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Jan. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, Michelle Bachman pulled a plug, and I'm gonna miss her.
I am.
I'm really going to miss Michelle Bachman.
She had a direct way of speaking in her presser today.
In her press conference, where she announced she was pulling out.
She said this might be the last election to turn around before we go down the road to socialism.
And you could hear, you could hear the journalists in the room practically gasp.
They could not believe what they were hearing.
The last election that we have to turn around before we go down the road to socialism.
Anyway, America's real anchor man, could there be any other?
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Here we are at 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.coms.
I can't tell you.
A number of people, and I stayed up all the way until they found the votes.
My gosh, I thought I was watching the Democrats last night.
99% of the votes in, and they can't find the votes from two counties.
Please.
They couldn't find them.
They didn't know where the guy who had the votes was.
And everybody knew what was going on.
Everybody knew what at this point Santorum held uh what was it, an 18-vote lead or what everybody knew that what was going on here was a way to find a victory for Romney.
So far, so fine.
Everybody the total number of votes doesn't really matter.
Santorum won last night.
I mean, that's that's the bottom line here.
Romney did not increase over what he got in 2008 with a little bit higher turnout.
Uh and in fact, there were fewer Republicans that showed up to a Hawkeye Calcai last time in 2008.
There were more independents that showed up, and that was so they could vote for Ron Paul.
And last statistic I saw was that Santorum got a vast majority of the Republicans that voted in the caucus last night, something like, well, not a vast, but a 27-25% majority over uh uh Romney.
But people have been asking me, are you surprised?
I said, No.
They said, You're not?
I mean, I got emails all night in this morning.
No, I'm not I'm not surprised.
Let me go back to this program on December 14th.
I just want to replay for you what America's Anchorman, and could there be any other, said on that day from behind this the golden EIB microphone.
I guarantee you there are a lot of people who hope somebody like Rick Perry comes back alive, or hoping that something happens in a Hawkeye Calcai that would launch Santorum or Bachman.
I guarantee you this guy on there is a lot of people saying the same thing, either about one of the three, and there's also a lot of fear that Ron Paul's gonna come here doing a lot of fear he's gonna win Iowa on the basis that he's out there saying he wants to cut a trillion dollars from the budget, and people are ignoring the tinfoil hat foreign policy this guy's talking about.
They're ignoring that for now.
So I'm my only but this is nowhere near over.
I I know the polls make it look like it's two-man race, but it isn't yet.
We have not had a single vote cast.
So back on December 14th, essentially I uh your host, El Rushbow predicted uh what everybody in the media was declaring a newt Mitt race.
And I said, nope, it's not gonna shape up that way.
There's still way too much that can happen.
Now, what has happened is Santorum for for all practical purposes, given expectations, was the winner last night.
There's always in Iowa, this always happens, the unexpected first or second place finisher, if it's unexpected, is always the winner.
Ron Paul coming in third as he did with as many independents, it's over.
It's it this was not a big night for Ron Paul.
It was you get down to Brass Tax, it was a disappointment.
Now the drive-bys are all claiming, and and this is part of the narrative.
The drive-by's are all claiming that Obama was the big winner.
And we've put together a montage to illustrate that.
The big winner in Iowa, President Obama.
These results could put a smile on the president's team's faces.
If I'm in Romney's camp, I wanted to go to New Hampshire and start running against President Obama.
Now he has got to run against Santorum.
And the longer that narrative plays, the better it is for the President.
Pretty good night for Barack Obama.
The spin at the White House is happy is absolutely true.
They can haul accuse me of being a White House lackey, but these guys are justifiably happy tonight.
President Obama was the big winner because the field remains unsettled, and as long as the Republicans are going after each other, that only helps him.
If not months to sort this out, and that's good for Barack Obama who has his own problems.
Let me tell you that this is such a crock.
Did it hurt Obama that he and Hillary were going at it all the way practically to the convention in 2008?
Did it hurt Obama?
No.
Did it hurt the Democrats that Hillary and Obama were fighting each other long past the time the Democrats hoped that there would be a solid nominee?
No.
This idea that somehow Obama is is is helped by an ongoing nomination by the Republican side is just pure poppycock, folks.
This is not good for Obama.
