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Feb. 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So everybody's asking, where was this?
Everybody's asking, where's this been?
Why didn't we see any of this before last night?
I have the answers for you.
And you'll remember, you'll remember the answers make sense.
It would have been fun, yeah, but there are answers to that question and a lot more coming up here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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So we have some overview observations to start with.
I I have to tell you, I've and in no particular order, just what's on the top of my mind now, and is that this thing's popping to my mind.
Rubio has changed the tone of this thing.
Now he's mocking Trump.
He's literally he's mocking, he's calling Trump a con artist out there.
And now what he's doing, he's going out at his appearance in Dallas today.
He's actually reading and making fun of Trump tweets.
Here, I'll give you a sample.
This is this is Rubio just this morning in Dallas during a campaign event, and this is how this is now happening.
Let me tell you something.
Last night in the debate during one of the breaks, two of the breaks, he went backstage.
He was having a meltdown.
First he had this little makeup thing applying like makeup around his mustache, because he had one of those sweat mustaches.
Then he asked for a full-length mirror.
I don't know why, because the podium goes up to here, but he wanted a full-length mirror.
Maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet.
I don't know.
Then I see him pacing back and forth, and then he's huddled in the corner talking to somebody.
He's like waving his arms up and down, and the person's trying to calm him down.
Well, he also read from his tweets uh, and he was making fun of Trump misspellings.
Apparently Trump's misspelled the word choker, C H O C K E R, and uh and a couple other things.
He's actually holding up his phone and reading Trump tweets and making fun of them.
Now this hasn't happened.
Nobody has done this.
Uh, at least not in this way.
And certainly the candidates have not gone there where Trump is concerned, and everybody's asking why.
Where was all this before last night?
How come Trump didn't go after or Cruz didn't go after Trump?
And how come how come Romeo didn't?
And there are reasons.
Now you may not agree with them, but we gotta go back in time to understand this, because it it it requires memory.
First place, Jeb Bush was in there, and there were a whole lot more people on stage in previous debates than were there last night.
But the main reason nobody went after Trump until last night.
Well, let's put it this way the main reason nobody went after Trump before last night.
What there were two reasons.
One reason is that everybody, and this is especially true of crews in this case, crews purposely.
Cruz could have taken Trump out any time he wants.
I think Rubio could have too.
You know, that's the reason people asking this question is because it's so frustrating.
Yeah, this all happened last night.
Yeah, all good and well, but it's probably too late, people are saying.
It's too late for it to matter, because Cruz and Rubio have too much ground to cover and not enough time to cover it.
But they could have taken Trump out long ago.
So why didn't they?
Well, one of the reasons is everybody expected Trump to implode.
And they didn't want to tick off his voters.
It's really no more complicated than that.
Particularly in the case of Cruz.
I mean, you can see early on that Cruz, and he was not alone in thinking that Trump was going to blow up and bomb out.
Everybody has thought that.
Republican establishment thought Trump was going to implode.
They've been hoping he was going to implode.
Everybody thought it was going to happen at some point or another.
And they wanted to be able to scoop up Trump supporters when that happened and And so everybody said, let's not make them mad.
Let's ride with this.
Let's uh let's let's heat the gloves off when it comes, or to keep the gloves on, actually, when it comes to Trump, so that we don't irritate his voters, so that when it comes time that they're up for grabs, that we have a shot at them.
And I think that's the overriding reason why all this time in the past, people didn't hit Trump.
I don't think it's people were afraid of him.
If people were afraid of Trump, they would still be afraid of him, and they wouldn't have done what they did last night.
I don't think this has been about fear.
It may have been about fear or concern of angering Trump's voters.
But I don't think these guys are worried about Trump per se coming back at him.
You know, this is something that's been bandied about for the entirety of this campaign.
Yeah, these people, they see what happens, you go after Trump and Trump comes right back at you.
You know, he hits back at you and you end up being destroyed, and that's the reason these guys are afraid of what Trump's gonna say.
I don't think that was it at all.
I think they were strategically planning to pick up Trump voters, pick up the pieces when and if Trump imploded.
And turned out to be a miscalculation, because Trump has not imploded.
And he didn't implode.
Uh Rubio, I think, held back, hoping that Cruz or the media would take Trump out.
I think Jeb hung back thinking that Trump would implode and that others would take him out.
But none of that happened.
And it was really rooted in a desire that when such time as Trump's campaign went south, that people would be able to pick up his voters, and it was all about not making them mad.
