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Feb. 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
What a great weekend.
What an awesome weekend, folks, and we are here to review everything that happened over the weekend that's of any consequence.
And we're going to give you the real lowdown about what went on in the Republican debate on Saturday night and what it really probably might mean.
How's that for certitude for you?
And of course, I want to get your thoughts on uh on on some of this as well.
So the telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800 282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Boy, I'll tell you this this uh on the Democrat side, this cratering of Hillary Clinton appears to be real.
I may have to rethink my original theory about this that the DNC would never allow Bernie Sanders to become the nominee.
They may not have any hope or any any involvement in it.
Of course, Bernie's gonna go nowhere after New Hampshire, but this collapse of Hillary Clinton's is real.
And and Bill Clinton, how do you this is just so great.
Bill Clinton's out there, he's younger than Bernie Sanders, looks older than Bernie Sanders.
Everybody in the Democrat side on this is an aging, aged white person.
Grandma, grandpa, great-grandpa, and they're all out slamming each other.
And Bill Clinton has gone out there, and he has unleashed his most direct attacks on Crazy Bernie yet.
And if I were Crazy Bernie, you know what I would do.
It's real simple.
If I were Bernie Sanders, and Bernie, you can steal this.
And if Bernie, I'll give an added benefit, added bonus.
If you steal this, I'm not even going to tell anybody that I said this.
I will not even come anywhere close to claiming credit.
Bernie, you've got to do this.
Not only do you have to do it, it will work, Bernie.
You've got to.
The next time Clinton hits you, or quote Clinton hitting you, you just say, no attack ever fed a hungry child.
Or whatever matters.
No attack ever helped a bedraggled union worker, or no attack ever paid for a tax increase.
Whatever you want to say, Bernie, but you've got to turn that back on old De Schlickmeister.
Uh the Republican side, the Republican debate, this is fascinating.
It is genuinely fascinating, and I I've I've got a lot of analys for analysis for you here in terms of not just analyzing what happened on stage, but analyzing the analysis.
After the debate, I think we are living in a uh remarkable time where stark contrasts are on display, and I I really I think this disconnect that exists between politicians and elected officials in Washington for the rest of the country.
I think it may also apply to media in Washington.
Uh it always has, but I mean it this may be a little profound.
We'll get to that in in mere moments, but first the Super Bowl.
It is stunning.
Here you have Beyonce.
Did you happen to catch Beyonce's contribution to the halftime show?
I want to give Beyonce the benefit of the doubt.
After all, she's a woman.
And as such, she probably not that big a sports fan.
Probably doesn't follow the NFL that closely.
And when she saw that the two teams involved, um, she naturally thought one of them was the Black Panthers.
Particularly if she happens to read Salon.com, which had a story over the weekend that we talked about.
I'm sorry, it was the Huffing and Puffington Post, uh, which claimed that the Carolina Panthers were the first NFL team to be unapologetically black.
So it's understandable that Beyonce might have thought the Black Panthers were playing in the game, and hence her tribute to the uh to the Black Panthers.
This has everybody up in arms.
She gets a police escort to the game.
They sweep everybody off the highway so she can get Super Bowl on time.
She didn't have to go hours early and wait.
They parted the traffic for her so she could get there with uh not much time, downtime before she had to perform, and does that routine ripping the cops, promoting Black Lives Matter.
I'll tell the observation is this.
You have in the Super Bowl, you have the pregame, which features the anthem, with a giant American flag spread out over the entire field.
You have military, uniform military all over the place.
You have an Air Force or Navy, not sure which flyby after the anthem.
You have the national anthem sung, and it's always sung reverentially.
It's always sung with great respect.
Lady Gaga with the honors yesterday.
So you have the traditional pro-America, patriotic out of this world pregame show.
And then you get to the halftime of the Super Bowl.
And what the halftime show of the Super Bowl is, to me anyway, is representative of the cultural decay and the political decay and the social rot that is befalling our country.
And you see both in contrast with each other, within an hour and a half or two hours of each other.
The pregame show is amazing how patriotic it is.
The pregame show, I think, is emblematic of why the left dislikes football so much, because it is so patriotic oriented, and it promotes patriotism and Americana in ways that are frowned upon today in many quarters of the left,
such as universities and schools and graduation ceremonies, where you're not allowed to show this kind of patriotism because it's uncool or politically incorrect or what have you.
And then you get to halftime, and it's an entirely different country that's on the stage.
It's an entirely different portrayal and exhibition, if you will, of American culture.
