{"id":3508,"date":"2016-05-03T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:04:21","slug":"gop_establishment_postmortems_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/03\/gop_establishment_postmortems_begin\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Establishment Postmortems Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/71294\" 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: The postmortems at the Republican establishment actually have already begun. You ever go to a party and later that night or the next day get together with other people that attended it and you rehash it? It\u2019s the postmortem, and sometimes the postmortem is often more fun than the party. That\u2019s where you go and you rip everybody that you didn\u2019t like at the party. You make fun of everybody for what they did stupid. Well, those things are called postmortems.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121934\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Murphy-Thought-Bub.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nAnd the postmortem of the Republican consultant class has already begun as people are starting to point fingers of blame at each other to explain why Trump was able to come in and hijack this campaign from them, \u2019cause the consultants, along with the lobbyists and the donors&#8230; I mean, they really think&#8230; The candidates are just commodities, folks. I wish I could make this understandable. Not that I can\u2019t. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s gonna be foreign.<\/p>\n<p>Most people think that the candidate is the ironclad, iron-fisted decision-maker, and everything is the candidate and the candidate\u2019s vision and the candidate\u2019s ideas that drive the whole train, and it\u2019s not the case in many campaigns. In many cases, the candidate will do nothing without being told what to do every day by somebody. A candidate would be nothing without a teleprompter, a candidate will be nothing without this and that. And so the consultants and the donors and the lobbyists actually think they run the show and that the candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This not all cases, but the candidate is just a commodity. Have you ever heard these guys talk, &#8220;Yeah, he was a good candidate.&#8221; What the hell does that mean, &#8220;good candidate&#8221;? He follows directions; he didn\u2019t go off message. You know, you and I would think a &#8220;good candidate&#8221; is somebody that can articulate what they believe with passion and could get elected. Likability, all those things. The consultants &#8212; many of them, not all &#8212; look at candidates as Ken dolls to be molded and shape and presented.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_121966\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/GOPshort_large.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nAnd this is why they\u2019re not allowed to speak other than what\u2019s on the prompter. Everybody\u2019s afraid the candidate is gonna go out there and say something that\u2019s gonna blow everything to smithereens &#8212; like, for example, saying that Ted Cruz\u2019s dad met with Lee Harvey Oswald before the JFK assassination. Consultants live in mortal fear of things like that. So Mike Murphy &#8212; who\u2019s the consultant-in-chief for the GOP &#8212; weighed in on the Today show today about what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>MURPHY: Trump is selling what the grievance half of the party wants. The big donors, they don\u2019t like Trump, but they don\u2019t want Cruz, either. You know, it\u2019s like, &#8220;Give me $3 million to switch from one kind of unpopular outcome to another,&#8221; hasn\u2019t been a good pitch.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you see the problem. It\u2019s that half of the party that is the grievance half. That would be you: The grievance party. You got grievances. You got problems with the Republicans. But that\u2019s not the problem. The problem is the donors. The donors don\u2019t know what to do, you see?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Josh in Powell, New Jersey, you\u2019re next, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You mentioned you&#8230; Let me get straight to my point. You mentioned that the establishment wants Ted Cruz to lose. That way they can say conservatism is dead. Let\u2019s take the flip side. I think the establishment knows that either Trump or Cruz will win and they\u2019re deathly scared of Cruz, and that was the comment that you mentioned with Boehner this weekend. Because if Trump wins, it might be four years, it might be eight years; the establishment will still be there.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, that\u2019s an interesting point. I don\u2019t mean to be rude, I just misjudged the clock. I thought I had 90 seconds and I had 45 when I looked, but you have a fascinating point here. The conventional wisdom is that the establishment fears that either one of these guys is gonna lose in a landslide, and so what\u2019s the best loss? They have concluded Cruz. But a lot of people think that Trump can beat Hillary in a matchup. A lot of people think either one of them can, and your theory is that the establishment does, too, that the establishment is really afraid that either one of them will win. That is a&#8230; We need to talk about that more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The postmortems at the Republican establishment actually have already begun. You ever go to a party and later that night or the next day get together with other people that attended it and you rehash it? It\u2019s the postmortem, and sometimes the postmortem is often more fun than the party. 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