{"id":4904,"date":"2015-11-11T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-11-11T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:39:02","slug":"the_drive_bys_thought_the_debate_was_boring_because_issues_were_discussed_and_no_conservatives_were_destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/11\/11\/the_drive_bys_thought_the_debate_was_boring_because_issues_were_discussed_and_no_conservatives_were_destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drive-Bys Thought the Debate Was Boring Because Issues Were Discussed and No Conservatives Were Destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I really missed our guys beating up on the media last night in the debate. Did you watch the debates last night? I really missed that. You know, some of the Drive-Bys are saying it was boring last night. Here, grab sound bites two and three. Let me illustrate for you. Here\u2019s Charlie Rose leading off. This is the beginning of the CBS This Morning show just this morning.<\/p>\n

ROSE: Welcome to CBS This Morning on this Veterans Day. The latest Republican presidential debate revealed sharp policy divisions among the candidates. Unlike their last primetime debate, they did not complain about the questions and the focus this morning is on their answers.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn it. You could just hear, “Damn it,” in his voice. “Damn it, we wanted the focus to be anything but the issues. We wanted the focus to be anything but that.” What do you think, Mr. Snerdley, little pop quiz. No wrong answer. It\u2019s an opinion. What do you think was one of the most revelatory not people, things, but issues last night, what was one of the most? I\u2019ll tell you what it is, in fact, just to tell you I\u2019m not — I think Cruz, this is another thing, you know, I feel like apologizing to you people for letting this go and not clarifying this because I just assume, I make too many assumptions here based on my belief in the awareness and intelligence of people. When Ted Cruz said, “You people are missing the point –” I\u2019m paraphrasing here “I\u2019m sick and tired of being called anti-immigrant. I\u2019m not anti-immigrant. Do you people not understand, this is an economic issue. We are destroying people\u2019s wages. We are importing low skilled, low educated people. We are hurting the economics of American citizens.”<\/p>\n

Bingo. Cruz\u2019s point was that he\u2019s fed up with all these allegations anti this, anti that, anti-immigrant, when he\u2019s pro-American. But the point that illegal immigration, it\u2019s been right in front of my face, maybe it\u2019s something you all realized long ago. I knew it, but I haven\u2019t voiced this either. The people pushing, including Kasich — I\u2019m thinking of doing a Kasich impersonation today, by the way. I did it for Snerdley and he says, “You gotta do this on the air.” I said, “I\u2019m afraid if I start doing my Kasich impersonation on the air I may start uttering profanities and the broadcast engineer up there will have to bleep this and bleep that.” I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m thinking about it. <\/line><\/p>\n

You know Jeb and Kasich and all these other guys, they look at it as a civil rights issue, and the left looks at it as a civil rights issue. They almost look at it as a racial issue, and it\u2019s not. To me it\u2019s never been a civil rights issue. But to them it is. These are the poor of the world and they\u2019re people of color, and they are coming here wanting to improve their lives, and who are we to say no? So for them they think it\u2019s an act of compassion to welcome them in, and if we disagree with ignoring the law, then we are called racists, and it\u2019s not about that at all. It\u2019s about sustaining the US economy, the job market, the wage base, all these kind of things. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the subject of immigration of course was the big subject last night, and in fact Jeb even woke up during that. Just to show you how much he cares about this, he came alive. But I thought one of the most telling lines when they\u2019re discussing all this, Jeb says (paraphrasing), “You know, you talk about deporting people, 11 million, 12 million people, you realize they\u2019re doing handstands and applauding over at the Clinton campaign?” And Trump comes in, “You ever heard of Ike? I like Ike, Dwight Eisenhower, Ike, I like Ike, we like Ike, everybody likes Ike. You know what Ike did? He got rid of million and a half of \u2019em, he deported them, what do you mean it can\u2019t be done?” Of course the other two guys. Ba ba-da ba-da ba-da, Bruce Babbitt routine trying to respond to it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Cruz said. “When the mainstream media covers immigration it doesn\u2019t see it as an economic issue, but I can tell you for millions of Americans at home watching this it\u2019s a very personal economic issue.” He\u2019s exactly right. And this is something, again, I\u2019m feeling a little embarrassed having not voiced this myself, yet I think it, feel it, it\u2019s the primary aspect of this issue. It\u2019s an economics issue, it\u2019s legal and economics. There\u2019s no civil rights here. There\u2019s no compassion here. It\u2019s not racist at all. The way the left looks at this is why it\u2019s so destructive. We\u2019re supposed to tear down our country. We\u2019re supposed to wreck our economy. For compassion? <\/p>\n