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Jan. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Okay, Perry is staying in.
Looks like Rick Perry, NBC News, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry is confirming he will participate in the New Hampshire debates and head to South Carolina.
It's good for Romney.
That uh that ends up that ends up helping to it to an extent.
Anyway, the um the waters continue to churn here, folks.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I want you to hear Michelle Bachman.
This just a portion.
She was at West Des Moines, Iowa today when she pulled out.
She held her press conference.
This is a portion of uh of her speech, and I referenced when she talked about we got one election left, perhaps before we go down the road to socialism.
I mean what I say, and I say what I mean, and I've told you the truth that our country is in very serious trouble, and that this might be the last election to turn the nation around before we go down the road to socialism to a burden of debt too heavy for our children to bear.
And I didn't tell you what the polls said that you wanted to hear.
She gave good speech.
Um it's it's interesting.
Oftentimes a candidate's best speech is the Sayonara speech.
You ever notice that?
The best speech is when they're getting out.
The pressure's pressure's off.
Um it can be who you really are.
I I don't know what's so hard about being who you really are during the process, but somehow when nothing's at stake, it's easier.
Well, I don't know that.
I think it's fear.
I I I think fear is what changes everybody.
And there's nothing when you're getting out, there's nothing to fear.
But but when you're still in it, you fear making a mistake.
You fear saying something you shouldn't say, so you get guarded.
But there is no fear when you've decided to exit the race, and so you don't have that roadblock.
Uh and so you're more forthcoming.
It's I don't think it is anything other than human nature.
I don't think it says something bad or good about anybody.
It's just it's human human uh human nature.
Now there's a interesting story here in the New York Times.
Actually, two stories in the New York Times that are interesting.
By the way, speaking of which, do you know, let me find the New York Times has raised their price.
I had no idea, because see, I'm one of these idiots that reads it for free on the internet.
Uh I don't read the whole paper, so I don't sign up for the whole thing.
So you can get some of it, all you need for nothing.
You know what the newsstand price is now?
Maybe it's the delivery price.
$2.50.
They've raised it 50 cents.
So it's it's $2.50 per issue of the New York Times.
What is the New York Post?
A quarter?
A 50 cents, whatever it is.
My my point, though, is the New York Times annual cost is more than the tax cut Obama is giving you.
Their increase, the New York Times increase of 50 cents an issue, will more than eat up your 40 dollar tax cut that Obama gave you in the extension of payroll tax cut toward the end of the year.
Fascinating statistic, is it not?
Yeah, here it is.
New York Times increases the newsstand price Monday through Saturday, 50 cents a day, not $2.50.
The Sunday price, five dollars local, six dollars national for the New York Times.
And what this means to you is if you stop reading the New York Times, you will save $17 a week.
Now 20.
You save $20 a week, and that's more than the Obama tax holiday on Social Security payments, which is $40 a month.
I couldn't believe it when Obama Its went out and started talking about all you could do with $40 a month and how important it was.
And they actually went out and they found poor, bedraggled suffering Democrat voters detailing what that 40 bucks meant.
And that her lives would be over if they didn't have it.
It meant the one tank of gas that would get them to and from work that month.
It was incredible.
No, not a vacation to Hawaii with the girls.
Forty dollars won't get you that.
Unless you're a two of my tea winner.
We gave away those, but no, I mean it's just it was it was laughable.
Anyway, here's the here's this New York Times story now.
It's by Helene Cooper.
Obama weighs two tactics on Romney.
Now that Mitt Romney has squeaked through with the narrowest of wins in the Iowa caucuses, President Obama and his campaign aides are facing a conundrum as they decide how to tarnish the man they see as their likely opponent in the battle ahead.
Do they go the flip-flopper route, or do they go the out-of-touch protector of Wall Street route?
The two tactics are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and in fact, the president's re-election proponents have in recent days been gleefully highlighting both aspects of Romney's public persona.
In one portrayal, Romney's the one percenter Wall Street type witnessed the Democrats' display in Iowa this past weekend of a worker laid off from a company that was restructured by Bain Capitol on Romney's watch.
That portrait makes him out to be a conservative ideologue.
The other picture paints him as the weather vein watcher who was for Roe v.
Wade before he was against it, who said he believed that humans contributed to global warming before he said that actually he wasn't so sure about that.
And who said that he was glad Obama was copying parts of his health care plan before he said he would seek repeal of Obama's own health care plan.
