{"id":336610,"date":"2020-02-12T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=336610"},"modified":"2020-02-17T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:37:31","slug":"my-one-of-a-kind-outlook-on-the-democrat-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/12\/my-one-of-a-kind-outlook-on-the-democrat-race\/","title":{"rendered":"My Unique Outlook on the Democrat Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Somebody asked me last night, &#8220;Rush, since you know these people so well and you know what\u2019s gonna happen, does it ever just get old hat and boring when it does happen and it happens exactly as you say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;No, it\u2019s kind of like playing golf, hitting a straight down the middle drive never gets boring.&#8221; Right, Brian? &#8220;Never gets boring. It just continues to be fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great to have you with us, folks. Here we are, three more hours straight ahead, broadcast excellence, El Rushbo at 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n<p>Let me share with you some headlines here. I have, as usual, an entirely different take on what happened last night than what you\u2019re getting in the Drive-By Media. I\u2019ll just ask you a series of questions as my take on this. Here are the headlines from the Drive-Bys. This is all conventional wisdom, this is all &#8212; I don\u2019t know &#8212; so utterly predictable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Limbaugh-Take.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Limbaugh-Take.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Limbaugh-Take-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/02\/12\/sanders_narrow_victory_over_buttigieg_in_nh_bolsters_his_frontrunner_status_142373.html\">&#8220;Narrow Win In New Hampshire Bolsters Sanders\u2019 Frontrunner Status.&#8221;<\/a> All right. Just bank all this, and we\u2019re gonna come back to it. &#8220;Is It Already Too Late For The Establishment To Stop Bernie?&#8221; What establishment? You mean they\u2019re admitting there\u2019s a Democrat establishment? And is it too late to stop Crazy Bernie? &#8220;Why Joe Biden\u2019s Campaign Is Collapsing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grab audio sound bite number 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/05\/01\/shh-dont-tell-anyone-but-joe-cant-keep-up\/\">I want to play for you something I said back on May 1st, 2019<\/a> when Joe Biden first got in this race. Some of you will remember this.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m gonna whisper this to you \u2018cause I don\u2019t want it to get out. (whispering) You just keep this between you and me, okay? Turn your radios up a little bit so you can hear this, \u2018cause I don\u2019t want this to get out. Don\u2019t anybody tweet this. Don\u2019t anybody put it on Facebook. But old Joe is not gonna be able to handle the rigors. It ain\u2019t gonna be long, folks, and he\u2019s gonna have to pull out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041918-See-I-told-You-So-SITYS-Adjusted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041918-See-I-told-You-So-SITYS-Adjusted.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041918-See-I-told-You-So-SITYS-Adjusted-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, what did I know that these wizards of smart in mainstream media news didn\u2019t know? Where in his track record has Joe Biden ever won anything in any presidential contest he\u2019s entered? I\u2019m not trying to be mean. I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand this. This is just fact-based analysis, intelligence guided by experience or vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>There is no way Joe Biden was ever going to be the nominee of the Democrat Party. It wasn\u2019t gonna happen. Because it hasn\u2019t happened when he\u2019s tried before. He hasn\u2019t done anything to erase the negatives that happened in the past. The fact that he was Obama\u2019s vice president and Obama won\u2019t even endorse him and Obama\u2019s out telling other Democrat candidates that Biden doesn\u2019t even have a connection with voters.<\/p>\n<p>You know, at Obama\u2019s office in Washington, he\u2019s been receiving Democrat candidates. They\u2019re coming in, they\u2019re asking him for advice and so forth. And he\u2019s been handing it out. But that\u2019s another questionable thing. I mean, the people Obama endorses lose as well.<\/p>\n<p>But some of these Democrat candidates are reporting that when they went in to seek advice and counsel from Obama, that Obama would say things (imitating Obama), \u201cYou know, when in 2008 when I went into Iowa, I had a deep connection with Iowa voters, but I\u2019ve lost that connection. They don\u2019t last forever in politics.\u201d He said, \u201cLet me tell you somebody who never had it, and that\u2019s Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Biden-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Biden-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Biden-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, what he meant was, Biden didn\u2019t do a thing to help Obama get elected, in Obama\u2019s mind. But you know where Biden was valuable to Obama? And I guess this doesn\u2019t count for much. You can\u2019t find anybody more loyal to Barack Obama than Joe Biden was. Whenever Obama was in any trouble, whenever they needed somebody to stick up for Obama, his character, whatever it was, they brought Biden out at the convention or wherever. And there was nobody better to sing the virtues and praises of Obama than Biden, and he did it. And this is his reward.