Now, the Super Bowl commercials.
I thought, frankly, I'm a big football fan, as you know, and yesterday was a defensive triumph of the Broncos.
Exactly what I said, by the way.
I know many of you probably remembering it.
I thought the Panthers would win.
There was always a caveat.
There was a disclaimer.
I said the Denver defense is going to have to win this game because the Denver offense cannot get in a shootout and keep up with the Panthers.
The Denver defense won this game, hands down.
The Carolina Panthers hadn't seen anything like this before.
And Cam Newton shows up as one of Obama's sons in the post-game show and lasts about three minutes, mumbling through a bunch of answers and getting up and walking out.
And I'm telling you right now, there's all kinds of criticism that has been aimed at Cam Newton, and it's only going to intensify.
Dion Sanders, many people's minds, the conscience of the NFL, excuse me.
Deion Sanders, the conscience of the NFL, is saying, you don't do that.
You do not do you are the face of our league.
You are the poster boy of our league camp.
You do not do that.
Brady wouldn't have done it.
Manning wouldn't have done it.
Kurt Warner wouldn't have done it.
Carson Palmer wouldn't have done it.
No other losing quarterback has ever shown up that way and walked out in a huff.
And it's going to be commented upon.
Plus the fact that Cam didn't try to recover a fumble late in the game.
It's not going to be pretty.
But aside from that, because it's a defensive-dominated game, many people thought it was boring.
And if you don't have any appreciation for defense, I mean in a in a fan sort of way, uh, scheming and pursuit, uh, the way they're able to rush the passer without blitzing.
They blitz the safeties a couple times, but they just took away every rushing lane that Cam Newton has had wide open all season long.
They just bottled everything up.
They did to Cam Newton yesterday, the Broncos did what the Seattle Seahawks did to Peyton Manning two years ago at the Super Bowl in New York.
But let me just say, Brian, do you think it's pretty boring game?
Ho Hummer.
You liked it.
Well, what about you, Snerdley?
You really like the game.
Well, now wait a second now.
You like the game, it must have been that your team was winning, is why you like the game.
All right.
Yeah.
Well, you know what?
Here's here's another thing, Snurley said, I mean he's glad Peyton Manning.
Peyton Manning did not have a good day.
Peyton Manning had an almost identical day to John Elway 18 years ago when Elway won his first Super Bowl in San Diego against the Green Bay Packers.
They were underdogs in that game.
L. Way was like 13 of 27 for 140 yards and an interception and no touchdowns, and Peyton was the same.
It was one offensive touchdown yesterday.
Peyton did not have a great Peyton Manning kind of game, but he was the winning quarterback, and that's what people remember, and everybody's happy.
Peyton Manning is also a throwback in a sense.
On the one hand, you have the Panthers who are showboating and braggado show and all this pre-game and calling themselves Superman, Superman, all of this.
And on the other side, you've got the Broncos who are behaving in an entirely different way.
They are not making a spectacle.
They're not making wild predictions.
And Peyton Manning is the poster boy of humility.
Humility is a virtue.
And humility won the Super Bowl yesterday.
Humility won over a lot of people.
I think, I'm just going to make a wild guess here.
A lot of people who are happy the way the game turned out may not know why.
They might say, I'm happy to see Peyton Manning get that final win on his way out of his retirement.
I'm happy to see Denver win after losing two years.
I'm happy for Pat Bolin and his uh his team to win since he's come down with Alzheimer's.
I think there's a subconscious reason why.
A lot of people are happy Denver won.
And Denver, in a, in a loose way, the Broncos and the way they behave with humility as their guiding virtue.
It was a triumph of good manners, solid behavior, solid citizenship over Braggadocio and whatever other lack of virtue that you might think the Panthers exhibited or displayed.
Not that they're bad guys, don't anybody misunderstand.
But there are a number of people in the country worried about where we're heading culturally and socially, and I think there are subconscious reasons people are happy for Furious and certain outcomes they may not even realize until somebody like me comes along and reminds them, and they're probably going, yeah, yeah, right on, dude.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly how I'm feeling.
I just didn't know it until you came along, just like it was when you came along in 1988.
Wade Phillips redeemed himself.
Wade Phillips, a defensive coordinator for the Denver Bronx.
What do you mean Wade Phillips redeemed himself?
Well, yeah, well, I know, but but I I'm I'm talking about fans and why they're I don't think there's there's some people, yes.
I'm so happy the Broncos won Wade Phillips redeemed himself, but I don't think that's that's a reason you're excited about it.
