{"id":214088,"date":"2016-07-29T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/29\/hillary_s_only_chance_destroy_trump\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:42:02","slug":"hillary_s_only_chance_destroy_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/29\/hillary_s_only_chance_destroy_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary\u2019s Only Chance: Destroy Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I mentioned the immediate reaction to this. This is the key. This is the best, I think, not after everybody\u2019s had a night to get over the hangover and think about it the next day.<\/p>\n

The immediate reaction to her speech — the immediate reaction — the Drive-Bys were not gonna tell us.\u00a0 If I saw one, I saw 50 people last night warn us, “Look, there\u2019s no way you could follow Obama! (chortling) Come on. There\u2019s no way you could follow Michelle. (chortling) Oh, my God, it was the greatest speech in the convention! There\u2019s no way you could follow that.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Bill Clinton, even with a weakened voice? No, no! No way you could follow Bill.\u00a0 Barack Obama? For crying out loud, no. Nobody\u2019s expecting Mrs. Clinton to.”<\/p>\n

So they were tamping down expectations, but they were hoping that they would see a Hillary they haven\u2019t seen.\u00a0 They were hoping they would see a human Hillary, a lifelike Hillary, an energetic Hillary. They were hoping they would see a stem-winder Hillary. They were hoping they would see a Hillary that doesn\u2019t exist — and they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 And when you listen to the sound bites; you plainly hear that, discover that.\u00a0 We\u2019ll first start with NBC Special Election Coverage, Lester Holt asking F. Chuck Todd, “Chuck, the bar was high tonight.” The bar was really high for Hillary Clinton. “How did she measure up?”<\/p>\n

TODD:\u00a0 Stem-winder and Hillary Clinton are never gonna be in the same sentence.\u00a0 I was amazed how comfortable she is pushing a very progressive agenda.\u00a0 This was a speech that Bernie Sanders could have given.\u00a0 By the way, more references by her about Trump than Trump did in his speech last week about her.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, so how do we parse this?\u00a0 Because we just played the sound bite where the Drive-Bys just loved the fact that the Democrats put on this all God, all America patriotic convention night last night.\u00a0 They ate it up.\u00a0 They loved it.\u00a0 They hate it when Republicans do it, but they loved it last night.\u00a0 And yet F. Chuck comes along, says he was amazed at how comfortable she is pushing a very progressive agenda.<\/p>\n

Well, what is it?\u00a0 We either got a pro-patriotic, pro-American, red, white, and blue, lots of flags everywhere, America\u2019s great night at the convention, or we didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Which is it?\u00a0 How could she give this massively great progressive agenda speech with all that other stuff going on?<\/p>\n

My point is the Drive-Bys will mislead you no matter how they have to.\u00a0 They will lie to you, they know full well what they\u2019re doing. \u00a0Not to say they\u2019re not closed-minded and ignorant at the same time, but they know what they\u2019re doing, they know what they\u2019re trying to do.\u00a0 Does it matter, by the way, that she mentioned Trump\u2019s name a lot more than Trump mentioned hers?<\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s two schools of thought on that.\u00a0 One is you can react and say, “Boy, is Trump living rent free in her head.”\u00a0 On the other token, I got a piece — this is a really good piece by Kimberley Strassel at the Wall Street Journal<\/a> who says that essentially this is a one-candidate race, a one-person presidential race, it\u2019s Hillary against Hillary.\u00a0 That Hillary\u2019s problem is Hillary.\u00a0 She\u2019s running against her own ethical morass.\u00a0 She can\u2019t erase who she is.\u00a0 The only hope she has is to destroy and decimate Trump.<\/p>\n

So if you look at it from that standpoint, of course she\u2019s gonna mention Trump much more than he\u2019s gonna mention her.\u00a0 The political professionals will tell you, of course you do that.\u00a0 Mrs. Clinton\u2019s a known figure, 30 years.\u00a0 She\u2019s got to define Trump.\u00a0 She\u2019s got to destroy Trump.\u00a0 Because she can\u2019t build herself up.\u00a0 Been there, done that.\u00a0 I mean, that ship has sailed.\u00a0 She is who she is.<\/p>\n

So I think you should expect from here on out nothing but a never ending, continual assault on everything Trump.\u00a0 In fact, the latest one, last night Trump had an appearance somewhere, and he got all ticked off about Bloomberg. Trump started saying (imitating Trump), “Boy, you know, I really wanted to hit him,” and he made a fist and pounded the palm.\u00a0 So the story today is Trump\u2019s deranged, Trump\u2019s dangerous. Trump would actually hit Hillary. Trump would actually use fists on his opponent.\u00a0 This is how they\u2019re gonna do it.\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n