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<\/p>\nRUSH: Man, oh, man, it was hard to watch last night. I kept hoping that somehow something would happen that would make the time fly, but it didn\u2019t. And the worst part about it, I mean, really what was it? What was this debate last night? It just seemed like another night for CNN. Instead of three people bashing Trump, we had 13 or 14 of them bashing Trump. It was just 13 or 14 people advancing or talking about the Democrat agenda.<\/p>\n
But, man, when that many people are engaged, I\u2019ll tell you, the overwhelming or overarching sensation I got was just total dystopian. Good Lord, folks, listening to those people talking about life, listening to them talk about the country, all is lost, everything\u2019s hopeless.<\/p>\n
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And it appeared that everybody on that stage looks out across America and sees a bunch of people barely making it, barely hanging on, desperately clinging to every word uttered by anybody from government as the only way they have any chance of having an enjoyable life or any kind of a future. I mean, it was misery on parade.<\/p>\n
There wasn\u2019t one thing optimistic. There wasn\u2019t one thing uplifting. There wasn\u2019t one candidate who looked out into the camera, looking out across America, and encouraged anybody! There wasn\u2019t a single syllable of encouragement in this debate last night. It was simply a bunch of people covering up for Biden. Boy, did I call that.<\/p>\n
Did I tell you people they wouldn\u2019t try to take out Plugs on the basis of the corruption of him and his son because they\u2019re all exposed to it? So, they\u2019ll take him out on some other basis: He\u2019s too old, he\u2019s been a great warhorse, time has passed him by, all of these things were very obvious last night. But, man, I couldn\u2019t get over — and here\u2019s the thing. You know, it\u2019s got an audience.<\/p>\n
This dystopian stuff has an audience. This “all is lost unless certain people end up running government.” It\u2019s a sad thing to realize, that there are millions of Americans tuning into that thing last night who are literally hoping, they\u2019re investing everything they\u2019ve got in some of that stuff the Democrats are promising coming true. And none of it can!<\/p>\n
Somebody ran the numbers, some think tanker ran the numbers on everything Bernie Sanders is proposing. It would add up to a hundred trillion dollars. There isn\u2019t a hundred trillion dollars! And Crazy Bernie was the target along with — well, actually Elizabeth Warren was the primary target last night, which tells you who the Democrats think now is their frontrunner.<\/p>\n
And, you know, everybody was aiming at her on the basis of her Medicare for All plan, and Crazy Bernie has one too. And I swear there were a couple times I stopped and did a double-take, “Did I just hear what I just heard?” And there was Amy Klobuchar talking about how competition can lower prices. She knows this from her childhood. Her childhood! Not as an adult, from her childhood. She remembered something where competition lowered prices. You talk competition to Democrats, that\u2019s showing Dracula the cross.<\/p>\n
It also struck me how smart Trump is. Trump is against Middle East wars; so the Democrats last night had to come out in favor of them. Trump lowers the employment numbers. Trump increases jobs and employment in the Midwest and Ohio where the debate was last night. So the Democrats have to come out against that.<\/p>\n
And then I heard Biden was trying to go after Fauxcahontas here on her Medicare for All plan. One of my all-time favorite comedians, Professor Irwin Corey. Remember Professor Irwin Corey? He was a semiregular with Johnny Carson on the old Tonight Show days. And he was hilarious. He came out as the caricature of an absent-minded professor. He was unkempt, his hair was all over the place, his jacket was stained and so forth. And he did the best parody, he did the best satire of phony intellectuals that you have ever, ever seen.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ll give you an example. So Johnny Carson says, “Professor, tell us something. I know you\u2019re a deep thinker. Tell us, why do men wear shoes?” Now, Professor Irwin Corey took five minutes to answer. I\u2019m not gonna go through a five-minute impersonation here. But Professor Corey, who was a bumbling fool was his character, even though his image was of staunch intellectual, such a great parody, he went on and on for five minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it\u2019s a two-part question, Mr. Carson. The first question, first part of your question is why. Men have been trying to answer the question why since before there were men. \u2018Why\u2019 is a great question that means we\u2019re eternally curious. There\u2019s no answer to the question \u2018why\u2019 but we all sheep could asking the question \u2018why,\u2019 especially women who never get an answer to the question \u2018why\u2019 no matter how many times \u2013” He went on and on like this.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now the second part of your question, do men wear shoes? Yes.\u201d Well, that\u2019s who I thought was watching last night when I watched Biden. I thought I was watching Professor Irwin Corey. It was incoherent. It was staccatoed. It was all over the place. He was trying to press Warren on where is she gonna get the money for this health care plan of hers. And then he came out with something that you never hear Democrats admit!<\/p>\n
