They're Still Gobsmacked! Washington Never Imagined Trump Could Really Win

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, did you see the final popular vote tally? Donald Trump won the election by three million votes, if you throw out California and New York. You throw out California, New York, Trump wins by three million votes. If you include California and New York Hillary wins by, what was it, 2.5 or 2.2 million votes. It's a perfect illustration of why we have the Electoral College.

Now, my question is a simple one. Since Hillary won the popular vote, why are they complaining about the Russians hacking the election? I mean, Hillary wins the popular vote, what more can a hacker do than get you the majority of the popular vote? But yet they're running around complaining about the hackers and they're blaming the Russians for stealing the election. And yet she won the majority of popular votes. It seems to me you can't have it both ways. I know some of you people, "Well, Rush, what do you mean Trump won by 2.8? You can't throw out New York and California." Well, they are. They are. When they say the Russians hacked the election, which didn't happen, by the way.

Furthermore, there is no evidence, there is not a scintilla of evidence even at this moment, there is not a scintilla of evidence that the Russians even are responsible for the leak of all of those Podesta emails to WikiLeaks, not a scintilla. Now, you may think that you've heard all these intelligence people running around saying that they have concluded that the Russians were trying to hack this and trying to hack that. That use of the word "conclusion," by the way, is kind of like the use of the word "claimed" by the Drive-By Media.

As I pointed out yesterday, they throw the word "claimed" around as in "Limbaugh claims an audience of 20 million," in order to disqualify, in order to question, in order to de-authorize, if you will, the information. I don't claim anything. I report. I report the size of our audience. They report that I claim, meaning I'm making it up, meaning I'm just saying it.

It's the same thing here with this conclusion business. You are supposed to think that when, like when a consensus of scientists has concluded and that that equals sciences. Doesn't mean anything. It's just a bunch of people banding together telling you what they think. But there's nothing official behind it. The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.

All these little word tricks that the Drive-Bys play. And that's what I'm doing here, throw out New York and California, Trump wins the popular vote by nearly three million votes. But you can't throw out New York and California. This is exactly why we have the Electoral College. And again, one more time briefly. Had there been no Electoral College and had the election be defined by the popular vote, I guarantee you that the two states where the candidates would have been all the time are New York and California. There would have been some time in Texas and they would have ignored the vast majority of people in the country.

A vast majority of the geographical area of the country would have been ignored during the campaign, and so the results would have been different. Who's to say Trump would not have done better in California if he'd spent some time out there? And who's to say that Hillary would have done worse if she'd spent some time out there and actually had been seen by people in California like she was seen elsewhere as having questionable stamina.

So they're still playing word games with this and mind games, and it's clear they're having trouble coming to grips with it. In fact, David "Rodham" Gergen -- grab audio sound bite number two. Last night CNN, Erin Burnett OutFront is speaking with the dean of conventional wisdom in the Beltway, David Gergen. She said, "Calling Trump's voters angry white men, is Bill Clinton making a mistake there?"

GERGEN: On the surface it's tit-for-tat sandbox behavior I don't think is very meaningful. It's pretty trivial, actually. But I do not think what it reveals underneath is the disdain that has grown in each man for the other. It may be true that at one point they were closer, much closer, but neither one of them respects the other anymore. And I think it's particularly raw coming the day after the Electoral College, and Bill Clinton, he's taking this hard. It's been very hard to him. He thought his wife was gonna win. He believed she should have won. I think he believes, basically, it was an unfair result.

RUSH: Everybody thought that Hillary was gonna win. That's the problem. Everybody thought, nobody was paying attention. Even Mitch McConnell. I don't know what this guy's doing. He's out talking about this as though he's proud of it. I wouldn't be admitting this kind of stuff if I were Mitch. "McConnell: I Expected Trump Would Lose And Republicans Would Lose Senate." We have the audio sound bite on this if I could find it. Grab number six. This was Mitch McConnell. This was on Kentucky public TV's, "One to One with Bill Goodman."

MCCONNELL: I honestly thought we wouldn't hold the U.S. Senate. I thought we'd come up short and I didn't think President Trump had a chance of winning. Given my expectations, doubly exciting because I thought we'd come up short on the Senate. We had a lot of exposure. That was really something. But it never occurred to me that he might be able to win as well.

RUSH: Never occurred that they might win. Now, I, on the other hand, thought Trump could win this thing last summer, a year ago last summer, 'cause I'm paying attention. These people inside the Beltway, they're really walled off -- I mean, even people on the Republican side. So McConnell: "I expected Trump would lose. I thought we would lose the Senate," and then he went on; he further said he was kind of surprised that a rich guy like Trump could be elected! Yeah, it's bad enough that the Democrats believe their own media, the Drive-By Media.

But there are too many Republicans that believe it, too. And is it any wonder that they have acted on occasion like defeated, hopeless waifs? I mean, they read and absorb everything the Drive-By Media says, and they believe it, too. And of course the Drive-By Media is routinely making fun of them and talking how hopeless they are and what a distant minority they are -- and to be shocked and stunned by this, you wonder if any lessons have been learned.

RUSH: No, no. Let me be clear. I didn't mention this McConnell business to take a hit on him. That's not what this is about. Folks, I'm talking about the attitude of winning and the can-do spirit and how I think people inside the Beltway in both parties have retreated to their corners, and unfortunately in the Democrat side, their corner is they win by knockout every time, and our corner is people expect to lose and the idea is to limit the damage.