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cutthroat business. But he was never going to be the nominee. &#8220;Well, what about all the polls, Rush? What about all the polls the past year that show him as the frontrunner?&#8221; Yeah, what about those polls? What did they mean? Another thing that I have been attempting to get people to pay attention to, and that is ignore all of these polls that are taken months before any kind of an election because they don\u2019t matter. That\u2019s not their purpose.<\/p>\n<p>These people that had Biden as the frontrunner for the last five months ought to be getting out of business by now, don\u2019t you think? I have never believed that Biden was going to be the nominee. And I have made that abundantly clear on many occasions. It has nothing to do with what I think of him. It has nothing to do with whether I like him or not. Just straight-up-and-down political analysis that, frankly, isn\u2019t hard.<\/p>\n<p>But these people in the Drive-By Media get all caught up in the fact that he\u2019s an ex-vice president, and that\u2019s the number-one qualifier. He was Obama\u2019s vice president. By golly, by gosh, that\u2019s who the establishment Democrats ought to want. Well, they don\u2019t, and they never did. And why did Biden get in in the first place? He had to be dragged into this. Does anybody remember this? Biden didn\u2019t really want to do it. They had to drag him in there, and that\u2019s \u2019cause of Crazy Bernie.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just stick with me here. I\u2019m gonna go through the rest of these headlines. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/11\/why-joe-bidens-campaign-is-collapsing\/\">\u201cWhy Biden\u2019s Campaign Is Collapsing \u2013&#8221;<\/a> I have an answer to that one, right here. This story is from Ben Domenech in the New York Post. But let me tell you why this is great. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/10\/never-trump-republicans-backing-joe-biden-in-nh-primary-emails-show\/\">Never Trump Republicans were secretly working on the Biden campaign<\/a>. Did you know this?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmails obtained by The Post show that two top staffers from Kasich\u2019s failed, 2016 primary campaign and Ohio\u2019s former GOP chairman, a Kasich ally, were among those involved in efforts to boost support for the former vice president in last week\u2019s botched Iowa caucus and Tuesday\u2019s New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/KasichConfetti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/KasichConfetti.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/KasichConfetti-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDocuments attached to one email show the group planned to identify and target at least 5,000 Democrats \u2018from the conservative voter base\u2019 in each of Iowa\u2019s four congressional districts, then use that information in \u2018suppression, persuasion and GOTV [get out the vote] efforts.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So you had a bunch of Never Trumpers, a bunch of Republican Never Trumpers, including Kasich\u2019s people, trying to help Biden get elected, trying to help Biden get the nominee \u2019cause they can\u2019t stand Trump, they hate Trump, they can\u2019t find a way to get rid of Trump, so they figured the best way to get rid of Trump is Biden. So these Never Trumpers struck out again, demonstrating once again they don\u2019t have a feel for the electorate, they don\u2019t have a feel for the American people. They don\u2019t have a feel for what their own party voters want.<\/p>\n<p>Never Trump Republicans helping Joe Biden? Why, you want to talk about the kiss of death, and it happened. I find it funny. I find it immensely satisfying that a bunch of nose-out-of-joint Never Trump Republicans who have it in their heads that they\u2019ve gotta hate Trump for reasons they can\u2019t even enunciate anymore, despite every supposed policy they told us all those years they endorsed now being implemented and working, that doesn\u2019t matter to them. They gotta get rid of the guy who\u2019s implementing everything they\u2019ve ever believed or said they believed. And they have been working to undermine Donald Trump since the campaign of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019ve been working to undermine Trump\u2019s reelection. They probably had a lot to do with all the Russia impeachment hoax stuff. Now they\u2019ve been helping Biden? Is it any wonder the guy went down the tubes? Of course, Biden was capable of that all by himself. But with the assistance of John Kasich and his campaign team, Biden\u2019s failure was thus guaranteed and assured.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another headline here. Let\u2019s see. &#8220;Biden Would Show Selfless Patriotism by Quitting the Race.&#8221; That is Peter Funt, USA Today. These Democrats have the strangest definitions of patriotism. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/02\/11\/joe-biden-help-democrats-beat-donald-trump-quit-2020-race-column\/4667184002\/\">&#8220;Biden Would Show Selfless Patriotism by Quitting the Race.