Rush Limbaugh today going after Michael Grimm: >>In fact, Im gonna move forward here to grab audio sound bites 10 and 11. This is fun. This is last night on CNN, Erin Burnett OutFront (as opposed to Erin Burnett OutBack), and she had as her guest Michael Grimm, a Republican congressman from New York, and theyre talking about me. Im all over the sound bites today, Snerdley. Thats why I delayed playing em til now, so I dont appear to be an ego freak by starting the show playing sound bites about myself. But Im all over em, and Erin Burnetts talking to Michael Grimm (R-NY), about me and my praise of Ted Cruz. They had this little exchange about it all. I think theres two bites here. Heres the first one. BURNETT: Here is Mr. Limbaugh... RUSH ARCHIVE: We learned that one guy standing up can stop the status quo in its tracks. Can you imagine in this last five years, if we wouldve had five or ten Ted Cruzes? Can you imagine the difference? Can you imagine? If we had five or ten Ted Cruzes, wed win a lot of debates. If we had 45 Ted Cruzes in the Senate, wed come close to winning every vote... BURNETT: You know, you got love Rush. He goes exponentially. He went from one to 45, 45 Cruzes. A good idea? GRIMM: Laughing. BURNETT: What do you think, Congressman Grimm? GRIMM: Thats not a great idea. Unfortunately, the principles and the convictions may be correct, but you have to have some tactics, and you also have to have some respect for the fact that this is a big party. RUSH: I dont know what that means. Big party, I guess, equals big tent. I dont know -what went wrong? Big party, big tent! The Tea Partys in there; they fought for it. What it means is... Ill tell you exactly what it means. What Mr. Grimm says is, Look, we are big party. You have to have respect for that, meaning you gotta: Come in and kiss the moderates ass. You dont just launch this strategy without telling the moderates about it. You just dont launch this without telling anybody. You gotta tell us. You gotta let us know what youre doing, and really, that is one of the reasons upset with Ted Cruz. He launched into this, and we even asked him about it in a wide-ranging, stellar interview here earlier on this program some weeks ago, and he admits that he wasnt totally up front, but he wasnt totally in the dark, either. But I still dont understand. Principles, convictions may be correct, but... Theres a but after that? Principles, convictions may be correct, but you have to have some tactics? What that means is, These guys knew that their objective wasnt possible. It was simple math. This is the lament. It was simple math. It was 51 versus 46. It was never gonna change. No way. They knew that. There was a different agenda going on here, called educating the public. Its a long process. Grimm continued. GRIMM: I think there are a lot of Reagan conservatives, which is what I consider myself, that are known for standing for our true values, but also being pragmatic and reasonable and working with others to come to a solution. RUSH: Look, thats just... Youve heard it all before. What does that mean, working with others to come to a solution? That means caving in to the Democrats, in real life. END TRANSCRIPT
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:43:27 +0000