Posted on 03/09/2016 3:57:47 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: There's an audio sound bite I want you to hear. Now, last night Trump had his victories, a big one in Michigan. And he was scheduled to do another victory press conference, not a victory speech, but a victory press conference with many of the audience consisting of members of the golf club in Jupiter where the event was held. And, as the media noted long before it began, the podium was flanked by samples of Trump products.
There was Trump water. There was Trump Steaks. There was Trump wine. There were other Trump things there. They were obviously there as placeholders. But I think it was used to refute Mitt Romney's claims that all of those Trump businesses have gone belly up or kaput. And Trump, as he says, you hit me, I'm gonna hit you back, and so it was time to hit back on these allegations that his businesses are either underwater, bankrupt, broke, or what have you. It was a one-hour-plus press conference, stream of consciousness appearance, tour de force, whatever you want to call it.
I have a lot of e-mails from people who think this is the most hilarious, this is the best, this is the whatever. I've never seen anything like this kind of press conference. I actually thought Trump has been better than he was last night. There was something about last night that was a little off to me, not that it wasn't good, and not that it wasn't funny, but I don't know. I can't explain it, other than to say I was just a bit mildly surprised at the rave reviews people sent me when it was over. And again, it's a minor point, and it's really not the point at all. But I want to share with you a sound bite of Dr. Krauthammer on the Fox News Channel when the thing was all over. Bret Baier brings Dr. Krauthammer on to analyze what we've just seen.
KRAUTHAMMER: I don't think I've ever heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago. That was quite a performance, and it was very weird. That was a performance, that was live television, that was reality television, and that nobody can do, and that has its appeal. I think that's gonna be really dangerous, 'cause he often can go off the reservation comparing himself to, what was it, Abe Lincoln, his number two, in how presidential he is. That's a little bit weird, but he's been able to carry it off. I think people have a sense of humor about him, which is good because otherwise they'd be terrified. And that's what has been carrying him through. In the end it will be a one-on-one and it will get a little more serious.
RUSH: So that's a funny line. "I haven't heard such a stream of disconnected ideas since I quit psychiatry 30 years ago." That may be one of the lines of the campaign. But these guys are clearly flummoxed in trying to understand this. I mean, you've got people saying this is a sacred process, the presidential race, the election for president is a sacred trust, and this guy, he's just soiling it, he's just making a mockery of it.
And then here's Mitt Romney over there on Jimmy Kimmel Live reading mean tweets and everybody is trying to figure why it is that the American public is not repulsed by this, why they're not worried. This is a presidential campaign, and it is a personal reality show. And everybody's trying to figure out why the American people are unbothered by it, and I can explain it to you. As a member of the media and as a student of the media, I can explain it to you if you want, but I'm not gonna take a whole lot of time to do it now because it really doesn't matter. The bottom line is people are not bothered by it, a number of people aren't. Some people are, is the point.
Mitt Romney Reads Mean Donald Trump Tweets
But can you think back, who was the last president -- seriously, now -- who was the last president you can think of who treated the office and everything about it with utmost reverence and respect? Who was the last president you can recall that did not mock the process, the job, the position, the behavioral manner, the level of decorum, everything about it, who was the last president you can think of who treasured, loved, and adored the office of the presidency and would not do anything he thought would bring dishonor to it?
That president is George W. Bush. And maybe if you want to go back, his dad, George H. W. Bush. And then you go back to Ronaldus Magnus. I wouldn't put Obama in that discussion. I wouldn't put Bill Clinton in that discussion. I wouldn't put any single Democrat in that discussion. My point is this. The only one of those presidents, when you answer that question that's relevant right now, is George W. Bush, demographically, generationally.
What did it get him? And remember, now, I'm asking the question in the context of everybody wringing their hands over what Trump is doing to damage the sacred trust. Trump is making a mockery of it, how Trump is lowering it and it now is no different and no better than a reality show on TV, and this is not what presidential campaigns are supposed to be. It's in that context that I ask the question.
George W. Bush treated the office of the presidency with reverence. George W. Bush told me over and over again, whenever I had a chance to be with him, I would constantly ask him, why aren't you pushing back on all this stuff they're saying about you and your administration and people in your administration? They're destroying your judicial nominees. They're out there destroying you. They're claiming you lied, people died. They're claiming you knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
And when he would talk to people privately, he would hit back at 'em and you would think, "My God, the guy gets it," and you wish this guy would show up on TV. How many times have I told you this? But yet when it came time to go public, none of that. And what George W. Bush told me was that he refused to take the office of the presidency down to the political gutter by reacting to obvious political chatter and cheap criticism. He told me he had too much respect for the office to take it there. And he couldn't avoid taking the presidency there because he was president.
Okay, fine and dandy. Whatever you think of that, the bottom line is what did it get him? He treated the office with great reverence and great respect and refused to do anything to sully it. It didn't help him a bit. The American people did not have any pride. The media, the Democrat Party was able to convince a majority of Americans that Bush was rotten, that Bush was a liar, that Bush was incompetent, that Bush was stupid, and all of the reverence that he showed for the office didn't matter.
Now, my point is, when you're trying to understand why aren't people disgusted over what Trump is doing to the office and the campaign and the reverence? We've seen now in recent years that we live in a different generational era, particularly in our pop culture. And there are people, and probably an increasing number of people, who don't find anything wrong -- in fact, not only do they not find anything wrong about it, they think it's refreshing. They think it's refreshing that a real guy who talks like real people -- i.e., like they do -- is not acting all heady and lofty and uppity over them and is just behaving like anybody else would, like they would if they were in the same shoes.
