{"id":337311,"date":"2020-02-20T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=337311"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:04:04","slug":"crazy-bernie-is-in-the-drivers-seat-but-dont-be-so-sure-bloombergs-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/20\/crazy-bernie-is-in-the-drivers-seat-but-dont-be-so-sure-bloombergs-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie\u2019s in the Driver\u2019s Seat, But Don\u2019t Be So Sure Bloomberg Blew It"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Can I give you the lay of the land on the Democrat side right now? I don\u2019t know if the Drive-Bys are reporting this. I don\u2019t know how honest they\u2019re being.<\/p>\n

Right now, Bernie Sanders is unbeatable. Bernie Sanders is gonna have a delegate lead after Super Tuesday that Bloomberg cannot buy or beat. If everything holds true, the way it\u2019s lining up now be with Bernie Sanders is gonna — and then the thing to watch is gonna be, “What does the DNC do with superdelegates?” That\u2019s how they kept him from getting the nomination in 2016. It\u2019s not Biden. Right now, Bernie Sanders is sitting in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

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Even though Buttigieg is leading in delegates right now because of the Hawkeye Cauci and New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders — the way things are lining up right now — is going to soon (after Super Tuesday) have an insurmountable delegate lead. And if Bloomberg doesn\u2019t do something about that — and last night did not get him off to a good start… There\u2019s no way. This is still about who and delegates.<\/p>\n

Unless the Democrats change the rules and throw out delegates and say, “We\u2019re gonna give the nomination to the richest guy,” in which case Crazy Bernie would come in second. (laughing) He\u2019s got three homes. Bloomberg has 11. Bernie doesn\u2019t have a jet. Bloomberg has three. Bernie has a Podunk little fishing vessel. Bloomberg has six yachts. Well, five. One may be a dinghy to get back and forth from one yacht to the next. But Crazy Bernie would be number two in terms of number of homes. Of course, we don\u2019t know how many Pocahontas really has, \u2019cause a tepee you can put one of those up anywhere.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The ratings are in for this debate last night, and they\u2019re big. They are big, and the reason for that is all the hype about Bloomberg, the rich guy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you something, folks. You really have to learn to ignore the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom is that the Democrats destroyed themselves last night. The conventional wisdom is that Crazy Bernie… He is leading the pack and he is leading the delegates. By the way, one of the moderators last night asked every participant in the debate, “Do you think the Democrat with the largest number of delegates, even if it\u2019s not the minimum requirement…?<\/p>\n

“Should the Democrat with the largest number of delegates get the nomination?” Crazy Bernie was the only guy who put his hand up and said yes, \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna have most of the delegates. Superdelegates, that\u2019s when the DNC starts playing games to try to get rid of him. My point about the ratings is with a lot of people tuning in, the conventional wisdom is that these people looked like fools last night. To you and me, yeah.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ll guarantee you that there are enough disaffected, angry, aggrieved people who think they\u2019re victims who are gonna tune in and watch this thing last night, and if somebody impressed them? You just don\u2019t count your chickens. You know the old hackneyed saying. But whereas the conventional wisdom even throughout much of the mainstream media is how… In fact, let me give you a sound bite of this. We put together a montage. (singing) Babadabba.<\/p>\n

Yeah, here.<\/p>\n

Grab number 5. This is a montage of the Drive-Bys reviewing Bloomberg and his performance. But the conventional wisdom is that this was a disaster for the Democrats last night — and some people say if the ratings were big, it\u2019s an even bigger disaster. But I don\u2019t think… What I have learned after 30 years of thinking, “Nobody\u2019s gonna believe this leftist claptrap” — and I\u2019ve watched the number of people who do grow and grow and grow — is I don\u2019t discount anything. So this is not long. It\u2019s about 37 seconds of Drive-By Media experts shocked by how disastrous Bloomberg was.<\/p>\n

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GLORIA BORGER: Bloomberg was awful. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

BAKARI SELLERS: The performance was godawful. It was one of the worst performances.<\/p>\n

BRET BAIER: Bloomberg had a rough, rough go.<\/p>\n

WILLIE GEIST: They tore the skin off him.<\/p>\n

HOWIE KURTZ: You have to call Mike Bloomberg the loser.<\/p>\n

\"\"SARAH SANDERS: He was definitely the big loser.<\/p>\n

JASON JOHNSON: This probably was the most expensive night in Vegas I\u2019ve ever seen. (chuckles) He lost everything. It was a very bad night.<\/p>\n

MARC THIESSEN: An absolute flameout! What a disaster.<\/p>\n

KRYSTAL BALL: It was an utter and complete disaster. He should have just stayed home.<\/p>\n

