Posted on 09/16/2015 11:23:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Last night Trump offended everybody by showing up on the battleship USS Iowa standing in front of the three giant guns to make his speech at a rally. It bothered 'em that he dared show up on the Iowa. They thought he was gaming the system because of course the Iowa caucus, the Hawkeye Cauci, here's Trump speaking on the US Iowa which is a decommissioned battleship.
By the way, Trump sent out a tweet. You know, I don't spend any time on Twitter so this was sent to me. I would have not known this had my brother not sent it to me. He sent me a screenshot of it and it's way in the distance here. It's a tweet from Trump, it says, "Rush, I'm in LA --" He's looking at property to make a deal out there, and in parentheses, "-- 'creating lots of jobs.' And I'm listening to you. You are truly fantastic. Thanks." I can't see what time the tweet went out. It's up there. I've got it on a secondary monitor way in front of me there. I should have printed it so I have in front of me.
.@rushlimbaugh Rush, I am in LA inspecting property (big job creator) & listening to you. You are truly fantastic--thanks!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2015
And then he mentioned me again in his remarks last night. This is just a portion. We have a number of cuts or sound bites. Here's the first.
TRUMP: I took a tremendous hit when I brought up illegal immigration when I announced I was running for president. And for two weeks I said, "You know, Rush Limbaugh, who's a great guy," he said, "he has suffered more incoming," meaning the press, "than anybody I've seen." So what happened is you have now found out what illegal immigration is all about, and I am so happy that I'm the one that brought it to the fore, because, believe me, it's a big problem. It is a big problem.
RUSH: Yeah, I don't care what anybody says, he's right about that. If he hadn't brought this issue up, it would just be languishing there as a fait accompli that both parties support. The Republican Party would be trying to massage us with all kinds of policy wonkish kind of language to explain why we ought not be bothered. Their policy is exactly what we need, they would be telling us. But at the end of the day it would be agreeing with the Democrats, executive amnesty authored by Obama that we all sign on to under the premise that we can't win without Hispanic votes.
If Trump had not brought this issue up the way that he has, nobody else would have. And the fact that he did bring it up and the way he's dealing with it and what his opinions are and how he's expressed them is exactly why he's number one. We've spent a lot of talking about this the past three days so I want to avoid being redundant. But the disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country -- and it's not really a disconnect as I've explained. They know full well that we are upset and disagree and don't want any part of their agenda. They know it.
It's not that they're unaware. They know full well they're governing against the will of their voters or of the majority. And that's where they've been caught here. Trump is the one who has enabled this issue to rise to the forefront and illustrate this great disconnect. But make no mistake about the elites or whatever you want to call 'em inside the Beltway. They are well aware of a vast majority of people opposing amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, or whatever.
If it hadn't been for Trump, then this would have been just another one of these issues where the insiders in Washington get their way, and there would have been added frustration, more anger, and people I think in greater numbers would have just left the political system and tuned out, not planning on voting, being totally frustrated once again. You add the Iran deal on top of that, it would have just been more frustration and anger aimed at Washington than we've seen in a long time. So he's absolutely right that he single-handedly has given voice to the majority opinion on this issue. And, as such, that's why he's the target tonight.
Here's the next bite from Trump last night aboard the USS Iowa.
TRUMP: I'm fighting some very nice people, even though I'm leading in the polls. But they're very nice people. But they're never going to do anything with these countries. They're never gonna be able to do it. It's an instinct. It's something that's special. They don't have it. Believe me. They don't have it. It's just going to be more of the same. So, we are gonna make our country so great. We are going to make it strong. We are going to make it powerful. We're gonna rebuild the military. We're gonna make it so strong. We are going to take care of our veterans.
FNN: Donald Trump speaks on the USS Iowa
RUSH: Okay, this sound bite is a great example to illustrate something. This sound bite is something that the inside-the-Beltway crowd, the elites of both parties will point to and say, "See? I mean, anybody can go out and say that. We're gonna be strong. I'm gonna rebuild our military. I'm gonna make it happen. I'm a great guy. I'm rich. I'm gonna rebuild the military and these guys aren't gonna do a darn thing."
They're gonna say, "He didn't say how. He doesn't tell you how he's gonna do it. He's insulting everybody in the military right now. He's telling everybody involved, from the president on down, they don't know what they're doing but he does, but he hasn't told you how. So why are you applauding this? Anybody can get out there and say, 'I'm gonna make America strong. I'm gonna make America great.'"
If I may be permitted, and I'm sure there are exceptions, but the simple fact is I don't hear too many people talking about how to make America great again. To me that's one of the problems. I'm not trying to be insulting to anybody. There are clear Republican candidates who do and have. I could list them. Cruz, Carson, Rubio, there are any number of them. But the people that we're talking about that are diametrically, humongously opposed to Trump, they're the ones that seem to have lost this ability to think of America as great, as unique, as exceptional, as a superpower.
It seems like this attitude that America's days of greatness and stature are indeed over and the job now is to manage a new America in a New World, in this new position. And the American people don't want any part of that. The American people don't want to hear talk of decline. They don't want to hear, even if it's not directly talked about, they don't want to hear anything that implies that America's best days are behind us. So Trump coming along, his track record is not in government. His track record is in business. People can look at that track record and they can be confident, or they are confident that what he says, he's gonna make America great again and rebuild the military, that he means it, and that he's gonna do it.
Whether they're right or wrong, I don't know, I'm just trying to explain to people why this stuff does not disqualify Trump to people supporting him whereas it does with the people who don't support him. You've got the policy wonks who want every statement, "I'm gonna make America great, rebuild the military." "Yeah, what's the policy? How you gonna do it? How are you gonna make the Democrats go along with it?" They want all these kind of things answered. And to them, that's politics as usual. I mean to Trump supporters that's politics as usual, which is what Trump represents, not politics as usual. He doesn't start out with constraints. He doesn't start out with can't do it this way, can't do it that way. He starts out with the great, bold premise, which is the American way. It's not a mystery to me why people support the guy.
Rush is right.
Thanks, did not have time yesterday to see this. Lord bless Trump; Lord bless and quell all dirty tricks and deception at the Reagan Library debate stage tonight.
Of course he is
Dittos Rush.
I heard Scott Walker on Hannity’s radio program yesterday and he used Trump’s phrase - “make America Great Again.” He can’t legally say that because Trump has a copyright on it.
Well Baraq Obama said this morning in a speech that America has become even greater during his years in office, LOL.
Exactly.
President Trump
And I bet he truly believes that!
Well, Obama is just doing is “shovel ready job.”
0dumbo is a shovel-ready job.
Do you faint when you here him speak?
Is he your messiah?
Does any of this sound familiar to you?
No, what’s your problem that you need to make this personal to me? (always the sign of a troll, btw)
Trump is not Establishment and I can’t stand these wannabes who are part of the problem pretending they can affect a solution.
These problems are decades old, Uniparty created problems. GOPe can’t solve them.
When I saw the title, I thought it meant that Trump farted on the poop deck...
He might very well have, as I do not care much for the air sucking campaign and debate style Trump has...
What I’m actually excited about is when we get back to a realistic campaign season, and serious candidates who do know how to get things don, and stop playing this stupid game with a guy who will not last thru much of the primary season next year when real voters vote on real candidates, and not reality TV stars...
From what I saw of last nights interactive kindergarten playground session, only reinforces my idea that when they are ready, the real candidates will start to stand out when the bully basically has his asterix handed to him out there...
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