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Rush Limbaugh: Let’s face it, Trump sounded like a liberal Dem in some things he said at debate
Hot Air ^ | February 15, 2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 02/15/2016 5:12:56 PM PST by icwhatudo

Here we are in a Republican primary, and Donald Trump, out of the blue, starts blaming the Bush family for 9/11, for knowing that the intelligence was made up, that there never were any weapons of mass destruction, and they knew it, Trump said.

Michael Moore doesn’t even say that…

On the stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump defended Planned Parenthood. Not the abortion stuff, he said, but the fact that they do great things for women’s health. Folks, there were a number of occasions where Donald Trump sounded like the Daily Kos blog, where Donald Trump sounded like the Democrat Underground, sounded like any average host on MSNBC.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; backonoxy; codepink; donaldtrump; michaelmoore; noclass; novalues; randpaul; ronpaul; rush; rushiswrong; sc2016; trump; trump2024; trumpiswrongagain; trumpvalues
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To: Lazamataz
Laz,

Rush hit on part of it, but not all of it.

Rush surmised that Trump thinks he's edging closer to getting rid of his rivals: and since South Carolina is an open primary, he's reaching out to disaffected Dems to get them to cross the aisle, just for this primary, so he can goose his results.

Rush wasn't sure whether it was for a knockout blow against the other candidates, by setting an air of inevitable momentum, *or* as a hedge against high Cruz numbers which are due to Cruz-related PAC ground efforts.

But *I* think there's another couple of things, which even Rush hasn't picked up on.

First -- note that the debate *was* right before South Carolina. But it also, and you'd have to be blind as a bat to not know this going in, had an audience packed with partisan GOP-e donors. Who booed all the usual suspects, and cheered for Bush and Rubio.

So, Trump decides to make the anti-Bush remarks, and the Planned Parenthood remarks, in front of an audience of packed partisans: that way, he can defuse the booing, and blame it on GOP-e plants: exactly the opposite of the astroturf groundswell *against* Trump, the GOP-e was trying to start.

But that leaves the question, why make those remarks at all?

I think the answer is, Trump is a master promoter. Not the "any publicity is good publicity"...but rather, he has a rare opportunity in *time*. Hillary and Sanders are going after each other instead of anyone from the GOP. Many of the other GOP candidates are fighting for second place. So Trump starts establishing the *memes* -- quotes right in the open, in broad daylight, that *he* has given to all kinds of politicians, and that he hated the Iraq War, and that Planned Parenthood does good things for women, not just he abortions.

What does that get him?

Battlespace preparation. The libs can't start their patented "wild-eyed redneck right-winger fanatic" and "war on women"...when *Medea Benjamin* has praised trump for trashing Bush. And by praising the "health care" part of Planned Parenthood -- he's taken the leftist propaganda literally, at face value: and this insulates him from "Bible-thumper fanatic" charges from the unthinking, low-information left. In the meantime, he can point to what he said about "not the abortions" and insist that Planned Parenthood tone them down.

He's thinking several moves ahead in terms of strategy, and positioning later on in the campaign: which most other candidates are not doing...

He *may* be lying: but most of the other GOP candidates are *definitely* lying. If the base, the dispirited conservatives who have watched the DC party and the elites cave over and over, feel their chances are "slim" (Trump) and none (anyone else), they'll choose slim.

But Trump is now setting out mindspace for the rest of the electorate.

221 posted on 02/15/2016 6:53:17 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: heights

Where’s your ‘like’ button? 😎


222 posted on 02/15/2016 6:53:24 PM PST by theoldmarine (Saved by grace throu gh Faith)
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To: digger48

I thought you were in the shower with the rest of your Trumpbots?


223 posted on 02/15/2016 6:53:39 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Trump: "Planned Parenthood does wonderful things")
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To: beandog

“Wait, do you cheat on your spouse too?”

How low can you possibly go?