David Axelrod tweeted yesterday, yesterday Mitt Romney predicted victory.
Today he says third would be fine.
He can't even stick to the same position on that.
So the New York Times says Obama's licking his chops can't wait to go up against Romney.
And here's a pull quote from the story.
It's a high wire rope to walk, accenting the more conservative parts of Romney's record, while at the same time arguing that he's a politician who is more than willing to shift ground as the ground shifts.
There are signs the Romney is ultra-conservative narrative seems to be gaining favor within the Obama campaign.
Now, I think this story is fascinating because it is jumping the gun.
The presumption here is that Romney's the nominee.
Which tells me, and I know I can't tell you how many of the professionals and the consultants have told me, not directly, but they've let it be known that they think I'm full of garbage when I've said the White House wants Romney.
I have said for months that I think the White House wants Romney for both of these reasons.
They want Romney so they can run against Obamacare or Romney care.
They think they neutralize any opposition to uh Obamacare because Romney's got his own health care plan saddled around his neck.
And they also want to run against him because he's Mr. Wall Street, and that's the Occupy Wall Street.
I think they've set up to run against Romney.
Now the media is telling us they're afraid of Romney.
That's strategic, so that we think we should support Romney.
But the left is never going to tell us what they really want us to do.
And the left is never looking out for best interests.
So when the left tells us who we'd be better off with, go the other way.
And the left has been telling us how worried they are about Romney.
Romney would be the toughest for Obama to run against.
Now the New York Times has blown that.
The New York Times has a story.
Obama chomping at the bit can't wait to run against Romney.
And my contention is this has been their desire all along.
My contention is they think Romney would be the easiest of the likely to win Republican candidates.
And I I know the Republican political professionals have let it be known that I don't know what I'm talking about.
Think I'm crazy.
In fact, Steve Schmidt's out there again.
I this is the guy that ran McCain's campaign.
Let me find it.
It's audio soundbite.
Grab number number uh.
Oh my.
I got two copies here, and one doesn't have a numbers on it.
Just a second.
It's uh see.
Number nine, grab soundbite number nine.
Last night, PMS NBC.
Special coverage of the Hawkeye Coca.
Uh let's see.
Steve Schmidt's the guest, and the question would the old conservatives who hold a lot of money embrace Rick Santorum?
They can't stand Romney.
Richard Vigory told me not mit now or ever.
So who?
There will absolutely be a constituency of people out there that rally around the alternative to Mitt Romney.
And you saw it absolutely in uh 2008 with Senator McCain.
Ironically, a lot of those people were rallying to Mitt Romney, endorsed him as the conservative candidate.
Didn't make a lick of difference.
Rush Limbaugh was on the radio every day, lambasting Senator McCain, and he still wound up winning South Carolina.
He wound up winning Florida.
People don't turn over their voting franchise to the talk radio hosts and to the activist leaders of the base.
They're saying this so much, they're clearly worried about it.
Every week we got some political consultant going on television saying a talk radio doesn't change anybody's votes.
These guys don't have any influence.
It's Limbaugh and these people, and nobody, nobody bases their votes.
In fact, everything Limbaugh wanted didn't happen in 2008.
Of course, they conveniently leave out that I didn't get involved in Dorse anybody.
But it's neither here nor there.
Now there is a contraving view.
In the American Spectator today.
There are actually two articles.
One article, one blog.
Jeff Lord has a blog post.
The American Spectator and the winner in Iowa is Rush Limbaugh.
And his claim that I'm the winner is that the winner, Santorum, actually mentioned me, actually cited me.
He said, This story, and frankly, I um, in my ignorance, I never even considered this.
But Mr. Homnik points out that Republican consultants advise their clients not to mention me.
Because it'll irritate the independents.
It's the same thing as as uh uh you know, don't criticize Obama.
If you criticize Obama, the independent's gonna run away from you, and they're gonna think you're a racist and a bigot.
And apparently the consultants are advising their candidates saying, don't quote Limbaugh.
If Limbaugh supports you, don't say so.
You don't want to go anywhere near Limbaugh, Limbaugh will kill your campaign.
Because Limbaugh will send the independence running away from you.
This is apparently what Mr. Homnik says in his article.
But Santorum didn't listen to this.
Santorum actually cited me and quoted me in a couple of ads and on the stump and ends up doing well.
Mr. Homnick says...
