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RUSH: So I checked the e-mail during the break, and there was a fairly decent point. “Rush, you\u2019re ripping into Jeb\u2019s campaign people<\/a>. But don\u2019t you realize, if it weren\u2019t for Trump, Jeb would probably be the guy with 20 points right now and this thing would be over?” Well, there that word is again: “If.” Yeah, well, “if” a lot of things, then things would be different. But that actually kind of buttresses my point. You say, “If it weren\u2019t for Trump…” Well, it is for Trump. Trump is there. You\u2019d better be able to adapt to it and you better be able to figure out why Trump is doing well. <\/p>\n

And if the only ammo you\u2019ve got with Trump is, “He\u2019s gonna blow it, he\u2019s gonna fade, he\u2019s gonna step in it, he\u2019s not gonna last, he doesn\u2019t really mean it, he\u2019s gonna get out,” and that\u2019s all you can do, then you\u2019re not doing your job. It\u2019s not hard to explain Trump\u2019s success. It\u2019s really rather easy. That\u2019s why when I see The Politico story, “The Incredible Shrinking Trump.<\/a>” In their dreams. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what they\u2019re talking about. “The Incredible Shrinking Trump — The usual blustery billionaire offered a downright demure performance at the third GOP debate.” <\/p>\n

If these hacks in the media were not Democrat Party activists, this story could just as easily be written as, “Donald Trump Shows More Maturity as Campaign Evolves.” But, no, because the Democrat media does not see Republicans and conservatives in any way anywhere near a favorable, fair, even almost human way. It\u2019s not possible for them. Trump is a cartoon character to all of them, not just Harwood. He is a cartoon character to all of who they hate. I got an e-mail question last night during the debate.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Okay, Becky Quick and whatever other women have been moderating: Why do they hate these guys so much?” I said, “Are you kidding? Abortion! What do you mean, ‘Why do these female Democrat hacks hate Republican candidates?\u2019 The answer is easy. And in most cases it\u2019s one word: ‘Abortion.\u2019 Or, another word: ‘Republicans.\u2019 They\u2019re hated.” These people have their minds made up. They\u2019re not interested in having their minds changed. They\u2019re not interested in learning if they\u2019re even right, because, in their minds, it\u2019s inconceivable that they\u2019re wrong. <\/p>\n

So Trump, who many people might say was behaving a little bit more serious. Less bombast, less personal assault and attack last night. They might say Trump is becoming more serious. Trump is becoming more mature, whatever. But, if you\u2019re not inclined to note anything positive or synonymous with what you would say is growth in a human being or candidate, if all you can see is somebody\u2019s a cartoon character and a buffoon, and if you think the Republican electorate is so stupid — which they do…<\/p>\n

Remember, you people are a bunch of mind-numbed robots to the Drive-By Media. You are incapable of thinking on your own. Your public opinions are nothing but the result of whoever it is influencing you. Me, Fox News, whoever. You\u2019re incapable of independent thought, critical thought, what have you. You put these two things together and Trump\u2019s where he is precisely because he\u2019s a cartoon character, and you people are so shallow and so dense that that\u2019s what you want in a president. <\/line><\/p>\n

You want reality TV. <\/p>\n

You want low-rent scum as your leaders. You want this kind of thing, and that\u2019s who you\u2019re supporting, and then when those people, when the buffoons stop acting buffoonish and when the cartoon characters don\u2019t act cartoonish, uh-oh, they\u2019re in trouble. And we get a headline, “The Incredible Shrinking Trump.” They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what they\u2019re talking about. They think Trump is fading. They think Trump may be losing support because he was quieter last night, because less bombastic, \u2019cause he was less Trump. <\/p>\n

All this does is show how these hacks fail to understand the bond that exists between a candidate and his audience or voters. Let me give you one little hint, media. Donald Trump cannot be hurt by something he does not say. Donald Trump, nor any other candidate, cannot be hurt by something he does not do. Last night, Trump didn\u2019t do a bunch of stuff. “Wow, he\u2019s fading away!” Wrongo. For you people in the media and in the Republican establishment to boot…<\/p>\n

For you people waiting for Trump to blow it, waiting for Trump to step in it, whatever you think is gonna happen, it\u2019s typical and traditional from people who think their job is to take people out, and that\u2019s what the media thinks their job with us is, is to take us out. Trump was so low-key, nearly invisible, didn\u2019t light it up. Typical of this way of thinking. The only way Trump\u2019s gonna be taken out is if somebody comes along and is better. The media didn\u2019t make Trump. So, little hint, you media people: You can\u2019t take him out.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: According to all the online polls, ladies and gentlemen, after the debate, some of them were scientific, some of them were not, but regardless, according to the all of the online polls, including Drudge and TIME and even CNBC\u2019s own poll, Donald Trump won that thing going away last night. Now, a lot of people, “Rush, how can that be?” And the media, “He didn\u2019t say much. He didn\u2019t insult anybody.” If you don\u2019t understand this — this is the point I made earlier in the Jeb campaign not recognizing<\/a> where they are, what they\u2019re up against, the nature of the electorate this time around. <\/p>\n

Trump has established a bond with his voters. There hasn\u2019t been anything happen that makes them lose any enthusiasm for him. The media isn\u2019t gonna be able to do that. Other candidates aren\u2019t gonna be able to do that. You\u2019re not gonna be able to beat Trump by taking him out. The only way anybody\u2019s gonna beat Trump is being better than he is, which is as it should be. The media thinks they can take anybody out they want to take out. So they\u2019re all: “Trump\u2019s in decline. Trump didn\u2019t show up last night. Trump was not nearly as bombastic. Trump wasn\u2019t who Trump is. Trump didn\u2019t insult Mexicans.” Doesn\u2019t matter. Trump showed up. Trump was engaged. Trump had things to say and they made sense and he scored points, mission accomplished. What do you people think, that he has to go out and insult people like that\u2019s what you think he does and that\u2019s why you think people like him? <\/line><\/p>\n

I tell you, all of this is so insulting to me. Trump\u2019s only there because we have a bunch of bigoted Republicans that hate Mexicans and Trump went out and tapped into it, and that\u2019s what they think, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t deserve our attention and our time whatsoever on their networks for any amount of serious discussion about the next presidency and the future of this country because they are not interested in anything but their own bigotry, their own racism, their own small-mindedness. The time has long passed that we need to stop catering to these people, as we though somehow need them. Because that\u2019s the message of this campaign: We don\u2019t need them. The leaders in this campaign have done it despite the media and without them, and that is a good lesson for everybody to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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