{"id":339698,"date":"2020-03-11T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=339698"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T20:19:51","slug":"crazy-bernie-stays-in-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/03\/11\/crazy-bernie-stays-in-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Bernie Stays in the Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We\u2019re also approaching DEFCON 5 here for Crazy Bernie. He\u2019s got a press conference that he\u2019s gonna conduct about two minutes from now, if it starts on time, at 1 o\u2019clock Eastern. He is back home in Burlington, Vermont, and he\u2019s gonna have some kind of campaign update after really, really shattering, devastating, disappointing, bomb-out results in yesterday\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n

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He lost four states. It wasn\u2019t even close. The media is breathlessly wondering what Crazy Bernie\u2019s gonna say. I have no idea. All I can tell you is, the guy is not a fighter. I don\u2019t care what he says he\u2019s gonna do, he doesn\u2019t fight. He rolls over and lets whoever wants to take him out take him out. So we\u2019ll know in a short minute or two.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Crazy Bernie is… I don\u2019t know. The media might have thought he was gonna concede and give up and quit, but I didn\u2019t think that. I just… (chuckling) I know. He started out by saying Trump is a racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, religious bigot. He checked off every box — every box — that the liberal Democrats think about conservatives. Racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, religious bigot. Has he said anything about the coronavirus yet? You know, I left the room.<\/p>\n

I had to leave. There are certain things I can only do during commercial breaks and I had to go do those things, and I didn\u2019t think the clown would start on time. These guys never start on time. I come back in here and he\u2019s already at it. So Cookie is rolling on the audio, and we will have that just so I can hear it. I didn\u2019t even hear the insult of Trump. But it\u2019s… Look, the guy is a caricature. This is the thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, the worst thing that could happen for Biden and the Democrats is for this guy to go on, and for this guy to go on with his agenda and with the things that he\u2019s been saying. This is one of the reasons they\u2019ve had to circle the wagons around Biden is to head this guy off at the pass, which it looks like they have done in the delegate count.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a yeoman\u2019s job ahead of him overcoming the delegate deficiency that he has now. And you know what I also think? I also think he\u2019s probably heard the talk from people like me that he\u2019s not a fighter, that he kind of rolls over, \u2019cause he sounds a little bit ticked off here during some of this. In fact, our microphones are there. Let\u2019s JIP a little bit of this, just so you can hear a little bit of Crazy Bernie —<\/p>\n

SANDERS: …a hundred thousand people go bankrupt in our country —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what we need.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: — many of medically related debt. And what are you gonna do for the working people of this country and small-business people who are paying, on average, 20% of their incomes to health care?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Aw, come on, man —<\/p>\n

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SANDERS: Joe, what are you gonna do to end the absurdity of the United States of America being the only major country on earth where health care is not a human right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

SANDERS: Are you really going to veto a Medicare for All bill if it is passed in Congress? Joe, how are you gonna respond to the scientists who tell us we have seven or eight years remaining to transform our energy system —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

SANDERS: — before irreparable harm takes place to this planet because of the ravages of climate change.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, and we can\u2019t go to Mars now! Elon Musk may not be able to go.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: At a time when young people need a higher education to make it into the middle class —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: — what are you gonna do to make sure that all of our people can go to college or trade school regardless of their income? And what are you gonna do about the millions of people who are struggling with outrageous levels of student debt?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Forgive it! What else?<\/p>\n

SANDERS: Joe, at a time when we have more people in jail than Communist China, a nation four times our size, what are you gonna do to end mass incarceration and a racist criminal justice system? And what are you gonna do to end the terror that millions of undocumented people experience right now because of our broken and inhumane immigration system?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t this great? This is… He\u2019s challenging Biden here, folks.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: What are you gonna do about the fact we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth, and are living with the fact that 500,000 people tonight are homeless and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Bernie?<\/p>\n

SANDERS: — 18 million families are spending half of their income to put roof over their heads?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, it\u2019s daytime right now, not nighttime.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: Joe, importantly, what are you gonna do to end the absurdity of billionaires buying elections, and the three wealthiest people in America owning more wealth than the bottom half of our people?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why does anybody want to live in this country anymore?<\/p>\n

SANDERS: So let me conclude the way I began.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You listen to this guy talk about America, why does anybody want to live here?<\/p>\n

SANDERS: Donald Trump must be defeated —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: — and I will do everything in my power to make that happens. (sic) On Sunday night in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the American people will have the opportunity to see which candidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal. Thank you all very much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. That\u2019s Crazy Bernie. That debate? That debate, the Democrat Party is trying to shut it down! They don\u2019t want it to happen. They can\u2019t dare put Biden out there in front of this guy. They can\u2019t do it, folks! Greetings, and welcome to the EIB Network. Great to… (interruption) What do you mean, they can\u2019t do it? I\u2019ll tell you: They\u2019re gonna shut it down.<\/p>\n

Carville and Clyburn are already saying, “End it! Let\u2019s just end the campaign because of the coronavirus. Let\u2019s end this; let\u2019s end that. No more debates! Let\u2019s just be done with it.” Here. I\u2019ve got sound bites coming up. Grab sound bite number 3. You haven\u2019t heard this. This is James Clyburn last night on NPR.<\/p>\n