Which at the time made perfect sense.
Well, it makes perfect sense if you accept the premise that Trump's going to implode.
If you think that Trump's voters are going to be up for grabs at some point, it makes perfect sense not to do something to tick them off, like personally going after Trump.
But now, all bets are off.
None of that matters.
Because these guys don't have any time.
Cruz has got to win Texas on Tuesday.
Rubio has to win Florida on March 15th.
However, I should point out to you, ladies and gentlemen, Rubio and the Republican establishment have been huddling.
And they are plotting ways.
I told you this was going on.
I told well, I didn't.
I didn't know it, but it's common sense tells you it is, that Rubio and some donors and some establishment types are plotting ways to blow up the convention so that not broker it, because that's not really possible, but just blow it up and to deny it to Trump.
Now, here's the problem with that.
If Trump ends up with the number of delegates that he needs in the primary process, there's nothing they can do.
If he gave if he has the, the only way that they can blow the convention up is if anybody, nobody shows up with the minimum number of delegates to win, which is what 1,237 or 1,327, I forget the number, but it's it's in that range.
If they follow the rules, if they follow the rules.
Then who is this Telemundo babe last night?
What did you realize it was bizarre?
This Telemundo moderator, her name was Maria Celeste Arrasa.
She did not ask a single question.
She made speeches.
Some of her questions were longer than the 30-second time limit answers the candidates were given.
And they were all about her thoughts on Hispanics and immigration.
And at the end of every speech, she said to the candidate to whom she was asking, Do you get it?
And if they didn't, she didn't get the answer she wanted, then she went to somebody else and asked after making her speech, do you think he gets it?
Do you think they get it?
And it was all about Hispanics and illegal immigration.
And don't you people understand that if you continue to oppose illegal immigration, the Hispanics are going to hate you?
And it was this continuation of this notion that Hispanics are monolithic.
They all think the same, and they all think the U.S. should pay no attention to its laws, no matter what they are, if Hispanics benefit from it.
It's absolutely a croc.
But she was there, and and it's it's it's more and more the same of the drive-by media doing what they can to pick our candidate.
I also noticed that Trump was in trouble for much of the debate last night in ways that we've not seen Trump in trouble.
And I thought, and this is just me as a viewer.
I thought that Wolf Blitzer had a plan for bailing Trump out when he got into what appeared to be a jam, and that was to go to Kasich.
And Kasich is his own interesting case.
A couple of observations about about Kasich.
In the Apple iPhone business, the FBI.
Kasich mocks what's going on now and says what a real president would do, what a real president would do is get everybody and bring them in the Oval Office and shut the doors and settle this and negotiate this and not do it on the front page of the New York Times.
And everybody, yay.
No, that's not what that's not what's supposed to happen in matters like the president is the FBI.
The president is the executive branch.
The president is the Department of Justice.
The situation like that, that's, you know, Kasich's answers were typical of somebody who thinks the government ought to be involved in everything.
And that's the red flag for me.
I'll give you another example of that.
When they were discussing health care, and Kasich was bragging about how they've done it in Ohio.
And uh one of the things he said with plans that he has, ideas, is to lower prices by convincing doctors you've got the upper range, you've got the lower range of prices, and somewhere in the middle is the sweet spot.
And his idea is to convince and persuade doctors to charge nearer the bottom of the range in exchange for financial rewards.
I said, Well, who's gonna come up with the financial rewards?
Where were the financial rewards coming from?
Government?
So government's gonna sit there and try to persuade doctors to charge less in order to bring down costs.
And in exchange for doing that, they get rewards, and that's the incentive.
And somehow this is gonna save money.
I don't understand it.
It doesn't make any sense.
Who's paying for the rewards?
And we didn't hear how much the rewards are.
We didn't hear what the bonuses are, we didn't hear any figures, numbers, percentages, or anything of the sort.
So theoretically, wow, it sounds like really good stuff.
But once again, it's nothing but the government involved in fixing everything, solving everything, whatever mess is out there, government's got the solution.
And it always involves the government coming up with and defining what fairness is and then enforcing it on everything.
I don't know, red flags went up, folks.
I'm just telling you when I heard all this stuff.
Uh Ben Carson uh probably had the line of the night when he asked people to attack him so that he'd get to speak and uh say something.
He did have a memorable line.
He said you'd learn much more from somebody by looking at the fruit salad of their life rather than an interview.
