{"id":214944,"date":"2016-11-15T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/11\/15\/eugene_robinson_hopes_trump_fails\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T19:07:16","slug":"eugene_robinson_hopes_trump_fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/11\/15\/eugene_robinson_hopes_trump_fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Robinson Hopes Trump Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Looky here, my friends. \u00a0Eugene Robinson, columnist, Washington Post. \u00a0He also&#8230; I don\u2019t know if he still is. \u00a0Back in his days where we did not have our ban on audio from MSNBC, he was a regular panelist there, a strategist, a Democrat hack disguised as a columnist for the Washington Post. \u00a0The headline of his column that published yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article114754953.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Do Not Wish Trump Success on His Agenda.&#8221;<\/a> \u00a0I haven\u2019t seen any angry tweets about this. \u00a0<img id=\"eZObject_130606\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Eugene-Robinson-585.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>I haven\u2019t seen anybody castigating Eugene Robinson for daring to suggest that you can\u2019t get behind and support our new president like we were told we had to do in 2008. \u00a0I said, <a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2009\/01\/16\/limbaugh_i_hope_obama_fails\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I hope he fails;&#8221;<\/a> I got hammered by the Drive-Bys for eight years. \u00a0But don\u2019t&#8230; I\u2019m not complaining, don\u2019t misunderstand. \u00a0I enjoyed it. \u00a0Every time I got hammered, it was an opportunity to explain to a new group of people what I really meant &#8212; and now, after eight years, everybody agrees with me. \u00a0&#8220;I hope he fails.&#8221; \u00a0He didn\u2019t, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s been sent packing.<\/p>\n<p>He succeeded in implementing his agenda. \u00a0That\u2019s what I didn\u2019t want to happen. \u00a0Eugene Robinson essentially says, &#8220;I hope Trump fails,&#8221; and nothing. \u00a0Crickets. \u00a0Not a tweet. \u00a0Not a series of Facebook posts. \u00a0Nobody in the Drive-By Media is raking Eugene Robinson over the coals for this kind of partisan divide. \u00a0He says, &#8220;The people chose Hillary Clinton. But it\u2019s the electoral vote that counts, not the popular vote, so Donald Trump will be president. And no, I\u2019m not over it. \u00a0No one should be over it. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a normal Republican had been elected, I could say the polite and socially acceptable thing, something like, &#8216;I didn\u2019t support So-and-So but he will be my president, too, and I wish him success.\u2019 But I cannot wish Trump success in rounding up and deporting millions of people or banning Muslims from&#8230;&#8221; Here again, these people believing literally while not taking seriously.\u00a0 Anyway, Eugene Robinson: I do not wish Trump success on his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s being hailed as brilliant and precise and all this. \u00a0What does he mean, &#8220;If a normal Republican had been elected&#8221;? \u00a0What is a&#8230;? In Eugene Robinson\u2019s world, what is a &#8220;normal Republican&#8221;? \u00a0A Washington Generals Republican. A Republican that realizes he\u2019s there as a pincushion. A Republican who realizes he\u2019s there to be beat up and destroyed. A Republican who realizes he has no business being president, should not have been elected. A Republican who\u2019s basically a RINO and a loser.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody on the Democrat side can get behind that kind of Republican, but not a winner.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Looky here, my friends. \u00a0Eugene Robinson, columnist, Washington Post. \u00a0He also&#8230; I don\u2019t know if he still is. \u00a0Back in his days where we did not have our ban on audio from MSNBC, he was a regular panelist there, a strategist, a Democrat hack disguised as a columnist for the Washington Post. \u00a0The headline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eugene Robinson Hopes Trump Fails - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/11\/15\/eugene_robinson_hopes_trump_fails\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Eugene Robinson Hopes Trump Fails - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Looky here, my friends. \u00a0Eugene Robinson, columnist, Washington Post. \u00a0He also&#8230; 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