{"id":214127,"date":"2016-08-03T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/03\/the_clintons_represent_the_crony_class\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:46:13","slug":"the_clintons_represent_the_crony_class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/03\/the_clintons_represent_the_crony_class\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clintons Represent the Crony Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Tell me if you think this is relevant, folks, if it\u2019s meaningful or not.  Hillary and Tim Kaine are not drawing crowds at all wherever they go.  They literally are not.  They\u2019re showing up in high school gymnasiums and they\u2019re one-third full.  That\u2019s why you\u2019re not hearing about these rallies.  Hillary and Kaine went on a bus tour after the Democrat convention.  You didn\u2019t hear about it over the weekend because nobody showed up. <\/p>\n

And, to this day, every Trump rally is overflowing and the energy at every Trump rally is hardly containable.  It\u2019s electric. You know why you don\u2019t see it?  You know why the media is not covering those Trump rallies as much as they did, besides the fact that they\u2019ve now thrown in with Hillary, Hillary\u2019s now the opponent so they\u2019ve made their choice, but there\u2019s another reason. I think — this is my personal opinion — I think because Trump\u2019s not saying anything marginally different. <\/p>\n

He still does his improv and he still does his shoot-from-the-hip.  But now they\u2019re calling it for what it is.  You know, I was analyzing a Trump political appearance from day one.  I recognized it immediately.  I knew exactly the technique.  I know exactly what he\u2019s doing.  It\u2019s stream of consciousness.  He doesn\u2019t go out with prepared remarks.  His only risk is that his brain shuts down and he forgets everything, and of course that\u2019s not gonna happen.  So whatever pops into his mind, he talks about it, interrupts himself and eventually gets back to the point that he was making. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, I think it\u2019s The Politico today — I\u2019ll find it — has a story on exactly what Trump is doing.  Now they\u2019re reporting it.  And now they\u2019re reporting that there isn\u2019t anything new in it.  It\u2019s the same thing stuff.  There\u2019s no reason for the media to back out of their normal programming and go to a Trump rally and cover it \u2019cause it\u2019s the same stuff that he was saying — this is what they\u2019re saying.  But, to your point, or actually my point, Trump rallies are still overflowing.  There are still more people that want to get in than there is room for. <\/p>\n

The energy inside is still off the charts, and it is such that it is not at all representative of the way Trump is being reported on in the media.  And yet, all of this stuff that\u2019s happening is real.  But the fact that the Clintons, you know, over-poll is — they still end up winning and we\u2019ve got perhaps in this election, you know, a third party, and maybe four choices will be there instead of just two, which monkeys with polling results anyway.  Makes them less reliable. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the frustrating thing is that you just said it:  Hillary does not have a record to run on.  There\u2019s no way under the sun that a Democrat can run for reelection touting the last eight years as some of the greatest years in America because they\u2019re not.  This is the slowest economic recovery since 1949.  This is gonna be the first presidency to never achieve a growth rate of at least 3% in any year, the first one.  And it\u2019s not by accident.  It\u2019s not happenstance. <\/p>\n

Obama has policies that have been put in place that have acted like giant brakes on the US economy.  And I believe it\u2019s purposeful.  But you can\u2019t, you can\u2019t, as the government, just swallow large chunks of the economy like Obama has done and expect the economy to keep producing jobs and to keep growing with wages increasing.  It\u2019s not possible.  It can\u2019t happen.  And Obama and the Democrats are not through. <\/p>\n

The whole Democrat primary campaign was astounding because it was both Bernie Sanders and Hillary running on how much change was needed, how much improvement needed to be made.  They really had to walk a tightrope, but because they know they\u2019ve got media coverage on the downside, they were relatively free to go ahead and attack the status quo so as to position themselves as being the one to fix it and improve it and make it better.  And there would be the occasional mention of what a great job Obama\u2019s done, but nobody could have brought us back from the depths of where George Bush left us. <\/line><\/p>\n

But she\u2019s got nothing to offer.  She doesn\u2019t have one policy that\u2019ll change anything for the better.  She\u2019s incompetent herself.  She has no business being president.  The only reason she\u2019s going to be president or has been nominated is because the Democrats owe her big time and because of a reputation established by these very same Northeastern elites way back in her college days that she was some brilliant babe to come along undeniably smarter than everybody else.<\/p>\n

They get these images and these reputations burnished and they live their lives and no matter how stupid they are, no matter what dumb mistakes and moves they make, they are still heralded as better and brighter than all the rest of us.  She isn\u2019t.  She cannot hold an audience.  She doesn\u2019t connect with an audience.  She does not have deep personal loyalty.  The people voting for her are not rooting for her.  They\u2019re rooting for the Democrat Party.  The people voting for Hillary are maybe not even rooting for the Democrat Party.  They\u2019re rooting against us. <\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t have any personal loyalty above and beyond her tight, close circle of friends and supporters and donors.  She wrote this book for which she got $14 million, she couldn\u2019t draw flies to a book signing.  She couldn\u2019t sell enough copies of the book to get anywhere near making back the advance that she got.  She didn\u2019t care.  This is a woman who has sold access to her presidency. <\/p>\n

Have you ever heard the term “country club Republican”?  The country clubs have all become Democrat, in the sense that the people that join country clubs usually, particularly in the Northeast, are a bunch of Wall Street titans, hedge fund people, investment bankers and so forth, and they are in bed with the Democrat Party.   There is no such thing as a country club Republican anymore.  They are country club Democrats.  But it\u2019s not even that.  They\u2019re country club cronies.  There are so many powerful people, so many influential people who don\u2019t care anymore about the future of the country as founded.  That\u2019s not their concern. <\/p>\n

Now that cronyism has been established, it has firmly become something that you can aspire to as a human being, as a businessman, that people that run the government now are willing to sell it to you.  The people that run the government are willing to sell you access.  You donate to them or you fund them or you employ their family or whatever, and they\u2019ll get you favorable treatment from the Oval Office, from the Senate, to the House of Representatives, it doesn\u2019t matter.  Hello, cronyism. <\/line><\/p>\n

Cronyism can help you as a CEO put your competition out of business without you having to innovate a single day, without you having to out-compete your opposition.  And that\u2019s why the country club Republican doesn\u2019t exist and have become country club Democrats or country club liberals, but for the most part they\u2019re just cronyists.  They\u2019re all salivating.  They\u2019re all hyperventilating at the thought of being close to power.  They don\u2019t care if that power has a destructive aspect to it. <\/p>\n

They seemingly don\u2019t care if the power, meaning the president, meaning Obama, is going to implement policies that are gonna damage people, that hurt the country, and damage its future.  They don\u2019t care.  As long as they\u2019re close to power, and being close to power protects them and their interests and their business, that\u2019s all that matters. <\/p>\n

So the patriots, where are they?  This is another thing that bugs everybody.  It\u2019s not so much just the trade deals, the trade deals, yes, but it\u2019s how the trade deals happened and why and what it represents.  And what it really represents is there\u2019s no reality and there doesn\u2019t seem to be any patriotism anywhere in the highest positions of power in this country. <\/p>\n

It seems like it\u2019s self-interest and selfishness everywhere.  And people are angling to get even closer to this power, and now Mrs. Clinton\u2019s come along, and she has signaled the world that she\u2019s willing to sell.  She will sell herself. She will sell her government. She will sell her policies. She will sell whatever for personal enrichment.  She and her husband are obsessed with getting rich.  They have been since their Arkansas days.  <\/p>\n