Posted on 03/15/2018 5:56:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Grab sound bite No. 3. Mike Murphy, Republican consultant extraordinaire this is the guy that ran Jeb Bushs campaign, hundred thousand dollars, got three delegates, he and Mark McKinnon are the two probably most prominent Republican consultants out there. Theyre both on CNN last night with well, I dont know if they both were on with Don Lemon or not, but the first one is Murphy on CNN Tonight. And he says the problem that the Republicans have in the November elections is Trump, Trump, Trump, thats the problem, and its a problem the Republicans just cannot overcome.
MURPHY: President Trump, who peaked in districts like that a year-and-a-half ago is now in real trouble, hes become an anchor on the party. Theres definitely a blue wave coming. Ill say it, yes, its Trump. This is not rocket science. We have the most unpopular president in the history of polling in the first year of an administration. So, you know, two plus two is four here. Massively unpopular president who is constantly doing things to undermine the presidency and offend two-thirds of the country, and so guess what? Were getting clobbered now at the polls. The problem is fundamentally Trump and the fact the party has become lemmings following him. Yes, I totally blame Trump!
RUSH: Does he sound happy to you, Mr. Snerdley? He doesnt sound happy to you? Play it again. Does he sound enthusiastic? Does he sound panicked? Well, what does he sound like to you, then? See, I think he sounds gleeful here. I think he sounds, Told you so, told you so, told so, told you so. I think he sounds just like he sounded when we nominated Sharron Angle and the woman who had to say she wasnt a witch in Delaware, whatever her name was. (imitating Murphy) I told you, I told you, youre making the biggest mistake in the world. I tried to tell you, you wont listen to me. I tried to do tell you. I told you Trumps the killer, Trumps killing us. Listen to it again.
MURPHY: President Trump, who peaked in districts like that a year-and-a-half ago is now in real trouble, hes become an anchor on the party. Theres definitely a blue wave coming. Ill say it, yes, its Trump. This is not rocket science. We have the most unpopular president in the history of polling in the first year of an administration. So, you know, two plus two is four here. Massively unpopular president who is constantly doing things to undermine the presidency and offend two-thirds of the country, and so guess what? Were getting clobbered now at the polls. The problem is fundamentally Trump and the fact the party has become lemmings following him. Yes, I totally blame Trump!
RUSH: I see the smile. Oh, hes gloating. (imitating Murphy) Yeah, I did, Trump, Trump, Trump, guess what, were getting clobbered in the polls. The problem is fundamentally Trump and the fact that the partys become a bunch of lemmings following him. Oh, you idiots. I tried to tell you, I tried to tell you. We have the most unpopular president in the history of presidents, two-thirds of the countrys offended by the guy every day, I told you, its Trump, Trump, Trump. Blue wave is coming. Were toast! Ha-ha! I told you.
Lets go on to McKinnon, Mark McKinnon next. He ran all the media for George Bush in the 2000 campaign and was prominent in 2004. He was on with Don Lemon. And McKinnon is the guy that founded this centrist group called No Labels. Were not conservatives. Were not liberals. Were actually liberals that dont call ourselves liberals, is what the No Labels group is. And Lemon said, Okay. Youre plugged into a lot of Republicans, Mark. What are they really saying behind the scenes?
MCKINNON: Theyre saying, get off the beach. The wave is coming. Get out of here. I mean, actually, that is happening. I mean, theyre getting out of the races altogether. In fact, 41 Republicans have retired and resigned. And I think because of last night were gonna see more resignations. Last nights news, that was the canary in the coal mine getting hit by mustard gas and a grenade, and theres feathers everywhere. I think a lot of Republicans were holding out hope that because of the tax cuts and because of the very strong economy, that would help carry through some of the problems that weve been seeing out there. This suggests that thats not gonna be the lifeboat that everybody thought it was gonna be.
RUSH: Okay. We got one more with Murphy back on CNN, and hes on the same show with McKinnon cause youll hear McKinnon in this bite as well.
MURPHY: We need to give the same kind of long leash to some of our candidates who want to walk away from the president a little bit and walk away from some of these litmus test primary issues, like guns in these suburban districts where Republican support is collapsing. So I would say my advice to the Republicans would be, copy that, because we are heading for real headwinds. Thats an effective tactic, as we just learned in one of our base districts.
RUSH: So we need to give a long leash to some of our candidates who want to walk away from the president a little bit, walk away from some of these litmus test primary issues like guns in these suburban districts where Republican support is collapsing. Republican support for guns in suburban districts is collapsing.
Okay, so the message is that Trump is a buffoon, an idiot, hes hated and despised, two-thirds of the country doesnt like the guy. Hes the most negative polling president first year, first term weve ever had, blue wave is coming, get off the beach or youre gonna drown. Republicans are resigning left and right. Its over.
