Posted on 10/13/2015 3:00:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: We had a sound bite yesterday from the No Labels convention in Manchester, New Hampshire, which now is run by Jon Huntsman, Republican and -- ah, I'm having a mental block on the Democrat. It's Huntsman and there's some Democrat, you know, used to be the guy that ran McCain's media back in 2008. I can't remember. Mark, can't remember his last name. Anyway, we played for you a sound bite from this yesterday where Trump got a question about women and so forth, and we played his answer, and it turns out that that woman who asked the question was a Jeb Bush plant. The Jeb Bush campaign planted a woman in the audience at the No Labels deal. Mark McKinnon, yeah, that's the guy's name, Mark McKinnon.
So, anyway, they plant this woman, the Jeb Bush campaign puts a ringer in this audience at No Labels, a woman who works on his staff, has worked on Huntsman's staff. Her name is Lauren Batchelder and she is an intern here and an intern there, but she's a campaign activist for Jeb Bush, and she was sent in there to ask Trump a question about women and so forth, which is such a juvenile thing. You know, the amazing thing about this is Jeb Bush would never do this to Hillary Clinton. Nor would any of these other Republicans.
They'll run tricks. They'll run juvenile little things like this against other Republicans, but they would never do this, Jeb Bush nor anybody else in this Republican field, would dare try to stack a Democrat meeting like this and put a ringer in there to ask embarrassing questions of Democrats, but they will do it against their own. Grab audio sound bite number 14. This is how it started. This is that woman, Lauren Batchelder at the No Labels Problem Solver convention, and she's the woman that stood up and asked this question. This is the Jeb Bush campaign worker.
BATCHELDER: Okay, okay, so maybe I'm wrong, maybe you can prove me wrong, but I don't think that you're a friend to woman [sic]. How -- what it -- (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Right. And then here come the cheers. You know, that question had to be planted because there's nobody on earth that would naturally ask that question. Not of Trump. Unless it's a planted question. So here you have a Republican presidential campaign, the Jeb Bush campaign, trying to expose a fellow Republican using this stupid War on Women thing that the Democrats created. It's juvenile in this day and age to think you're going to get away with this, number one, that these people can't be found out. It's the age of the Internet, number one. So you're going to find out who these people are. Number two, it's just so weird. It's obviously a planted question. Here is the way Trump dealt with it.
TRUMP: I knew I shouldn't have picked her. I respect women incredibly. I have had women working for me in positions that they'd never work in terms of so many different jobs. I had a woman who was in charge of the building of Trump Tower many years ago, before anybody would have even thought of it, and did a fantastic job. I have given women more opportunity than I would say virtually anybody in the construction industry. I have a daughter named Ivanka and a wife named Melanie, who constantly want me to talk about women's health issues because they know how I feel about it, and they know how I feel about women. I respect women. I love women. I cherish women.
RUSH: And the Jeb Bush plant, Lauren Batchelder, had a follow up.
BATCHELDER: I want to get paid the same as a man, and I think you understand that. So if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, and do I get to choose what I do with my body?
TRUMP: You are gonna make the same if you do as good a job, and I happen to be pro-life, okay, I'm pro-life. Okay.
RUSH: That may come back to give him some problems down the road, but if you're gonna send somebody in to taunt Trump, why do it on this? It's a No Labels convention, right? Why not go in there and harangue Trump about what he said about Mexican immigrants? Why not send somebody to stand up and ask Trump about saying McCain's not a hero, reignite those things. Maybe they didn't do it because Trump's already survived those. But the fact that they chose, the Bush campaign chose a woman to go in there and try to expose Trump on the War on Women, a Democrat lie? It's just juvenile. It's just juvenile and right out of the Republican establishment.
It was gonna get caught. It was going to be exposed. And maybe they said to themselves, "Well, of course, it's gonna be exposed, but we're still gonna get the event, we're still gonna get the question asked and hopefully Trump will embarrass himself in the answer and so the fact that we staged it won't matter." But it's backfired, as it was destined to backfire.
I don’t understand why a Bush plant would ask Trump that question. It was a question that could only help Trump in a Republican context. Are people claiming Bush and Trump are in cahoots?
His answers couldn’t be more perfect.
What a small and devious thing to do...
Speaks volumes about his heart and Soul...
Nuff said bout that!
I would guess they thought it would hurt him. Which means they are minor leaguers playing in the big leagues.
Besides the facts she was planted, I think this “women’s issues” thing is a possible Achilles’ heel for Trump and people like Fiorina know it.
Here’s what I wrote to Trump’s campign org:
God bless you Mr. Trump as you weather the very predictable firestorms blasting you for standing up for America and Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Mr. Trump, I’m glad you love and respect women, that’s a good thing. But don’t get that confused with your role as President of the United States under the limitations of the Constitution and don’t let this B.S. shift your focus away from stopping the utterly unconstitutional federal interference with state anti-abortion laws and federal support of abortions with our money.
“Women’s health” is actually NONE of the federal government’s business because the Constitution, the ONLY authority for ANY federal government action, doesn’t give the feds any power in the area of women’s health. So federal officials who say they’ll “take care of women” are actually practicing “compassionate tyranny.”
And besides the constitutional answer, ALWAYS central to ANYTHING related to the feds, a good answer to, “Do you think women have the right to their own bodies?”, after saying “I am pro life” (a good answer, Mr. Trump), is to add, “I think a woman’s right to her body ends at the beginning of her baby’s body.”
“Are people claiming Bush and Trump are in cahoots?”
More like 1. This is what Yebs! believes in. 2. Yeb’s! followers are as dumb as a sack of rocks
Squeeky Fromme: "Tippee toes sent me."
.... I want to get paid the same as a man, and I think you understand that. So if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, ....
Jeb’s campaign now states she is not a staffer, but an unpaid intern.
Jeb does not paid females any wages??
Why does Jeb hate women??
I think that is pajama boy’s wife.
Sorry, I don’t believe that. I may not like Jeb, but the Bushes know they have to pretend to be pro-life. (Just like Trump does)
I shudder to think of how this woman might allow herself to be used by men in the most horrific ways. She is a very weak woman, seems to need approval.
Ask Monica Lewinsky how that worked out.
I’m not the biggest fan of The Donald, but I gotta concede that he’s playing chess while most of the rest of them are playing with their toes.
Stupid move on Bush’s part. This will come back to bite him.
The dirty tricks are coming out.
Shame on bush
Guess the secret is really out now.
I want her in a family way, is she up to that task?
Is this the best Jeb’s donors could get for $100+ million? If so, I don’t want him spending my tax dollars.
I don’t think Pajama Boy’s the marrying kind
plant? poison ivy?
sassy/saucy little wench
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