CLYBURN: I think it is time for us to shut this primary down. It is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates, because you don\u2019t do anything but get yourself in trouble if you continue this contest when it\u2019s obvious that the numbers will not shake out for you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He telling Bernie, “You don\u2019t have a prayer, man. We\u2019re gonna shut it down. We\u2019re gonna shut down the debates. No more debates! We\u2019re gonna shut down the primary. That\u2019s gonna be it.” Now, see, Bernie began by saying that even though he\u2019s behind in delegates, he\u2019s actually winning. I love the way Democrats calculate these things. Bernie says he\u2019s actually winning, because the country really wants socialism, especially the young people.<\/p>\n

The young people are the future; the young people want socialism.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So let\u2019s go back here. I spent a lot of time on this in the previous half hour. When Bernie went off the rails and started praising Castro and Che Guevara and Soviet communism and so forth, they were up a creek. They had to go all-in with Biden, but Biden doesn\u2019t know where he is. Biden is senile. And so now here comes Bernie challenging Joe to the questions, giving him — actually, I think this is very nice of Bernie. Do you know what Bernie\u2019s doing? He\u2019s doing a Donna Brazile here.<\/p>\n

Remember how Donna Brazile gave Hillary the debate questions in advance, CNN? Well, Bernie\u2019s being a nice guy. Bernie is telling Joe, here\u2019s what\u2019s coming in the debate on Sunday. I\u2019m gonna ask you these questions, Joe. And I expect you to have answers for \u2019em.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s giving Joe Biden a little cheat sheet. The Democrats do not want this debate to happen. Here again, playing James Clyburn now that you\u2019ve got the context here, play Clyburn, and we\u2019re goon gonna follow it by Carville who\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

CLYBURN: I think it is time for us to shut this primary down. It is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates because you don\u2019t do anything but get yourself in trouble if you continue this contest when it\u2019s obvious that the numbers will not shake out for you.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So they want Bernie to give up. They want Bernie to concede now. We\u2019re not even to April. They want Bernie to concede now, not even half the delegates have been chosen, they want Bernie to concede. Here is James Carville last night on MSNBC.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Remember, remember this is all about November. These voters want to shut this thing down. I mean, you can just look all across the spectrum of the Democratic Party and people are saying, “we\u2019ve made our decision, this is who we goin\u2019 with.” According to FiveThirtyEight, there\u2019s a 99 to one chance that Vice President Biden is going to be the nominee. Let\u2019s shut this puppy down. (laughter) This thing is decided. There\u2019s no reason to keep it goin\u2019, not even a day longer.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Isn\u2019t this fabulous? These people want to get rid of Trump, they want to use the coronavirus to destroy the U.S. economy, they want to get rid of Trump, and now they want to shut down their own primary based on a poll, based on Nate Silver, based on FiveThirtyEight. (imitating Carville) “A 99 to one chance. Shut that puppy down. Shut it down. We\u2019re done. We\u2019re done. Democrat Party done made up their mind, this is it, this is it, they don\u2019t want to go no further no way no how.”<\/p>\n

Is that what Democrat voters want? Well, James Carville is out there saying (Carville impression), “The Democrats want to shut that puppy down, we don\u2019t go no further, don\u2019t need to go anywhere down the raod, it done deal, done deal. We got our guy. We got Biden. He gonna be the nominee. We gonna put him in the attic. We gonna put him in the attic, nobody gonna see him, hear from him at all until November.” That\u2019s their plan. Here\u2019s David Axelrod. You think we\u2019re exaggerating this a little, here\u2019s last night\u2019s CNN special coverage. It\u2019s Obama\u2019s campaign manager.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: One of the strategic questions is what are you trying to accomplish on Sunday? Do you think you can actually topple Biden in a way that could have this galvanic effect that completely changes the physics of this race in a way that seems impossible? I do think that you\u2019re gonna see enormous pressure from all elements of the party to yield to the results that we now can see and start getting about the business of trying to deal with defeating Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is incredible. This is incredible. They want to shut it down before anybody has the number of delegates needed to win the nomination. You want to talk about screwing Bernie Sanders twice, this time they\u2019re doing it in public. This time they\u2019re doing it in front of everybody. They screwed Crazy Bernie in 2016 with the superdelegates and so forth. He went along with it. Now they are screwing the guy in public, folks.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re doing it on the basis that you Democrats want this shut down. You don\u2019t want this to go any further because everybody\u2019s made up their minds. We got our nominee, got our guy, gonna be Joe Biden, Democrat Party has made up its mind, that\u2019s who it gonna be. We need to put it all to bed now, put our candidate to bed, put him up in the attic until November, says James Carville. Right. So we can get back to panicking everybody on the coronavirus too all the time, full time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Crazy Bernie as he opened his presser at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the modern history of our country, and he must be defeated. Tragically we have a president today who is a pathological liar and who is running a corrupt administration. He clearly does not understand the Constitution of the United States and thinks that he is a president who is above the law. In my view, he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, and a religious bigot. And he must be defeated. And I will do everything in my power to make that happen.<\/p>\n