Uh the opposite of what Steve Schmidt says.
Regardless, I sit here, you know, what I what am I doing?
I'm minding my own business like everybody else.
Trying not to bother anybody, which is hard to do, but I still try not to bother anybody.
And at least once a week, some Republican consultant goes on MSNBC to point out how voters don't care what I say, or any other talk show host, not just me.
That we don't move votes, that we don't influence thinking.
We're a bunch of entertainers or what have you.
If we're so inconsequential, why keep talking about it?
And...
That's an article, the American Spectator.
I just told you what's in it.
It's a long article.
I don't Want to read the whole thing?
You know I don't like talking about me.
All right, here we go.
Despite the fact that Republican candidates have always vied to get airtime on Limbaugh's show, the political consultants they hire have steered them away from quoting Limbaugh by name in other venues or even using his name in advertising.
The fact that Limbaugh generally refrains from openly endorsing particular candidates has enabled the consultants to get away with this brand of disloyalty.
They can't very well be expected to cite Limbaugh in an ad if he hasn't specifically expressed his backing, can they?
Thus the paradox.
Five minutes on Limbaugh is worth more than all the campaign ads put together, yet mentioning him in a commercial is seen by campaign managers as taboo.
It'll anger the independents, they say, and the moderates and the women and the minorities, and on and on.
The consequences of this strategy is that we wind up with colorless compromisers like Bob Dahl or John McCain as presidential candidates, and elections are written off as losses before the first lever is pulled in the voting booth for a Republican or in the mortuary for a Democrat.
This time Santorum broke the mold.
He ran a bold ad, quoting accolades tossed in his direction by Sarah Palin, Huckabee, and Limbaugh.
That willingness to name names sent a powerful signal, electrifying the fence that most Iowa Republicans have been sitting on.
There are an awful lot of conservative voters who have been waiting a long time to hear their heroes acknowledged.
In my estimation, that single advertising spot put Santorum over the top in Iowa.
So Mr. Homnik's point here is that contrary to Mr. Schmidt, that Republican voters do want to hear the candidates acknowledge their other heroes.
It cements the notion of team.
Mr. Homnik points out the consultants, even though they admit getting five minutes in this show would be great, don't dare mention Limbaugh by name because they're they're defensive and scared.
And I got to take a break.
I'm way long here, folks.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Yeah, I tell you what now.
Now we're getting into an area of the program where I'm genuinely uncomfortable, and that is where I am the subject.
I'm in the subject everywhere else, but we try to keep this program focused on the ideas and the issues.
But let me since I've come up now, since they're out there savaging me, let me just ask you all a question.
Why was Barack Obama's first words as president?
Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
He had the Republican leadership up there from the House and the Senate.
He had Boehner and the boys up there, said that you just you gotta stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in this town, right?
On the other Steve Schmidt said, nobody listens to Limbaugh.
He doesn't need any influence.
It is Obama first thing out of his mouth to the Republicans, you know, stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
So according to the political consultants, Obama should tell everybody to listen to you so that I would run them off.
If Steve Schmidt's right, all I do, all I do is harm Republicans.
So Obama ought to be telling everybody, listen to Limbaugh.
Quote Limbaugh.
But that's not what Obama's doing.
Obama's telling people not to listen to me.
There's another thing.
If having the primaries go on so long is so bad for the Republicans, which is what the media montage we had at the beginning of the program.
Oh, this is good Obama's a big winner.
The longer this goes on, the better for Obama.
The longer the Republican fight.
If that's true, how come with each passing day, each Republican candidate scores higher in polls against Obama?
Right now, Romney, to cite an example, is ahead of Obama by more than six points, according to Rasmussen.
Really?
How can that be?
Because the Democrat media is telling us that the longer the Republican fight goes on, the better it is for Obama.
And Obama's the big winner.
Last I looked, Obama is tanking.
If anybody's got the guts to say so.
Now there aren't too many Republican consultants who have the guts to say so because they're not, and they're just scared to death of any criticism of Obama.
here is last night a guy named John Jacobson, a supporter of Santorum.
This is during the Hawkeye Calcai.
And this is before the votes, and all the cokeye attendees show up.
And this is a Santorum supporter, John Jacobson.
Rick Santorum has taken arrows for our cause, leading Rush Limbaugh to say, quote, if Rick Santorum were elected president, I wouldn't have one doubt any day what he would be fighting for, not one.
