{"id":337273,"date":"2020-02-20T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=337273"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:03:58","slug":"none-of-these-democrats-can-compete-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/20\/none-of-these-democrats-can-compete-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"None of These Democrats Can Compete with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, let\u2019s get to the debate last night. We got audio sound bites from the debate and a lot of reaction from the Drive-By Media. The Drive-By reaction to this debate last night is predictable. By the way, I don\u2019t mean to sound cynical, and I don\u2019t mean to sound bored by it. I\u2019m never bored by any of this, so don\u2019t misunderstand any tone in my voice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just it\u2019s so easy now to predict how the media is going to cover or not cover an event or a story. It\u2019s so easy to predict how they\u2019re going to be disappointed and when. I don\u2019t know what their expectations were. Well, I do know. Their expectations for this debate last night that somebody, somebody was gonna rise up from this cream of the crop and demonstrate they have the ability to take out Donald Trump. And what happened is that it became obvious to anybody that none of them have the ability to take out Donald Trump. Trump can take himself out, and that\u2019s a long shot, but these people can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Rush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Rush.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Rush-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, you have to imagine yourself&#8230; This is what I try to do: Imagine&#8230; Do you know what I did last night? I\u2019ll tell you what I did. I haven\u2019t done this in years. We\u2019re on the plane coming home when the debate started. The debate started, and that meant what? (chuckles) That meant watching PMSNBC, and I haven\u2019t had PMSNBC on a TV that I\u2019ve had control of in years. But I committed to it. I committed to watching, \u2019cause, if you watch a debate, you gotta watch PMSNBC, and then you gotta watch the aftermath of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>It is a different world. I know it\u2019s a different world. But to see it? It\u2019s an alternative universe. Folks, these people have nothing in common with you and me. Nothing whatsoever. I\u2019ll give an example here in just <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/02\/20\/cambridge-allows-illegals-to-drive-without-licenses\/\">the most recent news story out of Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/a>, in just a second. So I watched this last night, and I watched it trying to watch it as a Democrat. Do you know how hard that is? Do you know how hard it is to imagine yourself a Democrat watching these people?<\/p>\n<p>I did it because I really wanted to see if I could immerse myself in this enough to try to imagine how your average leftist watching this would react to it. I don\u2019t know that I was able to do that because my reaction to this debate was that there literally is nobody on that stage or anywhere in the Democrat Party right now that can even occupy a stage with Donald Trump and survive it. There isn\u2019t anybody on that stage last night that has the street smarts, the political smarts, the skills, the unstated talents and abilities to stay even with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what the subject matter. No matter what the debate topic. Even Trump tweeted he watched the debate last night, and he said &#8212; and he knew it was gonna happen. He says it was the worst debate he had ever seen (chuckling) which is classic. It\u2019s the worst debate he\u2019s ever seen, and Bloomberg was the worst debater he\u2019s ever seen. &#8220;Mini Mike Bloomberg\u2019s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-8-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this doesn\u2019t knock him out of the race, nothing will,&#8221; and then here is the tag line: &#8220;Not so easy to do what I did!&#8221; And there it is, in a nutshell. Donald J. Trump: &#8220;Not so easy to do what I did!&#8221; You know, the great make what they do look easy. They make anybody think they can do it. Even athletes. They\u2019re so natural at it that you think you can do it. You want to go try &#8212; until you do, and then you find out: If you\u2019re not naturally talented in whatever you\u2019re trying to do, you have no prayer.