And you know, I like that, people said.
That really sounds cool.
That that sounds really, really good.
Yeah, I know.
Rubio mocking Trump for sweating, that's a little bit strange, but that's not the point.
The point is they went out and made fun of Trump last night.
That hasn't happened, particularly Rubio.
You know, one of things that stood out for me was Rubio's what is get rid of the lines.
What does he mean?
He was talking about the lines, talking about health insurance.
And we all know what was going on.
I think this is illustration of something, actually.
The point is in health insurance, insurance companies right now can only offer policies in certain states.
They can't they can't sell policies in neighboring states or other states.
And the way this ends up being described in the in the news media and when people talk about this, is it just generally it said we need to allow the insurance companies to cross state lines in order to be able to sell in more places and that would create competition that would lower prices.
So Trump is talking about the lines.
And we've got to get rid of the lines.
And Rubio said, what do you mean it's lines, Mrs.?
What do you mean state lines?
He didn't even know what he's talking about, Rubio said.
And then Trump went on to demonstrate that he does understand what they're talking about, but still you just know that he was he was the product of advisors telling him about this, and they also used the state lines analogy, and so that's what stuck with uh with with Trump in his explaining it.
And that led to, and that enabled Rubio and Cruz both to make the point that Trump really doesn't know what he's talking about here.
He really is shallow.
He's starting Rubio makes fun of him for repeating himself over and over five times in five seconds, and the crowd seemed uh seemed to love it.
Uh I heard Chris Wallace on Fox today said, I didn't like this at all.
I thought, yeah, it was a great show, but I didn't see anybody act presidential.
I didn't see anything in that debate last night, Chris Wallace said.
That made me confident that anybody on that stage has the depth to actually lead this country.
I just saw a bunch of people attacking each other and trying to score points, debate points here and there.
So the reactions to this are all over the place.
And we'll get yours too as the program unfolds.
We got audio soundbite highlights as well.
So hang on.
Got it revved up here, set the table back and continue after this.
What was that?
Oh, I don't, I don't.
Well, I'm sure you're gonna weigh in on this.
In terms of substance, I disagree with Chris Wallace.
I think there was substance in this debate last night.
And depending on what you want, depending on what you were hoping to see, and then what you think going forward.
I mean, if there's really only one candidate in this debate last night, which was chocked full of genuine, if you policy-oriented substance.
That was Cruz.
And I happen to know for I hear from people constantly, as you can imagine, and I hear from you even on the phones, but there have been people during the entirety of this campaign who think that Trump is a pretender, that he really doesn't know much about what all this is about, that he's getting by on the cult of celebrity and other things in our pop culture that that people get excited by and attached to.
And there have been people who get exposed.
Trump, Trump's got to be exposed.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
He doesn't know conservatism, he doesn't know policy.
He's just he's just up there saying things that sound good in a populist sense.
So what Cruz did last night was essentially expose that.
If that's if that's what you think needs and has needed to happen, Cruz did it last night.
And probably the best way to illustrate how it happened is one of the one of the fears that a lot of anti-Trump people have is that he's not really even a Republican.
And they keep talking about all of his donations to people like Chuck Schumer and the Clintons and Trump's responses hey, look, you know, I live in New York City and they run the show there, and I'm in business.
And there's certain things that you have to do to get done.
You have to work with these people.
But I'm a Republican, and he's made it clear, and he's tried to make that point over and over again.
What Trump found last night, Ted Cruz illustrating that look, if you think we have to beat Hillary Clinton, Trump's not the guy to do it.
Trump cannot go out and hit Hillary Clinton on any of the things that she has done, any of her corruption, because he has contributed to her.
He has donated all would have to happen, Cruz says, is for Trump to hit Hillary in a debate, and Hillary, all she's got to do is Donald, I don't know what your problem is.
You donated to me to do this exact thing.
So I don't know what your problem is now.
And Cruz said we can't nominate somebody.
It's akin to the people that said we shouldn't nominate Romney.
If we nominate Romney, there's no way we can Obama on Obamacare because Romney invented it In Massachusetts.
Romney gave us Romney care, and the guy that wrote Romney care then turned around and wrote Obamacare.
And it took Obamacare off the table as far as Romney's concerned, he couldn't hit it because there's a retort.
What do you mean you don't like Obamacare?
You wrote its father, you implemented and signed into law its father, Romney care.
