Posted on 11/24/2015 12:38:37 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Holy cow, folks. Trump Derangement Syndrome is spreading. Trump Derangement Syndrome is everywhere. It literally is everywhere. Well, we're not deranged here because we don't get deranged about anything, but, I mean, the Drive-Bys, the Democrats, many in the Republican Party are just beside themselves now. They don't know what to do.
For example, from CBS News: "Get Trump Off Ballot, Demands Ex-New Hampshire GOP Leader -- A former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party wants Donald Trump off the state's GOP presidential primary ballot." The guy's name is Fergus Cullen. "Fergus Cullen filed a formal complaint Monday --" wait 'til you hear this "-- challenging Trump's eligibility to appear on the ballot as a Republican due to his 'inconsistent views.'" He should not be permitted on the ballot because of, quote, "his inconsistent views" and, quote, "his purpose to sabotage the Republican Party."
"It is my belief that Mr. Trump must present evidence that he is a registered member of the Republican Party because his views ... are inconsistent with the Republican Party platform and the Republican Party of New Hampshire's statement of principles and bylaws." It's a six page manifesto outlining every one of what Fergus Cullen says are Trump's flip-flops dating back to 1999.
Who knew that you could be prohibited from running for election for having inconsistent views. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight, you know, this polling wunderkind that used to be at the New York Times that leftists invested all of their hope and prayers in in 2012, he's telling everybody, look, all you people worried about Trump, forget it. The polling data right now doesn't mean anything, because nobody's paying attention. All of this is superfluous. This is all gonna change when we get into the new year and we're only a month or so away from the Hawkeye Cauci.
He says you're gonna see an entirely different picture once polling begins as we get near the election, so stop fretting it. Trump's not gonna be anywhere. He doesn't come out and say that specifically. That's the overall point.
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RUSH: But this Trump Derangement Syndrome, I'll give you an example here in addition to Fergus Cullen in New Hampshire who wants Trump off the ballot there because of his inconsistent views. New York Times editorial: "Mr. Trump's Applause Lies." I mean, the libs, folks, are beside themselves on this. They are turning themselves inside out and upside down and into knots over Trump's claim that tens of thousands of Muslims were cheering in New Jersey. They have done all kinds of fact-checking, they've looked everywhere, they can't find any evidence of it except there's a Washington Post story that did chronicle some Muslims cheering on 9/11. It wasn't tens of thousands. But they're beside themselves.
They also can't believe how outrageous Trump is, the things he said. There are now stories that are attempting to analyze, dissect, and explain the Trump strategy of saying all of this outrageous stuff. The assumption is that Trump knows what he's doing, that he knows he's saying things that aren't true, and he's reading -- I'll tell you what they think he's doing. I got a piece today. I had a friend of mine, this, by the way, as an isolated episode, not related to Trump. This is so informative. A friend of mine in high finance sent me this, said, "You gotta read this! You gotta, oh, my God, oh, my God, look at this. This is some piece by Bill Bennett." And the piece is about how the Republicans and Democrats are gonna get together to assassinate Trump. And these guys think that Bill Bennett wrote it. So you go to Bill Bennett's website and you can't find a thing. It's totally made up, and because it's printed, they believe it. It's incredible.
At any rate, what they now think, they think Trump reads all of that kind of stuff and believes it. They think he reads every phantom Internet spam, insane kook blog post and believes them all and then retweets them or Facebooks them or whatever. And they think that when Trump sees it in print, whatever it is with and however outrageous it is, that he believes it, because it's in print. And others think no, he really doesn't, but he's purposely making people think that he does. Why is he knowingly saying such outrageous things and then when called on it, why does he double down?
So the great minds of political science in Washington and New York and Boston, the corridor, have gotten together, and they're trying to analyze why Trump does this, and they think the answer can be found in Trump's statements previously about how to negotiate a deal. And they're just grasping. And now they're worried, why do these people who say they're gonna vote for Trump, why does none of what he says that's so outrageous, the Drive-Bys, why does it not bother any of his supporters. They just can't understand it. And once again that is even more evidence of the great disconnect between people who work and live in Washington vis-a-vis the rest of the people in the country.
Dana Milbank at the Washington Post: "GOP Running Out of Time to Find the Anti-Trump." I told you yesterday and last week. They're still in denial that this isn't real, that Trump's gonna be off and doing something else once the year turns and he's bored and made his point. He'll go back to TV. Do you remember last week I told you that this super PAC of John Kasich's was out raising money, and they've had it. Kasich so fed up with all this insanity that Trump is saying and people believing it, it's just silly what's happened to his party, what's happened to the conservative movement, that his super PAC is raising money for the express purpose of producing ads that are gonna destroy Trump.
