{"id":214614,"date":"2016-10-10T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/10\/this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_you_take_on_the_establishment\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T17:35:28","slug":"this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_you_take_on_the_establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/10\/this_is_what_it_looks_like_when_you_take_on_the_establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What It Looks Like When You Take on the Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: All right. That open-mic tape, let\u2019s just cut to the chase here. That open-mic tape is in a microcosm what this entire election is about. You\u2019re probably saying, “What?” Yeah, it is. That whole thing is exactly what Trump winning the nomination is about. Now, whether it\u2019s gonna see it through to victory in the presidential race remains to be seen.Greetings, folks. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh back at it. Here we are safely ensconced the EIB Southern Command and it\u2019s great to have you here as always. The telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.I want to take you back to when I first heard about this, and I want to share with you my initial gut reaction to this, and then I attempted to — I didn\u2019t have to try very hard because I am one of you — I tried to put myself in the shoes of your average person on the Republican Party side that\u2019s supporting Trump. This is an election and Trump wins the Republican nomination precisely because a whole lot of Republicans are fed up with what? The Republican establishment and the Washington establishment, the elites and the way they do things and the way they run campaigns and the way they run Washington.<\/p>\n

And I believe — it was my first reaction and I was hoping it was the reaction of millions of people. Putting aside for a moment what was on that tape — and, by the way, there will be more, folks, do not doubt. If they\u2019ve got that, they\u2019ve got more, so steel yourself.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

I think a whole lot of people are sick and tired of things like this determining the outcome of elections, these October Surprise kinds of things. It may not have been safe to say this back in the year 2000. It might not have been safe to say it in 2004, but a lot of ground has been covered, and there is so much hypocrisy on the left when you get to the subject matter of that open-mic tape, Access Hollywood, Trump running around there with Billy Bush. Who are the people expressing outrage over this?The very people who applaud it and celebrated JFK, who had women trooped into the White House in droves. Bill Clinton, you go through the list of Democrats and entertainers who have made their names on the basis of infidelity and catting around and being celebrated and protected and lauded and held up as great people. “Hey, that\u2019s sex, it\u2019s not their job. Hey, that\u2019s just private life; it doesn\u2019t matter to their leadership.”<\/p>\n

There are serious issues facing this country. We are at a crossroads where many people think that the wrong decision by the people in November will doom this country to a generation of further decline, and it needs to be stopped. And this kind of way to derail a campaign or to win an election I just think, I hope, that it has people fit to be tied, and I hope there is going to be a giant backlash over it, because, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m here to tell you that it does not matter who the Republican Party nominates, this is what\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n

If they can turn Mitt Romney into a living, breathing devil, they can do it to anybody. Mitt Romney is, as I have said countless times before, one of the finest human beings, one of the finest men you will find alive today in terms of character, demeanor, manner, you name it. And what were they able to do to him? They were able to portray him as a guy who killed his dog by putting it on the roof of the station wagon; as a guy who didn\u2019t pay his taxes for ten years; as a guy who did not care that the wives of employees of his were dying because Romney didn\u2019t care enough about health care to give these people health care and they died of cancer.<\/p>\n

If they were able to demonize Mitt Romney, and they demonized George W. Bush, they\u2019ll be able to demonize anybody. If this is the kind of way they go to win elections, they\u2019re never going to stop winning elections, if this is all it takes. And I think a number of people have become outraged by this. And I don\u2019t think there are very many, if at all, defections from Trump among his core supporters.<\/p>\n

Now, we know he needs more than that. And I\u2019m not making any predictions here as to what\u2019s happening, but you go to this debate last night, I\u2019m telling you that the fact that after the first 20 minutes Trump was able to sweep this aside despite every — that debate last night was about destroying Donald Trump\u2019s life. That debate and this whole episode was about destroying Donald Trump\u2019s future, his career, his business, his life. That debate and this whole release of that tape — and I\u2019m not excusing what\u2019s on it, but he\u2019s not the only person to ever speak this way. He\u2019s not the only person to ever seek office.<\/p>\n

He may have said these things, but the Democrats have nominated and elected and celebrated people who do these things. And where is the outrage over it? You know, I find it ironic that the Democrat Party wants to throw down the morality card. The Democrat Party, which is responsible for the dissolution of morality in this country. The Democrat Party which is for all these progressive new attitudes in our culture, and now all of a sudden acting like a bunch of prudes, acting like, “Oh, my God, I have never been this outraged. Oh, this is just beyond the pale.” These are the architects of this kind of stuff. If Trump were a Democrat, they\u2019d be covering it up and privately inviting him to parties and yukking it up.<\/p>\n

But the reason this happened — and it\u2019s gonna happen again — they can\u2019t afford. Folks, this is what it looks like. I kept telling people over the weekend when people were asking my opinion on it, I said, “This is what it looks like when you take on the establishment. This is exactly what it looks like.” It isn\u2019t gonna be pretty. It isn\u2019t gonna be clean. It isn\u2019t gonna be pristine. The establishment, with everything they are invested in the establishment, remaining the establishment and in power, they are just not gonna sit back and trust this to your votes. They\u2019re not gonna trust this to an election, to a campaign. Not gonna trust it at all. They\u2019re gonna do everything they can to destroy whoever it is that wants to take control from them.<\/p>\n

