Posted on 02/20/2020 3:04:00 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, let’s get to the debate last night. We got audio sound bites from the debate and a lot of reaction from the Drive-By Media. The Drive-By reaction to this debate last night is predictable. By the way, I don’t mean to sound cynical, and I don’t mean to sound bored by it. I’m never bored by any of this, so don’t misunderstand any tone in my voice.
It’s just it’s so easy now to predict how the media is going to cover or not cover an event or a story. It’s so easy to predict how they’re going to be disappointed and when. I don’t know what their expectations were. Well, I do know. Their expectations for this debate last night that somebody, somebody was gonna rise up from this cream of the crop and demonstrate they have the ability to take out Donald Trump. And what happened is that it became obvious to anybody that none of them have the ability to take out Donald Trump. Trump can take himself out, and that’s a long shot, but these people can’t.
Now, you have to imagine yourself… This is what I try to do: Imagine… Do you know what I did last night? I’ll tell you what I did. I haven’t done this in years. We’re on the plane coming home when the debate started. The debate started, and that meant what? (chuckles) That meant watching PMSNBC, and I haven’t had PMSNBC on a TV that I’ve had control of in years. But I committed to it. I committed to watching, ’cause if you watch a debate, you gotta watch PMSNBC, and then you gotta watch the aftermath of the debate.
It is a different world. I know it’s a different world. But to see it? It’s an alternative universe. Folks, these people have nothing in common with you and me. Nothing whatsoever. I’ll give an example here in just the most recent news story out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in just a second. So I watched this last night, and I watched it trying to watch it as a Democrat. Do you know how hard that is? Do you know how hard it is to imagine yourself a Democrat watching these people?
I did it because I really wanted to see if I could immerse myself in this enough to try to imagine how your average leftist watching this would react to it. I don’t know that I was able to do that because my reaction to this debate was that there literally is nobody on that stage or anywhere in the Democrat Party right now that can even occupy a stage with Donald Trump and survive it. There isn’t anybody on that stage last night that has the street smarts, the political smarts, the skills, the unstated talents and abilities to stay even with Donald Trump.
No matter what the subject matter. No matter what the debate topic. Even Trump tweeted he watched the debate last night, and he said — and he knew it was gonna happen. He says it was the worst debate he had ever seen (chuckling) which is classic. It’s the worst debate he’s ever seen, and Bloomberg was the worst debater he’s ever seen. “Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent.
“If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will,” and then here is the tag line: “Not so easy to do what I did!” And there it is, in a nutshell. Donald J. Trump: “Not so easy to do what I did!” You know, the great make what they do look easy. They make anybody think they can do it. Even athletes. They’re so natural at it that you think you can do it. You want to go try — until you do, and then you find out: If you’re not naturally talented in whatever you’re trying to do, you have no prayer.
These people think that because Trump got elected anybody can. Because he’s outside of politics, that means anybody outside of politics can? This is classic. Bloomberg looks at Trump ever since Trump got elected, and he is seething with jealousy — and this is what is really propelling and motivating Bloomberg, ’cause Bloomberg thinks he’s the smartest guy in New York City, obviously.
He thinks Trump’s one of the stupidest and dumbest, and if Trump can do it, he can do it. Last night, Bloomberg demonstrated that he doesn’t have the foggiest idea what he is doing. Let me give you an example. So Fauxcahontas hits him on the NDAs. Were you watching? By the way, I need to ask: Were you watching the issue I’m talking about? (interrupting) Okay.
If you weren’t, let me check the audio sound bite roster real quick here and see if we’ve got Fauxcahontas beating up on Bloomberg on the NDAs. Hang on. (muttering) The pages are sticking together. (sigh) Yeah, grab sound bite number 12 and number 13. This… This would have been so easy! This would have been so easy to nuke! Even I, not a professional politician, could have done it. So here we go: Sound bite number 12.
This is Fauxcahontas going Megyn Kelly on Bloomberg.
Elizabeth Warren attacks 'arrogant billionaire' Michael Bloomberg over treatment of women
WARREN: I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: A billionaire who calls women “fat broads” and “horse-faced lesbians,” and no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.
CROWD: (Wooooo!)
WARREN: Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like red lining and stop and frisk. Look, I’ll support whoever the Democratic nominee is, but understand this: Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.
RUSH: Well, here’s the thing about this. Bloomberg is staring like deer-in-the-headlight eyes. I watched Bloomberg, and I said, “Everybody thinks this guy’s brilliant,” and you know I’m on record as telling you I don’t think he is. I’m not one of these people that’s dazzled by wealth, because I myself am. I’m not in Bloomberg’s league, don’t misunderstand. But I’m not dazzled by it. I know so many people who think people who have a lot of money are brilliant, and people suck up to them.
I don’t know why. Maybe they think they’re gonna give them some of their wealth. It never makes sense to me. But, yeah, maybe Bloomberg had to become expert at something to succeed at what he did. But when you get down to common sense and just plain old IQ, it isn’t there, and last night… How do you not show up prepared for this? Well, I’ll tell you how you show up not prepared for it.
