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Jan. 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Wait a minute, grab soundbite number 32 first, and we'll get back in order.
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Here you gotta hear this John Kerry.
I mentioned earlier that he thanked the Iranians for taking our sailors hostage and humiliating them.
And at not far uh off the truth.
Here is his soundbite from the State Department this morning.
Also want to thank the Iranian authorities for their cooperation and quick response.
These are always situations which, as everybody here knows, have an ability if not properly guided to get out of control.
And I'm appreciative for the quick and appropriate response of the Iranian authorities.
Yeah, all it takes is 150 billion dollars in cash and a promise they can nuke up and they'll give us back some soldiers they took hostage.
What the hell is this?
They take some hostages.
They they capture a couple of little dinky boats we got running around over there, and they take the people on board hostage and they release them, and we thank them.
I want to thank the Iranian authorities for their cooperation, quick response.
These are always situations which, as everybody here knows, of the ability, if not properly guided to uh get out of control.
Really want to thank the Iranians for taking our guys hostage and not doing anything worse.
And we want to thank the Iranians for after taking our guys hostage that they gave them back.
Really appreciate that.
We're sorry.
That's what he's essentially apologizing for what we did.
But I'm just saying, folks, you give somebody 150 billion dollars in a green light to do a nuclear weapon.
I mean, you're buying a lot of friendship beer.
I want to give you a quote from Rinaldus Magnus.
I'm still struck here by Nikki Haley uh and and again, just to preface, I've always liked her.
I I've never had a problem with Nikki Haley.
I was a little you know, silly me, surprised last night.
I shouldn't have been.
I know she's establishment.
I I know all of this.
I'm just like I said yesterday, I'm an optimist.
I always I'm expecting the best.
And I often get slapped upside the head many times in that position, and I did last night.
This this uh grab soundbite number one again.
This is this is so classic of a defeated mentality.
This is so classic of a defeatist and defensive position where you accept the definitions of who you are, made by your opponents, dare I say, even enemies, but I'm trying to soften it by calling the Democrats opponents.
So we let them pick our nominees, we let them define who we are, and then when we acknowledge that we're doing that, somehow everybody thinks it's just great days for America because we're finally demonstrating the American people that we're not what they say when we actually are confirming what they say.
But here, this is fundamental.
Listen to her little soundbite here again.
We need to be honest with each other and with ourselves.
While Democrats in Washington bear much responsibility for the problems facing America today, they do not bear it alone.
There is more than enough blame to go around.
We as Republicans need to own that truth.
We need to recognize our contributions to the erosion of the public trust in America's leadership.
We need to accept that we've played a role in how and why our government is broken.
And then we need to fix it.
I'm sorry for the sighing.
I know that that's irritating out the wazoo.
But um look, I've already explained how it is that we are responsible for this uh our contributions to the erosion of public trust.
The Republican contribution is by not providing any political opposition.
The reason people have lost faith in government is that there's nobody in government trying to stop the Democrat Party.
Now it's quite natural that Republican supporters, Republican voters are going to think that the Republican Party's part of the problem.
Now she doesn't mean it that way.
What she's trying to say is, yeah, we know you think Washington's got a lot of problems, but it's not just a Democrat, you know, we've played a role ourselves.
She doesn't have the slightest idea how most people agree with her.
But I want to give you a quote from Renoldus Magnus.
Because you know, for for Republicans, the era of Reagan is over, but the era of Goldwater is forever.
And it's frustrating as all get out.
Now, Nikki Haley thinks that she's being a big person.
That she's being magnanimous and honest.
Essentially saying, hey, you know, everybody is to blame to one degree or another.
There's no one party mostly responsible for bankrupting America.
There's not just one party responsible for destroying the health care system in America.
There's not just one party responsible for the lack of jobs.
No, we have a role in this ourselves.
We must admit that we have contributed to whatever it is.
I want to read to you.
Just a quick little quote here from Ronaldus Magnus's evil empire speech.
Quote, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride.
The temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
Don't fall prey to the temptation that everybody's to blame.
Don't fall prey to pride and think that it sounds wonderful and great to also blame yourself.
Especially when you don't own any.