What me what this means is that the focus is going to continue to be on the Republicans and their message.
And a greater opportunity for that message to get out.
And it is going to be a conservative message.
Romney, if he ends up winning this thing, is going to have to be nudged to the right in order to win it.
It's just not a good thing for Obama that happened here.
And I'll tell you something else that's not a good thing.
Did you happen to see any of the video tape of Obama doing his dog and pony show?
I'm telling you, I don't know how this happened.
Folks, they added 25 years to his appearance.
He looked like Max Headroom out there.
Barack Obama looked like a space alien.
He looked like he was 75 years old in that.
They did some video streaming from the White House Obama to the Democrats that were caucing last night.
And from everything I heard at all these Democrat caucus locations, there wasn't any applause, there wasn't any enthusiasm.
The idea that Obama was a big winner last night is a crock.
It is wishful thinking.
The more this Republican primary goes on front and center, and the more Republican conservative ideas are debated and presented as contrast to Obama, the more it hurts Obama.
These guys in the media, I I maybe they're just engaging in wishful thinking or purposely trying to mislead people, or else they're idiotic.
And they're following stayed time-old formulas, which say that indecision and unrest and uh arguments going on in the enemy camp help you, not in this case.
I mean, there's the the more attention there is in Obama, the worse for him.
I don't know where these guys are coming from.
But this analysis is sorely incompetent.
And it's clear that it's the result of bias.
It is clear that it is the result of fear.
These media people are scared to death.
Now, by the way, uh people ask you, what about what about Perry?
There's some confusion about that.
There was a tweet, you know.
Perry last night said he's gonna head back to Texas for prayer and reflection to figure out what he should do next.
He spent a lot of money in Iowa, and it didn't translate to votes.
And the theory is that you know money didn't translate to votes in Iowa, then it may not translate to votes anywhere else.
And is it worth going into debt?
Does he have a high enough base here to pull off what now would be uh a miracle?
I hope he stays in.
As I've told you I like Perry, and I like Santorum, and I've told you countless times, I know either one of those guys, and I said this about Bachman as well.
If any of them are elected president, I know.
I have No doubt whatsoever.
They are going to be fighting for this country each and every day.
No doubt whatsoever.
I hope Perry stays in.
The confusion is that there was a tweet from the from the Perry camp that said the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State.
Here we come, South Carolina.
Well, the indication was that Perry had prayed and reflected and decided to stay in.
But according to the politico, a Perry spokesman, Mark Minor, said he didn't know what the tweet indicated, so things are still pretty shook up in the uh in the GOP field this morning in terms of Perry and what he's gonna do.
Now, Newt.
Newt is ticked off.
I don't know how many of you stayed up late last night to watch the speeches.
Joe Trippie made a good point last night.
Santorum should have gone down at 11 o'clock and declared victory, regardless where the vote count was and gotten his speech and his message done in time to make the late 11 o'clock news in the Eastern Time Zone and to be front and center.
And I think I don't know why, but I'm guessing he didn't do that because of propriety.
Not sure that he won, so you're not gonna step on frontrunner's toes, this kind of thing.
I could be dead wrong about that, but Trippy had a good point.
Just go down there and declare victory.
What are we talking about here?
You know you're gonna be within 10 or 12 votes either side of the aisle, so go down there and declare victory.
Beat Romney to the punch.
Anyway, nobody did.
They all waited till after midnight.
When most people have uh you know cashed out, and they're betwixt and between the sheets.
And Newt came out there, and he's mad.
Newt is ticked off.
He is livid over the negative ads that Romney ran at while Romney's pack ran against him in Iowa.
And it's true, it's safe to say that Romney's ads took Newt out.
Newt was at the top of the heap going into Iowa.
Those ads worked.
They took the bottom right out of it.
The Newt's foundation just plummeted.
And Newt is angry about it.
And it came across that he was angry.
And some people say that that's not good.
And Snerdley say it's not.
It's not good.
You're supposed to be bullion and optimistic and positive and so forth.
You're not supposed to get mad out there in a campaign trail.
It shows uh intemperance, uh lack of judgment, uh, so forth and so on.
But let me tell you how this is gonna manifest itself.
Newt's not getting out.
Newt's in this to destroy Romney now.
