Posted on 02/08/2012 12:39:06 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: In these next two we have Trump. This was this morning on CNN's Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield. And they played a section or a portion of Santorum, I believe. Regardless, they were talking about Santorum and his victory speech last night. And this is what Trump had to say...
TRUMP: Rick Santorum was a sitting Senator who in reelection lost by 19 points. To my knowledge, the most in the history of this country for sitting Senator to lose by 19 points. It's unheard of. Then he goes out and it says, "Oh, okay. I just lost by the biggest margin in history; now I'm gonna run for president." Tell me, how does that work? That's like me saying, "I just failed a test. Now I'm gonna apply for admission to the Wharton School of Finance," okay? He just failed a test and now he's gonna run for president? So I don't get Rick Santorum. I don't get that whole thing.
RUSH: Okay. So obviously Trump is another that doesn't understand what is happening on the conservative side of things in the Republican Party. Now, you've gotta be very careful in discussing all this because these are periods here with all of these different instances of misunderstanding, lack of knowledge. At some point, all this gonna get put back together again. And when it gets put back together we're gonna have to have a semblance here of unity, which every party goes through during a primary process. But I want to take this and analyze it: "Rick Santorum was a sitting Senator who in reelection lost by 19 points. To my knowledge, the most in the history of this country for sitting Senator to lose by 19 points. It's unheard of. Then he goes out and it says, 'Oh, okay. I just lost by the biggest margin in history; now I'm gonna run for president.'"
Now, keep in mind it was just last week that they had the big show in Las Vegas where Trump endorsed Romney. And the school of thought was... 'Cause leading up to this point, late last year (well, the last three months of last year) Trump was gold. Trump himself was leading everything. And so the assumption could be made by Trump and others that Trump's still gold. And if Trump's not running, whoever Trump's supporting is going to be the beneficiary of all the love and support Trump had. That doesn't happen, and so people start scratching their heads. This thing last week, with Trump endorsing Romney, I guarantee you whoever thought of this...
And even if it happened genuinely, and I'm not saying it didn't, but everything's possible here. I'm sure the people... Let's put it this way: I'm sure the people excited about this thought this was gonna put Romney over the top. I'm sure they thought this was it. "This is the gold endorsement. Maybe McCain didn't do the trick, and maybe Dole didn't do the trick, but here's Trump; this is gold," and it didn't happen. So there's a little... I don't know, "upsetedness" here, confusion, curiosity. (paraphrasing) "My gosh, I just endorsed Romney last week, and Santorum, this guy who lost by 19 points? I never heard of this! I don't understand this!"
He says, "That's like me saying, 'I just failed a test. Now I'm gonna apply for admission to the Wharton School of Finance,' okay? He just failed a test and now he's gonna run for president? So I don't get Rick Santorum. I don't get that whole thing."
I'm sure he speaks for a lot of people who are not oriented toward conservatism ideologically, and by the same token who do not understand what is happening and has been happening with the Republican base. And I should probably point out that these people also fail to understand what the 2010 midterm elections were all about. They don't get that. And this is frustrating for us because it's so simple what's going on! It's not accidental. It's not a quirk of fate. It may be a quirk of fate, but it's not coincidence that Santorum had his sweep. It's not at all to people who vote in Republican primaries. Now, Santorum responded this morning on the same show, CNN Starting Point. Soledad O'Brien played a clip of Trump saying Santorum loses reelection for Senator by the biggest margin in history, and then decides to run for president. How does that work?
And then Soledad O'Brien said, "Okay, Senator Santorum, how does that work?"
SANTORUM: Why don't you ask Abraham Lincoln, who lost just about every single race he ran before he ran for president? A lot of folks lose races. What I didn't lose, unlike Governor Romney, is my principles. I stood up and fought for what I believed in in a very tough election year. And guess what? Governor Romney was up for reelection that year, too. His poll numbers were so bad, he decided not to run for reelection. I stood for what I believed in.
RUSH: So Santorum says (paraphrased), "Why don't you ask Abraham Lincoln, who lost just about every race he ran. A lot of people loses races, but I didn't lose because of my principles. I stood up and fought for what I believed in." In that 2006 election, a lot of people got taken out. I mean it was that middle of the Iraq war, the Bush administration not defending itself, the whole Mark Foley thing. It all came together. They were saying we're in the middle of a recession, trying to create this notion of a recession, if not a depression. It finally came out. There was a bunch of frustration the country was feeling over a number of things; it all started to come out.
And, by the way, Santorum endorsed Arlen Specter. Santorum is a good party guy. He was a good party man. I mean, you endorse your fellow Senator from your state. That happened to be Arlen Specter. At the time everybody said, "You gotta be for Pat Toomey," but he was a loyal party guy. He supported Bush in a lot of legislation that increased spending. And people on our side have been fed up with that for a long time, including the spending that went on in the Bush administration. So there was a message being sent by Republican voters in 2006 to a lot of incumbents that they didn't care about the consequences. They were gonna get rid of people who they thought were lying to them in their own party or who they thought were not governing as they had promised to while they were campaigning.