<\/p>\n<p>These people think that because Trump got elected anybody can. Because he\u2019s outside of politics, that means anybody outside of politics can? This is classic. Bloomberg looks at Trump ever since Trump got elected, and he is seething with jealousy &#8212; and this is what is really propelling and motivating Bloomberg, \u2019cause Bloomberg thinks he\u2019s the smartest guy in New York City, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks Trump\u2019s one of the stupidest and dumbest, and if Trump can do it, he can do it. Last night, Bloomberg demonstrated that he doesn\u2019t have the foggiest idea what he is doing. Let me give you an example. So Fauxcahontas hits him on the NDAs. Were you watching? By the way, I need to ask: Were you watching the issue I\u2019m talking about? (interrupting) Okay.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren\u2019t, let me check the audio sound bite roster real quick here and see if we\u2019ve got Fauxcahontas beating up on Bloomberg on the NDAs. Hang on. (muttering) The pages are sticking together. (sigh) Yeah, grab sound bite number 12 and number 13. This&#8230; This would have been so easy! This would have been so easy to nuke! Even I, not a professional politician, could have done it. So here we go: Sound bite number 12.<\/p>\n<p>This is Fauxcahontas going Megyn Kelly on Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QD4csGWPo6o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WARREN: I\u2019d like to talk about who we\u2019re running against: A billionaire who calls women &#8220;fat broads&#8221; and &#8220;horse-faced lesbians,&#8221; and no, I\u2019m not talking about Donald Trump. I\u2019m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>CROWD: (Wooooo!)<\/p>\n<p>WARREN: Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like red lining and stop and frisk. Look, I\u2019ll support whoever the Democratic nominee is, but understand this: Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the thing about this. Bloomberg is staring like deer-in-the-headlight eyes. I watched Bloomberg, and I said, &#8220;Everybody thinks this guy\u2019s brilliant,&#8221; and you know I\u2019m on record as telling you I don\u2019t think he is. I\u2019m not one of these people that\u2019s dazzled by wealth, because I myself am. I\u2019m not in Bloomberg\u2019s league, don\u2019t misunderstand. But I\u2019m not dazzled by it. I know so many people who think people who have a lot of money are brilliant, and people suck up to them.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why. Maybe they think they\u2019re gonna give them some of their wealth. It never makes sense to me. But, yeah, maybe Bloomberg had to become expert at something to succeed at what he did. But when you get down to common sense and just plain old IQ, it isn\u2019t there, and last night&#8230; How do you not show up prepared for this? Well, I\u2019ll tell you how you show up not prepared for it.<\/p>\n<p>You think nobody can touch you! Because you\u2019re arrogant and you\u2019re condescending and you\u2019re conceded, and you think nobody can touch you. You think nobody\u2019s gonna be able to damage you on this, because you can buy your way out of it. You can buy your way out of it the media. You can buy your way out of it in campaign ads. And he didn\u2019t have an answer for it. There\u2019s one more bite here from Fauxcahontas, \u2019cause this is where Bloomberg responded to her.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z8mj_Rhfy_A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WARREN: So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?<\/p>\n<p>CROWD: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMBERG: We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.<\/p>\n<p>WARREN: Uh, how many is that?<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMBERG: Let me finish.<\/p>\n<p>WARREN: How many is that?<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMBERG: None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn\u2019t like a joke I told, and let me just point &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CROWD: (boos and jeers)<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMBERG: &#8212; and let me point &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CROWD: (boos and jeers)<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMBERG: There\u2019s agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that\u2019s up to them. They signed those agreements and we\u2019ll live with it.<\/p>\n<p>(crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: Come on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-5-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Yeah, they&#8230; Well, they were forced to sign the agreement. Look, my take on this is different than what you\u2019re thinking. They had to know this was coming. People can survive this. In American politics in 2020, people can survive this if they know how to do it. This is my point. Trump doesn\u2019t have any competition. Trump\u2019s line on this was, &#8220;Yeah, I was just talking about Rosie O\u2019Donnell, nobody else,&#8221; and the place erupts with laughter, and he dulls the knife that Megyn Kelly threw at him.<\/p>\n<p>But Bloomberg? &#8220;Well&#8230; (muttering),&#8221; staring with deer-in-the-headlight eyes, &#8220;I had very few nondisclosure agreements.