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RUSH: The media reports on Trump and these meetings with various Republican congressional leaders, and these reports are hilarious.\u00a0 The reports make it sound like members of Congress, members of the House and the Senate were amazed at how calm and thoughtful Trump was.<\/p>\n

They were shocked.<\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s the tone of the stories.\u00a0 These guys, I guess, were ready for Trump to come in there and tell \u2019em to go to hell and what to take with \u2019em on the way. And instead, they say he came in and he was willing to listen to them. He was calm. He was thoughtful. And it\u2019s exactly, folks — precisely — what the Drive-Bys do in every such circumstance.\u00a0 They try to prepare everybody that Mr. Republican X or Mr. Conservative X is an off-the-wall, loud, bombastic extremist.\u00a0 And then when he\u2019s not, it\u2019s like the exception to the rule, and everybody\u2019s supposedly shocked by it.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Drive-Bys were hoping that Trump would go in there and read \u2019em the Riot Act or what have you.\u00a0 Harry Reid\u2019s reaction, if you… Have you seen Harry Reid\u2019s reaction?\u00a0 He had another one of his patented meltdowns on the floor of the Senate.\u00a0 He practically called Trump and Mitch McConnell and every Republican Congress every name in the Democrat playbook.\u00a0 McConnell came out and he was supportive of Trump, and so Dingy Harry goes to the Senate floor: “So I guess McConnell also thinks women are pigs,” and so forth.<\/p>\n

Who knows what\u2019s gonna happen with all this, but one thing is patently obvious, that they still don\u2019t know how to deal with Trump. They still don\u2019t know how to explain it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So Trump and Ryan have a meeting — Trump and the Republican leadership — and there didn\u2019t appear to be any fireworks.\u00a0 And some people not happy.\u00a0 Some people are not happy that the Republican establishment (as epitomized by those who met with Trump) has “capitulated” to him.\u00a0 Many were hoping for a tempest, many were hoping for fireworks, many were hoping for a reason for the establishment to abandon Trump and join this third-party effort out there.\u00a0 Last night on CNN tonight Don Lemon spoke with Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard. He said, “This meeting, it\u2019s about deal-making, right?\u00a0 So who\u2019s got more leverage here?”<\/p>\n

KRISTOL:\u00a0 The Republican establishment turns out to be really as weak and as lame as Donald Trump said it was.\u00a0 I mean, here they have basically capitulated to Donald Trump.\u00a0 There\u2019s no evidence that Donald Trump is compromising on anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s Donald Trump\u2019s Republican Party, which is why some of us are going to have to leave it — at least at the presidential level — temporarily.\u00a0 I would have liked Paul Ryan to say, “You know what? I\u2019m Speaker of the House. I\u2019m gonna keep the Republican House. Here are my principles and commitments.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that I can in good conscience support Donald Trump, but I will just stay out of the presidential race.”<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 That didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the establishment — well, some wanted the establishment to do.\u00a0 Apparently. You can you can hear Kristol. He\u2019s not happy. It\u2019s obvious he was expecting something else.\u00a0 He was expecting the establishment tell Trump to go shove it.\u00a0 And a lot of people, frankly, were expecting Trump to tell Ryan to go shove it.\u00a0 Let me ask you a question, folks.\u00a0 Seriously, now.\u00a0 In your opinion, who does run the Republican Party?\u00a0 Is it the party\u2019s presidential nominee, or is it somebody in Congress, the speaker of the House or the Senate leader of the party? (interruption)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right.\u00a0 It is always the presidential nominee, once that person has been identified. With Trump, it\u2019s not official, obviously, and that\u2019s what they were hoping would happen at this meeting, that somehow the establishment (as represented by Paul Ryan) would tell Trump to go pound sand and that he doesn\u2019t run the party; we do.\u00a0 But it\u2019s true to say, Donald Trump just won votes of gazillions and millions of Republican voters nationwide, and there\u2019s not a single member of the House of Representatives that has been voted on by anybody but his congressional district, which is not even statewide.<\/p>\n

But it is tradition. For those of you that are that are involved in this to this extent for the first time in your lives because it\u2019s the first time it\u2019s been interesting to you, tradition is that the nominee runs the party, that it is the nominee\u2019s party, that the nominee provides the energy and the policy of the party.\u00a0 The nominee runs the convention if the nominee\u2019s chosen before the convention takes place.\u00a0 It\u2019s always been this way.\u00a0 The nominee runs the platform.<\/p>\n

Now, the platform has no lasting importance, so a lot of compromise is made in the platform writing, because once the convention\u2019s over, the platform is forgotten.\u00a0 So, for example, if Trump wants to extend the fickle finger of friendship to people that opposed him, put \u2019em on the committee that\u2019s gonna do the platform. And then let \u2019em write whatever they want to write. And then when the conventions over you rip it up.\u00a0 Now, the people who lost make the platform big deal if they\u2019re given positions of power to write the platform, and they\u2019ll continue to talk about it.<\/p>\n

But the party platform has… There\u2019s nothing in it binding on the nominee.\u00a0 It\u2019s just … Theoretically it\u2019s a statement of principle, and it could be something important if people took it seriously.\u00a0 It could be where a party actually spells out what it is about and it could be something very useful. But traditionally it\u2019s been a waste area where you deal with the people who you defeated and you extend olive branches to them.\u00a0 But the nominee runs the party.\u00a0 So here\u2019s Bill Kristol thinking that Ryan should say, “Who\u2019s Trump?<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s outsider! He\u2019s not one of us,” and he thinks that Ryan should have told Trump to go pound sand.\u00a0 “Hey, look, we\u2019re the Republican Party, not you,” and it didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 And as you heard, Bill Kristol is now thinking of having to leave the Republican Party, “at least at the presidential level.”\u00a0 Don Lemon, ever on the case… You can\u2019t get anything past Don Lemon. Black holes notwithstanding, you can\u2019t get anything past him. Don Lemon, so perceptive, then said to Kristol: “Are you suggesting a third candidate, Bill?”<\/p>\n

KRISTOL:\u00a0 I think there will be an independent candidate, I think a — a — a — a Republican of integrity and honor who people like me will feel comfortable voting for.\u00a0 I hope that person can beat both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 Is it unusual? Is it a long shot? I think this is such an exceptional year, it would be worth trying.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, correct me if I\u2019m wrong but, for example, hasn\u2019t the deadline to be a third party or third candidate, say, in Texas…Hasn\u2019t that deadline passed?\u00a0 Well, Texas has a lot of electoral votes.\u00a0 Now, the objective here of these guys that want this mythical third-party candidate… It\u2019s a pipe dream that a third party candidate could win, but what they hope is that the third-party candidate could come in and win enough electoral votes to ensure that neither Hillary nor Trump get 270, which would then throw the election to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

And the House would then select either the third-party candidate or Trump or Hillary to be president.\u00a0 Kristol\u2019s thinking that he would be running the House at that time, able to tell Ryan and the boys what to do and get his third-party candidate elected president.\u00a0 That\u2019s the pipe dream.\u00a0 That\u2019s what they\u2019re thinking.\u00a0 But these two sound bites actually illustrate quite a lot. They demonstrate much of what I tried to explain all last fall, all during this campaign:<\/p>\n

Who the establishment is, why it\u2019s more important to maintain the establishment than even win the White House or beat Mrs. Clinton. Because without the establishment thriving and without the nominee coming from the establishment, therefore, keeping the establishment paramount and at the top of the food chain. The people in the establishment find they\u2019re no longer at the top of the food chain, and if they\u2019re not top of the food chain, they maybe end up being nothing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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