What do you in Cruz's point was that same set of circumstances with Hillary are going to occur because it can be demonstrated that Trump's donations to the Clintons over the years, including to the Clinton crime family foundation, have facilitated political move that Hillary Clinton has made.
So the people who have wanted Trump exploded was pretty substantively done by Cruz on the Rubio.
So what Rubio did was literally just laugh at Trump all night.
Literally make fun of him, mock him, not act frightened or afraid of him and not worried about ticking off his supporters either.
A first for both.
No, no, no, no, no.
I know that.
I know that I know what.
All right, let me try this again.
I guess no, Trump was right on the state lines because I understand Trump was right.
Let me try this again.
It's rare that I have to say things again because I make the complex understandable.
But I may have had to hurry through this.
Here's Rubio making fun of Trump talking about getting rid of the lines.
In the health insurance market, you got to get rid of the lines around the state, Trump said.
We got to get keep getting rid of the lines.
And Rubio's, what is this getting and starts making circles with his hands.
Get rid of the lines.
And Trump says, you gotta get rid of the lines.
Everybody knows this, you got to get rid of the lines.
So you get rid of the lines, it means the insurance companies can then go sell their products in more than just one state, and it expands competition and then it lowers prices.
All of that's true.
But but Rubio was making a joke about Trump's continual usage of the word lines.
My point is Trump has this what I think happened.
I think this is the explanation for it.
Not that Trump doesn't understand market principles.
Come on.
Of course he does.
But he's got advisors.
There's no questioning.
We know he's got advisors.
Their names are known and their jobs are known.
And occasionally we know that Trump meets with them.
And like before any debate, he has powwows with all of his advisors, and they might even rehearse.
They might pepper Trump with uh questions about things that either have or have not come up, give him familiarity with it so that he's ready to go if the question does come up.
And I'll just guarantee you that when Trump has been advised about this aspect of Obamacare, and the conservative belief that the insurance companies have an unfair deal here, that Obama's greased their skids by limiting competition and demanding that customers, Americans, buy the product.
And it's it's true.
I mean, the insurance companies, there's no way they're not going to support Obama.
He's just passed a law requiring citizens to buy their product, which is unconstitutional until John Roberts got hold of it and changed all of that to a tax, which meant the government could do it.
But at the end of the day, the federal government still requires every citizen mandates that everybody buy insurance.
The second aspect is insurance companies can only sell where they are licensed and regulated within single states.
People in New York, for example, people in New York State, I believe, have four options.
Four plans to choose from.
Because they cannot go out of state.
They can't go to Connecticut, they can't go to Pennsylvania, can't go to New Jersey in quest or in seeking a better deal because of the way the federal government has set it up to protect the insurance companies, to limit their competition, to give them a guaranteed market.
I am convinced that the way this was explained to Trump was we need to allow insurance companies to cross state Lines and do their business.
That's the way this issue is discussed.
It's the way it's taught to people that don't understand it.
It's the way it's explained.
State lines are just borders, you just cross the state line.
It just means that you are able to sell anywhere.
It means you're able to go anywhere and buy if you're a customer.
But because it has been drilled into him, I'm sure by his advisors, I'm sure the phrase, we got to let people cross state lines to go out.
That's what he remembers from the advice sessions, and that's what he kept repeating.
Rubio starts making fun of that.
Now, Trump, on the substance of it all, was dead right.
It's a closed market, it's the government guaranteeing the insurance companies, customers, and it's price fixing.
When customers are limited in options to buy, then there's no need to cut prices.
So I'm not I'm I'm just trying to explain why the whole thing about lines was a deal, why Rubio was able to make fun of it, and why Trump continued to use the phrase.
Because I'm convinced that's how he learned what's going on here.
My guess is that most people do not know the intricate details of how Obamacare works.
Including, I think, probably some people that are running for office or planning to run for office.
It's very few people really know the intimate details of this monstrosity.
It's two thousand pages.
And there's some highlights in this thing that everybody has to know if you're going to oppose it.
They have to be taught, they have to be informed, and this is one of those key things.
We have to allow customers to cross state lines to buy policies.
We have to allow insurance companies to sell across state lines.
That's just the way it's explained to people.
And if you didn't know it beforehand, and that's what it took to get you to remember it and understand it, that's what you're going to use.
So I'm just saying that's how Trump learned about it.
Or that's how he was informed.
That's how his advisors brought him up to uh up to speed on the uh on the whole thing.
Let's start with the audio sunbites, get uh some reviews and just some highlights, some of the things that happened.
