{"id":4457,"date":"2016-01-15T17:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-13T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:34:15","slug":"the_best_debate_yet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/15\/the_best_debate_yet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Debate Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/69633\" 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: Hey, look, I want to mention this before it gets lost in the shuffle of our post-debate discussion. Have you seen the economic news today? Retail sales their weakest in what is it now? Eight years, six years? They announce this&#8230; They wait to announce this after Obama\u2019s State of the Union debacle. And Walmart is gonna close 154 stores in the United States. What was it Obama said about greatest economic recovery in the history of the country?<\/p>\n<p>JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, we continue to be snookered, and your host is now being blamed &#8212; ha &#8212; for so much. Your host is being blamed for Trump. You know, what the people blaming me for Donald Trump don\u2019t get, they are the reason for Donald. You people in the so-called moderate wing of the Republican Party who have been wringing your hands and fretting over the possibility of a conservative nominee, you opened the door. Not us. And I\u2019m gonna explain that in a second.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best debate that we\u2019ve had last night. Did you watch it, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know. You didn\u2019t watch the last one. Don\u00c2\u2019t start get frustrated in there. This is the best debate we had. I just&#8230; I\u2019ll tell you: In my very humble opinion, I tried watching this last night as I imagine non-Republicans, non-conservatives, independents, maybe some low-information voters watching. And everybody on that stage last night, everybody came across as likable and fun and&#8230; Well, maybe a couple exceptions on the fun and funny.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_116414\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Happy-Candidates.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nBut nobody was dislikable. Everybody was on a charismatic roll last night. Everybody scored their points. We ended the night with basically three contenders. We\u2019ve got Trump, Rubio, and Cruz, and it\u2019s patently obvious to anybody &#8212; and all three of those people you can arguably say had their best debate at the same time. It was actually fun and a pleasure to watch. It was funny and a pleasure to make notes about. It came on the heels of so much criticism and discussion and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>But, man, everybody was just on their game last night. It was just good. Everybody came across &#8212; even in their confrontations they came across &#8212; as likable and friendly. I mean, it was exactly what the GOP claims that it wants to be here: Willing to cooperate, willing to cross the aisle. And I don\u2019t say that in a derision sense. I mean it as a totally upbeat positive. Now, we\u2019ve got the appropriate sound bites from the debate, and we\u2019ll get to those in due course.<\/p>\n<p>I do want to spend a little time on this economic news. This is not insignificant, and they\u2019re rolling this out on Friday. This is classic of this Regime. It\u2019s classic of the various bureaucracies in the government when they got bad news to report, they roll it out on a Friday when there\u2019s many other things people are focused on, like the 13 Hours movie premiering today. Trump with a smart move, by the way. In Iowa he\u2019s buying out a theater, renting the theater and buying a showing of it for anybody that wants to show up.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s paying for everything, close here to the eve of the Hawkeye Cauci. But retail sales. What else is there in this country besides retail now? &#8220;Retail Sales in US Decrease to End Weakest Year Since 2009,&#8221; so six years, and 154 Walmart stores are closing, and that\u2019s just in the US. There\u2019s 269 worldwide that are closing, on the heels of Obama just telling everybody what greatest economy we\u2019ve ever had here, the strongest economic recovery. All of that was just lies and BS.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Lance in Woodlands, Woodlands, Texas, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, sir. I think one of the reasons why&#8230; Um, I was listening to your show yesterday or the day before.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And you were talking about a report where some of the other nominees were gonna go after Trump and state that he\u2019s not as conservative as he says he is, or that he\u2019s not conservative enough. And I think that would be another huge mistake on their part. People&#8230; I think a lot of people like Trump because he has conservative views, and he doesn\u2019t apologize for \u2019em, and he acts on \u2019em. We\u2019ve had enough people in 2010 and 2014 that say they\u2019re conservative, say they\u2019re Tea Party, and then they just cave to Obama, or anybody else. They don\u2019t stick up for themselves, they don\u2019t act on their views &#8212; their conservative views &#8212; they just say, &#8220;I\u2019m conservative,&#8221; and then they just cave.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_116476\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/497046330_large.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\nRUSH: You know, that\u2019s a good point. That\u2019s actually a good point, \u2019cause in point of fact what you\u2019re saying is: The same people who, during campaigns, tell us and assure us they\u2019re conservative end up not being. And yet those are the same people bitching at Trump for not being conservative and trying to tell us we\u2019re being fooled. Like Mitt Romney, &#8220;I\u2019m a severe conservative.&#8221; We said, &#8220;What is that?&#8221; He said, &#8220;I\u2019m a severe conservative,&#8221; \u2019cause he thought he had to say he\u2019s conservative &#8212; and when he came and talked to me, he was.<\/p>\n<p>Then he\u2019d go to a fundraiser; it\u2019d be a different story.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, the same people who assure us they are conservative are warning us that Trump isn\u2019t. Yet when they have a chance to be, they aren\u2019t either. That\u2019s actually a good point out there, Lance. Now, the prepub going into the debate last night was not that Cruz was gonna hit Trump for not being conservative. He was just gonna hit him. I mean, it\u2019s down to three weeks now and we get to Iowa. They\u2019re number one and two. It\u2019s been kid gloves up toil now, and there was&#8230; Both of them went after each other last night for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>What else did I predict? I predicted that there was gonna be a gang-up between Christie and Jeb aimed at Rubio, and that happened. The minute it did, I got five e-mails saying, &#8220;You called it! You called it,&#8221; and I did. Christie and Jeb tried to gang up on poor little Marco in the debate last night. Marco held his ground. How did you think Rubio did last night? (interruption) I thought&#8230; I\u2019m telling you, I liked them all. I thought&#8230; We\u2019re talking top tier, here.<\/p>\n<p>I thought they all did well. There wasn\u2019t a dull moment. There wasn\u2019t a time where I thought, &#8220;Eh, you know what? I\u2019m gonna go do something else for a couple minutes, here.&#8221; Every other debate, there was a lull. There wasn\u2019t a lull in this one. I take that back. Look, there was, but it\u2019s where I would expect it to be, so it wasn\u2019t a surprise. The point is, I think everybody involved in this thing was on. They were attuned. They had their best foot forward all night. I really thought it was good. For as far as the party was concerned, I thought last night was a good three hours, two hours, whatever it was, for the party.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the overall view I came away with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Hey, look, I want to mention this before it gets lost in the shuffle of our post-debate discussion. Have you seen the economic news today? Retail sales their weakest in what is it now? Eight years, six years? They announce this&#8230; They wait to announce this after Obama\u2019s State of the Union debacle. 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