Posted on 03/09/2016 3:33:19 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Well, I was gonna get to that later. Snerdley says, "How are you to blame for this?" See, I don't like this program being about me. I've gotten in the habit of saving all the stuff about me until the final hour so that people don't think that I just do this about me.
There are three stories today... Well, did I even put...? Yes. Here's one from TheHill.com. "Why Would Conservative Media Defend Trump?" And it mentions me and Fox News Sunday.
"Rush Limbaugh said on Fox News Sunday that 'I think with the case of Trump, there's a much bigger upside than downside.' But anyone paying attention would be hard pressed to agree. Limbaugh, who often touts his own speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2009 as a triumph for the cause, ignores Trump turning his back on the event -- and thereby," and they go on to rip me and some other people in there.
Here's a piece by Michael Brendan Dougherty at The Week: "Why Talk Radio Coronated Donald Trump." Maybe I'll get into details of what these people say as we go down the road of the program here, but it's basically an attempt to say that, "Well, you know, Limbaugh sees himself in Trump. Trump is talk radio and these guys love seeing the way they do things win politically," or it's about money or it's about ratings.
I've been doing this 28 years, and even though I have gone into great detail about my passions and my interests, why I do this and how, it is amazing after 28 years that so many people who profess to study this still don't get what I do and how I do it. But beyond that, Jonah Goldberg has a piece. (There's three of them.) Jonah Goldberg has a piece in National Review today not mentioning me but other conservative elites who have abandoned the cause for Trump.
And he cites Stephen Moore, who used to be with the Club for Growth and Larry Kudlow, who Trump cites all the time as having praised Trump's tax plan. And Jonah's all worried and curious why this is happening, and he tries to explain it. But three pieces on the same day. And here's my point about it. All these people... Let's add the Wall Street Journal, whenever it was, earlier this week or late last week.
There are four pieces here in less than a week that essentially blame me and others for the fact that Trump has not been taken out, blaming me for the fact that Trump is still winning, blaming me and using whatever analogy they can -- sellout, pursuer of ratings and dollars, whatever. The thing is, I don't see any of them endorsing Ted Cruz. I don't see any of them doing it. They're out there ripping Ted Cruz as often as they're ripping me and Trump. I don't see them endorsing anybody.
In the case of the Wall Street Journal, as I mentioned yesterday (and the National Review, with a whole issue devoted to why nobody should vote for Trump), what do people think is gonna happen psychologically, particularly at this moment in time in our country? You have the average American, people I define as the people who make this country work, and here come these supposed betters, the elites, telling everybody what they shouldn't do. "Don't do this! Don't do that! Continue to trust us."
There isn't any trust left anymore, and that group of elites continues to say don't vote Trump. All they're doing is sending people to Trump. Romney, it has been documented... Somebody actually ran some statistical data and found out that Romney's speech among the people that heard it, converted 11% to Trump because people have grown weary of being told they're stupid and don't know how to vote or who to vote for until the establishment or people in that group tell them how to vote.
And their reaction is, "Oh, yeah? Yeah? You don't think we know what we're doing? Well, how do you feel about this!" And they go out and publicly announce their support for Trump. The same happened with Romney; it's happening with all these people. While they sit here and criticize me for not taking Trump out, they admit they haven't been able to do so, either. The difference is they've tried. They have tried to take Trump out, and they haven't succeeded, and so now they scapegoat me. But I don't see any of them endorsing Cruz.
I don't see any of them extolling the virtues of the conservative movement over all these years. I see many -- not all of them. Some exceptions here. The guy at The Week, Michael Dougherty. I think I've quoted him in the past and excerpted some of his pieces that I have admired, Michael Brendan Dougherty. So I don't know where he comes down, you know, on the ideological ledger. But the Journal and National Review? I mean, these people? Even there that has been a -- and you talk to anybody in the base about it.
The problem with the conservative media is there hasn't been much conservatism to find.