Yeah, that's somebody trying to gin up votes at the Hawkeye Calcai for Santorum quoting me.
Now the Republican consultants say that that's going to drive voters away.
Quoting me.
Santorum came out of nowhere, finished in a dead heat.
You can say he's the winner last night.
All right.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone is America's real anchor man, the doctor of democracy, America's truth detector.
And we're going to go to the phones now.
I I know, folks, you you many of you probably won't believe this.
I really am uncomfortable.
Uh talking about myself the way I've been forced into it today, particularly for the last half hour.
Because I d I I really don't think it advances anything, and and it's uh it's not a boutique here.
Uh sometimes the cases necessitated, but it does make me very uncomfortable because that's not why I do this.
At any rate, we're gonna start where?
Fairfield, California.
This is oh, it's uh my old buddy Kate from Fairfield, California, where they make jelly belly jelly beans, and a number I remember talking to Kate I don't know how many times when I was in Sacramento back in the eighties, and once again, great to hear from you.
It's so good to talk to you, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm fine and dandy.
Very well, thank you.
I I have to make a confession.
I have to I'm gonna make a public confession.
I lied to Bo.
We've moved to Carson City, Nevada.
I'm Carson City Kate now.
Why did you do that?
Did you did you just uh you think if you say from Fairfield that you'll have a better chance of it?
I said from Fairfield so that you would know who it was.
Okay.
But we've moved to Carson City.
Uh but I just it's so good to talk to you.
But I I tell you what, when I heard Michelle Bachman this morning, I thought this speech needs to be the template for the candidates who stay in the race.
Yeah.
Don't make it your Cyanora speech.
Go after Obama, talk about your principles, talk about your core values, talk about your policies.
And I have a feeling that's what I don't know, but I think that's what Rick Santorum did, and I think that's why he surged.
And I gotta thank you for clarifying Santorum's quote, big government label that the media is putting on him because that is the if I may say so.
That is the most important thing I've discussed today, because that for people to understand is the most important people because it's an effort to take him out already and to mischaracterize him, and it's it's uh uh I'm glad you're glad you mentioned that again.
I really appreciate it.
Yeah, but well, because it shows that they are scared to death of Santorum because Santorum is a guy of principle.
He's a guy of core values.
Uh he's not gonna change his position, and he's not gonna put his finger in the air and see which way the wind is blowing here.
Well, I'll tell you something else.
What what what what's uh the so far, only the people of Iowa know it because he didn't run ads, but he has a very detailed and specific domestic and foreign policy agenda.
And he spent all of these weeks and months in Iowa detailing it, formulating it, explaining it.
For example, he's got a tax plan of two rates.
He focuses, he he has uh his economic plan has different treatment for manufacturers and retailers, for example.
He's very hip to holding on to manufacturing jobs and and uh having tax breaks for manufacturers to keep jobs here.
He wants to get rid of the corporate tax or cut it in half.
Romney only wants to cut it by 25 percent.
Very specific plans in Iran, very specific plans against terrorism.
The only people that know about it are people in Iowa, because he didn't have the money to run ads on TV.
And now he spent 73 cents per vote.
I mean, that's amazing.
He was obviously out there talking to people.
And when national conservatives uh hear his message, I think they're gonna get excited about him.
And I just want to say one more thing about politics and money.
You were talking about Santorum and the others, the conservatives trying to take the money away from the Democrats.
And you'll remember it was a famous liberal Democrat Californian who said money is the mother's milk of politics.
Do you remember who that was?
Jesse Unru.
Jesse Unru and then Willie Brown.
Jesse Unrue Willie Brown.
Jesse Unruh was uh yeah, he was he was uh state treasurer or something in California when he said or something.
State treasurer, and it was the mother's milk of politics money is the mother's milk of politics, right?
That's right.
And that was the Democrats who said that, not the Republicans.
Well Again, I'm I'm glad you brought this up because they're trying to tar and feather Santorum on associating him with delay in the K Street project, and all that was was the Democrat or the Republicans trying to level the field in lobbying.
Right.
That's all they were trying to do was give themselves a presence on K Street, which the Democrats totally owned.
Right.
Right.
I and I think the truth's getting out, Rush.
I think people are more educated than ever.
I think voters are educated, and I'm so excited.
Yeah, that's the great job the political consultants are doing.
Uh uh educating uh voters, yeah, right.