But and he's a fine guy, by the way.
He's the son of Bum Phillips, who was also a fine guy, love Bum Phillips.
Um ex-coach of the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints.
I'm not trying to rant on your parade.
I'm just trying to say why there's a lot of people, probably happy Denver won, but they're not sure why.
I'm trying to tell them why.
And you throw Wade Phillips in there, cool, fine and dandy.
The commercials.
Pretty boring as Super Bowl commercials go, and I think that is interesting as well.
Uh some of the commercials were preachy.
There was a lot of attempted humor that fell flat.
One of the most controversial commercials, and it's interesting, your age will determine what it is about this commercial that bothered you, if anything did, and that's the Doritos commercial.
Now the the pro aborts and the nags are livid over this commercial.
They are just fit to be tied.
They are tweeting, they are Facebooking, they are guesting wherever they can.
They have just gone livid.
They've created a tweet storm over one thing, the Doritos commercial humanized a baby in the womb.
And they cannot stand that.
And they're admitting.
Because in the nag world and in the NARO world and in the pro-abort world, that's nothing but a potential illness and unviable tissue mass.
It is nothing.
It's not there until the mother decides what to do with it.
The Doritos commercial has a pregnant woman getting uh she's getting what what do you call that?
Umogram, right?
He's getting a sonogram, and the husband, typical lug head, uninterested, wishes he was somewhere else husband is eating a bag of Doritos.
And the husband notices that as he puts a Dorito in his mouth, the baby in the womb, as on the what is it?
Sonogram reaches and attempts to reach out of the womb to grab a Dorito.
So Jess says, wait, I didn't see that.
So he starts moving Doritos around.
He holds another Dorito in his hand, moves it around the baby arm, follows, and the father can't believe it, and of course the nurse can't believe it, and the mother can't believe it, and the Nerol people by this point are driven insane because the baby clearly wants a Dorito.
And that's it for them.
That now, if you are a certain age, there's something else about this commercial that will bother you.
I guarantee you.
Let's see if I nail this.
How does that commercial end, Snerdly?
You remember how the commercial ends?
The Dorito, the bag the the what?
The wife, the wife is angry at all this.
She throws a Dorito, and the baby, you are led to believe just springs right out of the womb to try to get the Dorito.
Now, a lot of people have no problem with the humanization of the fetus.
A lot of people think that's cute, clever.
But my guess is that you get somebody 65, 70, the idea of that baby propelling itself out, that's probably what bothered them and made them the most uncomfortable.
I'll bet you that that, if we could survey that or focus group, it I'll bet you that would be true.
Other than that, it was harmless, it was funny, it was great.
Everybody's talking about Doritos today, and the nags are livid.
It was a home run.
Colgate got preachy about water and toothpaste.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Sit tight.
It's just not a good weekend for the nags.
First, they had the Doritos commercial, or actually, second, they had the Doritos commercial before that Gloria Steinem loses it.
Uh, over women, young women not voting for Hillary, complaining and whining that they're more interested in boys, and she had to go out and issue an apology.
And then Madeline Albright, who um thinking wig.
Uh Madeline Albright is out there saying there's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women, and this is supposed to help Hillary.
Meanwhile, Bill's out there looking older than Bernie Sanders, ripping Bernie Sanders for ripping into Hillary.
It's uh it's it's great.
It's great to see.
On the Republican side, what do you think the most Talked about aspect of the Republican debate Saturday night is.
Without question, it is the exchanges between Governor Christie, Senator Rubio, and Senator Rubio's repeated contention that Barack Obama is not incompetent, that he's not bumbling around and screwing things up accidentally, that instead what Obama is doing is explicit by design and on purpose.
And he repeated it four or five times in such a way that people said, led by Christie, look at this.
There it is again.
The guy, he doesn't know what to say.
He's a robot.
He's got his 25 second speech, he's got his canned answer followed by the 25-second campaign.
There it is.
There it is.
You see it.
And the media, Saturday night, all chimed in saying this is it for Rubio.
Rubio has blown it.
Even on Fox News, some were comparing it to Dan Quayle's moment with Lord Benson.
And I said, wait, just a second.
It's nowhere near that.
And I think this is what I was talking about earlier when I say, I think some of these professional media analysts, God bless them, and they they do hard work, and many of them they're just fine people, but I I don't know that they have the ability to see these debates the way people watching the debates on TV see them.
Meaning I don't know how big a full paw this was for Rubio.
Clearly it was not a positive.
