he would hit back at 'em and you would think, "My God, the guy gets it," and you wish this guy would show up on TV. How many times have I told you this? But yet when it came time to go public, none of that. And what George W. Bush told me was that he refused to take the office of the presidency down to the political gutter by reacting to obvious political chatter and cheap criticism. He told me he had too much respect for the office to take it there. And he couldn't avoid taking the presidency there because he was president.
Okay, fine and dandy. Whatever you think of that, the bottom line is what did it get him? He treated the office with great reverence and great respect and refused to do anything to sully it. It didn't help him a bit. The American people did not have any pride. The media, the Democrat Party was able to convince a majority of Americans that Bush was rotten, that Bush was a liar, that Bush was incompetent, that Bush was stupid, and all of the reverence that he showed for the office didn't matter.
Now, my point is, when you're trying to understand why aren't people disgusted over what Trump is doing to the office and the campaign and the reverence? We've seen now in recent years that we live in a different generational era, particularly in our pop culture. And there are people, and probably an increasing number of people, who don't find anything wrong -- in fact, not only do they not find anything wrong about it, they think it's refreshing. They think it's refreshing that a real guy who talks like real people -- i.e., like they do -- is not acting all heady and lofty and uppity over them and is just behaving like anybody else would, like they would if they were in the same shoes.
I find it's a fascinating... maybe not dichotomy, but it's clearly a dilemma. It's like so many conventional wisdom rules that have always worked in the past are out the window and not working now. I go back to this Wall Street Journal headline today: "Angry White Males Propel Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders." This, to me... I could be wrong about this because there's been so much media over the course of years of this program, but best of my recollection is "angry white males" has always been an epithet used by Democrats to describe Republican voters who don't buy into the Democrat Party.
Well, now all of a sudden we have a supposedly Republican oriented publication, Wall Street Journal, is now calling Republicans angry white males, and now there are allegations that angry white males are now voting in the Democrat side, too. And I think this is just the establishment trying to comfort itself to explain what's happening to itself, because they can't figure any of this out. It violates so much of what they thought they had put in place and had total control of. And that's really the nub of this, the panic they feel at having lost control.
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It certainly is after Bubba and the Kenya Klown.
It’s turned into a damn reality show.
After Slick Willy’s stains on dresses and carpets...........
We deserve Trump.
Going beyond what Rush touched on there, Bush allowed not only himself, but the office, and Conservatives at large to be attacked without so much as a whimper.
That asshole fought tooth and nail to win the office, and then what?
Here was a guy that was supposed to be our voice, the voice defending freedom and sound ideals, and he turned out to be a marble mouth mute.
WTH did he run for?
Yes Bush did some good things. I don’t give a damn. That was his job. His job was also to lead, to voice sound principle in the face of attacks.
Defend the office? Represent the office well?
WTH is he kidding? He allowed the office to be demeaned, while he was lost in a cloud 75% of the time.
As I said, what did he run for if he didn’t want to defend the office and the nation from constant Leftist attack?
This went so far that he didn’t demand Congress avoid the melt down. He just let it happen.
I get so angry when I think of the eight years that guy wasted, with the opportunity of my lifetime, a Congress in his pocket, and nothing but air in his head.
I like you.
And we have a reality star running. The Chinese, or somebody, have a saying, “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We can say, when the culture is debased, the reality star will appear. Can anyone, for or against Trump, argue that he is not a man of the times?
and not even a good one.
all I hear from friends (not family) is TRUMP!!!!!
they are much more enthralled with him than Christ
Right on the money, CC.
You make a strong point.
I still like W Bush but he was a liberal punching bag.
That’s why I enjoy Trump the human version of the Phalanx CIWS.
It certainly is after Bubba and the Kenya Klown.”
And bubblebutt Moochie in her ghastly attire.
“everybody is trying to figure why it is that the American public is not repulsed by this, why they’re not worried”
Maybe it’s because we don’t `revere’ any branch of government, but particularly the presidency.
People tend to go overboard when they have pent up thoughts on something like this, so I accept that I was very strong there.
None the less, I think a lot of Conservative leaning people are thrilled to see Trump take folks on, perhaps not even realizing why.
I think it’s why other folks being attracted to Trump. His presentation of reasoned goals is appealing.
Bush could have been so much more. I was so frustrated during his days.
You have to speak up to sell your ideas. Trump is. Go Trump!
Yep.
After seven years of Obama's presidency and this winter's low-brow GOP primary campaign, such oratory no longer feels beneath us.
Trump is not individually responsible for the circus and the degree of reverence. The media, including Kraut and Rush, have to take a lot of credit too. Other candidates as well.
Probably true, but considering what we have had as Presidents is it any wonder why?
now I’ve heard it all from the Drunk on Cruzludes crowd
TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR FAMILY BEING LAPSED CHRISTIANS?
And you thought Saint Theodore would flying in on clouds with golden wings and make it all right?
Trumpets and harps!
Good lord at some folks
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