You know, because when I went through after the Hawkeye Cauci, New Hampshire — the top three — and I went through and analyzed all the three winners… And that\u2019s where this controversy over Buttigieg came from. I was examining him from the way Democrats do, the way Democrat establishment bosses were trying to look at the what they had, with Bernie on top and then Buttigieg and then, I guess, it was Warren. I don\u2019t know. The point is that their formulation, their strategy may be, “Who would they rather lose with?”<\/p>\n
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Now, I\u2019m telling you, in 1984, they knew they were gonna get trounced by Reagan. They knew they were heading to a massive landslide. They didn\u2019t want to nominate anybody in their party that had a future because they didn\u2019t want to kill the future of whoever they thought in their party had one. So they put Mondale up there. He\u2019d been a loyal VP for Jimmy Carter, he\u2019d been a loyal Democrat warhorse, he\u2019d been a great fundraiser, but he was never gonna win. But he always wanted to be president. So they arranged for Mondale to be the nominee.<\/p>\n
Now, 1984 was my first Democrat convention. I\u2019ve been to two of them, one at Madison Square Garden… I had a lot of fun with that one. They had purple Kool-Aid for \u2019em as they arrived at Madison Square Garden that year — and 1988. I remember going to all of the cocktail parties, and I was working for a radio station in Kansas City at the time. So I was spending most of the time with the Missouri delegation, and there was a huge Democrat power broker from Sikeston, Missouri, 30 miles south of my hometown, Cape Girardeau.<\/p>\n
This guy was very friendly to me because he knew my family, and he didn\u2019t yet know what kind of conservative ideologue I was. He knew I was a Republican but didn\u2019t know much else. I mean, in 1984, I\u2019m 33 years old, and I haven\u2019t even started a show like this yet. So I\u2019ll never forget. This guy said (impression), “Let me tell you, we\u2019re close here, Rush. We\u2019re close. You spot me 70 electoral votes, and we can win this election!” I said, “Spot you 70 electoral votes? So you really only need to win 200, is what you\u2019re telling me, that you got 70 in the bag?”<\/p>\n
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“No, no, Rush. I\u2019m saying, you spot me 70 and we can win this thing.” That told me everything. They knew they were gonna get trounced. Nobody talks like this. “You spot me 70 electoral votes and we could win this thing”? So, they knew they were gonna get trounced, and I\u2019m asking myself, “Do they have this kind of thinking going on this year?” Because, folks, somewhere in the bowels of this party, there is somebody in this party that knows that Donald Trump is not the ogre that they have tried to make everybody believe he is.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s somebody in that Democrat Party… I don\u2019t know who and I don\u2019t know where, but there\u2019s somebody in that party who knows that Trump is formidable and probably is gonna win big. So if you\u2019re the Democrat Party and if you really think that you\u2019re gonna lose because incumbent presidents rarely lose… George H. W. Bush is one of the rare incumbent presidents to actually ever lose, and Trump has peace and prosperity. He has a personality that no Democrat can match. He draws 125,000 people to a rally in India!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just inescapable, and they know what Trump is doing with these rallies and his fundraising and the fact… They know how many Democrat are signing up to vote for Trump. So their question is, “Who do we want to lose with?” I think. I\u2019ll put as a caveat that I could be dead wrong on this, and I know that there are some of them… Believe me, they\u2019re so deranged that they think they could win and they think he can win with socialism and communism, win with Bernie. So the party is an absolute mess.<\/p>\n
And when you listen to the standard-bearers like Carville and Rahm Emanuel — all the old, what you think of as the standard, day-to-day, normal Democrats — the way they talk, “This is end of the party.” Jim Clyburn, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucasians, thinks that if Bernie\u2019s the nominee, they\u2019re not only gonna lose the White House, they\u2019re gonna lose the House. They\u2019re gonna lose everything. So if they\u2019re thinking this way, they have to be asking themselves how do they want to lose.<\/p>\n
Do they want to lose, and do they want socialism and communism as identifiers of their party to lose, or do they want to try to win with it? ‘Cause that\u2019s really the question they face, \u2019cause Bernie Sanders is a communist. He is a socialist. When you listen to what he says he\u2019s going to do, I am telling you. In fact, this election, if he\u2019s the nominee, this is something that I, in the past, have actually longed for! I have longed for the starkest choice possible for the American people, \u2019cause I want socialism and communism to be defeated as possibilities in this country.<\/p>\n