Newt may be more motivated to destroy Romney than to even win this.
Now, who does that benefit?
Santorum, who's gonna be sitting out over there on the other side, you know, doing the Mr. Clean routine.
Newt's already got a full page ad in the union leader, comparing himself to uh to Romney.
So Romney, and Bachman's gotten out, and Bachman was one of Romney's chief agitators for a while.
Then she backed off, hoping people theorize that she might be positioning herself to be picked as the VEP.
But now it's possible that Romney might have to endure Newt going for the jugular in these debates, and there's a debate, was a Saturday night debate coming up, right?
I think there's a debate Saturday night.
And Newt is going to be loaded for Baird.
The gloves are coming off.
So Newt will do to Romney, will try to do to Romney what what Bachman did to Pollenty and to Newt.
You know, she was a thorn in Newt's side.
She wouldn't let go of it.
And Newt didn't get mad at her so much, but he got mad at Romney because of the ads.
Now, if Newt, Newt's motivated now.
Now, Snerdley, you can sit in there and say this is this is unbecoming to be mad, but I'm telling you, Newt is motivated now.
Who cares about he is motivated to ruin it for Romney?
And as such, if Newt can be, and I'm not saying he can't, I'm just, I'm just uh my own little bit of dime store analysis here.
If Newt can be a guy to really make the case against Romney, nobody has tried, folks.
Romney has not been attacked.
We have noted this throughout the media, hasn't attacked Romney, the establishment hasn't attacked Romney.
has.
And now Newt can't wait.
It's personal.
If I don't know if it'll backfire or not.
Who knows?
This is a thing.
We don't know what's going to happen with this.
We've a back backfire.
What's how can it backfire?
Newt plummeted to what fourth place?
From leaving the it's already backfired.
What's he got to lose?
And there might be a huge upside here.
Because nobody has really taken it to Romer.
If Newt can be the first person to make a case against Romney, a credible case against Romney, then Santorum is positioned out there to perhaps take advantage.
The conventional wisdom on Santorum is what a joke.
This guy can't win anything beyond Iowa.
He's an extreme pro-lifer.
I mean, you and in fact, uh, folks, where is it?
Here, the the uh libertarians, this is from conservative media, these two headlines.
Rick Santorum's a big government conservative.
He'd be a disaster in the White House.
That's James Delling poll in the uh UK Telegraph.
And Delling Poles are conservative.
And then there's Michael Tanner, National Review Online, Santorum's big government conservatism.
So from parts of the conservative media and attack on Santorum Niz, he loves big government.
He wants big government to do his bidding.
He's not a small government guy.
That's so there's a coordinated effort now.
There is a mantra.
I've uh undertaken here to learn more details about his economic policy after I heard his speech last night.
There are parts of it that intrigue me.
So I dug deep today and I've I've got a pretty good overview of what Santorum's economic policy is.
I'll share it with you as the program unfolds.
But this is nowhere near over now.
This is just getting started, and the long-desired winnowing of the field is taking place.
So the conservative vote is going to be split less.
And Sarah Palin's out there.
I don't know, but he heard this last night, and she's going on, you know, we better not marginalize Ron Paul's people.
This isn't over.
I might get back.
She didn't say those words, she didn't say those words, but the door is oh, she might get back in.
Anything can happen here.
But the interesting thing to me is Newt angry, and if he makes a case and takes it to uh to Romney, first time that's gonna have been done, and there's Santorum there to pick up the pieces, and maybe Newt uh Newt himself.
So we might actually have a conservative going after the moderate, which hadn't happened yet in this whole cycle.
I gotta take a break here, folks.
But you see where this could all lead.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're back.
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Any human being should be allowed to have.
Now, there's a mantra.
There's a mantra out there, and it's even now spread to CBS News.
Will Santorum's big government conservatism resonate?
It's everywhere, folks.
Santorum's big government conservatism.
Have you ever heard big government conservatism associated with Rick Santorum before today?
Have you?
Have you?
All right, very rarely.
Some of you might in Pennsylvania in some of his campaigns, it might have been said, but nationally, most people are hearing this for the first time.
After he wins to Hawkeye Kokai.
Now, it started with uh, at least I first saw it in conservative media, and then the Cato Institute, which is libertarian, now CBS News has it.
