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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Kristol is disgusting. He is no conservative — he should admit it and register as a Democrat. Even many of them have more sense.
He needs to resign from the magazine. In what way is Clinton Conservative?
Pray America wakes
Kaslin, when I offended you some time ago, I didn’t mean to and for that I am sorry. We are on the same side and life is too short. Sometimes I pop off when I am pissed at stuff doing on in this country and take it out in the wrong ways. I appreciate your posts and hopefully you appreciate the majority of mine. I don’t listen to Rush as much as in the past so thanks for the efforts. Anyway hope you can find energy to forgive.
Maybe he ought to offer his services to the Witch's campaign, seeing as how neocon Krystal is such a soopergenius.
I think that was a Rush photoshop, LOL
Agreed. That's part of the "peace dividend" we got when the USSR fell.
We've had mediocre leaders in recent decades because we haven't needed decent — let alone great — leaders, at least until recently. The Cold War was to some extent an organizing principle that kept our population somewhat on its toes. When that ended, we could afford to let ourselves go, and did.
Look how quickly England turned a giant — Sir Winston Churchill — out once the war was over. Gave him the sack within a few months. Brought him back when Labour made a mess of things, but he was too old by then.
Unfortunately, that's just the way of the world. When people think it's party time, nothing can stop them from naval gazing and partying on. While that's going on, evil men plot and plan.
Eventually they spring their trap, and the roller coaster heads downward into darkness.
Trump could be great, but I'll settle for just good.
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" Hillary Clinton is the status quo candidate."
Oh, THAT'S why. Can't have Billy's little Washington D.C. gravy train and cocktail party circuit disrupted now, can we?
Here is the video Trump foe Bill Kristol: He could win in November
And here is the screen grab that I took
When people think it's party time, nothing can stop them from naval gazing and partying on. While that's going on, evil men plot and plan.
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.
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Trump needs to have boots on the ground so they do not try to sabotage his debate.
The actual title of the article is: Twilight of American Jewry, however, she does a good job of explaining the stupidity of the neocons with regards to Trump.
An incredible has-been loser. Claims to have supported Reagan. BS
Here's my favorite quote on the subject:
"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh.""But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”
— Hilaire Belloc
What about bathroom breaks (for various injections)
I did too .... Felt like I was rubbernecking on a car crash .
Did you notice the disgusting old guy white blob of spit on the corner of his mouth :( gross :(. Also he had this thing rehearsed and spoke a mile a minute.
Just twenty years ago, these people were at the forefront of conservatism, wrote wonderful essays, and were very much in agreement with most people at FR.
What the heck has happened to these guys?
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