During the debate, of course, Trump's taxes came up because Romney dropped that bombshell earlier in the week, that Trump's obviously hiding something that his wealth either isn't as uh as great as he says, or his donations, charitable donations are not what he says.
There's a problem there.
It's a bombshell, Romney says.
I think what Romney was doing, as I said yesterday, was freezing endorsements.
I think the establishment's very worried that we're going to be established Republicans drifting from the party and joining Trump.
And the party doesn't want that to happen.
So they send Romney out there to accuse Trump of having something really, really wrong with his taxes.
And that is meant to freeze potential elected Republicans who were thinking about endorsing Trump into stopping for a minute until this is all solved.
So Wolf Blitzer last night.
Mr. Trump yesterday, the uh last nominee, Mitt Romney, called on you to release your tax returns, your back taxes, and said there's good reason to believe there's a bombshell in them.
Romney said either you're not as wealthy as you say you are, said maybe you haven't paid the kind of taxes we would expect you to pay, or you haven't been giving the money to veterans or disabled people.
Are any of those accusations that he has leveled against you true?
As far as my return, I want to file it.
Except for many years I've been audited every year.
Twelve years or something like that.
Every year they audit me, audit me, audit me.
Nobody gets audited.
I have friends that are very wealthy people.
They never get audited.
I get ordered every year.
I will absolutely give my return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously.
And I think people would understand that.
Well, what he means is that the current audit is of a three-year period.
You know, in many cases when the IRS audits you or in the state audits, not just one year.
They audit two or three at the same time.
So that's what he's saying.
He's under an audit now for whatever three years, and I'm not going to release my taxes in the middle of this audit.
And his point here is I don't know how this is going to end up.
I got people accusing me of cheating and doing this.
And if I release these taxes in the middle of an audit before things are solved here, that's not going to help anybody make any sense.
I'm going to wait till the audits finished.
And then the retort to that is, well, release some years that are not under audit.
So the subject came up after the debate.
Oh, speaking of which, Snerdley, I don't know if you're aware of this.
I turned CNN off after the debate, and I went over to Fox because I wanted to listen to what they said over there.
And I was going back and forth, but I ended up staying at Fox and started getting emails that Trump, after the debate, CNN had him on three separate times.
Three audio interviews of 10 minutes, 12 minutes, where he was allowed to expand, revise his remarks, correct or something, and that caused people emailing me to look at Rush, look at they're picking our nominee again.
Did you see what happened to Rush?
Every time Trump got in trouble, Wolfblitzer goes over to Kasich and they give Kasich twenty minutes to babble on it with verbal diarrhea, and it shut everything down.
Every time Trump, I've got all this email flooding in.
So I looked at it and it looked like that was happening.
It looked like Wolfblitzer did try to bail Trump out now and then.
And then they had him on a bunch of times after the debate.
And look, we've discussed the networks, don't want Trump going anywhere.
He's ratings, folks.
The ratings for this debate are through the roof compared to the two or three prior.
Because everybody knew I had told everybody yesterday what was going to happen in this debate, and I turned out to be right on the money.
This was going to be the gloves come off because this is the last chance both Rubio and Cruz have before do or die states show up.
Anyway, in one of these post-debate interviews, Chris Cuomo is interviewing Trump.
He says they came at you tonight about something that's in the news right now, and that really is at your control, which is your tax returns.
Mitt Romney during the debate was bringing it up again, saying you could show your taxes in a second if you want to.
What is Trump delaying?
What do you have to say about that?
Mitt is just trying to remain relevant.
Nobody's talking to him much anymore.
He got some publicity today.
But the one problem I have is that I'm always audited by the IRS, which I think is very unfair.
I don't know, maybe because of religion, maybe because of something else, maybe because I'm doing this, although this is just recent religion.
Well, maybe because of the fact that I'm a strong Christian and I feel strongly about it, and maybe there's a bias to do that.
You think maybe you get audited for being a strong Christian?
what's happened.
He's a strong Christian, so there's an attempt at linkage there with the Tea Party.
Then also, which we have the audio coming up, Trump doubled down defending Planned Parenthood last night.
And he doubled down on being neutral in the Middle East.
Did you happen to notice one of the qualifications Mr. Trump announced last night for having uh the ability to negotiate peace in the Middle East?
Yeah, he was a grand marshal in an Israeli parade in Manhattan.
He said that.
So people are.
My email's been overflowed, asking me to explain things.