And, in the process, they\u2019re gonna destroy that person so as to send a message to the next guy, “Don\u2019t even think about it. Don\u2019t even try. Look what we did to Donald Trump.” “Look what we did to whoever,” is the message. When this whole thing began — when it became clear that what this was, was going to be an effort to unseat the elites, the establishment, whatever you want to call \u2019em — you have to have a sober understanding of who they are and what it means to them. And they\u2019re not just going to throw it open to what they think is a fair election.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t control a fair election! I think that, given the circumstances in which this campaign is taking place and the various stages of challenges facing this country, this kind of throwdown, this kind of October Surprise… I have a feeling. I\u2019m sure it depressed a number of you. “Oh, no, no. There we go again.” After that, I am confident a whole slew of you got livid and angry and fed up that this is what always happens, and none of this has anything to do with the issues on which you have chosen to support Trump — or not, depending.<\/p>\n

And the people who have signed up for Trump, I can tell you, are livid that this is the kind of thing that always seems to end up determining the outcome of an election, and these are the kind of things that are never thrown down against Democrats. The Democrats get away with all of this hypocrisy, the left gets away with all of this hypocrisy. I was thinking over the weekend — I was asking and I was thinking at the same time — what are the odds that there\u2019s a potential backlash brewing over this kind of thing?<\/p>\n

Because you can make book that this is the kind of thing that\u2019s gonna happen. They\u2019re gonna lie. They\u2019re gonna destroy. The left, the media, the state is going to destroy — however they can — anybody, every four years, on the Republican ballot, who claims to be seeking to unseat the state, Democrats and media complex. And like I say, folks, it\u2019s not insignificant. They did the same thing to Mitt Romney. In that case, they made it all up. But it stuck, didn\u2019t it? And they did it, didn\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

So for everybody who\u2019s saying, “See, we gotta get rid of Trump, man! We gotta throw Trump overboard. Trump\u2019s damaged.” They\u2019re gonna do it to any of you who try it. The same kind of thing is gonna happen to anybody and everybody. If you want to throw Trump overboard, you know what you ought to do? You ought to just concede the presidency to the Democrats and apologize for ever trying, and hope that they forgive you. Because that\u2019s the message being sent here. There isn\u2019t a single one — Ted Cruz, take your pick.<\/p>\n

Take your pick of any of these Republicans who had won the nomination. You think this wouldn\u2019t have happened? You think there would not have been an October Surprise? You think there wouldn\u2019t have been lies about… Do you realize that there is not a human being alive…? This is another key point, folks. When I say, “This is what it looks like when an outsider seeks to unseat the elites…” The elites, the insiders, establishment, whatever you want to call it.<\/p>\n

They all, particularly those that are in elective office, live their lives for one another: public consumption for purposes of election. They live their lives, they file their taxes, they dress, they speak. Everything they do is designed to hold up under the klieg lights of campaigns. In the process, they are phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollers. They become robots, political robots. When they speak about politics, it\u2019s a recitation of issues from a handbook and playbook.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t real. You know it and I know it. But it\u2019s how they guarantee reelection. It\u2019s how they guarantee reelection in the first place. Well, somebody from the outside… Let\u2019s use Trump, since he\u2019s the candidate. He\u2019s not lived his life for this kind of exposure. He has not lived his life with the constant realization and planning and scheming that whatever he does or doesn\u2019t do must be done in specific ways.<\/p>\n

“Because I\u2019m running for office, so therefore I can\u2019t do this, and I can\u2019t do that, and I can\u2019t do this. I must do this; I must do this.” He\u2019s not lived his life that way. They do. They construct their finances, their tax returns, their public disclosure forms, financial disclosure forms. Everything they do is designed to pass muster to the klieg lights of so-called media examinations every four years when they run for office — or, in the case of the House, every two years. But somebody on the outside…<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter who. It could be Trump, could be Anastas Mikoyan. Take your pick of anybody that would ever seek the presidency who\u2019s not from the world of politics, and the same thing would be the case. They have lived their lives totally differently. They\u2019ve been real. They may have been bankrupt, they may have earned a lot of money, they may have taken advantage of the tax code, they may be married three or four times. Who knows what it is? But they\u2019re not phonies in the sense that the insiders are; so this is what it looks like.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always gonna be this way, whether it\u2019s Trump or anybody else.<\/p>\n

Anybody on the outside, by definition, runs the risk of being exposed by the insiders as somebody unfit and unsuited and ill-tempered precisely because they don\u2019t come from the world of politics. The best illustration of this is the argument over Trump\u2019s tax returns. I\u2019ll guarantee you that, if Donald Trump back in 1995 or even 1990 thought that he was gonna run for president someday, his tax returns would look entirely different. His career would look entirely different.<\/p>\n