So let's talk about this for a second.
I remember the early days of this program.
One of the things that I said when I was actually in the Process of introducing myself to the audience, explaining my uh my views and so forth.
I remember saying I'm gonna have to paraphrase myself.
I don't have the exact quote in front of me.
Because I'm going back to 1988 or 89 now, maybe 1990, but said in certain things, conservatives actually do like a big government.
For example, conservatives do want an activist government defending what's right and attacking what's wrong.
Big big government may not be the term, but for example, conservatives do think that it's the role of government to protect the sanctity of life.
As does Rick Santorum.
If government doesn't, who else will?
And it stems from our founding documents.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, declaration of independence.
Clearly, the government has a role here in defending life.
If they don't, who will?
Also, the government should be used effectively to fight crime.
Conservatives are all for, for example, the government fighting illegal immigration.
Now, is that big government or is that responsible government?
Big government is being misused here when applied to Santorum.
Big government, as it's used today, means welfare state.
And Santorum does not believe in a welfare state.
So the left is playing a rhetorical game here, folks, and I want to alert you to this.
Big government has a specific meaning today, and it means welfare state.
It means redistribution.
It means high taxes.
It means command and control of the economy, and that's not what Santorum believes.
So the left knows that big government is a negative.
It is a harmful term to attach to somebody.
And that's why they're trying to attach it to Santorum.
But Rick Santorum does not believe in the big government of Barack Obama.
It's totally different thing for him.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge of societal evolution.
We give you an example here on this big government garbage.
Here is more from the CBS story about Santorum.
Santorum's voting record shows that he embraced George W. Bush's style big government conservatism.
For example, he supported the Medicare prescription drug benefit, no child left behind.
He never met an earmark he didn't like.
In fact, it wasn't just earmarks for his own state that he favored, which he might be forgiven as pure electoral pragmatism, but earmarks for everybody, including the notorious Bridge to Nowhere.
The quintessential Washington insider Centaurum worked closely with Tom DeLay to set up the K Street project linking lobbyists with the GOP leadership.
Now let me tell you something.
Let me tell you what all that's about.
The Democrats own all of that.
What Rick Santorum and DeLay were trying to do was disempower the Democrats' bureaucratic lobbying reach into Washington.
They were trying to get an equal foothold.
For all of us who are devoted to ideas, God bless us.
But it is money that makes that town turn.
It's money that makes that town run.
It is money that motivates most people to want to be in that town.
It's money that motivates most people to want to win elective office.
It's being in control of the federal budget.
That is the great carrot that's dangling in front of everybody's eyes because that's the power.
Now, the Democrats own this.
What Rick Santorum has always been about is disempowering the Democrats.
Same thing with Tom DeLay.
It is why the Democrats had to take Delay out.
It's why the Democrats came up with these phony prosecutions of delay, did everything they could to get him out of the Republican leadership because Tom DeLay was a successful enemy of the Democrats and their entrenched power in that town.
And Santorum knows full well the entrenched power in that town and uh and and is devoted to breaking it up.
Pure and simple.
This K Street project was simply nothing more than an attempt to lessen the Democrats lobbying power.
Everybody talks about special interests, and somehow the special interests only end up on the Republican side.
All these wealthy fat cats, it's always Republicans.
The Democrats are these famous, you know, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
They don't have any big bucks donors, they don't have any big bucks members.
It's a crock.
It's the exact opposite.
The big money is the Democrat Party.
Santorum delay, all these others who got in on this were trying to break that up.
And so now the long knives are out for Santorum, and I guarantee you, the fact that the media and the Democrats are trying to associate Santorum with big government is an indication of something very important.
They know that it can kill a conservative's chances.
And that's because it resonates.
People do not want big government, is what this means.
It means now that the Democrats are today taking Santorum seriously, and some even on our side who are now taking him seriously, think that they can discredit Santorum by attaching him with this big government idea.
Because it's a killer, particularly with the Tea Party and with conservative Republicans.
So this is a full-fledged effort here to discredit Santorum with what's essentially a lie.
Because there are many different kinds of big government.
The irony of the left using the idea of big government, a term that they have completely discredited to try to smear a conservative.