He said (imitating Biden), “Look at me. I\u2019m gonna tell you something. I\u2019ve been there. Barack and I, we\u2019ve been there, we know this stuff. I\u2019ve been there, done it. I\u2019m listening to all this stuff, and I know what can be done and I know what can\u2019t be done. I\u2019ve been there, and I\u2019ve done it. I can do it, I can do it again. I\u2019ve done it in my sleep. Robert Bork, I\u2019ve done it all.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could close down the Pentagon, you could close everything about it. You could get rid of every building, every uniform, you could get rid of every boat, every ship, every airplane. You could close down every war. You could literally shut down the entire defense industry. You know what? You\u2019d get enough money to run the government for four months.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was in the bathroom when I heard that. Standing up. What did I just hear? I had to make fast movements to get back into the main room, \u201cDid I just hear what I just heard?\u201d That is a Heritage Foundation talking point. That is a standard conservative talking point. It has been used to answer every left-wing, Big Government spender who\u2019s come down the pike.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a variation of it. You could confiscate all of the money over $10 million. Everybody who\u2019s got more than $10 million, just take it. And you\u2019d have enough money to run the government for three months. If you close down the Pentagon, you\u2019d have enough money to run the government for four months. There was not a sound when Biden made that point. Not a sound.<\/p>\n
Warren had no idea what to do with it. Neither did either of the two CNN moderators or the New York Times moderator. And none of the candidates on the stage had the foggiest idea what to do with it. And the reason why is because it is dead-on true, and they couldn\u2019t believe they were hearing it out of the mouth of a Democrat!<\/p>\n
Joe Biden, whether he knows it or not, just gave the country the very reason why none of their spending will work. There isn\u2019t the money for it — and they hate the Department of Defense. You could shut it down. You could take it off the budget. You could get rid of every dollar and devote it to your precious social services, and you\u2019d have four months to spend it. That\u2019s how much of government it would spend is four months\u2019 worth.<\/p>\n
And with Klobuchar talking about the values of competition to lowering price? Those were the only two things I heard last night that made me perk up. Everything else… When I say “dystopian,” I literally mean dystopian — I mean the opposite of utopian. These people paint a picture of American and paint a picture of Americans that is just gray. It\u2019s dark, dank, depressing, and hopeless — and the scary thing is that it appeals to people.<\/p>\n
I thought it was the dullest. I thought it was the most lifeless. I thought it was painful.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know whether they purposely asked the audience or expressly asked the audience not to applaud, but whenever they do, that doesn\u2019t work — whenever they ask the audience to stay silent so that the debate can go on uninterrupted. The fact of the matter is when audiences hear things they like, they erupt, no matter what instructions they\u2019ve been given. Well, the audience last night didn\u2019t erupt very much.<\/p>\n
There wasn\u2019t very much applause — and when there was, it was over ancillary, oddball things. I checked out some various social media entries today, and they\u2019re livid over this debate. Social media left-wingers are upset that there were no questions on climate change. They were really upset over the last question of the debate, and it was a strange one. The last question of the debate had to do with Ellen DeGeneres being spotted sitting next to George W. Bush at a recent Dallas Cowboys game.<\/p>\n
That sparked controversy throughout the left wing for Ellen DeGeneres. “How the hell could she do that? Who does she think she is, especially sitting there and laughing like she\u2019s having a good time sitting next to George W. Bush?” So Anderson Cooper actually asked these people what they thought of this, and then he said, “Could you give us the name of a person with whom you have a relationship that we would all be surprised?” Really? What\u2019s this?<\/p>\n
Uh, this somehow is relevant? Social justice warriors were just ticked off particularly \u2019cause they got no questions on climate change. Why do you think that is, by the way? Why were there no questions on climate change? Because everybody knows it\u2019s a hoax! Everybody knows it\u2019s nothing to it! Everybody knows! They\u2019ve tried it! It gets no ratings! It\u2019s near the last in the list of things people care about! In the midst of all this, there was a tweet last night, ladies and gentlemen, while the debate was going on from Bradley Honan.<\/p>\n
Now, Bradley Honan is the CEO and president of the Honan Strategy Group. It\u2019s a Democrat polling and data analytics firm, and while the debate was going on… It\u2019s about 75% through the debate, and Bradley Honan tweeted… Well, actually it\u2019s about 10:30, so actually I\u2019d say through 80% of it. Maybe longer. The tweet, “@HonanStretegy Insight: @ewarren and @joebiden facing overwhelmingly negative sentiment on Twitter tonight. Conversations around Warren and Biden are 85.6% and 94% negative.”<\/p>\n