Posted on 09/22/2016 4:51:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: So grab sound bites 18 and 19. I was at home last night, and I thought I was watching outtakes from a Beyonce video before I realized it was Charlotte, and I get an email from a friend of mine ranking in Republican Party politics of some years ago, not at the present. He said, "You won't believe this. You have got to watch Bill Kristol on Fox. It is hilarious." Well, I didn't have Fox on, and it had already happened. So I wrote back. I said, "Well, what happened? I didn't see it." "Well, go find it and stream it."
I said, "Well, this is not helpful. Just tell me what happened."
So I never found out last night what happened, and I got in here and, lo and behold, Cookie had it on the sound bite roster. It is pretty good. Bill Kristol was on with Brit Hume last night. This is seven p.m. Eastern hour on the Fox News Channel, and Kristol is really worried. Now, remember, the note I got last night from a former ranking...
Not a party official. It's a former ranking official for a particular former ranking Republican bigwig.
And the note was, "You gotta see! You gotta see what Kristol did!" Of course, with no more than that. So I don't know. I have nothing to go on. Well, it turns out that Kristol is panicked because he's thinking Hillary might lose. A leading Republican, conservative pundit... Well, here. Let's just listen to it. I don't need to characterize it before you've heard it. Brit Hume says to Bill Kristol, "You have been warming some of your conservative colleagues that Trump's chances look better than people thought. What tipped you off? What gave you your view?"
KRISTOL: She's had a very rough couple of weeks. He made himself look more presidential and more acceptable. When you're in a change environment, people will excuse a lot of flaws of the change candidates. When a change environment the candidate of change has a big advantage. The wind is naturally at his back, and Hillary Clinton is the status quo candidate. They're really mystified by her campaign. If you ask people -- and I'm really not saying this in a polemical way, just analytically -- "What changes will Hillary Clinton bring about?" what is the answer?
RUSH: He's worried. This is a conservative magazine publisher worried that Hillary's blowing it, and he says he's mystified by her campaign. Bill, it's not hard to understand what's going on. By the way, none of this means Trump's gonna end up winning. Who knows? I'm not counting any chickens having hatched here yet. But I'm not in the crowd that is worried if Hillary is performing poorly. I applaud that. I get excited when I think that Hillary is in the process of blowing it and is fading.
But these people on our side are getting concerned that she's gonna blow it, and now they're saying they don't understand her campaign. They're really mystified. It's not hard to understand, Bill. Now, I don't mean to sound condescending at all. I'm just... You have to step out of the political realm that we've all been in all of our lives, because Trump's not in it. So a standard, ordinary, Washington establishment campaign with the requisite consultants and the proper fundraising and the allocation and the focus groups and the polling, it's not applicable.
Trump foe Bill Kristol: He could win in November
And the Democrats, and apparently some of the Republicans, have no idea how to adapt. Here's the next bite. Brit Hume said, "That's a good question. It's also a good question what her slogan 'Stronger Together' actually means. I mean, Trump's slogan is 'Make America Great Again.' You might not think he can do it. You might think it's sophomoric or whatever, but it's clear." What is "sophomoric" about "Make America Great Again"? What...? I remember Nancy Reagan's drug policy, "Just Say No," and they mocked that, and yet that is a solution.
Why make fun of that? Why mock it? "Just Say No." "Make America Great Again." What is "sophomoric" about that? Oh, yeah, that's so trite! That's course. That's meant to really appeal to the hoi polloi, but we know that kind of fantasy. 'Make America Great Again'? What does that mean?" And then to add, he probably can't do it anyway, but at least he's got a slogan and Hillary doesn't. Hillary's slogan is, "Stronger together." Hillary's slogan is "Do It For Her." That's Hillary's slogan. So Hume's question, "What is your take on Trump's slogan versus Hillary's slogan?"
KRISTOL: Hillary Clinton's entire message is, "Donald Trump is horrible. He's terrible." I'm not pro-Trump, so I'm not unsympathetic to parts of that message. But you can't simply, I don't think, run for president by trying to disqualify your opponent. What she said is, in effect, "Donald Trump can't become president. It's just too horrible. Friends don't let friends vote for Donald Trump." She needs to have some positive message.
RUSH: I'm sure she'd take your call, because she needs all the help she can get from people that want her to do well and from people worried she's not doing this right. So any of you out there who know how to beat Trump, I don't have the number to Hillary's campaign, but I'm sure somebody could get it for you.
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Good grief, what a putz. Or putz-head, as D’Amato would have said.
Please tell me he did NOT wear that cap!
So how is Kristol’s hand selected #neverTrump candidate Evan McMullin doing? Not good I would guess considering he is even showing up in any of the polls....
Kristol is such a eunuch.
The reality is that the political class, including the elected, the pundits, and the media that follow them, are not of the superior intellectual stature that they’ve lived their lives thinking they were. Not even remotely close, on their very best day, when the sun was shining. We’ve been putting the least qualified people in our nation in office for a very long time. If you gave enough media access and money to pretty much anyone from your block, they could take on the political elites. It’s long past time that politics becomes again ‘national service’, as opposed to a means to make narcissists happy about themselves.
I actually watched that pathetic fool.
Thinking of serving your nation?
Kabuki.
It has to suck to be Bill Kristol at this point.
Ta ta sucker ^5
Freegards
LEX
I thought Kristol’s choice was David French. Kristol actually said that a guy nobody ever heard of was a serious candidate who had a chance. Haha.
“Thinking of serving your nation?”
Yes. Just haven’t decided what’s the best way to do so at this point.
Sweet. Thanks! Keep us posted.
His dog in the fight Evan McMuffin is not lovin’ it.
Bump
Brit Hume is a NeverTrumper. So this was a NeverTrumper interviewing a NeverTrumper.
To them I’m deplorable, and irredeemable. The feeling is mutual.
Neither one of them is worth warm spit.
“The Bush administration lost confidence” by failing to maintain the principles of low taxes, social conservatism and allegiance to working and lower-middle-class “Reagan Democrat” voters, said William Kristol, former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle.
A Bilderberger not wanting Trump. Imagine that.
Kristol’s NAME is on this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-10/does-bilderberg-really-run-world-one-chart-help-you-decide
Kristols beanie needs a propeller.
He wasn’t really wearing that hat, was he?
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