The only way the Republican Party can be blamed for what's happening in America the last seven years is because they haven't tried hard enough to stop it.
Now when it comes to Obamacare, they never had the votes to stop it in 2010.
it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But the efforts that they have made to defund it, to repeal it since then have been phony and unreal.
So yes, you could make the claim that Republicans have a role in all of this, but it's because they've not stopped it.
They've not tried.
They've stood aside, or in some cases, they have joined with the Democrats like they desperately want to on amnesty.
This inability, and this encapsulates it for me, this inability to point fingers at the people responsible for what's happening in this country and say so is the singular problem of the Republican Party.
And for Nikki Haley now, not only to refuse to blame the people responsible, but now to start accepting some of the blame.
To what end?
Just how is that going to grab them more voters?
How is it going to?
It isn't.
But that's not what it's intended to do.
It's intended to shore up Republican membership in the club.
Here's the next Haley soundbite.
This is where she zeros in on Trump.
During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices.
We must resist that temptation.
No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.
There's an important lesson in this.
In many parts of society today, whether in popular culture, academia, the media, Or politics.
There's a tendency to falsely equate noise with results.
Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference.
That's just not true.
Often the best thing we can do is turn down the volume.
Now, in the first place, Trump's voice is not loud.
Trump's not a screamer.
He's not out there shouting.
The thing that sets Trump apart is what he says and how he says it.
But he's not noise.
He's not shouting and yelling and drowning out everybody else.
In fact, Trump at a debate is practically non-existence.
Non-existent.
You watch.
You go back and search your memory banks.
Every one of these debates with all these Republican candidates up there, you don't have Trump doing anything but speaking within his time frame.
He's not shouting.
He's not stealing other people's time.
He's not interrupting what is she talking about here?
Now when he's out on his own events, he doesn't shout.
He makes people laugh.
He's doing a routine, he's doing a performance, he's making he's combining a lot of things into these things, but he's not a shouter.
And he's not angry.
So what is all this?
Who is she really talking about?
And by the way, who among us, do you know anybody that wants to deny anybody legally to enter the country?
And and do you know anybody who, after they've legally entered the country, wants to deny them opportunity?
I don't.
I don't know who she's talking about here.
But she's trying to make it look like she agrees with the Democrats that Trump wants to build a wall and keep everybody out and kick out those who are already here legally, and furthermore, deny them the opportunity to get a job.
Nobody's saying that.
I don't know where they come up with this stuff.
Well, she's talking to Syrian refugees and just illegal immigration in in general, the wall and all of this stuff.
But I no one who's willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions, should the problem is that's not what's happening with immigration.
She's describing assimilation there, and what's happening is we don't have any.
All anybody's asking for is what we've always had with immigration, and that's assimilation.
These people come in here, they become Americans, they learn American culture, they become part of it.
The entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, whatever it is, they have the freedom to do it, and they kick ass and they run around and they make some of themselves.
And we applaud it, we celebrate it, and we encourage it.
I don't know who she's talking about here.
I don't know anybody who's opposed to that.
Except the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party does not want self-sufficiency, the Democrat Party does not want self-reliance, the Democrat Party is the ones who want total dependency.
The Democrat Party is the one that wants the ill-educated, the uneducated, the unskilled.
They're the ones who want people to come in the country can't speak English and are not going to have to learn.
They're the ones who want a permanent underclass in this country.
They're the ones who, by virtue of their very policies, deny opportunity and deny growth.
Democrat Party liberalism policies are the biggest obstacle to individual success going because the Democrat Party doesn't believe most people can do it.
They want people bowing down to the government for everything they get in life.
I don't know who she's talking about.
Now, everybody assumes it's Trump here, and it probably is Trump, but Trump doesn't stand for any of this, I don't know anybody who does on our side.
Well, sh that's my she's accepting the liberal narrative of Trump and of the Republican base, and that's exactly right.
And this folks, I need to take you back to one hour ago.
This needs to be repeated.
Donald Trump, I don't care what you think of Trump, I don't care what you think of me regarding Trump.
That's not the point.
Listen to me here.
Whatever you think of it, Donald Trump has put together a support group.
His voters, his support coalition is made up of people a Republican Party claims they want to reach out to.