And with Donald Trump as a Republican — and he\u2019s not a conservative ideologue. But I\u2019ll tell you what, what Trump has learned and the way he\u2019s been treated, he\u2019s becoming more instinctively conservative than anybody I know. Look at the judges that he\u2019s appointing. Look at the people that he\u2019s listening to. Ric Grenell is a great conservative, the guy running Director of National Intelligence<\/a> for him.<\/p>\n Now, the Democrats know this. Do they want to lose with somebody who is their future? Who is in their future in this list of nominees? Buttigieg would be one who\u2019s their future. I don\u2019t know, Fauxcahontas maybe, but she\u2019s not demoing she can — (interruption) What? (interruption) Well, no. But she\u2019s done now. She\u2019s done now. But age-wise she\u2019s not finished. But Plugs is not the future. Crazy Bernie isn\u2019t the future.<\/p>\n So why not, if you\u2019re gonna lose, lose with one of them. There was a time they thought they could win with Biden when they were delusional about their belief that half the country or more hated Trump. Now, there are some in the party who think they can win with socialism and communism. And that\u2019s why _ haven\u2019t mentioned Bloomberg yet. Bloomberg is of the belief that Democrat Party is finished if Crazy Bernie\u2019s the nominee. But we\u2019re getting to a point where Bloomberg can\u2019t stop it if he spent all $60 billion of his money because it\u2019s about delegates, and he doesn\u2019t have any, and Crazy Bernie\u2019s gonna have insurmountable lead of them after Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n So I still think that the battle within the Democrat Party is gonna be between people who think socialism and communism can win. And in that group you\u2019re gonna have people that think that that means free education, no student loans, free Starbucks, whatever else they want, free homes, and they\u2019re gonna vote for Crazy Bernie.<\/p>\n But I think something isn\u2019t gonna change. Turnout among the Millennial and younger demographics is gonna be low, as it always is despite the hopes and dreams of the Drive-By Media every election. They say the young are gonna put the Democrats over the top, and it never happens because the turnout never matches expectations. And it\u2019s running true to form in their primaries. The young are not showing up here in these primaries. More people are showing up to vote for Trump in uncontested primaries than are showing up in these Democrat races.<\/p>\n What he means is that at some point in this country we\u2019re gonna have a choice: socialism, communism, or freedom. And it may be that that choice is this year. The question becomes, or remains, what percentage of Democrat power brokers want socialism and communism to lose because they don\u2019t want their party branded as such. Not that they want socialism and communism to lose because they are rejected on substance. Because that is the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n The problem they\u2019ve got is that they can say all day long that Bernie\u2019s an outlier and that Bernie\u2019s gonna destroy the party, but Bernie is their party. Bernie is. His policies are indistinguishable. “Well, wait a minute, Rush. Crazy Bernie\u2019s for Medicare for All.” Yep. So is Elizabeth Warren. You had two Democrats that want to take away private health insurance, 150 million Americans get their health insurance at work, and they like it. Both Bernie Sanders and Fauxcahontas want to take that away from you.<\/p>\n Medicare for All is not Medicare expanded. Medicare for All is a brand-new system that does not yet exist. It\u2019s a branding art-of-deception technique. Medicare for All is nothing more than government-run single-payer health care. It\u2019s not expanding Medicare as it exists to everybody, including those under 65. That\u2019s how it\u2019s been branded.<\/p>\n Mayor Pete? Mayor Pete and the things that Bernie wants to do — in fact, let get a quote. I got a tweet here from Mayor Pete where he kind of demonstrates, he unintentionally explains that there are no moderate Democrats. Let me read to you this tweet. Now, Mayor Pete is trying to pass himself off as a moderate, right? Well, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything moderate about Mayor Pete. I think he is just another extremist who speaks in moderate tones. He shares Bernie Sanders\u2019 ideals.<\/p>\n Can I read to you the tweet? Pete Buttigieg: “We\u2019re just a few votes from Senator Sanders — whom I respect and whose ideals we share, but who has a very different approach — getting an insurmountable lead.” We\u2019re just a few votes from Senator Sanders getting an insurmountable lead. But he says he respects Senator Sanders and shares his ideals. I\u2019m sorry, Mayor Pete, then that kind of cancels you out as a moderate if you share his ideals because Bernie\u2019s not moderate.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. Here we go. (interruption)<\/p>\n Mr. Snerdley said, “What happens to the Millennials if they invest fully in Crazy Bernie \u2019cause he gonna wipe out their student loans, make sure they never have to pay another thing at Starbucks or wherever, and then he loses. What are they gonna do? What\u2019s gonna happen to the Millennials?”