&#8221;<\/a> Let me tell you something. I\u2019m gonna tell you people one thing here. Joe Biden still has value to the Democrats that they may not realize, \u2019cause I\u2019ll tell you, if Biden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308855 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-042419-Biden-Plugs-Jeb-Face-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-042419-Biden-Plugs-Jeb-Face-x.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-042419-Biden-Plugs-Jeb-Face-x-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, Biden\u2019s finished, and you know what that means? That means that a significant percentage of the black vote is legitimately up for grabs by Donald Trump. That\u2019s what that means, and that is gonna dawn on these people the minute it\u2019s official that Biden\u2019s done. It\u2019s official now, but it\u2019s not official \u2019cause he\u2019s still in there. But he\u2019s done. But once it\u2019s official &#8212; after Nevada, South Carolina &#8212; you watch.<\/p>\n<p>Panic is gonna set in. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/what-happened-to-elizabeth-warren\">Byron York, Washington Examiner: &#8220;What Happened to Elizabeth Warren?&#8221;<\/a> What happened to Elizabeth Warren? Can you say she tried to say she\u2019s an Indian? What do you mean, &#8220;What Happened to Elizabeth Warren?&#8221; And then she said that her kids didn\u2019t go to private school when they did. She can\u2019t tell the truth. What happened to Elizabeth Warren?<\/p>\n<p>How about &#8220;you didn\u2019t build that&#8221;? What happened to Elizabeth Warren? The question is, why was she ever viable? Why did Elizabeth Warren ever&#8230;? Now, maybe within the context of the Democrat nomination, you can say that she thought&#8230; These are people that get caught up in their own created media narratives that are oftentimes (sigh), well, created absent any consideration of public opinion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329184 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Dem-Debate-NOV-2019-Klobuchar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Dem-Debate-NOV-2019-Klobuchar.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APP-112119-Dem-Debate-NOV-2019-Klobuchar-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they calculate public opinion by looking at polls which have Biden as the clear frontrunner with nobody even close. There\u2019s a lot less gut being utilized by political analysts. Let\u2019s see. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/11\/21133949\/amy-klobuchar-new-hampshire-electable\">&#8220;Amy Klobuchar Is the Thinking Moderate Democrats\u2019 Candidate.&#8221;<\/a> That\u2019s in Vox. You know they\u2019ve got a word for what happened to Klobuchar? &#8220;Klobmentum.&#8221; That sounds like a constipation drug you might see on TV: Klobmentum.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to finish what we started here, and I want to present you the options I think the Democrat Party\u2019s faced with after what happened at the Hawkeye Cauci and in the New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n<p>But first, more evidence that you\u2019re right where you need to be if you want to know what\u2019s first and if you want to be cutting edge political analysis. Last night CNN special coverage New Hampshire primary, former governor Terry &#8220;the Punk&#8221; McAuliffe, the Clinton campaign, the Clinton White House, governor of Virginia, had this to say.<\/p>\n<p>MCAULIFFE: You\u2019ve gotta give this guy credit. I mean, he came in first in Iowa. It looks like he\u2019s gonna be second tonight. This is a guy, a mayor of a small town. A year ago, nobody gave this guy a chance.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He\u2019s talking about Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Nobody ever heard of this guy. Nobody knew where this guy was. Nobody&#8230; Uh, not so fast. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/03\/12\/keep-your-eye-out-for-mayor-pete\/\">Let\u2019s go back to 11 months ago today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE: Keep a sharp eye out for Mayor Pete. Keep an eye on this guy. He is gonna make mincemeat of all the rest of these people. When his time comes to face these people in debate, if he gets that far, keep an eye on Mayor Pete of South Bend. It\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say. This guy was articulate for what he believes. He was personable. He had an answer for everything. There was no, \u201cAnd, y\u2019know, I\u2026 Like, uhhhh,\u201d and there was no radicalism. Some things that he believes about Trump are typically crazy, but keep an eye out for Mayor Pete. He\u2019s 37. Keep an eye out for Mayor Pete.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Snerdley has been ticked off at me for making that observation nearly a year ago, because Snerdley believes had I not made the observation, a lot of people would not have given Mayor Pete Buttigieg the time of day. But just to illustrate. Now, Mayor Pete is, like every other leftist Democrat in this whole roster, a fraud in the sense that he\u2019s trying to cover up the fact that he is a radical leftist.<\/p>\n<p>His dad was a Marxist communist, who loved the Communist Manifesto. Mayor Pete\u2019s trying to carve a niche for himself where he\u2019s not Crazy Bernie\u2019s got that all wrapped up. But I don\u2019t care who the Democrats nominate. The party, as we\u2019ve said, is gone. It is a far-left party now. There isn\u2019t any moderate wing of any significance or size. There isn\u2019t any segment of it that is not some flavor or form of socialist. They want you to believe that it is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-336465 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Mayor-Pete-Man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Mayor-Pete-Man.