Clearly it was not his best, but I don't think it ruined his chances and wiped him out, like some in the media opined.
We'll get into this in grave detail, great detail, and polling data coming up too, so sit tight.
Okay, let's get to the audio sound bites.
I want to start with this.
It's the fastest way to get into this.
Um because this is important, folks.
This is really, really important.
There are only two people that I'm aware of that are making a consistent point.
Rubio actually is at top of the Rubio and Cruz are the only two in the entire Republican field.
May have Carly Fiorina may have said something like this occasionally.
But Rubio, it's a theme.
With Cruz, it's close to a theme.
And the real question is why do the other Republicans in the field disagree?
Why do they not say it themselves?
And that being that Obama is doing what he's doing on purpose and by design.
That is a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed plan to transform America into something it was not founded to be.
This is something crucially important to Republican voters.
To people inside the beltway, it's kind of a chuckle moment.
Ah, there they go again, those right-wingers.
To people inside the beltway, to the elites to the establishment, Obama's just the latest Democrat to come along.
He's no different than any other Democrat.
The same, just the Democrat Party.
They have a president.
They don't see the country in crisis in any way.
Not because of the economy, not because of immigration, not because of foreign policy.
In no way are we in a crisis.
And as such, they don't see what Obama's doing is anything maybe than something a young inexperience.
This is Christie's point.
Incompetent boob.
Well, that's not who Obama is.
Christie's opponents are using it, or Rubio's opponents are using it to try to disqualify him.
See, Obama didn't know what he's doing, and Rubio's the same kind of guy.
Just a few short years in the Senate running for president.
We can't afford it.
Meanwhile, the governors, we're the guys, we're the tough guys.
We've had to make tough decisions, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The governors will not admit who Obama is.
The governors will not admit, and Trump doesn't agree that Obama is purposely doing this.
Trump thinks he's a blithering incompetent.
This is crucially important.
But let's get to the audio soundbikes to set this up first.
Here is Christie.
By the way, I I told you, and this is not a hard prediction, that Rubio was going to be the target of this debate on Friday.
I told you Rubio was going to be the in the crosshairs of all of these other guns because of the momentum he had coming out of Iowa.
And have you noticed something else?
Coming out of Iowa, the so-called Republican establishment seemed to gravitate almost immediately to Rubio.
Rubio is where the donor class was going to go.
And Rubio was where the establishment was going to go because it just doesn't look like Jeb's gonna get there.
And Kasich may have a decent showing in New Hampshire, we don't know, but beyond that.
And now the establishment can't wait to dump Rubio over this debate performance Saturday night.
The establishment can't wait.
Now they're struggling to find somewhere to go.
They thought it was going to be Rubio.
Why did they drop Rubio like a hot potato?
I don't think it's because of his debate performance.
I don't think I don't it may be a factor, but I don't think that's the number one reason why the establishment all of a sudden decided to jettison Rubio.
I think there's a another reason.
But let's get to the audio sound bites just to replay what happened here.
Here's Christie, Saturday night, Manchester, New Hampshire.
The moderator at ABC, David Muir, and this is another thing, by the way.
I saw Carly Fiorina on Fox complaining she wasn't in the on the on the on the main stage, and I saw some people upset that Martha Raditz was trying to nail Ted Cruz on foreign policy, which she was.
You know, Ted Cruz had a great night, and the evidence of that is that nobody wanted to talk about it.
If Ted Cruz had had a bad night, folks, you would still be hearing about it everywhere.
CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, but Cruz could barely even get a mention Saturday night.
And the only mention he got was this back and forth with Ben Carson over the silliness talking about Iowa and the supposed cheating and stealing of votes.
But aside from that, Cruz got hardly any mention.
Oh, yeah, he wouldn't, when his name is Red Solid, he was there, didn't hurt himself, didn't help himself.
Given that none of the people we're talking about want to see Ted Cruz anywhere near the nomination.
The fact is, had he done poorly, like some of the conventional wisdom was, that would have been their headline.
But since he didn't bomb, and since he actually was pretty solid on everything that came his way, substantively, they ignored him.
Best indication of the solid performance he turned in.
But my point is, everybody complaining about the way Martha Raditz went after.
What if you're gonna have ABC moderate your debate?
What do you think is going to happen?
George Stephanopoulos, a former, I actually think still an active Democrat operative.
George Stephanopoulos from the Clinton war room.
What do you think you're gonna get when you have ABC host a debate?
Stop complaining about it.