But big government to the left means income redistribution, universal health care, union government workers, cradle of grave socialism.
Those are things that Santorum vehemently opposes.
The big government Santorum supports is a government that protects people by enforcing the law.
Be it the right to life, be it the uh the the border and immigration or anything else.
There are certain constitutional responsibilities that government has that they have abrogated.
But this be very careful of this, folks, not to fall for this big government stuff.
Because Rick Santorum, there is not a Republican out there that is big government in the sense that the left is big government.
Uh well, wait, uh, may have to make a modification in that.
I'm not going to mention any names right now.
I don't want to go there.
But when it comes to Santorum, this whole notion, I can't say this forcefully enough, and I right now I can't say it enough, period.
I noticed this this morning, this mantra.
Santorum's big government conservatism, big government conservative, disaster in the White House.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And I remember telling all of you when I started this program, late 80s, early 90s, that we conservatives like big government in a lot of ways.
We want it enforcing the border and the law.
We want it defending and upholding the Constitution.
We don't believe in no government.
We never have believed in that.
There has been an attempt for decades to equate conservatism with no government.
That's Ron Paul.
That's the libertarians.
We're fully aware, as conservatives, government has a role.
It has a central role in many things, enforcing the law, defending freedom.
Defending and protecting the Constitution, freedom and liberty, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
If government doesn't do it, who will?
But that is not to say, and it certainly is not the case for Santorum, to say that big government that we believe in redistribution, high taxes, creating dependence, Higher welfare, higher unemployment.
That's not what Santorum believes.
Do not fall for this notion that he does.
And again, the very idea that they think, they hope that they can tar Santorum with his big government business means what?
It means that even the proponents of big government know it's a killer.
That the majority of people in this country don't want big government.
Otherwise, they wouldn't dare accuse Santorum of being a big government guy.
If being a big government guy was a winner, they wouldn't associate it with him.
Big government is a loser.
That's why they're trying to tie Santorum to it.
Which ultimately is good for us.
In the sense that we have not lost the country.
We have not lost the people.
If big government anything was a winner, then they'd be running around calling Obama a big government guy, not Santorum.
What's Obama doing?
Obama's trying to make himself out to be not a big government guy.
Democrats can't win being who they are.
We've said this over and over again.
They cannot win being honest.
We conservatives, and this is true of Santorum, believe in a strong government, strong military, strong and just courts, strong law and order.
But we don't believe it has to be big.
We don't have to, it does not have to be a Leviathan.
Where's CBS news attack on Obama for being a big government guy?
Where is it?
It's not there.
And the reason is it's a killer.
And that's why they're trying to tie it to Santorum.
Now it's ultimately going to be up to him to explain this.
Because if he chooses to, if he if he chooses to respond to this charge that he's a big government conservative, he's going to have to explain what that means.
And he's going to be very clear what it doesn't mean.
And it doesn't mean that he wants the government running people's lives.
And he wants the government raising taxes, and he wants the government picking winners and losers in life.
That he wants the government taxing people and redistributing the proceeds.
That's not what he wants.
That's what they're trying to suggest.
And they will go out of their way to suggest that Santorum would use government to make sure you can't get an abortion if you want, even when it's legal.
That's what they'll try to do because they are scared of the social issues, too.
So in a matter of a few hours, look at how all this has changed.
In a manner of just a few hours.
Which, of course, is why I, El Rushbo, refuse to get depressed and down in the dumps about the Republican field and where it was headed, and it's the reason they get behind anybody.
Too much can happen.
Things can change on a dime, and the unexpected, by definition, is going to happen in politics more often than not.
And history can tell you that after the first election, be it a caucus or a primary, you're going to have people that are out of it.
The first official declaration that they have lost, where do they go?
Certainly not into debt, so they get out of the race.
Field winnows get smaller.
Now the whole dynamic is changed.
The whole dynamic has changed here.
It's fascinating.
Well, I know there's six or seven debates in January, the big one's South Carolina.
It's New Hampshire.
This is another thing for New Hampshire can be interesting, but it's not over after New Hampshire either.
And don't let anybody tell you that it will be.
Just like it wasn't over after Iowa, or it wasn't over before Iowa.
It's not going to be over after New Hampshire, no matter what happens there.