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-Mayor-Pete-Man-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They want you to believe that Crazy Bernie\u2019s off on a tangent and that he\u2019s not really defining policy set for the Democrat Party. But a party is what its base is, and its base is maybe even to the left of Crazy Bernie. So let\u2019s say you\u2019re the Democrat establishment, and you\u2019re faced with some hard, cold truths. You got Bernie number one, Buttigieg number two, and Klobuchar with her Klobmentum number three.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got Fauxcahontas way back there in the background barely out of the tepee bringing up the tail end. Biden\u2019s gone. So you\u2019re faced with a dyed-in-the-wool socialist who\u2019s not even a Democrat; a gay guy, 37-years-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/02\/11\/mayor-pete-says-parents-cant-explain-trump-to-their-kids\/\">loves kissing his husband on debate stages (can you see Trump have fun with that?)<\/a>, and Amy Klobuchar. So you are whoever the grand pooh-bahs in the Democrat Party are.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306959 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-042319-Fauxcahontas-Warren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-042319-Fauxcahontas-Warren.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-042319-Fauxcahontas-Warren-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re looking at your options today (laughing), and you\u2019re asking, &#8220;Okay, can we win with Klobuchar? We don\u2019t want to put Klobuchar up there because she doesn\u2019t have a prayer. Trump\u2019s gonna wipe the floor with her, and that would mean two women in a row get wiped out by Donald Trump. Two Democrat women in a row. We can\u2019t have that! We can\u2019t let that happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then they\u2019re sitting there and they\u2019re looking at Mayor Pete &#8212; a 37-year-old gay guy, mayor of South Bend, loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage &#8212; and they\u2019re saying, &#8220;Okay. How\u2019s this gonna look, a 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump? What\u2019s gonna happen there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They gotta be looking at that, and they\u2019ve gotta be saying that despite all the great progress and despite all the great wokeness and despite all the great ground that\u2019s been covered, America\u2019s still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage president. They have to be saying this, don\u2019t they? Now, there may be some Democrats who think that is the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>There may be some Democrats who think, &#8220;That\u2019s exactly what we need to do, Rush. Get a gay guy kissing his husband on stage! You ram it down Trump\u2019s throat and beat him in the general election.&#8221; (laughing) Really? Having fun envisioning that. What are you left with? Crazy Bernie. They\u2019re left with the avowed revolutionary socialist who isn\u2019t even a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321864 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091319-Debate-HOUSTON-Bernie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091319-Debate-HOUSTON-Bernie.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-091319-Debate-HOUSTON-Bernie-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So which of those three&#8230;? They want to take all three out. They would like to get rid of all three of those, the establishment of the Democrats. But if they can\u2019t, which of those three would they rather lose with? Who among those three losing will do the least damage to the Democrat Party going forward? That\u2019s what they are facing, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Bob in Ormond Beach, Florida. Hey, Bob great to have you. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, it is such an honor since 1988. We love you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Since this is the morning of the Biden demise, it\u2019s about leadership. And the irony here is that the Democratic &#8212; the DNC, the strategists, the status quo, the Dem establishment purposely nominates somebody who isn\u2019t a leader. They want the opposite. They want a pushover, somebody that will allow their grifting and allow them to, with open arms, steal from the government. It\u2019s the same reason Hillary lost. And the people in this country recognize a leadership quality of Mr. Trump versus what is lacking in these Dem establishment leaders. I\u2019d love your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m not sure I understand. You think they wanted Biden because he\u2019s a pushover and they can really run the government while he\u2019s sitting there not knowing what\u2019s going on. Is that basically your point?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, why didn\u2019t you just say that?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay. Sorry. I was trying to be eloquent because I\u2019m on the air.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing) Just kidding. Well, if that was their plan, that\u2019s kind of up in tepee smoke, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So if they wanted a pushover in there that they could actually control &#8212; you said steal money or do whatever.