Right, right.
No, Rush Limbaugh's educating voters.
Uh and I'm so excited to be part of it with you in 2012.
I I think it's gonna be a great year.
I'm really looking forward to it.
Isn't it amazing what one night can do to people's attitudes?
Amazing.
What one night you know in in a political season can do.
Kate, now from Carson City.
Kate, let me ask you a question before you go.
Why did you leave Fairfield?
And for why'd you decamp to Nevada?
My husband got a job that he loves in Carson City.
So after twenty-six years in Fairfield, I said, you know what, you love this job, let's go.
So I I I was doing it to support him and to support what he loves doing.
Yeah, you have more take home pay now, right?
I'm sure.
Uh yes, we do, no state income tax.
Amen.
And and did you hear that, folks?
She said she wanted to support her husband.
How odd.
How how how I uh you just don't hear that much anymore.
That is a you're warming my heart here.
After thirty-five years of marriage, he's earned it, let me tell you.
He's just now worth it.
After thirty-five years, he's five finally earned the support.
I love you, Kate.
I love you too, right?
All right, thanks for the call.
Who's next?
Uh Eric in Billings, Montana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Simply a pleasure to visit with you today, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
And uh I was just commenting on Mr. Gendrick, who uh last night seemed to have turned his campaign into a uh revenge mode, and he seems to dick want to dictate how everybody's gonna run their campaign.
You gotta follow Newt's rules or you've done something wrong.
And uh just don't think that's a uh or he loses his temper, and I just don't think that's a way that you're gonna win.
I mean, you got a hybrid of a guy that uh was a failed candidate who demanded everything to be positive, and then uh failed president who thought he was the smartest guy in the room, and I just don't see Gendrich as a big help when he's uh trying to run a nanny state campaign and that he would be somebody that would cut my government down.
I just h hold it just a second here.
Um first question.
Are you talking are you are you are you referencing the newt you saw last night?
Well, kind of all through the thing.
He's been going around demanding that uh he's gonna make uh Well, you said you'll teach it a bad temper.
Did you see him last night?
Did he look like he was in a foul mood or have bad uh bad temper last night to you?
I believe that he was in a in a mode of wanting to get revenge on Romney.
Right.
And uh and it when you run a successful um can uh campaign or as a successful conservative, uh you you have to take care of a tax on you, but you don't sit there and take them personal and go to revenge.
You have a agenda that you follow and you don't let other people tell you how it's gonna be because you respond to the city.
Let me play attack.
Let me Let me play the devil's advocate with you.
Knowing full well.
Now, let's be adults here.
Newt is in politics.
Now, anybody in politics ought to know that A, you're going to be lied about, and B, if you are a factor, if you're a threat, that they're going to run negative ads against you.
So that ought not surprise you, right?
You would think.
Somebody probably would know this.
Now, here's a question.
You're Newt Gingrich, and you have a very high opinion of yourself.
Okay?
We know this is true.
And here's this guy Romney with this super pack.
And they're out there, and they are telling one lie after another.
I mean, these were bombs that were being driven.
These were outrageous lies being told about Newt.
If it was you, are you going to sit there?
I'm asking you personally now, uh, Eric, are you going to say, well, that's just the game I'm in.
That's the league I'm in here, and I have to expect this, and I'm going to ignore it, and I'm going to go.
Or are you going to say, you know what?
It's payback time.
What would you do?
Well, I think I've got to the point where my skin is thick enough that I would definitely respond to the attacks, but I wouldn't do it in a personal manner.
You gotta respond and put your ideas out there and you know, kick him in the knees when he on his chins are exposed.
Uh politics isn't a friendly game.
It's uh it's a verbal fist fight for um the country the direction of the country.
So you so you're gonna have to take him on, but you don't get up there and talk that he didn't follow your campaign rules and thought that you're the smartest guy in the room, and and uh how dare he treat you this way.
That just shows to me uh weakness or uh or I don't know a grandiose opinion of yourself that uh um I know you're you're you're what what you're saying, I think, is Newt is coming off as somebody who says, How dare they attack me?
How dare they attack me?
And you're saying, hey, you're in the game, you're gonna be attacked no matter who you are.
George Washington was attacked.
Lincoln was attacked.
So I I I hear what you're saying.
I do.
But I also know this.
Whether you agree with or not, and whether you think it's wiser, I'm just telling you, and I finally frankly find it interesting.