VAN JONES: This was a disaster for Bloomberg. Bloomberg went in as the Titanic, billion-dollar machine Titanic. Titanic, meet iceberg.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Van Jones. Do you think they\u2019re right? (interruption) You think they are right. You think in this case conventional wisdom has got it right? See… (interruption) I know. I know to us the guy looked like a doofus, deer in the headlights, didn\u2019t know how to do things. But he still got all that money. And people are still fascinated by that. Especially Democrats. You know, don\u2019t believe this garbage that Democrats don\u2019t care about money. (Snort!)<\/p>\n

They care about money more than you do, and they use it to gauge their stats and so forth. Why do you think most billionaires in America are Democrats? At any rate, here is Andrew Yang. Now, this is the guy, he\u2019s out of the race. He\u2019s a big climate change guy. He was telling everybody in the early debates we need to move people to higher ground because of climate change. He was on the CNN post-debate analysis, and somebody said to him, “Andrew, you know this field the best. You know what it\u2019s like on that stage. What\u2019s your take on what happened?”<\/p>\n

Number 6. Three, two, one…<\/p>\n

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YANG: I don\u2019t think he was coached hard enough. You coach him and you have him give you 60-, 75-second answers (claps his hands) over and over again until he can do it in his sleep. And the fact that he did not have those answers at his fingertips lets me know, categorically, he was not properly prepared for this debate.<\/p>\n

BORGER: Well, they say they coached him on all of those issues, so —<\/p>\n

BASH: And that he had extensive debate prep with —<\/p>\n

BORGER: Exactly!<\/p>\n

BASH: — with real mock debates with his aides playing all the roles of all the people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So how do you explain it? If they did coach him — and I told you, they did. If they coached him, and if he thus was supposedly prepared, then what happened? I\u2019ll tell you what happened. He doesn\u2019t believe the people who coached him. There isn\u2019t anybody that can tell him any more than he already knows. He is one of these personality types, partly because he has all this money.<\/p>\n

He thinks he\u2019s smarter than anybody else and there\u2019s nobody that can tell him anything. Nobody in politics can tell him anything. He\u2019s been mayor of New York and he commanded, “You can\u2019t have a soft drink more than 12 ounces!” He\u2019s the expert. He\u2019s the expert in how much sodium you should be eating, and nobody can tell him different. So, yeah, he went through the coaching, but it obviously didn\u2019t take. Here\u2019s more Andrew Yang as he adds to the analysis.<\/p>\n

YANG: Donors who are on the sidelines right now, frankly, are getting phone calls from Mike Bloomberg saying, “Hey sit this one out; I got this,” and if you\u2019re a donor, not donating is actually a pretty appealing pitch.<\/p>\n

PANELISTS: (laughter)<\/p>\n

BASH: Mike Bloomberg is calling donors saying, “Don\u2019t give to my opponents”?<\/p>\n

YANG: Mike Bloomberg is calling donors, saying, “Hey, just sit this one out. I\u2019ve got this. I\u2019ll bankroll the whole thing. Uh, just don\u2019t donate to anybody.” I heard this from a major donor, a person who donates to a number of candidates, ordinarily.<\/p>\n

BASH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ah, don\u2019t you love that? He\u2019s calling other donors, “Don\u2019t donate to these people, I got it, I got it handled.” And then he watched the debate last night, “I don\u2019t think you got it, Mini Mike, I don\u2019t think you got it handled.” We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Folks, talking about Democrats watching a debate, when the conventional wisdom says that Bloomberg stunk up the joint, it\u2019s entirely possible that many Democrats watching loved it. Don\u2019t doubt me. I\u2019m not predicting it, but I\u2019m just telling you I wouldn\u2019t be surprised. When\u2019s the last time you believed the media on anything, huh? (interruption) Who? (interruption) Mr. Snerdley\u2019s asking me if I think the Democrat base appreciated Bloomberg talking about how he made his own money with hard work.<\/p>\n

No. They think the game\u2019s rigged. That doesn\u2019t impress them. If Bloomberg was giving it all away, like the Kennedys pretended to do, he might have a little bit more — that doesn\u2019t impress them. (interruption) Well, no, his best moment was when he told Crazy Bernie that “your conversation about communism is the best damn thing to get Donald Trump elected happening on this stage tonight.” That was his best moment.<\/p>\n

We got one more Doug Schoen. Doug Schoen has come out of retirement. He\u2019s been a Fox News political analyst ever since he got dumped by the Clintons. I mean, he left the Clintons. I\u2019m sorry. Now he\u2019s back with Doomberg. Doomberg has hired Doug Schoen. So Doug Schoen was on Fox News last night, and it was Mike Emanuel filling in for whoever. He said, “Hey, Doug, give me a winner and loser after this debate last night, please.”<\/p>\n