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I didn\u2019t mean steal. I mean grift. You know, the typical Democratic establishment grifters that want to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They\u2019re gonna do that no matter if Biden\u2019s &#8212; I\u2019m not trying to diminish your point, because your point is good, that Biden was chosen, that he was preferred because he\u2019s not gonna know where he is half the day. And he\u2019s admitted this. And he\u2019s gonna appoint people that are gonna actually &#8212; he\u2019ll be a Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be sitting up there doing nothing while the real power brokers are people we won\u2019t even know pulling the levers for their own advantage. And if you this was their dream, like I say, it\u2019s up in smoke. And if that was their dream, what kind of power do these people &#8212; if there was this big movement to get Joe Biden nominated, who are these people behind it? &#8216;Cause they obviously don\u2019t have much juice.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Granger, Indiana. Victor, great to have you, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You mentioned earlier that of the three candidates, who would the Democrats want to lose with? I would have to say Amy Klobuchar would be the one. I think they\u2019re still in the process of grooming Mayor Pete for probably a 2024 run, an honest one, and don\u2019t want to put him on the big stage now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait, wait. Still in the process of grooming Mayor Pete?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, definitely. He\u2019s been groomed his whole career. He ran for &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, you mean prepped as a candidate. Okay. I\u2019m sorry. You meant &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (cell garbled) Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You meant prepped as a&#8230; Okay. So they don\u2019t want to throw him away right now. They don\u2019t want Mayor Pete to lose now?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No. He\u2019s Barack Obama of 2024, is what they\u2019re thinking.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Really? Is he gonna get vitiligo or something?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh&#8230; (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I really think he\u2019s our big name in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Biden-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Biden-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-021220-Biden-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: So you think that they would be&#8230;? I\u2019ll just take what you said. You think that they, the Democrat establishment, would be content to lose two presidential elections in a row with women at the top of the ticket, Hillary and Amy Klobuchar?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, because they can still blame it on sexist America not wanting to vote for a woman, and they\u2019ve already started the process of saying Trump\u2019s stealing the 2020 election with the Ukraine scandal.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So they\u2019re getting all their excuses in a row, and then they can pop Mayor Pete in there in 2024 with more name recognition, more exposure over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why wouldn\u2019t they want to lose&#8230;? Look, I\u2019m not disagreeing. I\u2019m just picking your brain for this. Why wouldn\u2019t they want to lose with Crazy Bernie at the top of the ticket?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t think they want that far left &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why wouldn\u2019t they want abject socialism to get creamed?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think with Amy Klobuchar she\u2019s a more safe candidate and what her views would be, how she comes across rather than the extreme. I think they know they need to stay in the center to win on the national level, whether they believe in the far left or not. You know, they want the far-left agenda, but I think they want to stay in the center as far as perception.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, yeah. I understand. The perception of wanting to stay in the center. But perceptions oftentimes are gonna succumb to reality. That\u2019s the problem with them. That is, I think, one of the problems the Democrat Party has. For most of my life, the Democrat Party has masked itself and hid from everybody what its real intentions are, and during the Obama years, they started to get brave.<\/p>\n<p>And then after Trump got elected, they are totally brave now. Here comes Crazy Bernie, some of the other left-wing radicals, all the stuff happening on college campus. It\u2019s gonna be tough to put that back in the bottle. I just&#8230; I don\u2019t believe there is a great middle in the Democrat Party anymore. I said this yesterday. I just don\u2019t believe it exists.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t believe that it exists in the country. How can there be such a grand and great middle if we are so partisan? If we are more partisanly divided than we\u2019ve been since the Civil War, how in the world can there be this great swath of moderate people that don\u2019t care one way or the other in the middle? And that\u2019s what people in the middle are, right? 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