How did he gett elected in the first place, then? Could somebody explain to me what happened, how did he get elected in the first place? Was he overwhelmingly popular by people who voted for him and now one-third of the people that voted for him have abandoned him or more, hes hated and despised? Trump is hated and despised by many of the people that the voted for him, Republican support is collapsing because of Trump, Trump, Trump? How did a guy like this ever get elected then?
Now, I know what these guys will say. Hillary Clinton and Russia. Hillary was a horrible candidate, one of the worst candidates, one of the worst candidates the Democrats have ever run. Well, she won the popular vote, count the five million votes out in California or whatever, she won the popular vote, and the Democrats loved her. What happened? In a year-and-a-half, what has happened in 15 months, since Trump was inaugurated, what has happened to cause all of this dramatic reversal of opinion on Trump? What has happened?
Well, there are answers to this. Im just asking if any of you (interruption) Well, hes implemented a conservative agenda, and notice how these guys run down the tax cuts. A bunch of Republicans running it down, Yeah, not enough, not enough. They thought the tax cuts could be our anchor, but nope, thats not enough.
I have the answers to all my questions. Im asking rhetorically here. What happened? How does the guy get elected in the first place if he is this hated, despised, and unpopular now, after implementing 65% of his agenda. Well, maybe these guys hate him precisely because of that. Maybe these guys hate him because he beat them resoundingly, outsiders, took them to school during the primaries, then the general.
But, anyway, despite all that, you see, folks, these are Republican consultants considered to be the cream of the crop, and theyre out there on CNN saying its over. And it doesnt even have anything to do with anything with Russia. No, its over because Trump sucks. Trump is horrible, Trump is hated, Trump is despised, hes unpopular.
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RUSH: Mike Murphy predicted that Trump was gonna lose in an historic landslide right up until the night of the election, just to put things in perspective. And Trump still beats Hillary in faux presidential elections. If the election were held today, Trump still beats her. But, you know, Republicans in the establishment just do not want to succeed with Trump. Thats what it boils down to.
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RUSH: We got a grab here of McKinnon and Mike Murphy on CNN with Don Lemon. Go ahead and switch it over there. They dont look too broken up about it here. I mean, look at the smiles on Murphys face and McKinnons as they talk about this upcoming blue wave thats gonna wipe out the Republican majority in Congress. They dont look too broken up about it, do they to you, Mr. Snerdley?
Don Lemon, of course, Lemons gonna be happy, absolutely. By the way, grab number six. Theres another one! Theres another Republican this guy is Dan Senor. Let me tell you who Dan Senor is. Dan Senor, I never heard of him til we took over Baghdad. This guy ended up being the spokesman for, what was his name, Paul, Paul, Paul Bush put together to run the reconstruction of Iraq. I dont know. I cant remember his name, but Dan Senor, hes married to Campbell Brown who used to be a Today show anchorette and then CNN.
And hes another Republican strategist or consultant-adviser. He was on CBS today with Norah ODonnell, and she said, Republicans are dealing with a potential loss of a House seat in a strong GOP district. It looks like the Democrats may have won this one, Dan.
SENOR: Its a bad sign. Its the seventh special election since President Trump since hes been sworn in, eight if you include the Alabama race, and in each of these races, even though a couple the Democrat has won, youve seen massive shifts of vote Democrats shifted the votes 16, 18, 20 points on average.
ODONNELL: And the president himself went there to campaign himself!
SENOR: And it looks like the race was tighter before he showed up. So what its looking like is the president is very good at motivating the opposition. Its not clear that hes good at motivating his base.
RUSH: Oh-ho. So now Trump hurt himself by going into the district. I know its not true. Its the exact opposite, but according to Dan Senor, this guy, Saccone could have won this thing except for Trump showed up. And Trump went in there, and it looks like Trump hurt himself cause the race was much tighter before Trump showed up. That simply isnt true.
So what explains this? While you ponder that, I need to get back to the phones. By the way, our previous caller, her point was well, we ran out of time that she thinks the Republicans didnt really care to win this. Because its gonna have to be recontested in November anyway. Its just a temporary filling of the seat here. So the election will happen again in November, maybe with a different candidate, but then theres also this.
Remember the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvanias redrawing districts. This district may not exist. Okay, thats right. This district is being split into two different districts. Its not even gonna be a district if that holds up, and so the theory is Republicans didnt throw a lot of money into this race for those two reasons, although some money did go into this race. They did put some money in this race. They put $10 million in this race. Its a myth to think that they didnt.