SCHOEN: The winner tonight was Donald Trump. I mean, the Democrats forgot that the opponent is the president, not one another.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

SCHOEN: The personal attacks may have sounded good to some viewers or some ideologues, but the loser are the Democrats. If we nominate a socialist like Bernie Sanders, who doesn\u2019t accept capitalism or people who believe in massive tax increases, we\u2019re gonna lose. It will be like George McGovern. It will be a blowout. Or like Mike Dukakis. Frankly, I was very discouraged with what I saw as a Democrat and as somebody who wants the party to win in November.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, this is what I don\u2019t get. These candidates all hit Trump last night. They also hit each other. What the hell are they supposed to do? Trump\u2019s not the opponent right now. If you\u2019re Mayor Pete, Klobuchar and everybody else is the opponent. Well, Bloomberg\u2019s the opponent, Crazy Bernie. What are they supposed to do? They have to hit each other last night.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s another thing. Doug, you have to forgive me. The idea that McGovern\u2019s an outlier or that Dukakis is — how come your party keeps nominating socialist outliers? Your party keeps nominating socialists. Obama was. Obama had everybody cowed. You can\u2019t have a bigger Trojan horse than Barack Obama. Obama gets elected, 40% of the white vote because they want to end racism. They\u2019re tired of being called racists. And they think the best way to eliminate all this talk about America being a racist nation is to vote for the first black guy running for president.<\/p>\n

So they did. And then what does Obama do? Here comes massive Obamacare, here comes all this big-time left-wing socialism. They didn\u2019t call it that, but that\u2019s what it was. There isn\u2019t a Democrat on that stage who\u2019s not a socialist. Bernie is a communist. But how in the world, Govern and Dukakis? Yeah, these are the standard-bearers. The Kennedys were the same way.<\/p>\n

The idea that these guys are outliers is what\u2019s wrong. The Democrat Party is a Socialist Party. You cannot conclude anything other than that when the leading frontrunner is a communist. Crazy Bernie. How in the world do you say he\u2019s an outlier? Sorry, Doug. But the Democrat Party, when it had guys in it like — oh, who was that old guy from Texas? John Connally and then — (interruption) Who? (interruption) Well, Lloyd Bentsen, yes, but he\u2019s not the guy I\u2019m thinking of. There was a Democrat Party standard-bearer. Can\u2019t think of his name. It will come to me.<\/p>\n

But those days of the Democrat Party are gone. Mondale was a socialist communist. Look what he was talking about in 1984 when he was running against Reagan. The idea that this party is somehow some centrist bunch of mild, peaceful, harmless Democrats is a biggest myth in American politics.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Andrew Yang says that Bloomberg is calling other donors and telling them to sit it out. Right? Does that constitute rigging the election? If one candidate is telling other donors to sit it out, that he can handle it, and you\u2019re another Democrat candidate, would you think that that is an attempt to rig the primary?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Chuck. Chuck\u2019s in Tampa. Great to have you back on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. So I\u2019m listening to our local affiliate here and they\u2019re talking about a study that 30 professors and graduate students at USF did last night during the debate. They all wore monitors to see which candidate got the most visceral, pure responsive physiological reaction during debate. And their results were 100 percent inconclusive, which shows you just how lost this party is and how unexciting all these candidates are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute. Did you say it was college professors and students or just college professors?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was students — it was graduate students and college professors —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — who got together to do this study last night. It was more than 30 of them. And they all hooked themselves up to monitors and they watched the debate. And they didn\u2019t answer any questions. They just — throughout the course of the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there\u2019s the Frank Luntz thing. They register pro and con, heartbeat goes up, heartbeat goes down, urine fills up, bladder fills up, whatever, when they\u2019re watching this up, bowels fill up, whatever happens and it shows up on the monitors, and what you\u2019re saying is that there was nothing conclusive?<\/p>\n

CALLER: There was nothing conclusive. There was no clear winner. None of them got excited enough to show that any one particular candidate walked away with it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you kidding? You mean there wasn\u2019t even a universal agreement about how badly Bloomberg did?<\/p>\n

CALLER: There may have been, but from what I\u2019ve heard on the reports from it on the radio and in the small news blurbs that I\u2019ve seen, it simply said that there was no clear winner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, I need to get hold of this, get my hands on this. I need to study stuff like this myself. So you had 30 grad students, 30 academicians, elitists, strapping themselves to this gear. They\u2019re not doing it for somebody else\u2019s survey. They\u2019re doing their own. And no clear-cut winner or preference from this debate last night.<\/p>\n

