{"id":3911,"date":"2016-03-16T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-28T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:58:19","slug":"trump_breaks_all_the_rules_and_it_works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/16\/trump_breaks_all_the_rules_and_it_works\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Breaks All the Rules &#8212; and It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/70614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mark Halperin, who\u2019s the producer of this <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Showtime show we played the sound bites from yesterday<\/a> with the establishment Republicans at dinner complaining about Trump. &#8220;The guy can\u2019t talk. He\u2019s not articulate. He doesn\u2019t have a straight thought. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. All he\u2019s got is a bunch of damn votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Halperin was on MSNBC yesterday morning and he said that Donald Trump is the most talented candidate for president he has ever seen. Mark Halperin, well-known leftist mainstream media guy said Donald Trump is more talented than Barack Hussein O. And Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post, was stunned. He couldn\u2019t believe this. He said, &#8220;You don\u2019t include Obama in the list?&#8221; Halperin said that Barack Obama was in third place. &#8220;Trump is one of the two most talented presidential candidates any of us ever covered.&#8221; The other one is Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SkYbBStofDo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Look at what Donald Trump does every day to defy. It\u2019s just in terms of pure political skill.&#8221; He said you cannot overestimate. He said Trump doesn\u2019t have advisors. He doesn\u2019t have strategists. You know, David Axelrod and Plouffe worked for Obama. And Clinton had James Carville. Donald Trump doesn\u2019t have anybody. He is his own foreign policy advisor. He is his own domestic advisor. He\u2019s got a media person. He\u2019s got a spokeswoman. He\u2019s got somebody that deals with the media for him, and that\u2019s it. Everything is him. He doesn\u2019t have any analytics people. He doesn\u2019t have focus group research. He doesn\u2019t do polling.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is raw political instinct, Halperin says. He\u2019s got no back rooms. He\u2019s got no career-oriented consultants. He\u2019s not running an ad campaign. He\u2019s not spending any money. And he\u2019s running rings around everybody. That\u2019s Mark Halperin. And all of that\u2019s true, by the way, and it\u2019s another reason why there\u2019s such frustration. Trump has blown up every rule. From the consultants angle, look at the political consultants business. One of the most famous political consultants, what\u2019s the guy\u2019s name, Snerdley, that ran John Kerry\u2019s campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Shrum. Bob Shrum has never won a race. And Bob Shrum is reputed to be one of the greatest campaign consultants on earth. He ran Kerry\u2019s presidential campaign. He\u2019s run a bunch of \u2019em. He\u2019s been on TV as an expert analyst about campaigns. And then you got Mike Murphy on the Republican side. But these guys are all over the place. And they get rich. They place all the advertising and they unusually get 15% of all the budget. That\u2019s the agency commission, it\u2019s what they get, that\u2019s how many of them get paid. So the more money the candidate raises, the more money the candidate spends, the better the consultants do. And these guys are the experts.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Murphy, for example, Sharron Angle and Christine O\u2019Donnell, he\u2019s out there saying (imitating Murphy), &#8220;Okay. All right. Fine. You think they\u2019re gonna win. They can\u2019t possibly win. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. They don\u2019t have anybody like me running the show.&#8221; And he was pretty much being truthful and honest. But it\u2019s a closed club, and these guys go from candidate to candidate to candidate. Trump doesn\u2019t have one. Can you imagine?<\/p>\n<p>In football terms, this is the equivalent of having a quarterback so good like Peyton Manning, you don\u2019t need an offensive coordinator. You don\u2019t need a coach devising a scheme; your quarterback\u2019s good enough to do it. So these consultants, just them alone, &#8220;Oh, my God, my job\u2019s on the line. We\u2019ve got a candidate here showing we\u2019re not needed.&#8221; It\u2019s this kind of stuff that\u2019s on the line here, folks. Trump can\u2019t win. If Trump wins, it makes so many of these establishment people look and seem irrelevant in jobs they have succeeded in convincing everybody are necessary to the point that everybody just accepts that they are.<\/p>\n<p>I have a minor way of relating. When I started doing talk shows everybody and their uncle said, &#8220;Well, you have to have guests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I don\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, you can\u2019t do a show without guests. What do you mean? Everybody does it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;That\u2019s why I don\u2019t want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you can\u2019t.&#8221; Even when I started in Sacramento and didn\u2019t have guests, and the ratings started coming, looking good, there were still people saying, &#8220;You know, this isn\u2019t gonna last, you\u2019ve gotta have guests.&#8221; They were still trying to get me to have guests.<\/p>\n<p>They finally said, &#8220;Why don\u2019t you want guests?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;One simple reason: Everybody else does. And there\u2019s no guest that cares anywhere near as much as I do about the success of my show. And besides, these guests are gonna be on every other show, and why are they on those shows? They\u2019re not on those shows to promote the shows. They\u2019re on the shows to be promoted. They\u2019re on those shows to sell a book. They\u2019re on those shows to hype a TV movie, episode, what have you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it was make-or-break time for me. I needed to find out if I could be the reason people would listen to radio, not a bunch of guests, not a bunch of promotions, giveaways, contests, records, this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But the point is, I was fought for three years on it. &#8220;You have to do guests.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;I don\u2019t want to.&#8221; One of the most fortunate things that happened to me was to have a program director back me up on it. It\u2019s rare. Well, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. There\u2019s so many things just assumed a candidate has to have: employees, staff, got to have foreign policy advisor, got to have a bunch of advisors. Got to have a consultant; you\u2019ve gotta have this. And all of these people come from the establishment. Not Trump. There\u2019s a lot of stuff threatening them.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Trump has put out an anti-Hillary Clinton ad on Instagram. Now, most of it\u2019s video, but I can play enough of the audio that you get the drift. It\u2019s 15 seconds and it starts out a little music and there\u2019s graphics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to facing our toughest opponents,&#8221; and then there\u2019s video of Putin practicing judo, there\u2019s video of a masked Islamist with the words &#8220;Democrats have the perfect answers,&#8221; and then it morphs to Hillary barking. And it ends with Trump. &#8220;We don\u2019t need to be a punch line. Trump: Make America great again.&#8221; So the only thing you\u2019re gonna hear here that makes sense is Hillary barking. We\u2019ll post the link to this ad at RushLimbaugh.com so you can see it, but this is how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to facing our toughest opponents, here\u2019s Putin judo, masked Islamist. (Hillary barking) (Man laughing) Putin laughing, and then the graphic, &#8220;We don\u2019t need to be a punch line. Trump: Make America great again.&#8221; With Hillary barking. Just first ad, 15 seconds, people are going to eat it up.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s another thing. Trump produces ads that people like, think are funny. Imagine all the free airtime Trump\u2019s ads are gonna get as well, even though he\u2019ll buy some. But we\u2019ll link to that ad. It\u2019s really good. 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All he\u2019s got is a bunch of damn votes.&#8221; Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Breaks All the Rules - and It Works - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/16\/trump_breaks_all_the_rules_and_it_works\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Trump Breaks All the Rules - and It Works - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Mark Halperin, who\u2019s the producer of this Showtime show we played the sound bites from yesterday with the establishment Republicans at dinner complaining about Trump. &#8220;The guy can\u2019t talk. 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