Democrats Realize They’re Losing Bigly
Feb 3, 2020
RUSH: So I got a bunch of questions over the weekend. “Rush, what’s next? What’s gonna be the next Kavanaugh? What’s gonna be the eleventh-hour bombshell before the Wednesday vote?†Now, a lot of people asked me this Saturday on the golf course, “Rush, why did they delay the vote? Why not do the –†The answer is that there’s gonna be something. There always is. There’s 10 months to go.
I don’t know if the Democrats are gonna launch something to stop the acquittal vote on impeachment, but there’s no doubt they’re gonna have something that will be along the lines of Trump-Russia, Kavanaugh, you name it. I just don’t know when.
Now, this delay that was built in, actually from what I heard, the White House wanted the delay, folks. The White House wanted the delay so that the president’s lawyers could do a kick ass closing argument which is gonna happen this afternoon.
And then we have the State of the Union and then the vote to acquit. And that vote to acquit, that’s gonna be what history records. That’s all anybody in the long term is gonna remember. This is what the Democrats have known since this began. Donald Trump didn’t do it, no matter how hard they’ve tried.
And, you know, the evidence here, there’s a story I have in the Stack here. It’s about Schiff is not sure he’s gonna call witnesses in the House. “Schiff Won’t Say Whether House Will Subpoena John Bolton.†Really? Why not? If Bolton holds the key to this, if Bolton is the root to getting rid of Trump, then why not call him?
I told you all last week they didn’t really want to call witnesses. They didn’t really want to go there. This interview yesterday, Schiff on CBS News was asked if he’s gonna subpoena Bolton. He said (paraphrasing), “Well, I don’t know. Not sure we’re gonna do it.†I’ve been telling you for weeks they didn’t really want to hear from Bolton. They didn’t really want to hear from witnesses. They don’t want to open that up.
It was just like everything else. It was an attempt to pressure everybody, the Republicans in the Senate to go along with it, to cave on this or that. But I think they knew it wasn’t gonna happen. Schiff said that his excuse — Trump would have tied ’em up in the courts for months and that if he calls Bolton for renewed hearings in the House it’s gonna be tied up. Well, they knew that last week.
I think so much of what they’ve done has been exposed as — call it what you want — PR, an attempt to sway minds. But look. Here’s the bottom line. You go over to MSNBC or you go to CNN, you watch them today or you watch ’em over the weekend, Chris Matthews says he’s not happy with any of the Democrats running for president. He doesn’t think any of them can beat Trump. He says all the Democrat candidates have obvious problems.
Now, he didn’t just figure that out today. He didn’t just figure this out yesterday. This has nothing to do with how — well, it actually does, the fact that he mentioned it has everything to do with the fact they bombed out on impeachment. Impeachment was their effort to get Trump off the ballot. It was a long shot. It was never gonna work. But they decided to roll the dice and hope for a hail Mary.
But they know they got nothing. Even with Bloomberg — and we’re gonna get into the Democrat situation and circumstances as the program unfolds. Jeffrey Toobin on CNN reminding everybody on CNN: Look. All history is gonna record is Trump was acquitted. Trump didn’t do it.
But again, that doesn’t mean that they’re not gonna launch some other bombshell discovery, some leak about something from somewhere. They’ve got 10 months to go. And there are a couple Democrats on record saying this is not gonna be the last time Trump is impeached.
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RUSH: Back to politics. Did you see…? We’re gonna move to the Democrat primary here, the Hawkeye Cauci, because, folks… (chuckling) Here we’ve got Chris Matthews now admitting they don’t have anybody can beat Trump. Now that this impeachment thing, now that Russia… I mean, it’s kind of hit them. They’ve bombed out. At the moment, today, they have failed to get rid of Trump, and Trump is stronger than ever, and the economy is going gangbusters.
Now they realize Trump’s gonna be acquitted, which they all knew before this began in the first place, and now the real worry is Crazy Bernie. They are really worried that Crazy Bernie is actually going to win the party nomination. Now there are stories about John Kerry saying to people at dinner, “I gotta do something! I gotta move in. Maybe I can run again. We gotta stop Bernie from taking over the party and ruining it.â€
You know, let me give you Democrats a little hint. The difference between Joe Biden and Crazy Bernie is so infinitesimally small. You Democrats who think your party has not gone full-fledged socialist left need to wake up. What do you think Fauxcahontas is? What do you think Pete Buttigieg is? What do you think all of your frontrunners are gonna end up being? Bernie may be the most left wing of them, but there’s nothing centrist about the Democrat Party.
