{"id":331843,"date":"2019-12-18T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=331843"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T20:57:26","slug":"the-drive-bys-know-theyve-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/18\/the-drive-bys-know-theyve-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drive-Bys Know They\u2019ve Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Drive-By Media today wanted this to be a grave day — very grave, historic and solemn. They wanted people to stop what they were doing and to get very, very serious and solemn, and to understand how desperately needed and important it is to get Donald Trump thrown out of office so as to save the world. But they haven\u2019t pulled it off. They wanted to be the priests! Well, not really because they don\u2019t like God\/religion.<\/p>\n

But they wanted to be the equivalent of the father-confessor. But they know it\u2019s BS. They know it\u2019s all politics. They know it\u2019s not grave. They know it\u2019s not solemn. They know that you have not fallen into line. Here\u2019s F. Chuck Todd this morning, NBC special coverage. Lester Holt says, “Pause for this moment in time, if you will. Impeachment. It\u2019s a stain, it\u2019s a mark of shame, something that will be noted in history.”<\/p>\n

\"\"TODD: I was struck both just last night and this morning how unremarkable today has suddenly felt — suddenly feels. And I say that because it is remarkable what\u2019s happening, it is historic what\u2019s happening, and yet it feels like… Let\u2019s be honest, Lester. It feels like we\u2019re coming on the air dealing with a government shutdown threat, not impeachment. And the reason I say it that way is because that is how numb I think our politics is to what we\u2019re facing. I mean, this should be a moment where the whole country is basically having their own gut check, where we are having a national conversation trying to figure this out. The fact that we\u2019re not having it just tells you how numb we are to the politics that we participate in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, Chuck. No. It\u2019s a testament to how ineffective your coup has been.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We told you yesterday CNN has an impeachment poll in which the support for impeachment fell among Democrats from 90% to 77%. Democrat support for impeachment in the CNN poll fell from 90% to 77%. In addition, CNN\u2019s latest poll found that support for impeachment overall was down 9% since the hearings in the Schiff basement hearing room began.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, the president\u2019s approval number has either held steady or in many polls it has gone up. And, in fact, there\u2019s a story today from one of the Drive-By analysts wringing his hands. He said, “I can\u2019t believe it. There hasn\u2019t been a president in our lifetimes with an approval number that\u2019s been this rock solid ever.\u201d And it is true. Trump\u2019s approval, no matter what poll you look at, has been anywhere from 43 to 45%. Over at Rasmussen he hits 50, 51. Well, they don\u2019t count Rasmussen. It\u2019s an outlier to them in the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

And the reason it was causing hand wringing is they haven\u2019t moved it. They haven\u2019t moved Trump\u2019s number down. Look, they were able to get George W. Bush down to the 30\u2019s. Now, it took \u2019em about six years. It didn\u2019t happen overnight. You know, George W. Bush was in the 50\u2019s after 9\/11 and then the high 40\u2019s and the mid-40\u2019s and low-40\u2019s and finally in the 30\u2019s. It took a little time and it was a long trend line.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t even been able to create the downward trend line for Trump. And they\u2019ve thrown everything they\u2019ve got at him, every allegation — treason, stealing an election, colluding with a foreign — I think, you know, Chuck Todd\u2019s worried that this isn\u2019t remarkable. I think the American people are fully aware of how outrageously remarkable their charges have been, and the American people are very clear on the fact they haven\u2019t seen any evidence for any of it, starting with the Mueller report, but even before that. There\u2019s no evidence for anything. These charges are so outrageous and over the top, I don\u2019t think anybody really believed them to begin with in a serious majority sense.<\/p>\n

You talk about overreach, and it\u2019s classic overreach, done by people who keep failing. It\u2019s kind of like in the old days, the old comedians, the shock comedians. It used to be in a Victorian era that manners and politeness and no curse words and all that stuff was the rule of the day. And at some point, as culture matured and various generations came along, people went over the line, and they started saying “damn it” instead of “darn it,” and they started saying “hell.”<\/p>\n

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Then they started saying other things that were a little bit worse than that. And it just kept going. Now on primetime TV you hear common, everyday slang words that just 10 years ago you wouldn\u2019t hear, and nobody says a peep about it. Well, that\u2019s what the Democrats have done. They\u2019ve thrown everything they\u2019ve got, started out, nothing stuck, nothing stuck. They kept adding to it, kept adding to it to the point now that they\u2019re just ridiculous with the things that they\u2019re alleging.<\/p>\n