You're gonna make the decision to go there.
You have to realize that Martha Raditz wants Hillary Clinton to be elected, and Hillary Clinton's weakness is foreign policy, and if Ted Cruz comes along and happens to run rings around Hillary or anybody else in foreign policy, she's gonna try to take him out.
And she's not gonna show any respect at all.
And that's exactly what happened.
You have to know what's gonna happen when you put your debate on ABC or CNBC or NBC.
You have to know.
Anyway, David Muir, ABC.
Governor Christie, you said fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, when it comes to electing a first-term senator.
You heard Senator Rubio make the case that he does have the experience.
What's your response?
You have not been involved in a consequential decision where you had to be held accountable.
You just simply haven't.
And the fact is, when you talk about Hezbollah Sanctions Act that you list as one of your accomplishments and just did, you weren't even there to vote for it.
That's not leadership, that's truancy.
He simply does not have the experience to be president of the United States and make these decisions.
Okay, so Christie gets that allegation in, and Christie decided to hit Rubio because he had to.
Rubio's ahead of him.
Rubio has the momentum coming out of Iowa.
So Rubio is going to be the target.
David Muir says, thank you, Governor Christie.
Senator Rubio, what's your response to that?
I think the experience is not just what you did, but how it worked out under Chris Christie's governorship of New Jersey.
They've been downgraded nine times in their credit rating.
That's what Washington, D.C. does.
The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information, and then the memorized 25-second speech.
Chris, your state got hit by a massive snowstorm two weeks ago.
You didn't even want to go back.
They had to shame you into going back.
This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not.
There it is.
He knows exactly what you're doing.
There it is.
Okay, so there is Christie.
This is the second or third time that Rubio's made the point that this notion that Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just and Christie jumps in.
There it is.
There it is.
See, the memorized 25-second can't speech.
There it is.
That's all he's got.
And Rubio went back to it and went back to it and went back to it and kept repeating it and hasn't stopped, by the way, saying it.
At appearances in New Hampshire all day yesterday and even this morning, he's still out saying it.
Here we have, we've put together a montage of Rubio repeating that Obama line four different times during the debate.
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing.
Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing.
This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing.
Anyone who believes that Barack Obama isn't doing what he's doing on purpose doesn't understand what we're dealing with here.
He's one of two people saying it.
Now, folks, you go out and talk to actual Republican primary voters.
You go out outside to Washington, outside New York, go out to where these primaries and caucuses are being held, and you will find that this is exactly what has propelled Republicans to the polls in droves in 2010 and 2014.
It's not the belief, it's not the theory, it is the knowledge that Obama's doing this on purpose, and there isn't and hasn't been any pushback.
And Republican voters are livid.
Obama has said he's doing it on purpose.
He has said his purpose is to transform the nation.
Everybody knows that Obama is an Alinskyite.
The real question is, and I was talking about this over the weekend with my good buddy Andrew McCarthy.
The real question is, why are these other guys not saying it?
Why does Chris Christie make fun of it?
Why does Donald Trump poo-poo it?
Well, Trump I have to leave out of this.
Out of this theory.
But Trump also, just for the record, said, hey, thinks Obama's an incompetent.
Boom doesn't know what he's doing.
Christie's point is Obama's incompetent.
He doesn't know what he's doing because he's inexperienced, just like Rubio doesn't know what he's doing because he's inexperienced.
It's Baron, Barack Obama too, in that Rubio would be an inexperienced senator, elected president.
We don't want to do that again.
Rubio's point.
No, no, no, no, no.
Obama's not incompetent.
He's not inexperienced.
He's doing exactly what he wants to do.
And none of these Republican moderates will go there.
You don't want to know why.
You want to know why?
You want to know why they cannot agree that Obama's doing this on purpose?
Very simple.
They cannot agree that Obama's doing it on purpose.
They do not dare say that Obama's doing it on purpose because they have all worked with Barack Obama.
In one way or another, every one of these governors, many of them, and even a lot of Republicans in the House and Senate have worked with Obama to advance certain elements of the agenda.
We've worked with Obama on the spending bills.
We have worked with Obama, or we want to on amnesty and immigration.
There are some in the Republican side who want to work with Obama when it comes to uh issues on the so-called war on women.
But when you have worked with Obama, when you have asked Obama to come to your state, and when you have embraced Obama and done everything you can to get assistance from Obama, well, you can't turn around and then say Obama is purposely trying to transform the country because it makes you look like an idiot.
