{"id":3916,"date":"2016-03-16T16:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:53:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-28T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:53:54","slug":"chuck_schumer_took_out_marco_rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/16\/chuck_schumer_took_out_marco_rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Schumer Took Out Marco Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/70604\" 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: I need to say something here about Marco Rubio. That speech last night &#8212; oh, before I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I got a fascinating e-mail last night from a close friend. I probably shouldn\u2019t even bring this up. He\u2019s very intuitive when it comes to me and he\u2019s one of the few people who actually understands what I do and how. He said, &#8220;Are you worried you\u2019re getting to a point where you can\u2019t be honest with your audience and keep them?&#8221; I read that e-mail, and I said, &#8220;What\u2019s he talking about? What in the world?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you getting to the point where you fear you can\u2019t be honest with your audience and hold them?&#8221; I wrote him back. Haven\u2019t gotten a reply yet. It\u2019s gotta be something about the campaign. I don\u2019t know what made me think of it here when I\u2019m starting to talk about Rubio, but I have to tell you something, folks. That Rubio speech last night was the best speech I\u2019ve heard in a year, by anybody. Hands down.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_119574\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Schumer-Rubio.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nYou know, I guess it was a month ago or maybe six weeks ago, I happened to give Rubio a big plug on this program saying that I was getting worried, I was seeing all these attacks on Rubio in any number of places from people attacking him as a fake and a phony and not a real conservative and I couldn\u2019t take it anymore. I know the Gang of Eight\u2019s lingering out there and I know people think that the Gang of Eight was not a one-off with him, that that\u2019s who he really is and that he\u2019s been lying to everybody since day one running for state office in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FIMceRlQav4\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But I stressed, I made a huge point &#8212; I\u2019d just gotten off the phone with him the day before, talking to him. He\u2019d called here about the campaign and something, not about Gang of Eight, that didn\u2019t come up, but just a general conversation about the status of things. Didn\u2019t ask for anything. Was just shooting the breeze. Which happens with a number of them, by the way; I just don\u2019t tell you each time it happens. Not that often, either, but it does happen. And I just got tired. I think the guy is the real deal conservative.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I got a story here, Vox, that young wunderkind, Ezra Klein, used to be at the Washington Post, went over to this Vox place. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/3\/15\/11243096\/hillary-clinton-super-tuesday-nominee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hillary Clinton had an amazing night and not just because of her victories<\/a>. The left, the happiest thing for them yesterday was Rubio losing because they really believe that Rubio was the one problem Hillary had. I think they\u2019re wrong. But that\u2019s what they think. They think Rubio would have given her the big scare, \u2019cause he\u2019s young, he\u2019s energetic, because he\u2019s got the policy down pat. He\u2019s the antithesis of her and they\u2019re happy that Rubio\u2019s out.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_119569\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RubioSchumerBorderPIX.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nBut that speech he gave last night, anybody want to try to tell me that he\u2019s not a conservative, I\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re talking to a brick wall in me because that just isn\u2019t the case. That speech last night was just &#8212; folks, I sat there watching that speech. And it\u2019s not uncommon. The exit speech is often the best speech of a candidate\u2019s campaign. But this was better than even that. This would have been a great introductory speech opening the campaign. It was that good. I couldn\u2019t tell if it was on a teleprompter or not. Doesn\u2019t matter. I know it came from his heart. I know, &#8220;What about Gang of Eight?&#8221; Exactly right. Exactly right. If not for that &#8212; let me ask you a question. The way he handled the Gang of Eight, he botched that. What if he would have just said, &#8220;You know what? I\u2019m sorry. I was new in the Senate, and &#8211;&#8221; whatever he says, &#8220;&#8211; I got sucked in by these guys or I thought I could really help or change \u2019em. I thought I could guide. I really, really blew it, I\u2019m really, really sorry,&#8221; instead of trying to make the case for it over and over again the way he did.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think an apology would have mollified some of the opposition to him? &#8216;Cause I\u2019m gonna tell you what I think. I gotta take a break. Look at the clock. Don\u2019t worry. Not a tease. Will not lose my train of thought. I think Chuck Schumer took Marco Rubio out years ago. It didn\u2019t happen in this campaign. Schumer and the Gang of Eight Democrats took him out. I know it\u2019s ultimately his responsibility, don\u2019t misunderstand, but that\u2019s where we trace this back.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, I think Senator Rubio continuing to maintain that he did not regret his support for the Gang of Eight is the culprit here, which ultimately makes him the culprit. Now, I don\u2019t doubt that Schumer and his gang wanted the bill passed and I have no doubt that they thought Rubio would help them get it passed, and so forth, but, man, you stop and think if not. Rubio\u2019s story, his campaign, everything would be tremendously different. It\u2019s impossible to know what differences manifest themselves, but he never had a prayer.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_119573\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RUbioSchumer2PIX.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nI mean, you want to find out how important that issue is to people, you want to find out how important the perception that Washington betrays Republican voters, you want to find out how solid and sticky that is, you look at what happened to Marco Rubio. I don\u2019t know that he could have extricated himself even if he had apologized for it, it\u2019s that big a deal. And that one thing, if not for that. So it\u2019s sad, because that speech that he gave last night I think gave us a great idea who he actually really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I need to say something here about Marco Rubio. That speech last night &#8212; oh, before I &#8212; I got a fascinating e-mail last night from a close friend. I probably shouldn\u2019t even bring this up. He\u2019s very intuitive when it comes to me and he\u2019s one of the few people who actually understands [&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>Chuck Schumer Took Out Marco Rubio - 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:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/16\/chuck_schumer_took_out_marco_rubio\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chuck Schumer Took Out Marco Rubio - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I need to say something here about Marco Rubio. 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