&#8221; &#8220;Well, how many?&#8221; &#8220;Well, I&#8230;&#8221; All he would have had to say&#8230; You know what it is? All he would have to say is something like, &#8220;I\u2019ll release all these women as soon as every member of Congress releases all of their NDA women.&#8221; Do you know how many members of Congress have NDAs because of sexual abuse? It probably dwarfs&#8230; Bloomberg probably can\u2019t even dream of that number, and he could have blunted the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>But there wasn\u2019t any preparation for this.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t any! It\u2019s like he thought he would be untouchable, and you could probably think of other retorts to this that Bloomberg could have had. Look, I don\u2019t think &#8212; I have never thought &#8212; that Bloomberg is gonna be the Democrat nominee, and so I didn\u2019t go into this expecting him to dazzle anybody. But the Drive-Bys did. The Drive-Bys expected him to dazzle and wow because they\u2019re just the looking for anybody that can wipe out Trump and they\u2019re looking for anybody who can bury Crazy Bernie &#8212; and Crazy Bernie emerged as the big winner last night.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah. Not even close, folks. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the debate last night. It was comical. It was funny. It was predictable. And in terms of Bloomberg, he let an Indian squaw beat the tar out of him, as you just heard. And I\u2019m telling you, she\u2019s taller than he is, and it\u2019s a factor, and don\u2019t doubt me. How many ways, how many ways&#8230; (interruption) What? What do you think? What are you looking at me that way for?<\/p>\n<p>An Indian squaw beat the tar out of Bloomberg. Absolutely. Fauxcahontas. She said it, not me. For crying out loud, I just listen to what these people say about themselves and I go with it. She says she\u2019s one-2,000th Indian, okay. She\u2019s a mom, she\u2019s a squaw.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-6-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>At any rate, how many ways could he have punched back at her? But he hasn\u2019t the slightest idea how to. Why doesn\u2019t he have the slightest idea how to? Because he doesn\u2019t have to, and he fires anybody and everybody who gets in his way, who disagrees with him. That\u2019s the way he does business. Fine and dandy. But that\u2019s not how this works.<\/p>\n<p>He could have thrown so much at her on policy. He could have thrown the Indian stuff at her. This guy did the impossible last night. He made Biden look good. And do you know how it\u2019s over for Biden? &#8216;Cause none of \u2019em cared a whit last night about Biden. Buttigieg going after Klobuchar. Klobuchar going after Buttigieg. Biden trying desperately to get noticed. Crazy Bernie trying to defend himself against whatever\u2019s going on with the Culinary Union in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen somewhere on the internet today that some say Bloomberg should have hired somebody to coach him. He did. He had coaches. He did rehearse. He has been asked about these NDAs on television and radio interviews before. But I\u2019ll tell you what happens. The people he hires to coach him, if they hit him too hard, he gets rid of them too. It\u2019s his modus operandi.<\/p>\n<p>He knows everything, folks. He\u2019s one of these people, he knows it all, he\u2019s not gonna hire some lesser person to teach him how to do anything. There isn\u2019t anybody that can teach him how to do anything. That\u2019s his problem. He doesn\u2019t think there\u2019s a political consultant out there or a debate stage manager that can teach him anything.<\/p>\n<p>But he lacks more than stature. It was obvious, his mind is not quick. He didn\u2019t even look to be in the moment. He had no humor whatsoever. The only thing he said last night that resonated was Crazy Bernie and his conversation about socialism, communism versus capitalism is probably the best conversation in the world to get Donald Trump reelected. He was right about that.<\/p>\n<p>But he can\u2019t laugh at himself. There\u2019s nothing self-deprecating about the guy. And whether you know it or not, Trump makes jokes about himself all the time. Trump is self-deprecating. You may have to know how to spot it, but he is. But when I looked at Bloomberg &#8211; understand I\u2019ve never met him. I\u2019ve been two holes behind him on the golf course I can\u2019t tell you how many times, and you need a telescope to see him.<\/p>\n<p>Never met him. He just doesn\u2019t seem to have, at least in that setting last night, any discernible personality. If you\u2019re in this business, whatever you are has to jump out of people\u2019s TV screens at them. If you don\u2019t have that &#8212; and that\u2019s an &#8220;it&#8221; factor &#8212; if you don\u2019t have that in any area of media, be it television, movies, Drive-By Media news, if you don\u2019t, just by your very existence, capture people\u2019s attention simply when their eyeballs are on you, then you\u2019re missing something very important.