He's got Hispanics.
Twenty percent of his support base, if not more, is blue-collared Democrats.
Twenty percent of the Democrats surveyed recently said they would defect from the Democrat Party to vote for Trump.
Well, is that not what the Republicans claim that they think and say they need to do?
They need to peel off some Democrats, peel off some independents, need to get some Hispanics, need to go out there and get some women.
Well, look at Trump's group of people, that's who he's got, and yet he still reject it.
So my point is it's not it's not it's not just that the Republican establishment leadership, whatever, is rejecting the conservative base, they're rejecting anybody they consider to be an outsider, somebody who's not a member of the club and they don't want in the club, no matter what he brings to the club.
These guys kind of remind me of the Cincinnati Bengals.
In the sense that the last thing on their mind was winning the game.
That what people think of them or proving who they are, whatever is more important and actually winning the game.
Mind-boggling to watch this.
Here's Nikki Haley.
This is uh with Matt Wower on the Today Show today, and Matt Wower said, Look, Governor Haley, when you were talking last night in response uh to the president about the loudest voices, those angriest voices, in that context, you were referring to Donald Trump, right?
He was one of them, yes.
He was one.
There's other people in the media, there's people in my state.
I think we're seeing it across the country.
But yes, Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk.
Wow.
So she's admitted, yeah, that there's other people in the media.
I wonder who that could be.
Hmm.
And then people in my state, who would that be?
Who would be the people in her state that are behaving in ways that she doesn't approve of?
We're seeing it across the country.
Loud voices.
Yes, Trump has contributed what I think is irresponsible talk, but it's not just Trump, it's the media and all these other people.
So she's out, she's accepting accolades from the from the left wing, the Democrat media today, and making it clear, hey, you can love me even more because I wasn't just talking about Trump.
I was talking about the same people in the media that you don't like either.
CBS.
Nora O'Donnell said to Nikki Haley, you said last night your party has to resist the temptation to follow the siren call of the angriest voices.
Why did you want to land that criticism of Trump?
The angriest voices was actually referred to a lot of things.
I mean, it's certainly some of the things that um Mr. Trump has said, but it's been to other things as well.
Mr. Trump um is not exempt from being one of those angriest voices, and all I'm saying is we've got a responsibility, and the way we handle issues and the way we talk about issues should be towards solution, not towards division.
And so I say that in reference to a lot of things.
What it was was calling out my party.
I mean, that was very true.
I called out Republicans and I called out Democrats because I think it's important.
If the country's going to move forward, we all need to look in the mirror.
We all need to realize that we've all had something to do with this.
Because once you do that, you can regroup and and build the country back up.
I just I look time is really a bite that I've got to play.
I just don't have time.
It backs up to this really well.
Do not forget what she just said.
Take a break and come back with the next one.
Sit.
Last night's CBS coverage of the State of the Union, they had Michael Gerson.
We've mentioned him in the past couple of days on this program.
He's a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, now a Washington Post columnist and a card-carrying member of the Republican establishment elite.
Scott Pelley said, Michael Gerson, you've written a few of these State of the Union speeches.
What do you make of the Obama speech?
The theme of optimism was a powerful FDR-like theme, and it works because of the contrast to the Republican Party, where the language of the party now is so apocalyptic and so negative.
I think that that worked.
You know, I so I don't think Republicans heard much that was an invitation to bipartisanship.
The Republican establishment so despises Trump and Cruz that they actually go out there and praise Obama, who delivered one lie and misstatement after another.
And now we actually have to hear from somebody ostensibly on our side How we are apocalyptic, and this dovetails with Nikki Haley, the same thing.
Criticize our side, get great credit for it throughout the media, and then build up Obama.
Yeah, it's very uh FDR optimistic and uh and and positive and uh you know the Republican Party, the language of the party so apocalyptic is so negative.
Man, are these guys out of touch?
They do not understand upbeat positive when they see it, when they're surrounded by it.
They don't understand what apocalyptic defines the Democrat Party.
Apocalyptic defines liberalism.
One crisis after another.
Something's gonna kill you three or four different ways, three or four times a day.
From the UK Daily Mail, global warming could cause humans to develop webbed feet, cats' eyes and gills.