Do you want to hear the first one? It's 47 seconds. We'll post the video at RushLimbaugh.com. It's the audio you'll hear here. It's called Trump's Greatest Hits Part 1 and it is Trump in various video settings simply saying what the Kasich people think are outrageous and insane and lunatic, and if people knew about it, they would abandon Trump. Here's how it sounds.
TRUMP: He's not a war hero.
FRANK LUNTZ: He's a war hero.
TRUMP: He's a war hero --
FRANK LUNTZ: Five and a half years --
TRUMP: He's a war hero 'cause he was captured.
TRUMP: If Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her.
MEREDITH VIERIRA: Stop it. It's so weird!
TRUMP: I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The blacks.
TRUMP: Well, I just don't respect her as a journalist. You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out her... wherever.
TRUMP: Somebody's doing the raping, Don. I mean, you know, it's -- I mean, somebody's doing the -- there's women being raped. Well, who's doing the raping?
TRUMP: The belt moves this way. It moves this way. How stupid are the people of Iowa?
RUSH: So the Kasich super PAC first destroy Trump ad, that's it, and it's just the video of where Trump said those things. I'm guessing they think that most people supporting Trump don't know that he said these things and once they find out they're gonna be appalled. What they're doing is projecting their own reaction onto other people. They're assuming that they are just like every other average Trump supporter. Yet they know that they aren't because they laugh at, make fun of, and are afraid of Trump supporters 'cause they think they're idiots. But this is projection. They're wasting their money, but it's their money to waste.
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RUSH: Let me try to break down something here. Last... Maybe it was yesterday. I forget which. This is already Tuesday. This statement of Trump's that tens of thousands of Muslims cheered on 9/11, and he's challenged on it. "I saw it! I saw it! I saw it! They were in New Jersey; I saw it!" The media goes into fact-check mode. The media can't find any stories, except there was one in the Washington Post. There was a Washington Post story in which it was reported that there were Muslims cheering 9/11 the Towers being hit on 9/11, in New Jersey, on the date 9/11.
None of the fact-checkers reported it.
They overlooked it.
They did not report that the Washington Post had actually reported what Trump is saying. The only difference is, the Washington Post does not say "tens of thousands," and Trump is. So the Drive-Bys leave that out, and they think they've got Trump. They think they've got Trump in a lie, they think they've got Trump exaggerate. Except Trump, if anything, is only exaggerating, but he's not wrong. There were Muslims in New Jersey cheering 9/11, and the American people -- and this is key: The American people know it.
The American people saw videotape of Muslims around the world cheering on 9/11.
The American people know full well that Obama's pastor from the pulpit said, "America's chickens..." See, the thing is, the great disconnect is that Trump is not wrong on fact. He may exaggerate and blow it out of proportion, but he's not wrong on fact. The Drive-Bys are trying to make it look like he's wrong on fact when he's not, and the American people know it before Trump says a word about it. Then when you found out that the Washington Post did report it and the Drive-Bys are ignoring that in their fact check, they double down on their support even more for Trump because they don't trust the media and the way they're trying to discredit him.
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RUSH: Now, back to this Trump situation. I played for you the ad that the Kasich super PAC put together. This is the first of what will be many ads designed to take Trump out. In fact, I'm gonna play that for you again 'cause there's another ad, a Jeb Bush campaign ad that's somewhat similar to the Kasich ad in its structure and conception.
Now, the Kasich super PAC, they're fed up. They think people have been playing patty-cake with Trump, and it's time to take off the gloves, it's time to get serious. We've got to take this guy out, and we gotta take this guy out by informing his voters exactly who he is. His voters are blind. His supporters are essentially mind-numbed robots. They have been paralyzed to support. They don't know who it is they're supporting. He's a madman. And the Kasich super PAC intends to run a series of ads demonstrating this, trying to peel off Trump supporters.
So here's that ad. It's 47 seconds, and immediately after it is a Jeb Bush ad from back in October that is much the same approach. We'll play 'em back-to-back. Here's number one.
TRUMP: He's not a war hero.
FRANK LUNTZ: He's a war hero.
TRUMP: He's a war hero --
FRANK LUNTZ: Five and a half years --
TRUMP: He's a war hero 'cause he was captured.
TRUMP: If Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her.
MEREDITH VIERIRA: Stop it. It's so weird!
TRUMP: I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN:
The blacks.
TRUMP: Well, I just don't respect her as a journalist. You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out her... wherever.
TRUMP: Somebody's doing the raping, Don. I mean, you know, it's -- I mean, somebody's doing the -- there's women being raped. Well, who's doing the raping?
TRUMP: The belt moves this way. It moves this way. How stupid are the people of Iowa?