And now, by the way, I don't know whether to mention this or not.
I'm going to go ahead and mention it.
McCain is announced last night while Santorum was speaking.
You think the establishment doesn't have it in for conservatives.
While Santorum was speaking, McCain announces he's endorsing Romney.
Now that's some personal payback going.
You remember back in 2008, Romney and McCain, I mean, everybody hated Romney.
Huckabee hated Romney.
Romney was running negative ads against people back then.
I just got to know, you know, Rush, does it seem like every election cycle, all the other candidates hate Romney?
Yeah, because he's always had more money than they do, and he's always been out running negative ads long before they have.
And it was the same thing in 08.
And that's why Huckabee and McCain teamed up against Romney, West Virginia, where it's really did Romney in, that led into Florida with Charlie Chris's endorsement of McCain.
But Romney made amends.
He spent the next couple of years making amends with the establishment.
He went out campaigned for McCain.
So it's payback time now.
Here's McCain endorsing Romney.
Now this.
Let me put it.
If I were seeking the Republican nomination for president, there is.
There are people whose nominee whose endorsement I would want, and people who I wish would not say anything.
And McCain would be one who I would hope wouldn't come out in my favor.
That's all I'm saying.
Hi, welcome back.
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Now, if I'm Romney, and I'm not Romney, but if I am Mitt Romney, might be a little worried because New Hampshire, where I'm scoring big in the pre-election polls, is largely irrelevant.
I mean, as everybody knows that I, Mitt Romney, have been campaigning there and dropping money there for years, and I have an insurmountable lead in the polls.
So New Hampshire, it's yeah, I'm gonna win big, but that's expected.
Rick Perry looks like he's staying in.
Still confusing here.
The tweets are out there.
I'm not the way I'm reading, it looks like he's staying in this thing.
Which makes me happy.
Glad he is.
But he might have to begin to consider when to pull the plug in coming weeks.
I hope not, but money's money and debt is debt.
Michelle Bachmann has decided she didn't want to go into debt to stay in this, so she has pulled out.
So if Gingrich stays in, and he is, he's gonna take on the role of Romney's definer.
We were talking about this yesterday.
Newt, I'm telling you, is fed up with being defined by these negative ads.
I just saw a statistic.
80% of all ads run prior to the Hawkeye Cockye in Iowa were personal ads aimed at Newt.
The front runner going in.
I'm the double check the stat, and I see these things on the fly here, so bear with me.
While we double check it.
But 80% of all ads were ads aimed at an individual, and 80% were aimed at Newt.
In fact, the point is there were very few ideas ads.
They were personal ads.
Gingrich got defined and he's ticked off.
So he stays in.
Now he probably will take on the role of Romney definer.
Santorum has emerged here as a real threat, and they're taking it seriously because this mantra here that Santorum's big government conservative folks don't doubt me on this.
That is the single greatest indication that they're afraid of him and taking him seriously.
Because he's not a big government guy.
Not in that way.
Romney needs Perry to stay in.
Romney would have been helped if Bachman had stayed in.
Because Romney needs the conservative vote split.
He needs to split the conservative vote and hope that others will focus on Newt during the debates.
Not him.
If they drop out, which now Bachman has, Newt hangs on.
Romney becomes the focal point in the debates now, which hasn't yet happened.
The question then becomes can Romney put Santorum away.
The question now becomes what does Santorum have post-Iowa?
Santorum didn't have any money.
Santorum went to every county.
On the ground, it's called retail politics.
I hate the term, but that's what it's called.
Retail politics.
He shook hands in 99 counties.
He went to thousands of whatever tunnels.
I don't know how many donuts the guy ate.
But whatever, I'm jealous because he can eat all that food on the campaign trail and still look trim and thin and all that.
At any rate.
Romney needed Perry to finish ahead of Newt, and it didn't happen.
So Santorum surge, Newt out for revenge.
There's a new dynamic that Romney now facing for the first time in this race.
Washington Post says that only 40% of the Iowa ads were aimed at Newt.
I have seen a higher figure, like 80%.
Maybe the 80% was the ads were personal against all candidates rather than issue oriented.
Regardless, still a high number.
And they worked.
Negative ads always do.
And we will continue.
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