There's gonna be so much flooding that the only way we can survive as human beings is if evolution kicks in in time to give us webbed hands and feet so that we can swim in the water, and gills so that we can breathe in the water, and cats' eyes so that we can open our eyes under the water.
And if evolution doesn't make all that happen to humanity, then we're toast, folks.
We're done.
And there's Obama out touting all of this and climate change last night, and the Republicans don't see that for what it is.
It's well, we'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
And we're back.
Time to head to the phones.
We're gonna start Grand Rapids, Michigan with Matt.
I'm glad you called, sir.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey Diddle, happy new year.
Thank you.
Same to you, sir.
Hey, uh, you mentioned something uh a short time ago about the fact that the GOP black Trump coverage unites.
I called to see if you could expand upon that.
And I guess what I'm what I'm getting at is I think that's why the crosshairs are aimed right at Trump.
It's because he does wear that that medal of courage that the cowardly line didn't have initially.
And I think the whole GOP feels, not to feel the self of the establishment, rather, uh, wishes that they could wear two, and they they're I don't know if they're envious or jealous, but they they just can't seem to gonner the conviction that is necessary to do what's right to leave the country.
Uh so there are three questions there, essentially, or three points.
I I'll let you sort that out again.
Um the the first one on courage uh the the fact that the Republican Party doesn't seem to have it, it it kind of looks that way.
It it's there are two things happening here.
And I look, I'm sorry to be repetitive here, but but uh I've been asked, I was gonna repeat some of the stuff I said in the first hour.
The Republican Party, as we know, does not like its base.
Jeb Bush promised, claimed he was gonna get the nomination without the support of the base.
The way he was gonna do it with money, he was gonna be the biggest fundraiser.
He was getting more money than anybody else, it was gonna scare other people out.
Then all the other conservative entrants were supposed to cancel each other out by dividing up all their support, dividing up all the money at the end of the process, Jeb would be the last guy standing because he had the donor money.
So the donor class was going to be responsible for nominating our nominee for selecting our nominee.
Now things have not worked out in any way, shape, manner, or form this way.
And what we what we know is that the Republican Party doesn't like the Republican base, they don't like conservatism, but there's something else that we've learned.
And again, I I hate to be redundant here, but if you look at the coalition Trump has put together, it is everything that the the Republican Party claims they want, and they don't want it with Trump in charge of it.
They don't want it with Trump being the guy that that attracts it.
And so it's more than just anti-conservatism and anti-base, it's also anti-Trump.
Now, why would they not like Trump?
Well, on the surface, it's that believe me, folks, it when we're talking the establishment, it they don't like Trump not because he's not conservative.
That doesn't matter.
The fact that he's not conservative in their minds actually would be a plus.
Now they can contact all con uh concoct all the reasons they want for it, but what is apparently obvious to me now is that in addition to opposing conservatism or the Republican base, there's also this clickish elitist club characteristic here that if you're not in it, and the only way you can get in it is to be accepted, to be invited.
You can't succeed your way into it.
This is important to understand.
You cannot be an overwhelming success in whatever you do and have that be the reason you get into the establishment elite political club.
You have to be a certain type, you have to come from a certain place, you have to be invited.
Trump does not qualify on a whole lot of grounds in a lot of ways.
And so even though Trump has the largest block of voters made up of exactly the kind of outreach the Republican Party claims it needs to win, they're rejecting it and don't want it.
These are the characteristics of business involved here, the donor class and their demands.
There's some psychology involved in all this too.
But when you boil it all down, it is that the Republican Party, yeah, they want to win, but only one way.
They are content to lose if winning means conservatives dominate the party.
They seem content to lose if winning means that Donald Trump's the nominee.
The reasons for this uh would take too long toward the end of the program here to uh to detail.
But it's fascinating because in hanging in the balance is the future of the country.
And that seems to have not much impact on the thinking and the decision making that they're making or engaged in.
And you and I, we're out here thinking that winning is the objective.
Getting back in power is the objective because of specific things we want to do.
We want to stop the direction the country's going, want to roll back some of this mindless, destructive economic policy and Obamacare policy.