Why would he double down on Plan Pierre?
I don't understand.
He's got to know after everything that's happened.
Let me try to explain it this way.
How many of you have heard of a clothing company by the name of Land's End.
Well, they got themselves in heap big doo-doo this week because whoever runs Land's End, and I'm not sure if it's a male or female CEO, but they announced their latest marketing campaign.
Their catalogs and their billboards and their printed materials.
And it seems that everything in their most recent campaign is a tribute to Gloria Steinem of the Nags.
For all of her great work, and one of the pictures of Gloria Steinem in all of the marketing paraphernalia lands end put out there is Gloria Steinem wearing a t-shirt with his arm her arms held up in some sort of victory pose.
The t-shirt says I had an abortion.
Well, there was an eruption all over this country anti-Land's End.
And the CEO of Land's End was totally taken aback, totally shocked, did not know what had happened.
And you know why?
Because the CEO of Land's End lives among a bunch of leftists, and that's all the CEO of Land's End knows.
Everybody the CEO knows loves Gloria Steinem.
Everybody loves Planned Parenthood.
Everybody the CEO knows loves abortion.
So as far as the CEO is concerned, everybody does.
This is what I mean about the disconnect.
Here you have a CEO of a major American corporation, clueless, that by statistical analysis, over half of his or her customers oppose Gloria Steinem, maybe more than that opposed her, certainly oppose abortion, had no idea, no earthly idea till they nobody in the company ever he warned them about the campaign.
You know, we may not want to do this.
Why not?
Well, you know that a lot of people customers don't like uh.
Yeah, Federica Maccioni, female CEO, 43 years old, in her world, which is all she knows.
She doesn't know a soul who doesn't think Gloria Steinem's a queen.
She doesn't know a single person who doesn't think planned parenthood is the greatest thing on earth.
She was genuinely blindsided and shocked.
She had no idea.
The point is, these leftists, particularly New York, Boston, Washington, they lead the most insular lives.
They do nothing but hang around with like-minded people, and they have no clue.
And so that's how you can end up thinking Planned Parenthood is one of the greatest damn places on earth, that they do all kinds of wonderful things for women's health when they don't.
They don't do great things for women's health.
They don't do mammograms, they don't do any of the things these people think they do, but they believe they do.
And they don't know a soul who doesn't think so.
Back in just a second.
Okay, so now we know as uh uh Trump had a press conference announced, and it's begun, and the purpose is Chris Christie, Governor Christine New Jersey has just endorsed Donald Trump for president and is explaining why.
We're rolling sound.
We'll have that for you in the next hour.
I heard him say that he and uh Mary Pat, his wife have been friends with Donald and Melania for uh for a long time.
And so Christie is officially now in the Trump uh madwagon, having endorsed him.
Here's Joe in Lakeland, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
You're up first today.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh an honor for me to be able to talk to you.
And uh I'm a uh first-time caller and a longtime listener.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to basically uh share some things, and I follow the political arena pretty closely, that uh the Trumpsters better get out of panic mode and start dealing with reality because uh politics has never changed.
The players have changed.
The politics has never changed, and they're gonna throw it in like they do everyone who puts their name out there for public consumption, everything they can find, everything they can dig up, and they the uh the challenge for him is to be able to address those quickly and put them away.
Okay, and not complain.
Because all the complaining in the world won't change what the media is going to do.
In fact, let me tell you what.
Last night wasn't even a good warm-up form for what the Democrats will do.
And you and I both know that.
Basically, that's that's what I wanted to share with you.
Yeah, but it's yeah, look, it's not that this stuff isn't out there.
Um there have been any number of bloggers and journalists and various places target feathering Trump on this stuff.
This was the first time the candidates really made a big deal out of it.
Either uh I mean, Jeb tried, but Jeb did it along the lines of we just we just can't have a president who's elected because he's an insult king.
We you know that didn't go anywhere.
But this was the first time that any of the supposed incompetencies or failings of Trump actually had mentioned in a debate.
And I'll just tell you out there, Joe, the uh the conventional wisdom is it's too little, too late.
There just isn't enough time for any of it to have any sufficient impact to do two things.
A harm Trump and then elevate either Cruz or Rubio sufficiently to where they can overtake him.
Minor correction.
Land's end was donating proceeds, sales of their products to Gloria Steinem's organization.
Anyway, it doesn't change what happened.
People blew up, and the land's end CEO had no clue what hit her.
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