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Bloom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Bloom.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Debate-Dem-NEVADA-Bloom-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And Bloomberg to me comes off as a little crabby, looked like he really thought it was beneath him to even have to be there last night. But aside from that, where a lot of people looked at it last night and thought it was funny or thought it was great because the gloves came off and finally it was a real debate, there\u2019s a part of it, folks, and I would not be honest with you if I didn\u2019t share this. There\u2019s a lot of this thing last night that scared the hell out of me because these people believe this crap that they were saying. They believe every word of it.<\/p>\n<p>We look at it, even today &#8212; I\u2019ve been laughing at these people for 30 years, thinking nobody\u2019s ever gonna believe whatever it is they\u2019re saying. And now look. There\u2019s 30 to 35% of this country that\u2019s signed on to full-fledged socialism, communism. One lie after another. They have bought it. Some of the most inane, crazy, insane things people now believe, you and I laughed at them for all of these years.<\/p>\n<p>And people were laughing at \u2019em last night. And, to me, there was a lot of it that is really scary, if these people ever get presidential power &#8212; and someday, you know, the law of averages, you can\u2019t allow how silly and funny and comical they appear to make you relax.<\/p>\n<p>And even though it looks like there\u2019s not a one of them that could come close to beating Trump, you can\u2019t let that cause you to develop a sense of passivity and say, &#8220;I don\u2019t need to vote. The turnout\u2019s gonna be so high. These Democrats don\u2019t have a chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Adam in Orange, Connecticut. You\u2019re first, and it\u2019s great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you very much. To get to the point &#8212; I\u2019m sorry &#8212; I just wanted to edify the last segment that what I saw on stage last night was just complete hatred and disdain. Bernie\u2019s face, Warren\u2019s face, and, you know, I edify this because the left-wing liberals, the liberal side, all they have to thrive on is people needing them. And what Trump has inevitably created here in the environment for the past four years is people don\u2019t need them, and they have nothing to run on but negativity and hatred. And that rallies the soldiers on their side. And that\u2019s why I think, ultimately, they\u2019re gonna lose; they\u2019re gonna lose big.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I think that\u2019s exactly right. You know, folks, what Adam said here is so well stated, and it\u2019s so basic. There isn\u2019t anything uplifting on positive coming out of any of these people. Theirs is a politics of grievance. Everybody in America is a victim of something. Life in America is torturous, unfair, disadvantaged. Fauxcahontas saying, &#8220;When I\u2019m in the White House, I\u2019ll fight for your family.&#8221; It\u2019s not your job to fight for people\u2019s families. It\u2019s the head of the family\u2019s job to fight for the family. It\u2019s not your job to fight for the family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Trump-Rally-AZ-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Trump-Rally-AZ-02.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022020-Trump-Rally-AZ-02-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But they want everybody to be dependent. They want everybody to feel victimized. They want everybody to feel aggrieved. And, as such, there isn\u2019t anything positive. Contrast that to Trump. Trump is a can-do &#8212; Make America Great Again &#8212; and he has done it. So well, in fact, that Obama had to come out and endorse the Trump economy by claiming credit for it. So that really is a good observation. There isn\u2019t anything uplifting. That\u2019s not how you build a winning movement.<\/p>\n<p>You can build a significantly sized revolution of grievance and anger and upset. You know, I\u2019ve said this I don\u2019t know how many times. You go back to 1960, we\u2019re in the post-World War II boom, and Eisenhower\u2019s terms have expired. So it\u2019s Nixon-Kennedy, 1960, and what did JFK campaign on? He said, &#8220;Hey, you know what? Things are good, and we can do even better,&#8221; and then he started talking about how it\u2019s time to let the young people take over and make it even better than it is.