{"id":264131,"date":"2018-02-12T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=264131"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T20:46:02","slug":"your-beloved-host-credited-with-having-profound-effect-on-the-2016-gop-presidential-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/12\/your-beloved-host-credited-with-having-profound-effect-on-the-2016-gop-presidential-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Host Credited for Profound Effect on the 2016 GOP Presidential Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Audio sound bites, Sunday Book TV on C-SPAN2.\u00a0 They were talking about politics.\u00a0 Jeb Bush\u2019s communication director Tim Miller talking about the 2016 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Tim-Miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Tim-Miller.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021218-Tim-Miller-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>MILLER:\u00a0 What\u2019s happening within the kind of Republican base electorate was really a thirst for blood.\u00a0 What really proves your conservatism right now is how far you\u2019re willing to go to own the libs.\u00a0 That\u2019s what people want.\u00a0 Who can be the toughest and the most biting and the most visceral in making fun of the Democrats.\u00a0 Because Donald Trump wasn\u2019t in any meaningful sense the most conservative candidate in the race, but he projected being the most conservative because he was meanest to the Democrats, and he was the toughest, and he was willing to go there.\u00a0 You know?\u00a0 And willing to take on, you know, I think it\u2019s the talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, unwilling (sic) to fight to the establishment.\u00a0 And this is what Trump brought.\u00a0 A lot of what you would have said in the Republican primaries, &#8220;Oh, they\u2019re being so uncivil! Oh, they\u2019re being so focused on issues that aren\u2019t important&#8221; was driven by what people wanted.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 By the way, he was not saying here that I\u2019m &#8220;unwilling to fight the establishment.&#8221;\u00a0 He was saying just the exact opposite.\u00a0 He\u2019s saying that people glommed onto Trump, supported Trump because he was &#8220;willing to take on, you know, [like] talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, willing to fight the establishment.&#8221;\u00a0 He was not complaining of me being unwilling to fight, \u2019cause that of course, would be absurd and ludicrous.\u00a0 Once again when you boil it down it\u2019s yet another informed commentator claiming that it was your beloved host who had the most profound effect on the Republican presidential primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Jeb Bush&#039;s communication director Tim Miller talking about the 2016 presidential race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":263926,"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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - 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