So you have to fall back on the idea that it's intent unintentionally just incompetent, just a boob, and we can't elect anybody else that's as as uh inexperienced as Obama was, because they're gonna have the same mess.
And we will not have there's not a single Republican running that wants to transform this country the way Obama is doing it.
Not one, not a single one.
There's not a single Republican in this field who would by virtue of inexperience make the mistakes Obama is making, because Obama is not making mistakes.
Obama has an agenda.
And I think the real important question here to ask and answer is why won't anybody but Rubio and Cruz say it?
Because that's essentially if you want if if you had to encapsulate what the Republican primary is, it's about that.
Like they keep harping on, I think Chris Christie, or might have been Trump, I don't know who it was, uh jumped on Rubio, maybe it was a moderator in the in the in the post-debate analysis.
Why does he keep campaigning against Obama?
Obama's not on a ballot.
Obama's seven years old.
Obama's in his last year.
Why does he keep running against Obama?
Because Hillary and Bernie Sanders want to continue what Obama has started, and it is the transformation of America.
And the Republican base is fully aware of it.
The Republican primary voters have been begging the Republican Party to stop this since 2010, since 2009 when Obama took office.
Anyway, I'm a little over the time here.
The next segment's gonna be shorter than it should be.
Apologize in advance.
We'll be back.
Don't go.
You people get mad at me all you want, but I'm gonna tell you something else.
Somebody asked them to decide define conservatism.
It might have been Mary Catherine Hamm.
I don't know.
Let me just ask you, who had the best definition of conservatism?
In the Saturday night debate.
I'm just gonna ask it open-ended here.
Was it Trump?
Was it Cruz?
Was it Rubio?
Was it Christie?
Was it Jeb?
Was it Kasich?
Am I leaving anybody?
Carson.
Who had the best definition of concern?
You don't think that matters to people watching?
This is see the the the post-debate analysts who are either on site or in studios, television studio, I really this is not a criticism of them.
I don't want anybody getting the wrong idea.
I think when you start making fun of Rubio for repeating that Obama's doing it on purpose, uh you don't understand how important that is to the Republican base, which is what this primary is all about.
It's fundamental.
And by the same token, defining conservatism, being able to fundamental.
It's what this is all about.
And if you can't do it, if your definition of conservatism is ignorant or wrong, I guarantee you, you're gonna pay for it when it comes time to vote.
Nobody in post-debate analysis talked about any of this.
But I will guarantee you, whether it shows up in exit poll data or not, those questions are going to be factors in how this whole thing ends up tomorrow night.
Let me get started on the phones.
We'll go to uh Radford, Virginia.
Lee, great to have you up first.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
You bet.
Um I've been through a lot with the Republican Party.
I gotta say, Saturday night, first time in my life I've ever been ashamed to be a Republican.
Why?
You know, the the the way Christie just went after Rubio and then bragging about it Sunday morning, it it just felt sickening.
It felt wrong.
Something, something's wrong here.
Oh, wait a minute.
It's a primary way Rubio's ahead of him.
Uh this is, you know, Christie, we're getting down to the nip and tuck.
If if these guys don't start making moves now, it's gonna be too late.
You've got to expect this kind of thing.
They're gonna go after each other.
But Russ, if if he attacks Hillary Clinton like that, they will have him on a cross.
They'll have him in the hospital.
Well, Do you think he would hit Hillary Clinton that way?
Well, what else can he do?
What else can he do but be who he is?
Um, what else can Jeb Bush do but be who stand there and shake his head and be ineffective?
Jeb Bush is never gonna be president of this country.
Chris Christie is never gonna be president.
You know, Kasich and Jeb and Christie say, oh, we can reach across the aisle and work with Democrats, but then they attack Rubio for trying to do that.
And you know, they're attacking Rubio for being disingenuous.
That's that's what they're trying to they're trying to thread the You got a good point.
You got a good point.
I'm not I'm not I'm not blowing your point up, but well, I'm being precise.
They're trying to go after Rubio for being disingenuous, dishonest, saying he's conservative here and there, and then behind everybody's back, he's trying to uh secure amnesty.
That's but you're right, he's working with Democrats, which is what these guys claim to be the experts are doing.
The engineer knows I am teasing him when I try how can you be so mean to your s mean to my staff?
How can I sheep the engineer knew I was teasing?
We have a an understanding.
Anyway, folks, you sit tight because we're just getting warmed up on this on this Republican debate stuff.
Uh there's much more that went on besides this, but we're not through with this.
Then we got the Democrats to deal with as well.
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