224 posted on 02/15/2016 6:53:39 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: icwhatudo
Ouch. I guess Rush is GOP-e now

That happened weeks ago, about the same time Thomas Sowell became persona non grata.

Please try to keep up. ;)

225 posted on 02/15/2016 6:53:41 PM PST by Washi (All lives matter, or none do.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Well said .


226 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:07 PM PST by katykelly
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To: lormand
The libs at your community collage

I stole it from Savage!

227 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:16 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: CottonBall

You’d have to ask tRump that. He’s gone pretty low.


228 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:36 PM PST by beandog (TrumperTantrum)
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To: CottonBall

You’d have to ask tRump that. He’s gone pretty low.


229 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:36 PM PST by beandog (TrumperTantrum)
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To: OrangeHoof

“his bride wanted to be sung to by Elton John.”

I wouldn’t marry—or even want to be an acquaintance of—a woman who could stand to be in the same room with that disgusting sodomite.


230 posted on 02/15/2016 6:55:14 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: heights
What kind of man pays a singer $1,000,000 to sing One song to his bride? Someone who doesn't respect what it takes for Joe & Jane Sixpack to earn that amount, a lifetime of work. He's an elitist puke.

Nice! That would make an awesome campaign ad...for Sanders! Feel the Bern, baby!!

231 posted on 02/15/2016 6:57:20 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Karl Spooner

I love how all the kool aid drinkers can somehow rationalize that Rush and Levin, two of our staunchest and unwavering intellectual leaders of conservatism, are suddenly morons and liars when it comes to Trump. Good grief, they’re only stating the obvious and offering up reasons why throwing our support behind someone without the intellect or inclination to lead this ideological war against the liberal statists is short sighted.


232 posted on 02/15/2016 6:57:24 PM PST by lordsofthejungle
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To: DannyTN
That post looks like a lot of work.

Why would you have to work so hard at trying to convince yourself that Trump was conservative? If he were actually conservative it would be self-evident.

233 posted on 02/15/2016 6:57:26 PM PST by Washi (All lives matter, or none do.)
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To: DannyTN

Ontheissues.org ranks Lindsey Graham as a hardcore conservative...

http://ontheissues.org/Lindsey_Graham.htm


234 posted on 02/15/2016 6:57:45 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: digger48
“When I left, it sounded like Rush at least was understanding that this is a tactic Trump decided on. Not that he's just a loose cannon. Maybe the wheels fell off before I got back”

That was my impression too from half-listening to Rush today, and no wheels falling off.

235 posted on 02/15/2016 6:57:50 PM PST by IAMNO1 (If you play chess, vote Cruz. If you play checkers, vote Trump. Either way, we win and they lose.)
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To: heights

“What kind of man pays a singer $1,000,000 to sing One song to his bride? Someone who doesn’t respect what it takes for Joe & Jane Sixpack to earn that amount, a lifetime of work. He’s an elitist puke.”

So do you object to Rush earning that kind of money or are you against him spending it the way he wants?


236 posted on 02/15/2016 6:58:00 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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To: grey_whiskers

By golly, that’s a pretty rational analysis.


237 posted on 02/15/2016 6:58:43 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: ProfoundMan

“Amazing how many people we’re not supposed to like or respect anymore.”

Well, this is the new Trump party. Where a person’s value rests entirely upon his usefulness to The Leader.

I’m embarrassed and ashamed for my conservative movement. We used to wonder with amazement how this happened in other countries, how people fell for the charismatic charlatan. And now we know all too well.


238 posted on 02/15/2016 6:58:45 PM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Axeslinger
When did we start solely relying on what a person says to elect them to the most powerful office on earth?

Pretty much since George Washington.

239 posted on 02/15/2016 6:58:45 PM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Axeslinger

Don’t forget, most Presidents (with one notable exception, Obama) are hemmed in by their own words.


240 posted on 02/15/2016 6:59:23 PM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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