There’s nothing moderate about the Democrat Party. That’s why it doesn’t matter who you nominate. Whoever the nominee is, is gonna be seen as incompetent or too old or too left and (no matter how you slice it) way out of the mainstream media of American culture, and they know it. They know it by virtue of this mounting attempt to get rid of Crazy Bernie. They know it. Did you see the Democrat National Committee made a change in debate rules? It’s gonna destroy this party.
There were two requirements to get into the next Democrat debate, and they changed one of them to permit Doomberg to get in. One of them, you had to have certain strength in polling. The other you had to have a certain amount of individual donors equaling a specific amount of money, and Bloomberg doesn’t have that. The money that’s been donated is all his, and they changed the rules to permit Bloomberg on the stage in the next debate, blatantly, and it’s got other Democrats ticked off, like Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang.
It looks like what it is, is an attempt to stop Bernie Sanders, which they successfully did in 2016. Does anybody really think there’s any difference in Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton when you get down to brass tacks? When you get down to policy, what the left-wing policies are, there’s hardly any difference with Bernie Sanders. It’s just Bernie Sanders is more up front and open and honest about it — and that’s what they’re really afraid of.
This guy is going to take the mask off all the way, and illustrate for one and all who they really are. But Bernie’s not on an island all alone in that party. The Des Moines Register refused to release the final edition of the Iowa poll. The Des Moines Register partners with… Let’s see, who do they partner with? (muttering) “The Des Moines Register, CNN, and Selzer & Company have made the decision….†It’s Mediacom — Des Moines Register/Mediacom — poll.
They did not release the final poll, because they said there was something wrong with it.
This is huge.
You know, it’s amazing, too, folks, to look at the media reaction to this poll not being released. If you have any doubt how crucial polling is to political news — and not for reflecting public opinion but shaping it — take a look at the panicked reaction to the Des Moines Register canceling the release of the Iowa poll on the eve of the Hawkeye Cauci. Now people are speculating, “Was it so good for Bernie Sanders that they had to cancel it? Were the poll results so positive for Bernie, that this was the last chance to manipulate the vote?â€
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RUSH: I just wanted you to hear Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. This is today, NBC special coverage of the impeachment trial where they’re still holding out hope — ha-ha-ha — still holding out hope that something is going to happen.
MITCHELL: I think that they must be concerned as well that they are not gonna hold all of their Democrats, and that would give President Trump a tremendous political talking point to say it was a bipartisan acquittal.
RUSH: Yeah, it was always gonna be this way. This is the thing, everybody knew this. Look, I don’t want to be one of these See, I Told You So guys. I could do it every day. But this, folks, how many times on this program did we sit here and make the point, what are they doing? No matter what happens, there’s going to be an acquittal, no matter what evidence they had, because Trump didn’t do anything. There’s no impeachable offense, there’s no crime. No matter what they can lie about and manufacture, try to convince people of – so why do this?
They’re reduced now to trying to dirty up the acquittal. Grab audio sound bite number 2. Another thing I predicted. They’re trying to dirty up the acquittal, but it isn’t gonna work because of what Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, just said. Here’s sound bite in 2. Three, two, one. Hit it.
CHRIS WALLACE: Top Democrats in Congress say that the failure to call witnesses is going to put a taint on any acquittal.
NANCY PELOSI: You cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial, and you don’t have a trial if you don’t have witnesses and documentation.
PETE BUTTIGIEG: I don’t think that it has the legitimacy of vindicating this president.
KAMALA HARRIS: They cannot walk out of this building and allege and assert that there has been a true acquittal. There will be no true acquittal.
CHRIS MURPHY: This can’t be a real acquittal.
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: No vindication, no victory, and certainly no acquittal.
CHUCK SCHUMER: A permanent asterisk next to the acquittal of President Trump.
RUSH: Nope. Nice try. But there’s not gonna be asterisks next to it. He’s acquitted. And now you have Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, three Democrats are gonna join. There are some Democrats in Trump districts. They care about reelection. The American people know Trump didn’t do anything, or at least the enough of them do, that this all matters. Sound bite number 5. Jeffrey Toobin, CNN. Let that rip.
TOOBIN: Trump won. You know, he’s gonna win this trial. He won on the issue of witnesses. He’s gonna get acquitted. And that’s how history will remember what went on here.
RUSH: All right. Now, along these same lines, there’s two fascinating stories from the Drive-By Media — by the way, hang on, your phone calls are coming up here. New York Times: “While Stained in History, Trump Will Emerge From Trial Triumphant and Unshackled. His acquittal in the Senate assured, the emboldened president will take his victory and grievance to the campaign trail, no longer worried about congressional constraint.â€
The New York Times makes you wonder what they were trying to accomplish when they could see this very result. So blinded by poisoned rage and hatred that they ended up shooting themselves in the foot all along the way. Now they admit with Trump’s victory he’s gonna feel emboldened. He’s going to feel confident. In their world, their fear is that Trump thinks he’s now free to become a dictator. That is delusional. “No longer worried about congressional constraint.†Meaning nobody can stop him from doing anything.
