Posted on 07/13/2015 2:02:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, there are other factors, too, in presidential races that are impossible to account for. You never know how somebody's gonna come off to others on TV, for example, which is a big deal.
You don't know what's gonna happen in debates. I don't know if there's gonna be a dark horse. Nobody knows what's really gonna become of Trump, how long Trump's gonna hang in. The media's obsessed with Trump right now. They're obsessed. They're convinced that Trump's destroying the Republican Party -- which they want, by the way. They would love nothing better than for that to happen.
You've got some Republican establishment types now getting very, very worried that all these assaults on Trump are gonna lead to him going third party. And if he goes third party, you can say hello to Hildebeast, because that's what's gonna happen. If any of these guys goes third party, it's hello Hildebeast. But here's one thing, folks. Those of you who are for the Trumpster, this is something I need you to hear me say. I need you to actually hear this.
We're told that in a standard, ordinary, everyday campaign, it's fair game for all the Republicans to go for the grand prize. And, in the process of a primary, it's impossible not to attack your opponents. You have to. You have to beat your opponents. Sometimes the attacks, even within the party, get pretty vicious. But they're never so vicious that, when it's all over, they can't unify. It's a very fine line. It's a very close line everybody has to watch. You can't go so overboard in criticizing anybody that, if they get the nomination, you can't walk it back with credibility.
Well, I'm here to tell you that is happening with Trump.
You've got people on Fox, you have Republican Party establishment types, you've got Republican consultants who are out there now saying things about Trump that will be impossible to walk back. Meaning they're going so overboard in their criticism of Trump right now that if Trump happens to stay in this, and if Trump wins this, these people are not going to be able to just automatically rally, which is what everybody says after the nominee is chosen.
"We rally around the nominee! We unify and we go forward." Some of these people have said such over-the-top things that it's gonna be very hard for them to walk it back. Not saying that people wouldn't try to. (interruption) Examples? (interruption) Well, uh... I don't know. I'm reluctant to mention names here 'cause it's not my point to focus on individuals. But let's just pick a name. Let's just say... I don't know.
Well, since he doesn't do it, let's just use Bret Baier. Since he never does this anyway, everybody knows I'm not talking about him. I'm just using him as an example. Let's say Bret Baier for 10 nights in a row on Fox just goes after Trump in ways that make it obvious that he would never support Trump. "Trump's a danger here. Trump's this, Trump's that," whatever it is he says. And then Trump wins.
How does Bret Baier all of a sudden unite behind Trump? Don't anybody call Bret Baier and say I'm accusing him of this. I'm using the most objective guy I can here as an example so as not to tie anybody to it. But it's really a fine line everybody has to walk within the party during a primary. That is why, when these things all go up -- I'll give you a better example. You remember when Huckabee got together with McCain and basically pulled the rug out from Romney in 2008. This happened in West Virginia.
Romney was on the way and then all of a sudden Huckabee decided to get out and throw all of his delegates at the time, happened in West Virginia, I think, to McCain, which put McCain over the top. At that point Romney could have just launched on those two guys, and he could have told everybody what a bunch of reprobates he thought they were. But he didn't. He didn't go personal. He didn't go overboard. He didn't go over the top, because he knew he was gonna seek the nomination again, and he couldn't say things in the heat of that moment that it would be impossible to walk back at a later date, such as, "Mr. Romney, you said that John McCain would be the absolute worst thing that ever happened to this country if he got elected. How can you support him now?" That's something they won't do.
Well, they are doing it with Trump is my point. A lot of Republicans are doing it to the point that they can't walk it back. And if Trump is ultimately serious about this, that just gives him maybe even more desire, energy to go third party. If Trump is aware that all of these other Republicans, or enough of them, are saying such outrageous things that they can't walk 'em back and eventually support him if he becomes the nominee, if they're making it clear they won't support him if he becomes the nominee, which is the same thing as saying outrageous things you can't walk back, then that just further might push somebody to third party.
So, look, again, just for clarification, I used Bret Baier as an example precisely because he's not the kind of guy doing any of this. It was just as an illustration.
I've read just about every Trump thread, and I've never heard any of his supporters make such a claim. I've heard many of his detractors claim he's a life-long staunch uber liberal, not to mention a Hillary shill. Either claim is absurd. But he may yet turn out to be the best viable alternative.
The only reason GHW Bush was elected was because of Reagan...sadly Bush was too stupid to know it, hence one term.
Bush was on Reagan’s ticket because the same bunch of high end trash in New England controlled the party’s purse, the party’s publicity and party’s patronage. Reagan did himself good by forcing them to acknowledge that he controlled the desires of the masses and all the other stuff was wind without him. As I recall, to be corrected, Reagan and the Bush family were not soul buddies.
Listen, brother, whether or not I’m “the lowest form of scum” is subjective, BUT - the Democrats are going to nominate either Elizabeth Warren or someone else who is going to run against the money center banks - and if you think nominating a man whose wife is a managing director of Goldman Sachs (that’s not an “attack”, BTW, that’s a fact) to run against Warren or whomever - if you think that’s not going to become the centerpiece of the campaign, you’re nuts.
By the way, cripplecreek, I like most of your opinions and I would never call you scum over something like this.
Then that bastard Mexican Doctor pushed my prostate real hard! That's the first guy I am gonna kill when I am president!
I don’t really care what you like. Anyone who attacks the wives is bottom feeding scum.
Yeah, but I didn’t attack Mrs. Cruz. The fact that she’s a managing director at Goldman Sachs is not an attack. The fact that it will be an issue in the campaign if Cruz is nominated is not an attack.
I hope she’s very successful. I don’t have any problem with what she does,
However, I think it’s a major problem for a would-be President in present conditions, and the time to think about it is now.
I hear she secretly runs the illuminati from her laptop at her dining room table.
“Romney was on the way and then all of a sudden Huckabee decided to get out and throw all of his delegates at the time, happened in West Virginia, I think, to McCain, which put McCain over the top. At that point Romney could have just launched on those two guys, and he could have told everybody what a bunch of reprobates he thought they were. But he didn’t.”
McCain ‘08 or in ‘12 or Romney ‘08 or in ‘12......Would it have made a difference? They both would have lost in either elections!
Some of these RINO clowns who participated gleefully in destroying Sarah Palin would come away from bashing The Donald with Trump marks on their rumps. He is going to steamroller these smartass punks who think they know better than the voters.
Way to go. Just completely ignore what is making Trump popular and reach across the aisle for some compromise pity.
With that said, unless Ted Cruz starts really kicking ass, you may be correct about Trump ending as the only viable candidate.
How did you get that from my post?
Do you deny that up until relatively recently Trump held very different positions on immigration and gun rights than those he is currently espousing?
Is Jeb the Bushwoman your gal?
I don’t care much for Mitch mccinnell’s wife. And if Laura could have done a little housework, maybe W wouldn’t have had to throw the border open to coddle her laziness
-PJ
Mississippi was it for me. There is no walking back the tactics the GOPe used to get Cochran reelected.
Nothing Republicans do will surprise me. Unless they actually govern according to their platform—then I suppose I’d be shocked.
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