{"id":301599,"date":"2019-03-01T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=301599"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:39:52","slug":"conrad-black-says-democrats-are-heading-for-landslide-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/01\/conrad-black-says-democrats-are-heading-for-landslide-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrad Black Says Democrats Are Heading for Landslide Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I found here a great analogy, a great way of explaining where I think the Democrats are right now. Conrad Black has a piece that ran today at American Greatness, and I\u2019m gonna endeavor here to read the last couple of paragraphs. But this is essentially what I have been attempting to piece together today: Where the Democrats are, how what they\u2019re doing is affecting them and how it is being seen by a pretty big majority of the American people.<\/p>\n

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Conrad Black says, “[T]he Democrats now look more like the Republicans of 1964 (Barry Goldwater) and the Democrats of 1972 (George McGovern)…” Now, when he says the Republicans of \u201964, he\u2019s not talking about conservatives. He\u2019s talking about the fact that there weren\u2019t very many of \u2019em and they were gonna get shellacked. Goldwater was gonna lose in a gigantic landslide. So Black sees that the Democrats today look like a combination of Republicans in \u201964 and Democrats in \u201972.<\/p>\n

In \u201972 with George McGovern is where they went as far left as the Democrat youth of today are trying to take the Democrat Party again, and it was a Richard Nixon 48- or 49-state landslide win. So the Democrats today are beginning to look more like the Republican destined losers of \u201964 and the Democrat destined losers of \u201972, “as the reality sinks in that Trump has demolished the post-Reagan bipartisan Tweedledee-Tweedledum politics of sloth, a depressing ‘new normal\u2019 and foreign policy impetuosity (Iraq War) or defeatism” of not being able to defeat Iran, North Korea, Syria.<\/p>\n

In other words, what he\u2019s suggesting is that after the Reagan years, post-Reagan — the bipartisan Tweedledee-Tweedledum — we were just treading water. We didn\u2019t really have a national identity. The deep state was running things, and putting America first was nowhere near anybody\u2019s lexicon. The idea that America should be supreme in the world had vanished. This is one of the great things about vanquishing Reagan. Reagan was a Trumpist in the sense of making America great; America is the solution so the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

Once Reagan was gone, then the deep state could once again come in and begin their globalist push, diminishing the role of United States in the world except as a financier, but not an ideological leader. This, I think, is a pretty accurate portrayal of America in the nineties under Bill Clinton and going into the 2000s where we had the 9\/11 attacks that took us into the Middle East and war and so forth, and it was just (sigh) Tweedledum, Tweedledee.<\/p>\n

We were treading water with no real national identity, because there weren\u2019t a bunch of leaders around who actually thought in terms of a national identity. Everybody was focused globally. In the aftermath of that (Tweedledee, Tweedledum), the Democrats are like a suicide case contemplating Russian roulette with all the chambers loaded, and they\u2019re the ones loading in the cartridges!<\/p>\n

“In the aftermath of this shock, the Democrats are like a suicide case contemplating Russian roulette with all chambers loaded, and they are the ones loading in the cartridges.” The suicidal issues for them are “open borders, a top personal income tax rate of around 70%, nationalized health care; legalized infanticide; a green policy that bans cars, airplanes, oil, coal, and bovine flatulence; and now, reparations for African-Americans…”<\/p>\n

So you put all those things together and you\u2019ve got a suicide gun with all those issues being loaded — cartridges in the chamber that the Democrats have put in the chamber — and now they\u2019re aiming all of that at themselves. Conrad says, “Unless a sensible person,” and he names some people here. I disagree with him on this. I\u2019m just gonna share what he says.<\/p>\n

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“Unless a sensible person like Michael Bloomberg or even Joe Biden — or possibly Amy Klobuchar or Sherrod Brown — gets hold of that party, the Democrats will self-inflict mortal wounds and give Trump the greatest plurality in history, (breaking Richard Nixon\u2019s record of 18 million in 1972).” (chuckles) Now, Amy Klobuchar I don\u2019t think is a salvation for the Democrat Party. She\u2019s part of this cabal!<\/p>\n

Here she is talking about “we\u2019ve only got 12 years left” as she\u2019s announcing her candidacy in a blizzard? It\u2019s almost like Algore scheduled the event. Sherrod Brown from Ohio? I think Conrad\u2019s playing reverse psychology on these people, actually suggesting that maybe they think about nominating one of these three because neither of…? Maybe I shouldn\u2019t say this too loudly, but, I mean, these people don\u2019t have a lickspittle prayer.<\/p>\n

He gives a little more historical perspective here. “In 1944, Roosevelt focused on the spurious claim of a Republican congressional candidate that the president had sent a destroyer back to retrieve his dog in the Aleutian Islands, while returning from his Pearl Harbor meeting with General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz. FDR\u2019s Republican opponent, Thomas E. Dewey, found himself running against the president\u2019s dog. In 1940, Roosevelt just had to recite the names of three reactionary congressmen:<\/p>\n