<\/p>\n What do you mean? What does anybody do after their candidate loses an election? (interruption) Nah. What do you think the Millennials gonna do? Go back to Grandma\u2019s home or father and mother, mom\u2019s home and get back in the pajamas and start tweeting anonymous insults at people? What are they gonna do? (interruption) Do you think they might not leave the Democrat Party?<\/p>\n You think if Crazy Bernie loses, that it might so shake the Millennials, they might end up disillusioned with the whole Democrat Party and all their promises, they\u2019re never gonna happen, say screw it, we\u2019re gonna do what, become Republicans? (interruption) Third party. (interruption) That is a question that we can deal with when and if it happens.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not gonna change what I want to happen because what the Millennials might do when they lose. That\u2019s the last thing. “Oh, we can\u2019t have Trump win. That would mean the Millennials lose, and then what are we gonna do?” Screw that. Think I\u2019m gonna be concerned with what the Millennials are gonna do? That\u2019s not gonna change a thing about whether who I want to win changes. (interruption) Ah, no. The Democrats are not gonna be destroyed. No. The Republicans are never gonna be destroyed.<\/p>\n But if the Democrat Party loses this election, depending on how they lose it, they could be shell-shocked and rocked for a generation. The more important question, what happens to \u2019em if they lose a significant amount of the black vote to Trump, if they lose a significant amount of the Hispanic vote to Trump, that\u2019s a bigger question for the Democrats than what happens if a bunch of spoiled, rotten Millennials don\u2019t get their way. I mean, that\u2019s how they\u2019ve grown up. Nothing new about that.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The Iowa Democrat Party is gonna recount caucus results from 23 precincts. Believe it or not… Now, this story ran three days ago, and I\u2019ve not seen an update from it. They\u2019re still trying to figure out who won Iowa three weeks after the Hawkeye Cauci on February 3rd, and this is because both Crazy Bernie and Mayor Pete have demanded recounts. In fact, Mayor Pete\u2019s “campaign has questioned his third-place finish in Nevada\u2019s caucuses and called for the state\u2019s Democratic Party to release a more detailed breakdown of votes and address reports of more than 200 problems allocating votes in Saturday\u2019s caucuses” in Nevada.<\/p>\n Have you ever seen this much in dispute? It seems like every Democrat primary, caucus, what have you, somebody is upset. Now, Crazy Bernie… Crazy Bernie is a Jewish guy. He\u2019s an atheist, however. (sigh) So I guess you have to call him an atheist Jewish guy. Now, Crazy Bernie yesterday “announced that he\u2019s not gonna attend the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee\u2019s annual conference, AIPAC.” They hold it in early March every year, and Crazy Bernie says he\u2019s not gonna go.<\/p>\n He honeymooned happily in the Soviet Union in 1988 when they were still sending Jewish people to gulags. Crazy Bernie is supported by anti-Semites from Linda Sarsour to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the Squad. “AIPAC Hits Back at Sanders Over ‘Odious\u2019 Criticism.”<\/a> See, now, this is the kind of thing that\u2019s gonna really trouble Democrats. AIPAC is a major, major, major donor concern — and here is the guy who appears to be the likely presidential nominee trashing them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg\")
So we\u2019ve got the essence of conservatism, which has created the last three years of an economic boom. The American public has expressed satisfaction at record highs. The direction the country\u2019s going: Record high. Trump\u2019s approval numbers: Record high. So we\u2019ve got that, and what are the Democrats gonna throw against it? Socialism and communism? I say, “Bring it on!” Let\u2019s finally have this side-by-side choice, and let\u2019s let the American people — once and for all — send socialism and communism to the ash heap in America.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-tearaway-American-Greatness-022420.jpg\")
<\/a>Now, there was record turnout for Crazy Bernie in Nevada. But that\u2019s because they saw what happened in New Hampshire and Iowa. But this looming contrast, there are some — in fact, there\u2019s a piece today in American Greatness, actually it ran yesterday. It\u2019s by Eric Lendrum, and his column is, the headline: “The showdown between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders increasingly seems likely. But the truth is it was always inevitable.”<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071919-Millennials.jpg\")
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In addition to saying he wasn\u2019t gonna go, he also “blasted” AIPAC for its “bigotry” against the Palestinians — the same Palestinians that want to wipe Israel off the map. Crazy Bernie tweeted, “I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason, I will not attend their conference.” Now, it shouldn\u2019t be surprising to anybody, \u2019cause Crazy Bernie is an atheist. So he has no loyalties of any kind to Judaism or Israel. (Snort!)<\/p>\n