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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites on the debate, \u2019cause there are some doozies here, and we\u2019ve been talking about this. We may as well listen to some things actually said. Let\u2019s get started here. Actually, before we get to the debate sound bites, a couple of setup pieces. Let\u2019s start with Stephanie Ramos. This is Good Morning Amer… Sorry, this is America This Morning. This is long before Good Morning America, and she is a correspondent reporting about last night\u2019s Republican primary debate.<\/p>\n

RAMOS: The moderators, for the most part sticking to policy, which has some analysts saying that shift led to a boring debate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this debate was a disaster for the Drive-Bys, because there is nothing happening they can tar and feather and destroy and ruin Republicans with, other than to say, “Hey, you know, it was boring.” Well, I\u2019m gonna tell you what, Drive-Bys: It was boring for me, too. I kind of enjoyed and was getting used to seeing our guys take you people in the media out, and I missed that last night. It kind of cuts both ways. Talking to Ted Cruz after the debate, Neil Cavuto happened to mention me…<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: Rush Limbaugh: We\u2019ve any built monuments to moderates, right?<\/line><\/p>\n

CRUZ: Let me put it this way. If you define as a Reaganite anyone who was with Ronald Reagan in the primary in 1980, do you know Republicans have never once nominated a Reaganite for president after 1984? Every Republican nominee from \u201984 on opposed Reagan in 1980. I\u2019m 44 years old. I\u2019ve never once been able to go and vote for a Reaganite for president. And if you look at why we\u2019re losing, if you look at the numbers, the most striking difference between \u201904 — the last race we won — and \u201908 and \u201912, is the millions of conservatives who stayed home in \u201908 and \u201912. And if we want to win, we\u2019ve gotta bring them back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which takes us to David Axelrod who was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night, who offered this opinion…<\/p>\n

AXELROD: This is interesting because this, seems to me, is the debate that the Republican Party has to have. Each election the Republican Party has nominated a center-right kind of establishment Republican at the end of the day, and they\u2019ve lost the popular vote five out of the last six elections. You hear conservatives like Ted Cruz say, “We need a real conservative.” Maybe you guys have to run the experiment.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what do you think of that? I mean, these guys generally tell us what they\u2019re most afraid of. But here\u2019s Axelrod. Is this a rare moment of candor, or something Axelrod thinks he\u2019s tricking us with? Yeah, you might say it\u2019s a rare moment of candor because you want to believe he means it. He desperately wants to believe he means it because you desperately want to believe that a Democrat can see us fairly. And so you\u2019re looking Axelrod… By the way, he\u2019s right about this. We keep nominating these moderate, little, linguini-spine guys, and they do keep losing. <\/p>\n

He said, “You know, maybe it\u2019s time to run the experiment, actually run a conservative. I mean, that is last time you guys won. I mean, he might not have actually been one, but you said he was and people believed it.” Here\u2019s Axelrod answering question about Jeb Bush from Anderson Cooper. He said, “There were times when it seemed like Jeb was quibbling about not having enough time in the last debate. How did Jeb seem to you, David? Did he seem strong enough?”<\/p>\n

AXELROD: Is it possible that he\u2019s just not good at this? And I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s ever gonna be good at this. I actually think what happened in this debate is that John Kasich came in very energetically. His views may not appeal to the base of the Republican Party. He\u2019s going for independents in New Hampshire. But I think he completely shoved Jeb out of the mainframe here and became the main advocate for that point of view.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, it\u2019s amazing. If you look at… One of the reasons I think this debate was good last night is because there is not unanimity of opinion on anybody. I mean, you can find people who think that Kasich was good last night and aced Jeb out. You can find people who think Jeb stopped the bleeding last night. But there\u2019s a lot of people — and I\u2019m talking about analysts on my side, \u2019cause I don\u2019t care about the left in this instance. <\/p>\n

Analysts on our side say, “Yep, Jeb might not have helped himself, but he certainly didn\u2019t hurt himself anymore. Yeah, Jeb might have stopped the bleeding. Jeb might have made the donors feel a little bit better tonight. Yeah, Jeb started off really strong and then kind of tapered off toward the end of the debate.” But there\u2019s a lot of consensus that Jeb did well. Most of the consensus is that Kasich bombed. But here\u2019s Axelrod:<\/p>\n

“Kasich? Hey, pretty smart guy! He\u2019s going for New Hampshire. He\u2019s going for the moderate independents here, and I think he aced Jeb out.” Here\u2019s Chris Stirewalt, the political director at Fox News, with Megyn Kelly who said, “Carson and Trump don\u2019t want to lose their standing, but they also want to grow their share of the electorate. They\u2019re neck and neck, Carson and Trump, but they need more. They need to collect some of the votes of those under guys so that they will get out and they can then run away with it.”<\/p>\n