“‘Martin, Barton, and Fish,\u2019 and the absurdity of the refrain helped to win him a third term.” The reason for this history: “Trump is no Roosevelt (either one), but the Democrats seem to be yielding to the ineluctable urge that possesses each party every other generation, to utter a primal scream of nonsense, get everything off their chest and out of their system, be dragged to the padded cell by the voters, and regroup back at center-field four years later. It may even be good for them — as therapy, not as government.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s his take, Conrad Black in Canada. That\u2019s his take of the current the current status of the Democrat Party — and to the extent that he\u2019s saying this, I agree. They are in the process of committing political suicide. They\u2019re loading the cartridges. They\u2019re aiming the gun at themselves. The thing is, they don\u2019t know this. They haven\u2019t yet discovered it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the phones, McHenry, Illinois. This is Bill. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Hello. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, I hope you\u2019re feeling better, sir. Two quick questions. And you mentioned before that Joe Biden just reluctantly apologized for praising Mike Pence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How soon will Senator Schumer be forced to apologize for giving the president credit for backing out of the negotiations without giving any concessions? The other question, your Conrad Black article, the narrative you read through, how soon will we know that the Democrats have concluded he\u2019s right, that \u201964 and \u201972 are gonna dictate who they nominate?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nominating who would confirm for you that Conrad Black is right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nominating an individual who\u2019s a sacrificial lamb, someone who they\u2019re willing to put up with the idea that that individual has no political future whatsoever —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait. No, no, no. Respectfully, 1964, they had LBJ. He was not a sacrificial lamb. They expected him to smoke Goldwater, and that happened. \u201972, now, McGovern won that primary. Remember, they were coming off the Chicago convention of \u201968, and it was Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War was still raging, on the way to winding down. I don\u2019t know that McGovern was a sacrificial lamb. Mondale was. There is no question that Walter F. Mondale was a sacrificial lamb. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re looking at this — they\u2019re never gonna think that they\u2019re destined to lose 2020.<\/p>\n

They knew they were gonna lose \u201984. I was at the Democrat convention in San Francisco, and a friend of the family\u2019s, a Democrat from Sikeston, Missouri, came up to me, “I\u2019ll tell you what, Rush, you spot me 75 electoral votes and we can win this.” I said, \u201cWhat do you mean spot you 75 electoral votes?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m just telling you, Rush, that\u2019s how close we are.\u201d Spot you 75 electoral votes. They knew that Mondull was gonna take him down. They knew there was nothing they could do. This one, they think they\u2019re gonna smoke. This election is gonna be what 2016 should have been because they\u2019re gonna make sure Trump doesn\u2019t steal, collude with Russia this time.<\/p>\n

No, no. The contest in the Democrat Party to see who can be publicly insane the most consistently and the most courageously loudly is gonna determine who wins their nomination. Biden\u2019s not gonna get the nomination. If they put Plugs in there, then the caller may be right. If these guys nominate Plugs, a 77-year-old? There\u2019s no way! Why do you think I told Chris Wallace I think he\u2019s a front-runner? I want \u2019em to do it. Come on. Plugs is the nominee? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here, grab sound bite number 16 very quickly. Doug Schoen<\/a> is on Fox, he\u2019s a Democrat. The Democrats don\u2019t pay any attention to Doug Schoen anymore. So don\u2019t worry this. He\u2019s on Fox, and he\u2019s warning the Democrats that Cortez is gonna sink them in the states that they need to win.<\/p>\n

SCHOEN: For the Democratic primary she is a figure of, you know, great appeal. For the general election, she is the type that could hurt in the Midwest swing states, the states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, that Trump won over Hillary, she could single-handedly torpedo the party in those states if Trump runs the kind of campaign I\u2019m expecting that he will, Stuart.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And do you think that she\u2019s gonna realize that? Do you think Cortez is running around saying, \u201cI gotta be very careful \u2019cause I could torpedo the party in these states.\u201d She\u2019s not gonna think that way. No way! She\u2019s gonna think somebody like Biden would torpedo the party. She\u2019s gonna think that somebody \u2013 (interruption) no, no, no. No. Do you really think Biden\u2019s gonna get the nomination? (interruption) That\u2019s my point. He\u2019s the only adult. They\u2019re not looking for adults. That\u2019s the whole point! Their problem is with adults.<\/p>\n

I know that Biden is the front-runner in some of their polling right now, but, anyway, let me save this \u2019cause I still got some things I want to \u2013 (interruption) oh, I think they\u2019ve all got a chance. I think Kamala Harris has a chance. I think Spartacus has a chance. I think they\u2019ve all got a chance. I think they should all go for it. I think every one of these Democrats that announced so far has a legitimate chance of winning that nomination. If Cortez was old enough — she\u2019s not — I would recommend that she get in. She\u2019s only 29. You gotta be 35.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, the Holman Jenkins piece: “The Media Will Re-Elect Trump.” You know, like Doug Schoen, there are a lot of Never Trumpers — not a lot; there are few — that are beginning to recognize what\u2019s going on on the left with this race to the extremes. They\u2019re very much worried that all of this is gonna end up electing Donald Trump. I do believe that, and I don\u2019t see anything stopping this. I don\u2019t see the Democrat Party stopping and taking stock and realizing they\u2019re headed off the rails.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s just the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

I think they\u2019re off the rails, and that\u2019s what feels natural and normal to \u2019em; so it\u2019s gonna continue. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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