Uh we want to re-establish the concept of individual liberty and freedom.
None of that seems to be the guiding desire for people in the political establishment.
Now I know they desire to stay in power and in office uh Trump's everything, no pun intended.
But for as much as these people run around claiming they want their committee chairmanships and they want to win and so forth, it's clear that there are two ways they can win on the Republican side, they're not interested in either one.
Now, what does that tell you?
I don't know if it's a matter of courage or if it's exclusionary.
Here's uh Francis in Ontario and Canada.
Hi, Francis, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You've been listener, uh second time caller.
The first time I think we spoke, uh, you and I didn't see eye to eye, but I'm hoping we can push Hillary's overcharge button and uh start again from there.
Well, Hillary's uh recharge reset button has never worked, so I don't think we I don't know if we want to try that here.
No, of course, okay.
Well, let's let's avoid that.
Um listen, Rush, you couldn't be uh you couldn't be more on the mark on this one.
The fact that the Republican Party is absolutely poised to once again attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The idea of running away from Donald Trump, I'm not a don't Donald Trump supporter.
Uh to be honest with you, I don't think Donald Trump would be effective in a general election.
But his message is clearly resonating with the American people.
The idea that the Republican Party, the establishment, would want to run away from that message is ludicrous.
Donald Trump, his message, whether you like it or not, is resonating.
You want the independent vote, but you can't run away from the base.
You can't run away from the Republican vote.
And where are the Donald Trump was accused by Hillary Clinton of being a propaganda tool for ISIS?
This one to me, Rush, madens me beyond belief.
Why doesn't Donald Trump, why don't the Republican Party grab onto this and run with it?
Oh, you haven't heard that ISIS doesn't like the city.
Wait, wait a minute.
You haven't heard that.
Hey, that's nothing.
Have you heard it?
Jane Mayer's got a book and the New York Times picked it up.
Are you aware that the father of the Koch brothers built the third largest oil refinery for the Nazis?
Oh, yeah.
What a great quote unquote recruitment tool.
Well, but the fact is he didn't.
They're totally making this up.
They're making but and and and uh Hillary has joined in this fray by referring that the the Nazi past or whatever Hillary supporters have.
Um I I don't know when you when you see this kind of stuff.
Uh now the Koch brothers don't have a candidate.
Koch brothers are upset that they don't have any influence anymore.
Did you see that?
Yeah, this is the most amazing thing.
It was an interview in the political last week.
Charles Koch of the Koch brothers said he was beside himself.
He said he's that they've spent money, they do all these seminars, they have all of these get togethers, and he's never had less influence in a presidential race than he has this year.
This time around.
He doesn't like Trump because of what Trump said about Muslims or what he thinks Trump said about Muslims.
He thinks Trump wants to limit all Muslims coming into the country, so I don't know how that works with freedom.
Um he's not totally correct in understanding what Trump said about that and and why.
But that's the that's a degree to which everything here has been turned upside down, establishment wise.
The people, the donors, the fundraisers, the big money people are all running around scratching their heads asking themselves what's happened to our power.
What has happened to our influence?
Why aren't we factors?
And believe me, they're asking this.
You can't understand how frustrated they are they've been unable to stop Trump.
That's got them so bugabooed, it has got them so flummoxed they don't understand it, and they're frustrated.
The consultants, the other candidates, they don't they think that Donald Trump should have been rejected after his opening speech.
At Trump Tower, his his announcement speech, they thought he would be disqualified, they laughed, they thought it was a comedy routine.
They have been stymied since day one of the Trump campaign.
And to this day, I'm here to tell you that many of them still think he's going to implode.
Many of them still think that he's not going to finish this race, that he's not going to be there in the end.
They're coming at it from a state of denial.
But they are, they're beside themselves in their inability to understand what happened to their influence, to their power.
I mean, all of this money they've given to Jeb and what's to show for it, and all the money they've given to Kasich, and all the money they've given to all of them.
And here's a guy who's not spending any money by comparison.
Donald Trump running away with it.
I I'm folks, I'm I said this well, a number of times last week being the most recent.
The disconnect, and this is really the explanation for all of this.
It's the explanation for Nikki Haley last night.