Really none of this is this hard to understand. If you are a conservative who understands it ideologically, nothing about last night -- nothing about what happened to Newt when he was doing well, nothing about the lack of total support for Romney, none of this -- is confusing to conservatives. What's confusing to us is how everybody else doesn't see it. It's right in front of your nose! All you need is one eye to see this. Couple it with what Obama is, who he is, and what he's doing, and what's the alternative -- and the fact Santorum continues to talk about, "This election's about freedom," bingo! There's Connection A. Connection #1. That is what a majority of people voting in Republican primaries actually fear is happening: Their freedom being taken away.
Not just being "lost," but it's actively being taken from us. Every day this administration has something else, either in mind or something else that they are doing, that is usurping these freedom little by little. When you get to that point, the fact the guy loses an election by 19 points doesn't really matter that much right now. What matters more is the fact that the supposed Wizards of Smart in the Republican Party don't seem to understand what's at stake in the election. They don't seem to understand what's at stake for the country.
And so Republican primary voters -- as much as voting for Newt or voting for Santorum -- are sending a message to the Republican establishment at the same time. There's so much going on here, but it isn't complicated. It isn't mysterious. By the way, Trump's debate back in December 5th or 7th, whenever it was supposed to happen? Santorum and Newt were the only two that agreed to do the Trump debate, and that was eventually canceled.
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Trump the epistemologist doesn’t understand what’s really going on.. news flash.
In the interest of brevity, I’ll just paste in one snippet to illustrate the absurdity of Trumps remarks, but of course there is more....
“By 1989, the effects of the recession left Trump unable to meet loan payments. Trump financed the construction of his third casino, the $1 billion Taj Mahal, primarily with high-interest junk bonds. Although he shored up his businesses with additional loans and postponed interest payments, by 1991 increasing debt brought Trump to business bankruptcy and the brink of personal bankruptcy. Banks and bond holders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars, but opted to restructure his debt to avoid the risk of losing more money in court. The Taj Mahal re-emerged from bankruptcy on October 5, 1991, with Trump ceding 50 percent ownership in the casino to the original bondholders in exchange for lowered interest rates on the debt and more time to pay it off”
So here you have this guy who lost hundreds of millions of dollars - failed the bigest test of business - had to declare bankruptcy - and now he expects to have credibility - not only in BUSINESS where he once failed - but in politics which he knows little about?
I just don’t get that.
Rick Santorum was a sitting Senator who lost reelection by 19 points...
...he lost to Bob Casey, who ran as a pro-gun, pro-life democrat.
Methinks it will be hard for Obama to run as a pro-gun, pro-life democrat.
Trump’s pissed off because he was all full of himself after the NV primary saying he takes credit for Romney winning and now Romney SUCKS, losing 3 races back to back and this dipchit is scratching is head. ‘Gee, just a couple days ago, I was all that!!’
Trump is just a blowhard pissed because his boy Mitt started losing after his fancy endorsement.
Ha Ha, Trump, you chump.
Its the missing element in aproximately 1/3 of the R’s. Partly why we have an Obama and not a Reagan for President because the Trumps of the world want a Romney.
Hey Trump what I don’t get is - you did a song and dance to get the BC and they gave you a bogus one, a counterfeit one and you shut up - never to bring it up again.
Now you are doing a song and dance about your candidate - a bogus one, a counterfeit one. He’s no conservative nor is he an R. What is it about you that you are drawn to and settle for counterfeits?
The truly wealthy of any society tend towards communism,
because under communism they know they’ll have access to ALL the wealth of the country and not have to share it with millions of individual owners.
God works in mysterious ways and He also enjoys confounding the experts. God’s ways are not man’s ways.
Possibly He is elevating the one man left in the GOP field that seems to be humbly submitting to Him. Just sayin’...
Trump reminds me of a bird. Weird visual..
Jacob Javits (rino-ny) lost the primary, ran on the Liberal line, and lost to D’Amato by 25 points.
That’s a good way to investigate the nature of his character. Good question. Kind of answers itself.
Trump isn’t a conservative. He is a Trump, and whoever he thinks will best serve his Trump cause, he supports. Today it is Oromney. Tomorrow it might be Obama again. It won’t be a conservative.
When will Trump be ignored as being irrelevant?
Good, finally. Trump is doing the job that Rush and the rest won’t do in ferreting out Santorum’s weaknesses.
Are we serious people? He’s a good and decent man, but running on empty. Empty on ideas, empty on accomplishments.
Yes, he seems to have a good family and morals.
Sorry, I don’t want a powder puff running this country at the moment is no more qualified than I would be, and who teaches me nothing when he rambles for ten minutes on an answer that Newt answers in 2.
Pallllleese
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