{"id":3596,"date":"2016-04-21T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:26:10","slug":"steve_schmidt_tells_us_how_the_establishment_plans_to_stop_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/21\/steve_schmidt_tells_us_how_the_establishment_plans_to_stop_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Schmidt Tells Us How the Establishment Plans to Stop Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Moving on to the RNC convention. It\u2019s down in Ft. Lauderdale, Hollywood, Florida. There\u2019s some confusion about what\u2019s going on down there, \u2019cause it\u2019s the establishment. And a lot of people think that what\u2019s going on is behind closed doors. It\u2019s not. There are TV cameras in there. All the candidates went in there to make their case for RNC support. Kasich went in there, and Ted Cruz went in there, and Trump went in there. Or representatives went in there to make their case. <\/p>\n

When this is all over, at the end of the week, what we\u2019re gonna find out, after this is all over, is whether or not the RNC signs up with Trump or not. Whether or not the establishment goes all-in for Trump or not. But it\u2019s not gonna be because of support or lack of support for any rule changes, \u2019cause there can\u2019t be any at this convention. This is a popular misunderstanding that people have. <\/p>\n

Only at the convention can the rules be changed, and any rules changes are proposed and voted on by the actual delegates to the convention. And of course the convention doesn\u2019t happen until July, so changing what\u2019s going on in Colorado, for example, Colorado could do it because it\u2019s a state issue. That wouldn\u2019t come up, but delegate apportion, first ballot, second ballot, this kind of stuff, if they want to change any of the voting procedures and so forth, that has to happen at the convention. <\/line><\/p>\n

There is a rules committee here at the RNC, and they may make some suggestions today, but my point is whatever they come up with is not binding on the convention. And that\u2019s really all you need to know. They probably will vote on rules changes or what have you, but they\u2019re just suggestions. Nothing can happen \u2019til the convention actually adopts them and votes for them, debates them and all that. Normally that kind of stuff all happens before the convention, \u2019cause we have a nominee before the convention, and the nominee runs the convention most years.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re not gonna have nominee. Well, we might have a nominee by the end of June or the middle of June, but we don\u2019t have a nominee now, so it may be that we won\u2019t have a nominee until the convention, at which time somebody has to run that convention, and it can\u2019t be the nominee \u2019cause we don\u2019t know who it is. Normally the nominee chosen in March, April as a result of the primary process, then grabs control of the convention and puts it together in his image, what he wants it to be. That\u2019s not happening this year, so that\u2019s why what the RNC meeting down in Ft. Lauderdale right now is being paid a lot of attention. <\/p>\n

But what comes out of there rules-wise will not be binding, but it will give us an indication of how accepting of the inevitability of a Trump nomination will the official RNC show signs of accepting. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites in this regard. And again, this is gonna add up into my See, I Told You So column. Last night on Bloomberg Television\u2019s With All Due Respect, Steve Schmidt, Republican establishment extraordinaire. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s a consultant. He ran the McCain campaign, for example, 2008. He is Republican establishment. I mean, a card-carrying member. And during a discussion on With All Due Respect last night about the primary race, John Heilemann said, “Is Mitt Romney right that, the fact this is a three-person race, that there\u2019s been a split in the never-Trump world, the anti-Trump vote? Is that part of why Donald Trump\u2019s going to get to 1,237?”<\/p>\n

SCHMIDT: No one is saying in public what people say privately about Donald Trump and the Republican establishment and leadership. And I think that speaks to why that movement is so weak.<\/p>\n

HEILEMANN: What are they saying privately?<\/line><\/p>\n

SCHMIDT: What they\u2019re saying privately is he\u2019s unfit to be president of the United States and they\u2019ll never vote for him. He\u2019s unfit psychologically, he\u2019s unfit temperamentally, he\u2019s unfit ideologically. But no one is making that argument publicly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. There you have Steve Schmidt, Republican establishment extraordinaire, he\u2019s talking about establishment members and what they\u2019re saying privately. You know what the bottom line is? They are having a cow in Ft. Lauderdale. They never thought last week, two weeks ago, three weeks, they were holding out hope that something would happen, that Trump would implode. They\u2019ve been hoping that since last July, and now it looks like there\u2019s no stopping Trump.<\/p>\n

Even though he needs 63% of the delegates, there\u2019s nobody that\u2019s gonna be even close to Trump when we get to the convention even if he doesn\u2019t have 1,237. So they\u2019re just now facing the reality that there isn\u2019t gonna be any implosion. There isn\u2019t gonna be any white knight that comes along and saves the day. And they are in an inject panic. I\u2019m just telling you, they are having a cow. <\/p>\n

Schmidt here is talking about the establishment when he says what they\u2019re saying privately is they\u2019ll never vote for him. I told everybody this. They want to take issue with me the last couple days. But Schmidt\u2019s admitting it now. Mark Halperin said, “If somebody gave you, Steve Schmidt, somebody gave you a hundred million dollars to stop Trump, what would you spend it on?”<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: You try to stop him on temperament issues. The most powerful political ad in American history was the Daisy ad in 1964 against LBJ running against Barry Goldwater. I think using images of the North Korean leader, mushroom clouds, the instability of the world, late-night tweeting. You make a temperament in character attack, and you\u2019d remind people that the president of the United States is the most powerful person in the world, is commander-in-chief of the most potent military in the world that possesses the weapons to extinguish life on the planet as we know it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you take from that answer? What do you take from that? (interruption) No, no, no, no, no. Of course not. No, no, no. No. The question is, if you had a hundred million dollars to spend to stop Trump, how would you spend it? This guy had an answer without having to stop to think about it. He didn\u2019t say, “Oh, gee, well,” he had the answer, which tells us they\u2019ve got the answer, which tells us how they\u2019re gonna go about this, even if he is the nominee. He\u2019s unfit. He\u2019s psychologically unfit. <\/p>\n