Now, lets go back to the phones cause we got a lot of people that still want to weigh in on this. But this election is being turned into the most important election of the century so far. And thats how its being treated. And even these Republican consultants by the way, Murphy now works at Harvard. What is this place at Harvard? Hes a senior fellow at Harvards Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. So hes talking to his Harvard buddies when he appears on CNN gleefully predicting the end of the Republican Party in this district and in Washington because of Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump.
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RUSH: Fort Worth, Texas, Scott. Glad you waited. Youre next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Rush! Hey, fantastic. Mega deplorable Trump voting dittos.
RUSH: Well, Im glad you got through here, Scott, my man, whats happening?
CALLER: Yeah. Just actually two real quick points. Hillary was wrong. We did not force our white significant female others to vote for Trump. We bribed them with Sharis Berries. There. I said it.
RUSH: Bribed them with Sharis. (laughing)
CALLER: But no, really, on a serious note I think every GOP running against a Democrat in these upcoming elections, all they have to do is take a Hillary Clinton picture and put it with their Democrat opponent and say just another Hillary Clinton Democrat.
RUSH: Well, you know, let me tell you something. I like that. But heres why. Who are these so-called Republican consultants to be conceding defeat in freaking March? If theyre willing to concede defeat in March and smile about it on CNN, then of what value are they? But there they were on CNN last night, Mark McKinnon and Mike Murphy, and we got em and theyre smiling while theyre talking about the blue wave thats coming, and that Trump is the reason. That Trumps hated, most unpopular president thats ever polled the first year of his presidency, just its over.
I wonder how these guys would do as coaches in the NFL? So the team meets for OTAs before the spring mini-camps begin. The coach, Look, you guys. Let me tell you something. I saw your season last year, and you suck. And theres no way were even making the playoff. You guys are so bad, you may be the most unpopular team in the league. We had more people kneel during the Anthem than any other team in the league. You guys dont have a prayer. How would that team do? How long would the coach last?
And its not just these two. Dan Senor is out there (imitating Senor), Oh, yeah, the Republicans, its a blue wave coming, dude. The Republicans are gonna lose, and its all because of Trump. But heres a guy from Fort Worth who apparently hadnt gotten the memo, and hes got an idea to sabotage all these Democrat candidates, just start running some ads and put some billboards up and posters and say the Democrat is right out of the Hillary Clinton school of politics, best friend of Hillary Clinton, long donor, long supporter of the Clintons. Think our people are thinking things like that? Doesnt sound like it. Im glad you called out there, Scott. The Sharis Berries line was actually kind of funny too.
Former Ann Richards lefty consultant Mark Mckinnon is a hard core Austin lefty .
He hates the Gop and left the Mccain campaign because he loved Obama.
This lefty loon staff gave a Bush debate tape to Kerry in 2004 .
He is a well known lefty fraud.
Does Rush even bother to check the source .
Rush has often spoke of the permanent advisor class in D.C. and the detriment of the permanent staffects that prevail administration after administration. They should be tapped only long enough for the very early stages, then $hit can the lot of them. New faces, new ideas, and some ball$ is what’s needed.
BTTT for later
I’m surprised that Steve Schmidt isn’t in the middle of this, he’s just a bad.
The race is still up for grabs——Conor is ahead by a very slim number-——and they havent even counted the absentee and military votes.
Remember-—if Conor actually wins, we’ve lost only one US congressional seat so far (this one), and one US Senate seat.
The rest of the Democrat wins are state houses ..... lower house assembly seats. There are some 5,411 state representatives. Losing 40 of those over 5,000 seats to Democrats is hardly earth shattering. The magic Halfrican, Obama, managed to lose over 1000 of those seats in 8 years, about over 110 seats lost per year. (hat tip SmokingJoe)
In all, Obama’s tenure caused major damage to Democrats all over the nation and in the Congress where he reduced them to a minority.
Liberal Republicans: Clap!
You’re not fooling anyone in your disdain for President Trump.
Good to see you love to see the GOP lose.
Why would anyone join a campaign to put someone in office knowing that, if they win, theyre out the door and the lazy cronies take over?
Sorry CNN crap is too easy to carve up .
Rush your staff is stupid .
Special elections make the libtards so happy. They are a bunch of simpletons.
Well, Mike Murphy can kiss my bitter clingers!
I have said before and firmly believe that there is an element within the GOP that is planning to throw 2018 to the rats, then allow them to impeach the President while they stand by and say “tut, tut...”.
From the sound of it, the Republican establishment is anxious to parlay their former status as second fiddle to the Democrats into floor usher, passing out programs.
It’s all very precarious! Can Trump possibly prevail?
The usual suspects committing the usual crimes.
Let ‘em have it, Rush. Who needs consultants like that? The libs can have them.
They won’t be laughing in Nov.
Rovio and his kind are deep in the swamp
Which doesn't matter much anyway because that seat disappears in November due to redistricting.
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