{"id":214672,"date":"2016-10-14T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/14\/how_should_trump_fight_back_\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T22:49:36","slug":"how_should_trump_fight_back_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/14\/how_should_trump_fight_back_\/","title":{"rendered":"How Should Trump Fight Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Randy in Carthage, New York.  Randy, great to have you on Open Line Friday.  How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  It\u2019s an honor today.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I just have a quick question, Rush.  I think it\u2019s disgusting what the Democratic Party and others are saying about Donald Trump.  I\u2019m wondering what\u2019s the number one thing Donald Trump and his campaign can do to turn things around?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, here\u2019s the challenge on this.  Note they don\u2019t say this last August to deny him the nomination.  They don\u2019t say it in March.  They don\u2019t say it leading into the convention.  They say it three weeks out.  It doesn\u2019t give you a lot of time to rebut because what you\u2019re basically gonna try to rebut here is first impressions made by what most people think is media that is impartial, sadly, and they\u2019re gonna look at these women and the first question, “Why would these women lie?”  It\u2019s always the first question.  “Why would these women make it up?” <\/line><\/p>\n

They don\u2019t ask, “Where have these women been for 30 years?”  They don\u2019t ask, “Where were these women two weeks ago?”  They don\u2019t ask, “Why\u2019d they come forward now?”  Now, the latest woman says she\u2019s coming forward \u2019cause she always knew it was wrong but it took this incident for her to realize just how bad it was.  And she\u2019s coming forward basically because she should have come forward earlier to protect other women, that she\u2019s not just a stuffed toy on a couch, or some such thing. <\/p>\n

She looks like Gisele Bundchen without makeup, just to give you some picture here.  The Washington Post found her, and they did a video, and I guarantee you they\u2019ve got a wind machine blowing her hair, I\u2019m just guaranteeing you they do.  This is a perfectly assembled video that they want you to think took place in the woman\u2019s backyard spontaneously and off the cuff. <\/p>\n

When you say, “What can Trump do?” you know, I\u2019ve been accused of a lot of things that are totally false, but nothing along these lines.  And like you, I ask, “What can they do?  What can Trump do?  What can the Trump campaign do?”  Folks, I\u2019ve shared with you the challenge. You know, when I first started this — just a short little story to show you that no matter what you do, you can\u2019t win.  No matter what you do, you\u2019re gonna have people telling you you did the wrong thing. <\/p>\n

The first time I was seriously called a racist in the national news media around 1989 or 1990, I had people say, “You can\u2019t let that stand!  If you let that stand, that\u2019s gonna stay with you the rest of your career.  You have got –”  So I said that sounds smart, and I immediately rejected it, said it\u2019s BS, described it as all that, and the response was, “A-ha!  It might be true!  Look how upset Limbaugh is.”  I said, “Ah, geez, I thought you told me this is how I had to get rid of it.”  “Well, I thought it would.”  No, all it did was allowed them to say I was unnerved by the charge and felt the immediate need to refute it, which must mean it\u2019s true. <\/p>\nSome people say, just ignore it.  You can\u2019t amplify it anymore.  If you respond to it, a lot of people are gonna hear it that haven\u2019t yet heard it so just let it alone.  I\u2019ve tried that way, too.  So I don\u2019t know, folks.  If I had the answer to that, the Republicans would never lose another election.  <\/line>The only thing I can think of for Trump to do here is to just present the picture of a person that makes it not even possible you could think of the guy doing something like that.  He\u2019s got to continue to do his campaign rallies. <\/line>\n

He\u2019s gotta be uplifting and optimistic.  He has got to continue to stay focused on his issues and talk about what matters and, in the process, look like somebody who could not possibly be capable of all of this debauchery that they\u2019re throwing at him.  When you start denying it in specificity — now, what Trump is doing is saying these allegations are completely false, there\u2019s nothing to it, and that\u2019s fine.  You\u2019ve gotta do that, I guess.  But I think the thing to do is just stay double and triple focused on the reason he\u2019s doing this and why, which is for the American people and for America and present the picture of somebody who is not capable of this. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at this videotape of Obama.  We called your attention, it was on the Drudge Report a couple days ago, Obama with an erection parading it around on a campaign plane and all the women trying to get closer and see it.  Not one Republican has spoken up to condemn it.  And so there\u2019s no attention that\u2019s attached itself to it, the story, there\u2019s nothing to it.  And one of the reasons is, Obama, are you kidding me?  He doesn\u2019t look like the kind of guy to run around. There\u2019s an automatic built in, the way his PR and image structuring has been, that people either don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible or don\u2019t think he meant anything by it or don\u2019t even want to think it\u2019s true. <\/p>\n

The Republican brand is such when the Republicans help the Democrats along in some of these allegations, it makes it really, really tough for the Republican under charge to refute anything.  Like at National Review Online today there\u2019s actually a column saying Trump is reviving the War on Women.  That\u2019s how liberals think.  What\u2019s that doing in National Review?  What is somebody who thinks that writing it in National Review?  It seems it\u2019s impossible for the Republican Party to unify around even the prospect of defeating Hillary Clinton. <\/line><\/p>\n

Do you realize if the Republican Party can\u2019t unify around the notion of defeating Hillary Clinton, then it\u2019ll never unify about anything?  What more do you need to create unity than the objective of defeating Hillary Clinton and reclaiming the White House?  And if they can\u2019t even unify around that?  And now Paul Ryan is out saying — grab audio sound bite number 27.  This is Ryan this afternoon at Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Madison college Republican event. <\/p>\n

RYAN:  We will not just lose our quality of life or our standard of living.  We are at risk of losing the spirit and the initiative that makes America exceptional in the first place.  And if Hillary Clinton wins and if she is given control of Washington, if she is given control of Congress, it will not be long before we come to that precipice.  But that does not have to happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Okay, well, how would you interpret that?  The Speaker is suggesting here that we need to elect Republicans to the House to keep the Republican majority, to stop Hillary Clinton.  But for some reason we can\u2019t unify around the idea of keeping her out of the White House.  But we are asked to unify to stop her once she\u2019s there, but we simply cannot unify around the goal and objective of keeping her out of it?  Trump really is on his own here.  He\u2019s got his support group, and he\u2019s got his contingency, his group of people out there that are helping him along, but he\u2019s the focal point. <\/p>\n

I really think that what he\u2019s gotta do is just continue to present the image and picture of somebody about whom this couldn\u2019t be true, and the best way to do that is to just laser in on what got him here in the first place. And at the top of that list is illegal immigration, because right there it is.  That issue is the greatest threat to maintaining Western Civilization headquartered in the United States of America where it needs to be.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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