Now, measure that against what the Drive-Bys are telling you about last night\u2019s debate. What is the conventional wisdom about last night\u2019s debate? That Bloomberg blew it sky-high. He may as well cram it, get out of it. He blew it. But not according to these egghead academicians. There is not even any agreement on that. That we know.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s add to this. Grab audio sound bite number 9. This is last night, CNN\u2019s post-debate analysis. Fredo Cuomo had The Punk, Terry McAuliffe, the former governor of Virginia. He said, “Hey, is tonight a step closer to beating Trump for the Democrats after what you saw?”<\/p>\n

\"\"MCAULIFFE: No, no. Nobody, Chris, is going to go into our convention in Milwaukee with 1,991 delegates. It\u2019s not gonna happen. Bernie is going to get, at 30% in every one of these contests going forward, he is marching toward the nomination. His goal is he\u2019s got to have a big enough lead going in so no one will…<\/p>\n

CUOMO: You don\u2019t think he\u2019ll have a plurality?<\/p>\n

MCAULIFFE: He will have a plurality. He needs a big one. Because if it\u2019s a close one, then I\u2019m telling you Milwaukee, you can burn the house down. Donald Trump will be eatin\u2019 popcorn, havin\u2019 a great time.<\/p>\n

BORGER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So The Punk here thinks that nobody is gonna get the required 1,991 delegates to secure the nomination, which means brokered convention. Now, last night at the debate, the candidates were asked, “Do you think, at the end of this process, the candidate with the most delegates, even if it\u2019s not the minimum required, should be the nominee?” Only Crazy Bernie raised his hand.<\/p>\n

Now, The Punk is right. Crazy Bernie is leading in the delegate battle right now. He will continue to lead. If nobody gets to 1,991, the Democrats are gonna do something with superdelegates. You know, every four years one of the parties is said to be in such trouble that a brokered convention is practically guaranteed.<\/p>\n

And do you know it never happened? We haven\u2019t had a brokered convention since, what, the fifties. And yet they keep talking about it, they keep dreaming about it. The rules are set up to prevent a brokered convention. And yet here are the Democrats acting like it\u2019s a foregone conclusion. Now, here is F. Chuck Todd. He was a co-moderator of the debate last night. And he is asking Bloomberg essentially if he should even exist.<\/p>\n

TODD: Mayor Bloomberg, should you exist?<\/p>\n

BLOOMBERG: I can\u2019t speak for all billionaires. All you know is I\u2019ve been very lucky, made a lot of money, and I\u2019m giving it all away to make this country better. And a good chunk it of goes to the Democratic Party as well.<\/p>\n

TODD: Is it too much? Have you earned too much money? Has it been an obscene amount of money? Should you have earned that much money?<\/p>\n

BLOOMBERG: Yes. I\u2019ve worked very hard for it. And I\u2019m giving it away.<\/p>\n

TODD: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Should you have that much money? Should you even exist? Are you going to give it away? “Yeah, I\u2019m gonna give it all away. A lot of it is gonna go to the Democrats.” He\u2019s giving most of it to the media right now. He\u2019s buying all these ads. He\u2019s giving most of it away to the media.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you one of the biggest problems the Democrats have out there, folks, and that is Trump fixed Obama\u2019s economy, so much so that Obama\u2019s now endorsing it. Obama\u2019s claiming credit for it. And now the Democrats, they\u2019re left to say that health care\u2019s broken, which is Obamacare. So Trump fixed Obama\u2019s economy. Obamacare\u2019s broken; that has to be fixed. The past four years have been nothing but a repair and an improvement over everything Obama, and that\u2019s a problem for the Democrats, \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing to fix. The Democrats are offering solutions to things that don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Democrats are trying to create imaginary problems in the minds of voters. Now, we got the numbers on the ratings for the debate: 33.5 million people watched. That is a big number, because the Democrats have barely been attracting two to three million for these debates. Now, why do you think that is, Snerdley? Why do you think 33.5 million…? (interruption) They wanted to see the rich guy. They wanted to see the rich guy. They wanted to see how Bloomberg would do.<\/p>\n

Now, the conventional wisdom is that Bloomberg blew it sky-high.<\/p>\n

But do we know that?<\/p>\n

The way we look at it, yeah.<\/p>\n

The way the Drive-Bys look at it, yeah.<\/p>\n

But to conclude that Bloomberg blew it, you have to concede — you have to admit — that people like Fauxcahontas. Where\u2019s the evidence of that? You have to think people like Mayor Pete, that people like Biden — and based on their poll numbers, not a whole lot of people do. So don\u2019t be shocked. Here. I\u2019ve mentioned a couple times that the best Bloomberg moment was when he lectured Crazy Bernie on communism, and here it is. We have two sound bites from the debate. Here\u2019s the first one…<\/p>\n