And those attitudes... You see what the attitude's doing to the Democrats. They cannot accept that they have been rejected. They can't accept that they have lost. They cannot accept that every -- and, believe me, folks, everything they stand for here has been repudiated. Now, I know some of you are saying, "Rush, how can you say this because of this popular vote? Hillary did get 2.5 million more popular votes than Trump did." Well, true, but that's not how the campaign happened, folks. This is all about the campaign.

There is a route to the presidency in this country, and it's called the Electoral College, and both candidates base their campaigns on winning the Electoral College, not the popular vote. And in that pursuit, Donald Trump won in a landslide or near landslide. And in that pursuit, Barack Obama and his agenda was repudiated. And not just this year. In the 2010 midterms, the 2014 midterms, and this election. You're probably bored now hearing me cite how many seats the Democrats lost nationwide, national, state, local, in those three elections.

Now, a lot of us missed that, I will grant that. But the Democrats can't come to grips with the fact that they have been not just defeated, they've been rejected, what they stand for and what they did. And their fingerprints alone with on these things: Obamacare, that stimulus. That's why this is a very risky thing for Trump, this stimulus that he wants to do, but we'll get into that just a second here. And the executive orders. Obama is doing it again with this ban that he thinks is in perpetuity on offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and north of Alaska.

Now, about that, just a brief aside: It's bad what Obama's trying to do, and I know exactly what he is doing with this. I'll tell you that in a minute. But the first thing is, the areas that Obama has, by executive order, declared off-limits are areas nobody wants to drill in anyway. There are no plans to drill off the coast, the East Coast of the country out in the Atlantic, and there are no plans to drill north of Alaska in the Arctic Circle.

What Obama wants to happen I'm sure is for Trump to try and reverse this and a number of other executive orders that he has yet to implement. And he will do so on his way out the door here. These executive orders... Well, this one that limits offshore drilling for oil and natural gas is all designed to save the planet from the evils and the deadly characteristics of fossil fuels. And so Trump, it is hoped I'm sure by the Democrats and Obama... I'm sure they are hoping that Trump will make a move soon to rescind and repeal Obama's orders.

Even though it is said they're permanent and it can't be done, it can, and then Obama will call the media and he'll go on TV and he'll immediately accuse Trump of poisoning the planet, not caring about poisoning the water and all this other stuff. Don't doubt me. I know how this stuff works, and more of you each and every day who listen here religiously know as well as I what Obama is setting up here. It is to portray Trump as some selfish heathen who only cares about his own profit and well-being and doesn't care that the little guy might be a victim of more pollution and the climate might be changing more rapidly than ever.

And Trump will be responsible for all of this. But the agenda that Obama had was personally repudiated. Everything, including stuff like this, his executive orders -- immigration -- all of it has been repudiated. They can't imagine to grips with it. But on our side, in our corner, where they don't expect to win, how could you have missed what was happening in this country? How could you have missed it? Well, I know the answer to my question. They didn't want Trump to win in the first place.

He's an outsider. He's not part of the clique. I know the answer to all these questions, but I'm asking them for a reason. The Republicans didn't win this time because of the Republicans, and conservatives didn't win this time because of the conservatives. The Democrats got beat this time because of Trump. That is what has happened. And there are a lot of us who are deliriously happy about it and want to build on it as best we can.

3 posted on 12/21/2016 6:31:55 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)

I have begun to listen to Rush again, after urging from my neighbor, and I must say the past week he has been making more sense...but I still have this part of me that doesn’t trust him anymore like I used to...

A lot of the talk show hosts have gone off the deep end...and what they heck is that ‘nut job’ Beck doing? They took him off the station I listen to, but have heard he is really off the rails along with Levin and Savage...are they all drinking again???

Well that will help cut the budget. I’ll bet nobody will miss the ones that quit, more than likely the 30% that remain are the ones who do the work

Pres. Elect Trump got almost 4 million military votes, 61%. That is such a vote of confidence for this leader who never wore the uniform, and how wise of him to appoint several highly respected military leaders to his cabinet. May God bless Pres. Trump and every man or woman appointed by him enabling them to serve nobly and well.

They brought out all heavy guns they had. Hit him at every moment of the day for months. I would not have expected anything less, and, at some point, they would mount devastating counterattack which could shake his campaign to the foundation. They did all that, and came up short. They are shocked at their seeming powerlessness. Their commanding advantage and vast resources were not enough to get Hildebeast on top. I suppose that, in their mind, they should have done it even with such damaged good like Hildebeast, especially because her opponent lacked what they believed to be some essential pedigree presidential candidates must have.

They cannot face the uncomfortable fact that their power is not what it used to be.

Had to chuckle last time I listened to Rush trying to explain how he realized Trump was really something different and blah blah blah...

I think Rush is a little too hard on McConell. Sure he may have thought he was going to lose, but he did NOT act like he was going to lose. If he had Trump would not have a vacancy in the Supreme Court to fill when he takes office.

I’ve listened to him lately and he’s hammering the drive-bys. He’s like a shark that smells blood in the water.

There are going to be a lot of unemployed people living in million dollar homes in the suburbs around D.C.

McConnell has been a complete RINOass for a long time.

Now McConnell is a gobsmacked complete RINOass.

Actually Trump did wear a military uniform, which was that of a cadet in a military school. Google it for pictures and more information.

Sorry I have to disagree. McConnel is a deep-cover, crypto-Democrat traitor. A leader who doesn’t champion his own followers is useless. The sooner McTurtle is gone the better.

We should be so lucky.

I sincerely hope Trump makes it 80 or 85 percent.

start at the top and work his down.

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