They couldn\u2019t make the first thing stick. These things have no hope of sticking, beyond the Democrat base that will believe whatever they are told about things. Remember the objective has not been the Democrat base. The objective has been to separate Trump voters from Trump. So CNN\u2019s poll comes out yesterday. Seventy-seven percent of Democrats oppose impeachment, down from 90%. Jeffrey Toobin was on CNN this morning (paraphrasing), “I don\u2019t believe it.” He said, “I don\u2019t believe that poll for one second. The 90 to 77%. I don\u2019t believe it. It makes no sense that number would change like that. David, that poll is wrong, just because I said so.” He\u2019s talking to the political director, David Chalian. \u201cThat\u2019s not right. Just can\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, David Chalian is the guy that does the poll. He\u2019s the political director. That\u2019s who Toobin is saying, \u201cI don\u2019t believe your poll.”<\/a> And Chalian, of course, has gotta defend his poll. He said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s not to believe. You call people on the phone, you get their information, you pop out a survey. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve polled. That\u2019s what the people we talked to told us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toobin says, \u201cI don\u2019t believe it. I just don\u2019t believe it.” Isn\u2019t it great, they are now disputing their own polls. Here is Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, this morning on NBC special coverage of the House impeachment vote. Lester Holt says, “Talk about the weight of history on Nancy Pelosi shoulders.\u201d Give me a break, Lester, see, this is where you people are losing. The weight of history on Pelosi\u2019s shoulders? It\u2019s the weight of history on her guilt, on her conscience. Pelosi knew that this was the wrong thing to do from the get-go. She did it anyway. But here\u2019s Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.<\/p>\n

\"\"MITCHELL: Nancy Pelosi has been a remarkable figure in all of this. She is completely maligned and dismissed and attacked in this extraordinary letter, this six-page letter that the president obviously had a great hand in writing and was aided with Stephen Miller, one of his most hardline domestic advisers. Nancy Pelosi has been dignified and really straightforward. She understands the politics. They could lose control of the House.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Gasping) Talk about burying the lead. They could lose control of the House. And that\u2019s supposed to tell us how serious Pelosi is, how dire this president and his consequences are, how unacceptable. Why, it\u2019s even worth losing the House over.<\/p>\n

No, it isn\u2019t. There isn\u2019t a thing in the world that would make Nancy Pelosi say, \u201ceven if it costs me the House I\u2019m gonna do it.\u201d There\u2019s nothing that matters more to her. Now, some of you might disagree with. “Rush, you\u2019ve said it yourself. Their hatred of Trump is irrational. Everything about them with Trump is irrational. It\u2019s entirely possible that Pelosi would indeed throw away House leadership and Democrat control just to get Trump.”<\/p>\n

Maybe. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what this means. You see, you need to be able to read between the lines. You need to be able to see the stitches on the curveball. And there\u2019s nobody better at that when the Democrats are throwing the pitches than me. And what this sound bite means, she buried the lead. They could lose control of the House. What does that mean?<\/p>\n

It means this is bombing out. It means there is no reason to do it. It means they know they do not have anywhere near public support for this. Doing this is gonna cost them the House? That\u2019s the shocking reality, and they\u2019re too far in, they\u2019re too deep, they can\u2019t recall it, they can\u2019t call it back. When Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, says at the very end of the bite they could lose control of the House, it means they know they have failed.<\/p>\n

Their dream was to do this and bring millions and millions of Americans along and they wanted accolades and they wanted appreciation, they wanted support, they wanted people thanking them for saving America from this ogre, Donald Trump, and they wanted to be swept into landslide victory after landslide victory next November. They know that isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n

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\nSo in the midst of doing the most important thing they\u2019ve ever done, in the midst of doing their constitutional duty, they\u2019re faced with losing the House. If you\u2019re gonna lose votes doing this, it means that you have made a grave error in judgment.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Doug Schoen, a Clinton pollster back in the nineties, big-time Democrat strategist and analyst on Fox. He was asked by Bill Hemmer today, “How does all this affect the Democrats? What is your sense, Doug, based on the polling or people to whom you have spoken?”<\/p>\n

SCHOEN: This is not helping the Democratic Party. When you look at swing states and swing voters, they\u2019ve had it with this impeachment — and, frankly, for voters who really don\u2019t care a lot about the intricacies of the House process, they\u2019re turned off. This is the most partisan process I think we\u2019ve ever seen. I was part of Bill Clinton\u2019s defense team in 1999. There was some sense that this was a bipartisan process even if people disagreed. They\u2019re not gonna win the next election on this Ukraine issue or on impeachment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, and they haven\u2019t run on anything else other than “Donald Trump sucks.” Now, meanwhile, there\u2019s the record Donald Trump has amassed and the Republicans — and the story Donald Trump has to tell about the total reversal of economic circumstances in this country alone — and they don\u2019t have a counter, because they haven\u2019t even been on that field. They have been on one playing field, and they\u2019ve been on it alone, and that field is the “hate Trump” field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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