RUSH: If you’re wondering why you hear Republicans really embracing the idea of a Hillary win, that’s what it’s all about. It’s about maintaining the club, about maintaining the establishment — this tiny but exclusive and very powerful group of people. And they deal with each other in their own ways.
It’s in ways where they need to be reciprocal, pay people back, take people out. There are ways of doing that behind the scenes that don’t take place in public that we probably might not see. But the bad blood, people are saying, “Colin Powell says she hates Obama, but that doesn’t jibe with the way they look and talk about each other.” Ah, it could. They could still harbor great dislike for each other and distrust — and don’t forget the Trump factor.
If any of the other Republican candidates had been nominated, then Obama might not have been so cautious in protecting Hillary. If somebody from the Republican establishment’s gonna get elected, why, Obama’s gonna know that preserving the establishment will take place. But with Trump he can’t roll the dice, and if he doesn’t want Hillary to win, Trump changes everything, ’cause the last thing they want is for Trump to win this. Jeb would be okay. Kasich would be okay.
I would say Trump and Cruz were the two that no matter what, would never be allowed to happen. The Democrats will bury whatever hatchets they have for each other to stop either Trump or Cruz. But any of the others… (interruption) Ah, Rubio? I don’t know. There might have been a third. The bottom line is Trump winning the nomination changed everything. It almost forces Obama and the Clintons to get along, whereas in other circumstances there might have been a little less comity.
So it just makes these emails from Colin Powell all the more interesting, ’cause I don’t doubt them at all. She’s sick, she’s tired, and she hates Obama. She hates Obama’s economy. She hates half of Trump’s supporters. She hates transparency. But she loves throwing Colin Powell under the bus.