I think, if I'm reading it right, and I could be wrong about this, if just days will pass and emotions will level off.
But what I saw last night told me that Newt is gonna go into New Hampshire and beyond and try to take Romney out every bit as much as Newt is going to try to win it himself.
That's how angry he is.
And from the spectator point of view, folks, what could be better?
From the purely spectator point of view, what could be better?
If it's a NASCAR race, Newt is going to intentionally crash his car into Romney's.
And after all, why do people go to races?
So, I mean, it's uh it's it could be a win-win.
Now, Obama, while all this is going, folks, we're not gonna we're not gonna ever ever gonna forget Barack Obama.
We are not going to be distracted.
Now, Barack Obama is in Ohio as we speak.
While McCain is endorsing Romney, what could in charge of this?
Who thinks this is good?
Who thinks this is helpful?
I want to know.
There it is.
McCain endorsing Mitt Romney.
Uh what am what am I missing?
Obviously, somebody thinks this is well-timed and is a great idea.
I'd like to know who.
At any rate, Obama is out in Ohio talking about the economy.
Now, this is pathetic.
He just said, and I kid you not.
I read this on the closed captioning while I was talking to Eric in Billings, Montana.
You're keeping that extra $40 in every paycheck because I told Congress they couldn't leave for vacation.
He's out trying to drum up.
I just pointed out that the New York Times per issue price increase wipes out your $40 tax cut.
And then some.
Your New York Times per issue increase of 50 cents is going to cost you more than your tax cut is.
But Obama is out actually saying you're keeping, got this audience there.
You're keeping that extra 40 dollars in every paycheck because I told Congress they couldn't leave for vacation.
I mean, that's folks, it's pathetic.
Yeah, the president of the United running for re-election on $40.
A tax cut of 40 bucks.
You remember how Obama fought tooth and nail against extending the Bush tax cuts.
That's real money.
That's not 40 smackers.
That's real money.
And he fought tooth and nail against that.
Meanwhile, McCain is still endorsing Romney.
If they're gonna do this, you know, do it in ten seconds and then grab the hook.
But no, they're going on a half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Okay, the McCain endorsement.
So I'm I'm listening to PMS NBC during the break.
And Mark Halperon.
I don't even know where he works anymore.
These guys jump around from magazine to magazine.
Is he still at time?
I don't know.
But he's talking about some frankly, I had not considered this.
Oh, New Hampshire loves McCain.
This is a brilliant move by Romney.
Because New Hampshire loves McCain.
This is perfectly timed.
But then a question arose in my fertile mind.
Why does Romney need an endorsement in New Hampshire?
The polls all indicate that Romney wins New Hampshire easily, so much so that New Hampshire's considered to be irrelevant now.
That South Carolina, that's the next real focal point.
South Carolina is going to be a far more important indicator than New Hampshire.
And yet, here comes McCain, and they're doing two or three joint appearances today with McCain endorsing Romney in New Hampshire.
And so Mark Halpern making it look like that the McCain endorsement is a specifically targeted endorsement simply for New Hampshire.
Okay, fine and dandy, but why is it necessary?
I've Because I look at the conventional wisdom is that Romney's got New Hampshire sewn up.
If if you were if you were Romney, which endorsement would you rather have today?
John McCain or Rush Limbaugh.
Well, he's got the McCain endorsement in New Hampshire.
Now why aren't the brilliant Republican strategists and consultants?
This is my question.
Why aren't these brilliant consultants and all these campaign experts and managers?
Why aren't they warning Romney against getting endorsements from McCain?
McCain...
...
I just don't understand it.
Let's just put it there.
Okay, when we come back at the top of the next hour, I have some sound bites from Santorum's speech last night after his victory in the Hawkeye Caucasi.
And it was remarkable.
Nobody saw it either, because it happened at 12:30 or 1 o'clock.
And most people were in bed or asleep doing something else.
Didn't see it.
And it was heartfelt.
I didn't see a teleprompter.
I think there was a teleprompter there.
It was not a stump speech.
It was nothing anybody's heard before.
Romney's acceptance speech was just he's been doing this for so long.
There are things he just repeats and repeats and repeats.
But Centaurum, it was new and fresh.
So I want you to hear a little bit of it.
Because most of you were in bed when it happened, and I don't think anybody has replayed it really, at least I haven't seen it.
So we have a few sound bites of that.
We'll do that.
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