The point is that they’re all beginning to realize that it’s not a tainted acquittal, that it’s not an asterisked acquittal, and that this is a major, profound victory for Trump over them and over the Democrats and that they couldn’t stop him. They’re not finished trying to stop him, do understand misunderstand. But they realize what has happened here.
“Ralph Waldo Emerson –†this is how this New York Times story begins – “Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. ‘When you strike at a king,’ Emerson famously said, ‘you must kill him.’ Mr. Trump’s foes struck at him but did not take him down.â€
CNN, meanwhile, very outraged, very upset that Trump is not gonna apologize. Very upset, very outraged that Trump is not gonna admit any wrongdoing like Bill Clinton did. Well, Trump doesn’t have anything to admit. Everything they’ve said about him has been made up. Every so-called abuse of power, every so-called cover-up, every so-called obstruction of Congress, it’s all been made up. Why should Trump apologize? Trump doesn’t apologize, period, no matter what.
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RUSH: Anthony in Pittsburgh as we head to the phones. It’s great to have you, sir. Glad you waited. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks. First-time caller after 30 years. It’s great to be on. Hey, I’ll get right to the point. But, you know, I have a theory, too, about this impeachment, and I do believe that the Democratic National Committee — which is probably the most corrupt body I’ve ever seen or heard — has really tried to knock out Biden. I do believe they went — this whistleblower his buddy went — to Schiff. Schiff took the bait; Pelosi had to back the Democrat —
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. (chuckling) I love this. Hang on just a second. You think that the whistleblower’s original purpose is the DNC wanted to take Biden out?
CALLER: That’s exactly right. Okay, they couldn’t —
RUSH: They want to take Biden out, so they go get this investigation? They were hoping and praying Trump wins to get this investigation of Biden?
CALLER: Well, hope that Trump… Well, these guys… The whistleblower comes on to Schiff; Schiff takes the bait. He says, “Hey, look!†He goes to Nancy. “We’re gonna impeach Trump, okay, but at the same time we’re gonna get…†They’re saying, “We’re gonna get Biden as well, once they start bringing up Burisma,†and you know the Democrats brought up Burisma more than Trump did over the past three months. So, now, with Biden tanking, they were hoping to push Warren.
RUSH: Well —
CALLER: Warren, unfortunately, is tanking now, too, and who’s rising? Bernie. They’re in a panic — a total, total panic.
RUSH: Well, wait a second. If you think they wanted to take out Biden, who do you think they wanted to fill the gap?
CALLER: I think they wanted Warren.
RUSH: Well! Well, she’s —
CALLER: Of course. I mean, you’ve got the squid or The Squad or whatever; they’re pushing Warren. They’re pushing the Communist Manifesto for these guys.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: It’s unbelievable.
RUSH: That’s right.
CALLER: And I think the Democratic Party wanted Bernie out last time. They can’t… They know he’s —
RUSH: Look… Okay. I appreciate the theory and I love listening to people think. I love how their minds work, and this is a unique one. We haven’t heard that this was really a way to take Biden out and that Schiff fell for it. I don’t agree with this. I think this was literally all about getting Trump. I think these people have destroyed themselves intellectually, emotionally. I don’t know that this had anything to do with the Democrat primary.
I mean, you could go deep in conspiracies all you want. Okay, so you have a trial. That keeps Crazy Bernie, Fauxcahontas, Klobuchar, everybody but Biden glued to the Senate. Biden would thus own the campaign. If he had the stamina and the wherewithal, if he knew where he was every day, he’d be able to go out and own the campaign. He couldn’t. Even with these guys locked in the Senate, Biden couldn’t take advantage of it.
Now, I know when ABC ran that story on Biden and Hunter and Burisma back in May 2019, I thought this was the first phase of them trying to take Biden out. And the reason I thought they were trying to take Biden’s out is ’cause he can’t win because of his age and he’s history. He’s never won any presidential primary that he has entered. But I just want to reiterate:
Folks, do you realize Hillary Clinton has a far more left-wing voting record in the Senate than Bernie Sanders does? Bernie Sanders is not alone in representing the Democrat Party as a socialist party. That’s what the entire party is. Don’t fall for this idea that they’ve gotta get rid of Crazy Bernie ’cause he’s taking the party down the tubes. They’re all gonna take the party down the tubes. That’s the reality.