RUSH: And that last comment when Trump fell out of the number one slot in the poll, with a smile on his face (imitating Trump), "Hey, what are you people in Iowa doing to me, how stupid are you? Carson, are you kidding me?" His normal, usual stand-up. So that's the first in what will be many ads from the Kasich super PAC designed to embarrass and humiliate Trump supporters into renouncing their support. The Jeb Bush campaign, this next ad, this is an Internet ad, runs a minute and a half, and it is produced along the same lines with the same intent.
CHUCK TODD: Who do you talk to for military advice right now?
TRUMP: Well, I watch the shows. I mean, I really see a lot of great -- you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows.
ANNA KOOIMAN: He has said publicly that he watches cable news and that's one of the ways that he bones up on our national security.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Trump says he, quote, "always felt that I was in the military," despite never serving in the military and draft deferments during Vietnam.
TRUMP: There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Donald Trump said Senator John McCain is not a war hero.
TRUMP: He's not a war hero. I like people that weren't captured, okay?
WOLF BLITZER: Who do you think, among the presidential candidates, would be the best qualified to make a deal with Iran?
TRUMP: I think Hillary would have -- Hillary's always surrounded herself with very good people. I think Hillary would do a good job.
CHUCK TODD: So the deal lives in a Trump administration?
TRUMP: Well, it’s very tough to do when you say rip up a deal, 'cause I'm a deal person.
ANNA KOOIMAN: When he goes on this radio program and doesn't know who some of the major players are.
TRUMP: I'm just saying, you know, dealing with killers, people that go "arr, arr, arr."
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Donald Trump doesn't like to be questioned on the issues.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Trump is weak on policy.
ALLEN WEST: When you are running for the presidency of the United States of America, the most important title is commander-in-chief.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: He should have a working knowledge.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: There is no excuse for him not to be prepared for these questions. Donald Trump was not able to do that, so that should be concerning to voters.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Donald Trump is causing a race toward the bottom.
GEN. MARK HERTLING: It's delusional. Mr. Trump did not have a firm grasp of what was really going on.
TRUMP: I will be so good at the military, your head will spin.
TRUMP: Let me tell you, I'm a really smart guy.
RUSH: Okay, so the Jeb Bush ad is designed to inform Trump supporters that he's a dunce on the military and a pretender and he doesn't know anything, other than what he sees on cable TV. He watches the news to find out what's happening in the world and he's just a great deal maker and he go out there and would really cream people, felt like he was in the military but he never has been, loves the military, the military loves him and he's a really smart guy.
So those two ads, the first one by the Kasich super PAC and the last one by the Bush campaign from October are in the same mold, if you will, designed to try to wake up these Trump supporters and tell them that they're supporting a phony, that they're supporting a guy that doesn't believe what he says and you shouldn't believe what he says because he doesn't believe it, and if he does believe it then he's insane. What I take out of this -- I shouldn't say this. I'm sorry, these two ads, just these two ads, first one the Kasich super PAC -- now, by law, Kasich's not allowed to have any contact with super PAC, so don't anybody think that Kasich had anything to do with the ad. It's the Kasich super PAC.
And the candidates will tell you, "God, I don't control what my super PAC does. I'm not even allowed to talk to 'em, that's why they can raise all this money. I can't coordinate, never do coordinate, it's against the law, I'd be called out." But the people running it very loudly and proudly proclaim it to be the Kasich super PAC. The Bush campaign, what I take away from this is how similar the thinking between Kasich and Bush and the media is. If you didn't know that the Kasich super PAC had put that ad together, if you didn't know it was a Jeb Bush ad, you would think somebody in the media did it to set up a Trump interview. Isn't that interesting?
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RUSH: And we start in San Diego. John, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, happy early Thanksgiving to you, Rush. These ads that we're getting already from the Republican establishment are gonna be the death of them come November. 'Cause if they're gonna push another, you know, McCain- or Romney-type candidate on us, I'm voting for Hillary. I'm done with them eating their own.
RUSH: Are you kidding me?
CALLER: I'm voting for Hillary. I hate to say it, but at least with Hillary you know what you're gonna get. You know, with these phony baloneys like McConnell and Boehner --
RUSH: You don't mean that. You're just saying that. You're just saying that to get a rise out of people.
CALLER: I'm gonna vote for her or just stay home like in 2012. One or the other. I'm just... I'm done. But you have a good week, good Thanksgiving, and I'll take my answer off the air.
RUSH: Now, wait, wait, wait. Don't go away. You're not mad at me, are you? I mean, I'm just incredulous. I'm not mad at you. Don't think that you gotta run away here, unless you have to go.
CALLER: Well, no. I'm in San Diego when it's about 80 degrees out, so I gotta get out there and enjoy it. But I just... You know, here we go again. You know, the name-calling and the attacks by our own --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- on someone like a Ted Cruz.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I'll wait 'til Donald does drop out, and then go to Ted Cruz.
