{"id":252333,"date":"2017-10-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=252333"},"modified":"2017-10-27T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:54:53","slug":"f-chuck-todd-the-gop-establishment-cant-stand-trumps-style-which-was-perfected-by-rush-limbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/26\/f-chuck-todd-the-gop-establishment-cant-stand-trumps-style-which-was-perfected-by-rush-limbaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"F. Chuck Todd: The GOP Establishment Can\u2019t Stand Trump\u2019s Style — Which Was Perfected by Rush Limbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to share something with you. This business of Jeff Flake and McCain and any number of other Republican senators who are standing up and voicing their opposition to Trump, their outrage. I shared with you a piece of from Victor Davis Hanson two days ago backing up a theory of mine.<\/a> There isn\u2019t any disunity in the Republican Party, if you look at the percentage of Republican voters voting for Trump. Trump got 90% of the Republican vote, just like George W. Bush did. Romney got 93%. McCain got 90%. There isn\u2019t any split there in terms of Republican voters. The split is in the establishment.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve tried to tell everything that if you look at overall voting records, you really don\u2019t find that big a split in House and Senate Republicans and the way they voted on Trump agenda items. Now, health care is a standalone, the repeal and replace Obamacare. The point that I have been making is the real problem these clowns have with Trump is they don\u2019t like his personality. They think he\u2019s coarse. They think he\u2019s a pig. They think he\u2019s rough around the edges. He\u2019s not collegial. He doesn\u2019t comport himself in the way of sophisticated members of the establishment.<\/p>\n

Well, well, well, well. Lifting the ban on PMSNBC, we have a sound bite from yesterday\u2019s Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, show on which was her guest, F. Chuck Todd, who is the moderator of Meet the Depressed. She was talking about McCain and Corker and Flake and their criticisms of Trump, and she asked F. Chuck Todd: F. Chuck, “these senators are challenging the president, not on policy, but on demeanor.” Folks, that\u2019s exactly right. That\u2019s exactly right, when you strip it down, and listen to what Todd said…<\/p>\n

\"\"TODD: Do you believe this split is over style or is it over substance? You could make a case it\u2019s over both. There\u2019s definitely a pugilism, that Trump style of politics — which was really perfected by Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes — that sort of in-your-face, conservative populism that you could say Donald Trump is emblematic of. Is that what you view as the fight inside the Republican Party? Is this a stylistic fight? Is this truly over substance? But let me ask you this: If Donald Trump were more polite, would Jeff Flake still be running and would Bob Corker still be running? Even if he was still a protectionist? Even if he was still an isolationist? I think for now this split appears to be more about style and decorum and character.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bingo! Let me tell you what that means. It\u2019s not really that they\u2019re upset. They don\u2019t like fighting back, folks. This nails it again. What makes them nervous is fighting back, and they\u2019re disguising that fear by saying they disagree with Trump\u2019s personality or his pugnaciousness or his tweeting or his barbaric attitude or his bull-in-the-china-shop demeanor. Whatever. That\u2019s just code for they\u2019re uncomfortable fighting back. They\u2019re uncomfortable fighting back, why? Well, they\u2019re afraid of what the media might say about \u2019em, number one.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re afraid of what their other sophisticated members of the establishment will say if they start echoing or agreeing with or sounding like Trump. Now, stop and think of what this means, though. Essentially, aside from a couple of outside-the-mainstream examples, most of these guys are pretty much on the same page with Trump issue after issue after issue. I mean, immigration and health care might be two standouts. But they still can\u2019t find their way to openly supporting his agenda because they are made nervous by the way Trump behaves.<\/p>\n

(impression) “It\u2019s just so unseemly, so unsophisticated, so crude. Ew! It\u2019s just crude, and we don\u2019t like that.” So, in other words, they are from the patsy wing of the party wants to continue to be doormats and at peace. But note, ladies and gentlemen, who is it that, in the eyes of F. Chuck Todd — and if it\u2019s in the eyes of F. Chuck Todd, it\u2019s in the eyes of everybody in the Drive-By Media. Who is responsible for this? Why, yeah, none other than your beloved host (chuckling) the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-hearing, all-everything Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right. “This style of politics perfected by Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, the sort of in-your-face conservative populism that Trump is emblematic of…” That\u2019s another reason. Let me just put it this way. While the media admit knowing that they resent it — and you know why? There\u2019s no way that a guy on the radio should have this kind of influence. It just shouldn\u2019t happen. A guy on the radio shouldn\u2019t have the influence to determine how the Republican Party succeeds. (laughing)<\/p>\n

\"\"If Limbaugh would simply go away or shut up — \u2019cause we got rid of Ailes. If Limbaugh would shut up and go away then we could turn this whole party back into a bunch of Flakes and Corkers and so forth — except for Trump. So they\u2019re expressing their desire and their wishes and their frustrations and all this. But it how about the…? Strip all that away, and the Drive-By Media here really believes that the reason these guys don\u2019t help move the Trump agenda is simply based on the fact that they don\u2019t like the way Trump operates.<\/p>\n

So what is important to \u2019em? Why can\u2019t they get past that? Moving the agenda is the thing. Winning is the thing! Keeping the Democrats on the defensive and in the minority is the thing, and to allow discomfort with Trump\u2019s personality to impede that? It\u2019s kind of odd. But it isn\u2019t if you understand them. It\u2019s mostly unfortunate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Moving the agenda is the thing. Winning is the thing! Keeping the Democrats on the defensive and in the minority is the thing, and to allow discomfort with Trump's personality to impede that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":252350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nF. 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