http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/09/30/haven_t_we_always_wanted_a_republican_nominee_who_fights_backHaven't We Always Wanted a Republican Nominee Who Fights Back?
September 30, 2016
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RUSH: Do I have a sound bite on this? I do. Let me find it to show you how this works in a modified way. Yesterday when the Alicia Machado story took off on board a rocket booster and just occupied every news story for seemingly every hour of the day, I opened my program figuratively scratching my head. I said, "Is this right? Trump is a bully. Is that the story here?" We had this poor Miss Universe, who 20 years ago put on 60 pounds. She became unattractive, which is not really what you want for a Miss Universe pageant winner who's wearing the crown for a year. And the story was that Trump bullied her and laughed at her and made fun of her and called her Miss Piggy and it was horrible, and see what a reprobate he is and see how he hates women.
I said, "How in the world can we ignore Mrs. Clinton? You want to talk about bullying women?" So I went on to make the comparison to Hillary Clinton protecting the Democrat Party and her husband with all these women that Clinton did have affairs with and some of these women who claim he sexually abused or raped them. Mrs. Clinton was the one that came up, along with James Carville, and had a policy of destroying, intimidating, and bullying these women.
And I asked the simple question: How in the world can you do a story on Trump the bully with one woman 20 years ago, Miss Universe, and ignore a genuine, actual, real bully who has been bullying and mistreating women for 20 years? Now, in my world, that was a good counter. It was an excellent way of putting things in perspective and trying to point out the phoniness of this campaign that Trump is a bully, because Mrs. Clinton beats him in that category every day of the week.
She doesn't pay the women in her office the same thing the men make. Here is a woman who was irresponsible in her job as secretary of state, four Americans died. Here's a woman that ran the bimbo operations for her president when her husband when he was president and so forth.
Let's go to Fox News. This is Special Report with Bret Baier during the All-Star Panel. Columnist from the Washington Examiner Lisa Boothe about Trump bringing up President Clinton's past at the next debate. Because if you're gonna bring up Clinton's past with Lewinsky, then you bring up Hillary and the bimbo eruptions unit that she ran. Bret Baier says, "What about bringing up the Clintons' past and the possibility that that's gonna happen at the next debate as we take this down to a different level of the election?"
BOOTHE: I do think that it is fair to an extent, not for Donald Trump. I don't think Donald Trump should be a messenger. But to bring it up, I think, it's fair to an extent, 'cause Hillary Clinton can't say (sic) there and say that every victim deserves to be heard, deserves to be believed, uh, but then we know, it's been widely reported that she went after these women, that she dragged their name through the mud. So I do not think that there's hypocrisy there that should be addressed from the Trump campaign, but I don't think that Donald Trump should be the messenger 'cause I think that diminishes him and his candidacy.
BAIER: And Rush Limbaugh talked extensively about that point all day today.
RUSH: I did. I did. So here's Lisa Boothe on Fox News saying, "Yeah, yeah, it's a good point, but Trump ought not be making." Well, you know what Trump is? Trump obviously is somebody who's not gonna rely on other people to make it for him. This standard operating procedure where a Republican under assault doesn't return fire 'cause it's not considered mature; it's considered taking the bait?
Trump obviously doesn't believe this, and Trump obviously thinks, "Look, if they're hitting me like this, there isn't gonna be anybody defend me. There isn't anybody." Outside of the people he's paying, there aren't gonna be people to defend him. Well, other than me, but I do it (sigh) for different reasons. But hasn't a complaint, hasn't a lament for many years on the part of many of you been that when any Republican is under assault by a Democrat or the media, that they don't fight back and it ticks you off?
Bush never fighting back on Iraq. The Bush White House never fighting back on any assault they made on him, and he just hung in there. And yet his surrogates, talk radio and others trying to defend him but the media just drowned that out for four years, 24/7, harping on it. Here's Trump actually fighting back on it, which a lot of people have wanted the Republican nominee to do for years. And when it happens, all of a sudden we hear now, "Oh, oh, oh! Trump shouldn't be the one. Oh, no, that's not good." I'm sorry; Trump's an alpha male. He's not gonna sit there and let this kind of stuff go by and hope or count on other people. He's not gonna oppose that, but I think his attitude is that it isn't enough.
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