<\/p>\n<p>These Democrats today can\u2019t even bring themselves to acknowledge when things are good for people, and they then can\u2019t even bring themselves to try to make things better, because in their worldview, things cannot be better, especially when a Republican\u2019s in the White House. So there really isn\u2019t anything infectious about them on the positive side. Quickly before the break I got an email, &#8220;What do you mean, Trump is self-deprecating? I have never heard Trump make fun of himself!&#8221; Okay, let me give you an example.<\/p>\n<p>He does this as numerous rallies. He talks about bringing back the old-fashioned lightbulb. Remember we had to get rid of the old-fashioned incandescent lightbulbs and get whatever these newfangled things are &#8212; and I was always opposed to getting rid of the incandescents \u2019cause they were great. They are. Trump says these new lightbulbs that have been mandated, they\u2019re too expensive and they make you look orange.<\/p>\n<p>And then he laughs and says, &#8220;I don\u2019t like that.&#8221; Now, that\u2019s self-deprecating because one of the criticisms of Trump is that his makeup makes him look orange &#8212; and he does his own makeup, by the way. So don\u2019t think that Trump doesn\u2019t laugh at himself. He does. Does Bernie Sanders? No way. Fauxcahontas? No way. (Snort!) Bloomberg? There\u2019s no way. And that just means, folks, that there\u2019s a segment of humanity that\u2019s not readily present and seeable in these people.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is Megan in Baltimore. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call. It\u2019s a privilege to speak to you. In your opening monologue you said that you don\u2019t think so anybody on the Democratic side can go toe-to-toe with Trump. And I agree with you. I just feel like every time I see or read anything about Tulsi Gabbard, I think it\u2019s a shame that &#8212; for the Democrats, that they don\u2019t &#8212; that they hate her so much, \u2019cause she has qualities, I think, that make her appealing in the same way that Trump has qualities that make him appealing. She has no problem standing up to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, what are these qualities about Tulsi Gabbard that you\u2019ve &#8212; how would you characterize them? Because you\u2019re right, they want no part of her. Hillary Clinton\u2019s come out, called her a Russian agent. She\u2019s well spoken. She\u2019s obviously liberal Democrat. What is it about her that you think they don\u2019t like?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TulsiGabbard-e1561750489644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/>CALLER: I think it\u2019s the fact that she has no problem calling them out when they\u2019re being ridiculous and standing up &#8212; like not jumping on the bandwagon \u2019cause that\u2019s what everybody else is doing. And I also think that she is appealing in that she\u2019s not bitter and joyless like the rest of them. And I think she could actually get a lot of Democrats behind her because she just doesn\u2019t drink the Kool-Aid like the rest of them.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, she hasn\u2019t. You could think she could, but she hasn\u2019t. She entered the primaries. She was in all the CNN town halls. I mean, she had early exposure. I agree, she\u2019s very likable. And unlike most Democrats, she\u2019s attractive, which may be a problem for her. But she still didn\u2019t amass a lot of support.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think it has &#8212; personally, I mean, yes, she didn\u2019t amass a lot of support. I think that the Democratic establishment did what they could to squash her in the beginning. And I think that\u2019s unfortunate for her and for them. And they wanted to push Biden, and they wanted to push Warren or whoever else they wanted to push, and it\u2019s just kind of backfired on them really bad.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And I think a lot of the Democrats are angry, especially the Bernie supporters who feel like the establishment is telling them, you know, this is what &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh. They\u2019re all angry, and Tulsa\u2019s not. One thing about Tulsa, she doesn\u2019t come across as angry. The rest of them do. For example, do you know what Mayor Pete just did? Mayor Pete just demanded that Bloomberg pull out of the race because of his debate performance last night. Mayor Pete, who Bloomberg accurately characterizes as a mayor of some town &#8211; (interruption) You didn\u2019t hear that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, Bloomberg says Mayor Pete, just a mayor of a town. He doesn\u2019t even think about the guy. (imitating Bloomberg) &#8220;He\u2019s mayor of some town somewhere. I was mayor of the biggest city in the country.&#8221; Not in the debate, he didn\u2019t say in the debate last night. This is beforehand. 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