STIREWALT: I can tell you, having seen John Kasich\u2019s performance, that stage is gonna get smaller still. That was a dire performance that he gave. He scolded his own party from pen to post. He gave an answer on bank bailouts that was flabbergasting. And I could not believe… It was so much in the mold of Jon Huntsman. It was so much in the mold of the Republican who\u2019s running against his own party. It\u2019s like, Dude, you are in the wrong town.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I could see that. Dire performances, scolded his own party. A number of people have observed that it didn\u2019t come off well because, basically, Kasich was telling everybody in his own party that they\u2019re stupid and don\u2019t get it. Okay, so that\u2019s Chris Stirewalt at Fox. Now, let\u2019s go to the actual audio sound bites from the debate. This is Trump and Kasich going at it over immigration.<\/line><\/p>\n

KASICH: For the 11 million people? Come on, folks! We all know you can\u2019t pick them up and ship them across — back across the border. It\u2019s a silly argument. It\u2019s not an adult argument. It makes no sense.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: All I can say is, you\u2019re lucky in Ohio that you struck oil. That\u2019s for one thing. Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower — good president, great president, people liked him. “I like Ike,” right? The expression, “I like Ike.” — moved a million-and-a-half illegal immigrants out of this country. Dwight Eisenhower. You don\u2019t get nicer. You don\u2019t get friendlier. They moved a million-and-a-half people out. We have no choice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Harry Truman even more. The combination of Truman and Eisenhower, we deported 6.4 million illegal immigrants. We either deported \u2019em ordered left on their own in advance of being deported, but the numbers are a little over two million for Eisenhower, and in the three and a half to four million range for Harry Truman. These deportations happened at a point in American history where we were not permitting any immigration of any kind. You know, I still shock people when I tell them this, if they don\u2019t know it, that there was no immigration in America from 1924 to 1965. There was none. People don\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n

And then when I explain why, it makes sense. Well, because we had all of this immigration in years prior, we had to assimilate these new immigrants. They wanted to be Americans, we had to assimilate them. There were people trying to get in, there were illegals, but they were deported. That was the point that Trump was making. Now, Kasich however was having very little of it. He continued, and Trump eventually gets tired of being lectured.<\/p>\n

KASICH: Jerry, Gerald, it was —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUBIO: Just —<\/p>\n

KASICH: — an attack.<\/p>\n

BUSH: I got your back.<\/p>\n

RUBIO: What happened to my question? (laughter)<\/p>\n

KASICH: No, you don\u00c2\u2019t. You\u2019re not going to have my back. I\u2019m going to have my back. Let me say–<\/p>\n

BAKER: Governor — couple things here. First of all —<\/p>\n

TRUMP: You should let Jeb speak.<\/p>\n

KASICH: We have grown, we have grown —<\/p>\n

TRUMP: But no, it\u00c2\u2019s unfair.<\/p>\n

BAKER: Governor– (edited laughter)<\/p>\n

KASICH: The fact is, all I\u2019m suggesting, we can\u2019t ship 11 million people out of this country. Children would be terrified —<\/p>\n

BARTIROMO: Thank you.<\/p>\n

KASICH: — and it will not work.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: I built an unbelievable company worth billions and billions of dollars. I don\u2019t have to hear from this man —<\/p>\n

BAKER: Mister —<\/p>\n

TRUMP: — believe me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know what that\u2019s got to do with anything, but it\u2019s — (laughing) — “I built an unbelievable company worth billions and billions of dollars. I don\u2019t have to hear this.” Yes. And Jeb finally gets in on the action here, and he advocates for the Democrat position on amnesty. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

BUSH: Thank you, Donald, for allowing me to speak at the debate. That\u2019s really nice of you. Really appreciate that. What a generous man you are. Twelve million illegal immigrants, to send them back, 500,000 a month is just not possible, and it\u2019s not embracing American values. And would tear communities apart, and it would send a signal that we\u2019re not the kind of country that I know America is. And even having this conversation sends a powerful signal. They\u2019re doing high fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this. That\u2019s the problem with this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. And you heard some applause there. That was the donors in the audience. Chamber of Commerce was there and Bush has got his supporters, and they believe this. I mean, by the way, who says 500,000 a month? Who says that got to do this inside of a year? Who\u2019s put a time frame on this? You know, once you start doing it, it\u2019s gonna speed up. This is dynamic. It\u2019s not static. If this were to ever begin. But it\u2019s not embracing American values. What, American values are ignore the law? American values, what about the American worker? What about the issue of the economic impact of all this? These people look at this as a compassion, civil rights issue. Here\u2019s Ted Cruz to clean it all up.<\/p>\n