There's been an association with the party. There has been an agreement with the concept of open borders and amnesty. This is not a mystery why people are reacting the way they are. And so now, when all of the best and brilliant thinking in the world has not created a majority support for an establishment candidate. It was supposed to be Jeb, and here's Trump. And Trump continues to dazzle and bedazzle and confuse and puzzle and tick 'em off. They turn to me as a source of blame for the fact that Trump hasn't been taken out, despite the fact that they've tried.
But I don't see where they've endorsed other people.
I don't see where they have actually engaged in the behavior they demand that I engage in.
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Who is to blame for TrumP?
McConnell
Boehner
Romney
Rove
Murphy
Cornyn Why does TX keep him?
Is that enough?
Yes, there is a lot of parallel between Trump and Perot. And a lot of the same underlying reason for their support.
A major difference: Perot ran on a third party ticket in the general election, siphoning votes from the R nominee, while Trump is running as a Republican and is getting the R votes in the R primary to become the R nominee.
If Bloomberg would have run as an independent, he would have been a spoiler, but he wisely chose not to runm.
Trump may lose, but he’s doing it as a Republican.
Perot was just a spoiler playing out his Texas sized grudge against the Bush family.
Last time, when Romney was winning the primaries, there was talk of preferential or ranked voting systems, in which voters rate the candidates in order, and the votes are given a weighted tally.
So if Romney (or Trump) really was the last choice of those who voted for the other candidates he wouldn't come out on top, even if he had the largest number of first place votes.
It's an interesting alternative. The problem for the people who propose it is that Trump or Romney may not actually be the last choice of people who vote for anti-Trump or anti-Romney candidates.
What conservative media types?
Ross did not want the job.
Ross was trying to block NAFTA. Really was. He saw what was coming.
It's existential. If they weren't headed for their own downfall they wouldn't be GOPe.
The RNC, McCain and Romney’s failed campaigns created Donald Trump. He’s said that many times.
I am starting to have difficulty in determining what a “Conservative” really is!
I have always considered myself a conservatiive, but I am first and foremost an “American”.
I am starting to believe that many of us have forgotten our common values, being more focused on our one or two “principaled” interests.
The RATS are Rats. I do not believe they even worry about being Americans, because they hate what America stands for, and the GOPe, along with the DNC and MSM, are busy looting the carcase of America.
And through it all, all of the “principaled conservatives” are totally focused on killing off the other “principaled conservatives” in the name of “conservatism”.
And we call the GOPe the “Stupid Party”?
Perot was not a spoiler. The GOP still hasn’t fixed the main issues he ran on. Ross was a gun grabber, but he was right about the national debt, budget and trade. The GOP has failed on those issues.
You are right. They want Rush to ruin his career like Eric Fatasserson.
I can name several unpopular former Republican Presidential candidates-Dole, McCain and Romney-that nobody around FR will defend after their defeats. We don’t even defend the ones that win. The idea that criticizing Trump will ruin his career is a joke. Within a year or two win or lose Trump will be as popular here as any of the others.
The margins in talk radio are very tight these days. Rush isn’t going to attack the base of the party. It would kill him financially.
Considering, up to a point, the field was filled w/ ‘Me too’s, is it any wonder??
Instead of treating the ‘debates’ as an opportunity to showcase their ideas, they decided to go on the attack (that = NO ideas in my book).
IMO, w/out DT there would BE no ground-swell that we’re seeing, no rising up of the electorate, no talking re: wall, no talk of amnesty, etc.
So, yeah, you had/have the low individual #s in most of the field. People get fed-up w/ the ‘chance of yellow rain’ and their pant-leg being wet. /s
At least he's been an antidisestablishmentarian. The establishment is where the money is. Rush is always talking down the party elders.
I have to work so I only get to hear Rush once every so often, but every time he is taking calls somebody is always bitching to him about why he isn’t exposing Trump.
Rush asks them who they are backing and it has been Cruz every single time.
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