Posted on 02/10/2016 12:17:53 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Grab a quick phone call here in the first hour. We'll go to Greg in the steel city. Greg in Pittsburgh. It's great to have you, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: I'm good. Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, with Mr. Trump's latest victory last night, I think the Republican voters have to start getting in the mind-set of not so much as, you know, Trump, you like what he says and kind of entertaining and spontaneous and however crudely, you know, during his rallies. I think we have to start looking at him in the Oval Office, as president. It's all good and well to reject the Republican establishment I think. Many, many people understand that. But can you picture a President Trump representing the country, like at a state funeral, representing the high --
RUSH: Greg, it's interesting that you -- 'cause Trump himself addressed this on the NBC Nightly News. I'm looking at the clock. We can squeeze these in, but I'm gonna have to play them again to analyze 'em. Trump was asked by Lester Holt last night, how different a Trump presidency would be from a Trump campaign. That's essentially what the question was.
HOLT: Last night you used a pretty vulgar term, repeating something someone in the crowd had said. And I'm wondering to myself, would you say that as president of the United States --
TRUMP: No.
HOLT: -- with that seal on the podium?
TRUMP: Much different. Much different.
HOLT: So are you gonna be a different guy as president than the one we see out here?
TRUMP: I went to the best school; I was a good student; I have an uncle who was, you know, one of the top, top professors at MIT. I mean, there's a good gene poll right there. I have to do what I have to do.
RUSH: "So Donald, you're saying this is an act?"
TRUMP: No, it's not an act. Last night I had thousands of people, we had a great time, and it wasn't my word; it was a word that a woman kept shouting, and I repeated it. I only repeated the word. And the place was wild. Standing ovation, everybody --
HOLT: But that doesn't mean it was in good taste.
TRUMP: Well, no, but I'll tell you what. When you're president or if you're about to be president, you would act differently. It's not a question of acting. I want to be different. You're being hit from 15 different sides. I want to be different. When you're president, you act in a different way, there's no question about that. And I would do that.
RUSH: Okay. I don't have time to get into it now, but he's gonna be different. You have to be, you have to be different when you're president. Donald Trump.
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“You cannot be one kind of man and another kind of president.” - Labor Secretary Lynn Martin - 1992
I’m having a flashback to Carter’s “Malleable” comment.
Greg was concerned about Trump being rough around the edges?
I don’t believe he’s really a Yinzer.
Active alcoholics usually change when they move to a new place and start over
Trump doesn't drink...never has.
Just not so.
Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, etc., were all wildly different in private than they were in public.
As President you are not campaigning, so as a skilled leader he would lead instead of leading from his behind like Obama.
“Active alcoholics usually change when they move to a new place and start over”
Huh?
I think Trump is capable of ratcheting the rough behavior back, when it suits his purpose. In fact, most politician campaign as party purists during the selection process, changing to party centerists after they obtain the nomination. They prepare to appeal to voters outside the base.
That's exactly why Carter said it...to turn conservatives against Trump.
He’s in a war right now and war is hell. Once he’s President, and this war is over, I would expect him to dial back his rhetoric. until then, all’s fair.
Like we all give a $hit what the likes of Lester Holt have to say. For me, I’m glad that the “real words” that are normally used behind our backs are out in the open. Besides, that paragon of word “authentication” George Carlin said years ago that “pussy” was not one of the seve words you can’t say on television. He always left it to those using “words” to provide the “context” surrounding their use. Besides, who knows, Cruz may well be a “pussy,” but it’s for those watching to make their personal determination.
Into what?
why did I know that was coming?
Its the principal of the thing (people don’t change)
I think Trump will simply schlong his way though
“That’s exactly why Carter said it...to turn conservatives against Trump.”
Trump turned me against Trump long before Carter spoke up.
Trump talked about his outward demeanor would change.
It shows.
Its called the “traveling cure “
and there should be a sarcasm tag at the end of the statement I didn’t think I needed it
“Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, etc., were all wildly different in private than they were in public.”
Yes; worse.
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