The disconnect between the governed and the political class is wider, larger, deeper than I have ever seen it.
The lack of commonality, the lack of mutual goals, the lack of the elected political class understanding the frame of mind of a majority of the American people.
I've never seen people elected and serving in office as out of touch with the pulse of the country in my life.
Now, I don't know about before I was alive.
I'm sure there have been other times.
Throw the civil war out.
I mean, that's its own unique circumstance, and you could argue that nothing since has ever been that dire.
But throw that out after we resume states of normalcy here.
I have never seen the people elected to serve be so out of touch and so unaware, stymied, surprised by the attitudes and the things that are important to the people in the country.
And then when they find out, you add to it, when the elected class, the political class, when they find out what is really important to the people who've elected them, they scoff at it.
And they poo-poo it.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
I'm a little long.
We will continue after this.
Sit tight and do not go away from it.
No sooner do I say it than a news story crosses the wire.
I deal my formerly nicotine-stained finger from the Hill.com.
Upset Republican donors.
Have we wasted our money?
Frontrunner Trump's relatively cheap campaign, contrasted with the millions of dollars spent on behalf of Jeb, Kasich, Walker, and Perry has left donors, fundraisers, and GOP leaders questioning the value of super PACs.
One of them, Scaramucci, Anthony Scaramucci, New York financier said, gosh, I mean with the free media or whatever the term is, when they allow Trump to go on to every TV station in America, if there's evidence that PACs are so consequential, please explain it to me.
You know, these people, here it is, folks.
It's it's it's just more evidence.
So what is it they think?
It's what they've always believed and what they've always believed matters.
The money.
All that matters is the money.
Spending the money, spend the most money, forget the message.
The message doesn't matter.
Spend the money.
And you who have the most money and spend the most money, and particularly if you can spend some of that money on negative ads and destroy your opponents, then that's how you do it.
What they're up against that they don't understand.
It's the message.
It's the details.
It's the principles.
It's whatever you want to call it, the policies.
This Republican campaign is focused on and made up of specific policies and essential messages.
And the messages and the policies and the communication skills are working.
They are getting to the American people and the voters.
The voters are responding to a guy who has spent six figures, 300, 400 grand, versus the super PACs and their multiple millions.
And the money people are scratching their heads.
Would they don't understand?
They thought Jeb had this in the bag.
I mean, two months after Trump had announced, and two months after Trump has got this massive lead, the Jeb team thinks, don't sweat it.
We still have it in the bag, we have all the money.
The message didn't matter.
The candidate didn't matter.
What the candidate was saying didn't matter.
What the other candidates were saying didn't matter.
At the end of the day, it was the money that was going to define who won.
In the past, that has been true in more ways than not.
And then every year, the same people who benefit from all that money are the first to run around complaining about all the money in politics.
Obama did it last night.
Obama has led the league in fundraising in presidential contests.
And here he is, one thing I gotta do.
I haven't been able to get all the filthy money out of politics.
He's still fundraising.
The Clintons, that's all they have done since they walked out of the White House paupers and poor.
All they've done is fundraise.
But ignoring the central thing that's happening in this campaign.
This is why the disconnect is just profound.
There is a specific message or a series of messages that make up this Republican primary campaign.
You might even say to a certain extent it's true on the Democrat side, but you'll get Bernie Sanders.
What is it about Bernie that is more appealing and attractive to that group of people over there than Hiller than than Hillary is.
No, it's not his looks.
And it's not his money.
And it's it's it's his message.
He's this far left wing radical looney tune who happens to be resonating with the Democrat Party base.
And Hillary is the Sphinx who's just sitting there waiting for the money to be spent, waiting for the money to be donated, biding her time, trying to make as few appearances as she can, not trying to rake a connection with voters because she can't.
She doesn't have the kind of personality to make a connection with voters because the voters understand she thinks that she's so far above them and much better, she doesn't deign to actually get down to where they live.
In walks Bernie with an ability to connect and so forth, and it's even true on their side.
I take a break here, folks, again, a little long, but we'll be back and continue after this.com.
White House heaps praise on Nikki Haley after State of the Union response.
Yeah.
And of course, the Republican establishment thinks that's the greatest thing.
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