I find it's a fascinating... maybe not dichotomy, but it's clearly a dilemma. It's like so many conventional wisdom rules that have always worked in the past are out the window and not working now. I go back to this Wall Street Journal headline today: "Angry White Males Propel Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders." This, to me... I could be wrong about this because there's been so much media over the course of years of this program, but best of my recollection is "angry white males" has always been an epithet used by Democrats to describe Republican voters who don't buy into the Democrat Party.
Well, now all of a sudden we have a supposedly Republican oriented publication, Wall Street Journal, is now calling Republicans angry white males, and now there are allegations that angry white males are now voting in the Democrat side, too. And I think this is just the establishment trying to comfort itself to explain what's happening to itself, because they can't figure any of this out. It violates so much of what they thought they had put in place and had total control of. And that's really the nub of this, the panic they feel at having lost control.
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I do not know if Rush made the announcement about Jeb! - but I am certain he knew of it prior to the Bush love fest soliloquy.
It has been news most of the day - and Rush hears these things way before it makes it out to the public.
I completely agree with you that W allowed the office to be demeaned with his misguided notion that he was upholding its honor. Combining that attitude with an absolute ignoramus of a press secretary plus the RINOs in Congress and you had the way paved for the Democrats taking back control and eventually for Obama to take power. Maybe it really has all been Bush's fault.
Right now President Camacho is looking pretty good.
Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. As usual, please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
Patriots, please bear in mind that the Founding States had drafted the federal Constitution in part to give the lion’s share of government power to serve the people to the states, not the federal government. This is evidenced by the long-forgotten 10th Amendment.
In fact, note that one of the very few powers that the states have actually constitutionally delegated to the feds to regulate an aspect of domestic policy is to regulate the U.S. Mail Service (1.8.7). In other words, most other federal government services are based on 10th Amendment-protected state powers, and associated state revenues, which the corrupt feds have stoled from the states by means of unconstitutional federal laws.
The bottom line concerning the unconstitutionally big federal government is this. If the states had stuck with the original plan for electing senators and presidents as enumerated in the Constitution, then most citizens would probably not even know, or care, who the current president is imo.
News Flash!!! Rush hasn’t endorsed anyone for your information. You rally should pay attention instead of blabbering such nonesense
My point was that the “Head of State” is a symbol of the country — and, just like the flag, is revered for that reason alone. It’s like saluting a military officer — you salute the rank, not the man in the uniform. The flip side of this is that the Head of State has to live up to the role — just as a military officer must follow a strict code of behaviour.
In Canada, we never “revere” the Prime Minister (or at least not for long, and never solely by virtue of the office they hold). OTOH, it seems that Americans are expected to “revere” the Office of the Presidency — regardless of how loathsome the incumbent may be. That (IMHO) is because the President is both Head of State (deserving of reverence as a symbol of the country) and the “Head of Government” (just another politician; who has to continually earn whatever respect comes their way).
I agree wholeheartedly. We sure don’t need another W. He really was a bad president, whom I had the highest hope for and voted for him TWICE!
His brother endorsed Cruz and Rush is used in Cruz’s radio ads. I’m sure it was with his permission.
I did not write that Rush endorsed anyone. Maybe your comment was intended for someone else? I was simply commenting on this transcript of Rush -- is he not saying that Trump doesn't have the reverence for the office of the president and the decorum? That out of presidents since Reagan, only the Bushes have?
Same with me. That is all the President is supposed to do. Stand for religious freedom.
That said, not Islam because it is a political system pretending religion. Heh, that is just my feeling about it.
A lot of what you say about GW rings true to me. He
says he ignored the criticisms and insults because he
so respected the office of POTUS. The truth is he owed
it to his supporters to fight back to some degree. When
the opposition continuously insults the man they are also
insulting those who support him. I will defend those
who cannot defend themselves. But, to HELL with those can
but won’t speak up on their own behalf. That is what I
took away from the 8 years of Bush.
I love that Trump defends himself although I am over some
of the middle school antics. I think the liberals have
pushed the entire culture in a sorrowful direction over
the past several decades and they need to be pushed back,
not helped along.
I heard Rush whining about this today. Ever since his embrace for Cruz I just can’t stand listening to Rush. He’s shown himself to be a phony. I still listen out of habit I guess.
We are a people whose college graduates are worse schooled. How many of today’s graduates could score 1300 or above on a 1962 GRE? More, who could write an essay of high quality for the 1940 college boards?
Rush and Krauthammer! The GOPe unites against Trump
Two if by tea!
They refer to the dolt Ogabe attending the indie-rock pot smoking fest in Austin SXSW - choomin’.
He would rather troll for dudes there than attend a State Funeral.
“Is a Thing of the Past”
So is El Rushbo
This isn’t exactly something they would call him and brag (or whatever) about. They could have let him know.
Can’t he see what the represents to us?
He must. It’s a cataclysmic moment. He should know it.
Exactly right!
instincts and breavery at one point, and nothing at other times.
I wonder sometimes if this family has it’s problems with premature births or some other malady. It’s just strange some of them.
Jeb this year was really a freaked out dude at time. It was hard to even identify with what he was thinking at times, it was so bazaar.
I refused to the first time. I saw it coming. Can’t brag about it, because I felt terrible there was nothing I could do to get someone else nominated instead of him.
My thought was always that he might make a great neighbor, but as a president, no.
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