RUSH: I'll tell something else. This is really gonna frost you before you go out and start enjoying the weather in San Diego. Some people in New Hampshire are releasing a poll they did that shows that Mitt Romney is the preferred Republican candidate in New Hampshire, and he is not even running.
CALLER: In 2012, maybe. (chuckles) They need to wake up. That's ridiculous.
RUSH: Boston Globe. It's a Boston Globe poll. It claims that if Romney would enter the race, if he would enter in New Hampshire, that he would win the whole thing.
CALLER: I don't know. I don't know what's in the water back there, but we need to wake up. It's... You know, time's running out. But thanks for taking my call, Rush.
RUSH: You bet. You bet. Enjoy the weather out there in San Diego. (interruption) What sounds...? The Romney story? The Romney poll story? Is the Boston Globe. It could be planted, I guess, you know, by a bunch of commie bastards in the media. (interruption) Yeah, well, Romney forces at work. It could be. I don't know. You think Romney wants to run again? (interruption) Oh, you do? Really? Romney wants...? (interruption)
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So then you believe that anyone should be able to run in the primary of a party, even if their ideology differs substantially from that of the party?
Voting "against" is for idiots, FRiend.
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That is exactly how I would characterize most of your responses to me lately.
But I once believed you to be much more aware.
Absolutely! It's how parties change. Either that, or collapse them and start fresh.
Trump is a populist, as is Cruz. The rest are elitists. All the Democrats are elitists (as well as communists). Trump and Cruz are the last-gasp chance for the GOP.
If you voted for Romney, you voted for turning the Republican party hard left and making it the functional equivalent of the Democrat party.
Of course, when we were into year four of Republican-led nationalized health care, environmentalist regulatory tyranny, forced accommodation of open homosexuality, and on-demand tax-funded abortion, and saw dramatic Democrat gains during the mid-terms and the Republican party move even further left, you be right here aghast that anyone would blame you for it because you didn't vote for any of that -- you voted against Obama!
Who is the idiot, again?
He mentioned her and another individual on the show
"I thought you were (smarter/more beautiful/taller)."
WHO reporting Trump 25%, Cruz 23%, within the statistical error of the survey.A concept of Trump as a booster rocket for an otherwise principled but unsuccessful conservative--
--or, in the alternative, a unique alliance of a patriotic entrepreneur and a world-class debater cum regime-buster.
Caught Rush today and the caller who impressed me was a doofus claiming Trump sat at the dinner table with Hillary and Bill and promised to do a Perot.
So much wrong with the premise(s):
Perot was excellent after GHWB's "read my lips" betrayal;
Perot said he pulled out because of Bush, Inc., threats--plausible.
Would Trump rise to the summit and survey the power, then pass the cup to Medusa?
No, and, again, Hell no.
Is there not a potentiation, complementary strength to a Trump-Cruz alliance?
Trump's power comes from expressing the "Mad as Hell" sentiment--no bait and switch does anything to profit him.
Cruz is an enormous tree growing from a modest seed.
They could play Battling Robots and beat each other to spare parts thus giving the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua the title--
--or they could get what destiny has in store:
The complete confounding and humiliation of smug Rovian Patricians and shrieking fairy medioids.
January 20, 2017 is coming.
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Trump is no populist, he shares political ideology with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and George Soros.
They already have a party catering to them.
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Nevertheless, impressions come from observations, regardless of how limited such may be.
That’s Dave Grohl!
We disagree fundamentally and in detail.
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I think we can be sure that the picture is not Dave Grohl.
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I suspect that the flow of events will continue to develop, such that Cruz surpassing Trump in the earlies will remove the issue.
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Fine. I will admit I’m not as incredible a genius as you once thought. Man, that was hard.
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Is sarcasm all you have these days?
I have done a little research on Perot. He claimed, in the summer when he dropped out, that he did so (and I have the quote someplace on my computer but don’t want to look right ow) because “the Democrats were doing better than expected.” In other words, he wasn’t needed to take out Bush.
Oh come on. That was funny right there!
The animus arose over MIAs says U.S. News & World Report: Exclusive Clip: Perot Driven by 'Personal Dislike,’ Bush 41 SaysL.A. Times gives standard explanation for '92 pullout: Perot Charges Plot Forced Him Out
Daniel Pipes reviews Ken Follett: On Wings of Eagles, 1983
That year we built a home in Santa Fe for Perot partner Mort Myerson. Developments required sending security from Dallas. The stuff of airport novels.
How the wrath of Bush, Inc., must grow and glow like Chernobyl as Jeb Who goes down, down, down.
I don’t trust Follett, a novelist. My info came from the campaign bio written by Perot’s own campaign manager.
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