You think nobody can touch you! Because you’re arrogant and you’re condescending and you’re conceded, and you think nobody can touch you. You think nobody’s gonna be able to damage you on this, because you can buy your way out of it. You can buy your way out of it the media. You can buy your way out of it in campaign ads. And he didn’t have an answer for it. There’s one more bite here from Fauxcahontas, ’cause this is where Bloomberg responded to her.
Elizabeth Warren Targets Mike Bloomberg For His Company's Non-Disclosure Agreements
WARREN: So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?
CROWD: (cheers and applause)
BLOOMBERG: We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.
WARREN: Uh, how many is that?
BLOOMBERG: Let me finish.
WARREN: How many is that?
BLOOMBERG: None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told, and let me just point —
CROWD: (boos and jeers)
BLOOMBERG: — and let me point —
CROWD: (boos and jeers)
BLOOMBERG: There’s agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that’s up to them. They signed those agreements and we’ll live with it.
(crosstalk)
BIDEN: Come on.
RUSH: Yeah, they… Well, they were forced to sign the agreement. Look, my take on this is different than what you’re thinking. They had to know this was coming. People can survive this. In American politics in 2020, people can survive this if they know how to do it. This is my point. Trump doesn’t have any competition. Trump’s line on this was, “Yeah, I was just talking about Rosie O’Donnell, nobody else,” and the place erupts with laughter, and he dulls the knife that Megyn Kelly threw at him.
But Bloomberg? “Well… (muttering),” staring with deer-in-the-headlight eyes, “I had very few nondisclosure agreements.” “Well, how many?” “Well, I…” All he would have had to say… You know what it is? All he would have to say is something like, “I’ll release all these women as soon as every member of Congress releases all of their NDA women.” Do you know how many members of Congress have NDAs because of sexual abuse? It probably dwarfs… Bloomberg probably can’t even dream of that number, and he could have blunted the criticism.
But there wasn’t any preparation for this.
There wasn’t any! It’s like he thought he would be untouchable, and you could probably think of other retorts to this that Bloomberg could have had. Look, I don’t think — I have never thought — that Bloomberg is gonna be the Democrat nominee, and so I didn’t go into this expecting him to dazzle anybody. But the Drive-Bys did. The Drive-Bys expected him to dazzle and wow because they’re just the looking for anybody that can wipe out Trump and they’re looking for anybody who can bury Crazy Bernie — and Crazy Bernie emerged as the big winner last night.
Oh, yeah. Not even close, folks. Don’t doubt me.
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RUSH: Now, the debate last night. It was comical. It was funny. It was predictable. And in terms of Bloomberg, he let an Indian squaw beat the tar out of him, as you just heard. And I’m telling you, she’s taller than he is, and it’s a factor, and don’t doubt me. How many ways, how many ways… (interruption) What? What do you think? What are you looking at me that way for?
An Indian squaw beat the tar out of Bloomberg. Absolutely. Fauxcahontas. She said it, not me. For crying out loud, I just listen to what these people say about themselves and I go with it. She says she’s one-2,000th Indian, okay. She’s a mom, she’s a squaw.
My daughter said he had 64 harrassment claims against him. Don’t know where she got the number.
I told her that anybody in power and rich will get harrassment claims from people looking for buyouts. I also told her that I want him to be guilty.
She’s a democrat, but said that if Bloomberg gets the nomination, she might vote for Trump. She’s upset that Bloomberg is buying the nomination.
Thank God for Rush Limbaugh! Pray for him daily!
Donald Trump IS The INCINERATOR. He leaves his opponents in a heaping pile of smoking hubris.
"Stop talking down to me, Liz!"
64 seems like a lot. If I had to guess, that would include all people in his organization not just him personally. But he’s also as you said an easy mark. One off color joke, quit your job and collect a couple years’ pay.
Get off the Trump Train and onto the Commie Express!
She’s upset that Bloomberg is buying the nomination.
I am starting to believe that there are far more democrats that feel like this than we think. The die-hard “hate Trump” crowd is not the majority of the democrat party. There are a lot of them without a doubt, but there are many who need a real reason to vote for the nominee beyond party.
We saw the same thing with Romney and even McCain, neither of which truly excited the traditional GOP base.
Random thoughts -
If Sanders wins it, there are democrats who will not vote for a socialist.
If Sanders does not win it, there are many Bernsters who will not support the nominee.
If Bloomberg buys the election there is little doubt that many will be turned off and he is not an exciting candidate for a rich white guy with a history of offensive statements.
On top of this, Trump is cutting into the traditional democrat base significantly. Even a 10% shift in black voters will be monumental. Same for Hispanics. He is crushing it with manufacturing workers - another bedrock union base of the left.
As a bonus, I think Trump has picked up many new voters with his performance. I have heard a few people say they have never voted before, but they will vote for Trump.
Overall, I am much more confident now than I was in the last election.
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