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Jan. 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You're yawning.
You're yawning right at the beginning of the program.
How could you dare do that in front of me?
Oh, I'll tell you what, Dawn is yawning at me right at this.
It will not affect me because hell's a poppin out there.
Hell is a poppin', folks.
All kinds of things happening right now as the program begins.
Fox News is reporting that the Obama administration is going to say no to the Keystone pipeline.
The State Department's going to say no, they're going to allow the Canadians to reapply with a new route that will not upset the precious habitat of Nebraska.
Now, the Prime Minister of Canada said yesterday, you know what?
You people, I'm paraphrasing, said you Americans are absolutely nuts.
If you want to treat your whole country like an off-the-limits national park, you go right ahead, but you can't make us treat our country that way.
And if we have to, we'll run a pipeline to the ChiComs.
We're going to move this oil.
So here we have election year politics, Barack Obama, who has also signaled to his base that there's going to be some budget cuts coming that they won't like.
Because he's going to submit a budget.
And it's going to contain ostensibly cuts in it that his base won't like.
Of course, there won't be any cuts in an Obama budget that is presented.
And we have Romney dredging up here a whole brand new negative advertising campaign against Newt.
We have the mainstream media going after Romney, Mr. 15%, talking about how much money he makes from speeches and so forth, conveniently ignoring how wealthy the Clintons are because of speeches and how often they brag about it.
Brian Ross, who has yet to investigate Obama for anything, has now out with a story on how much money Romney has given to the Mormon church.
Do you realize that Bain Capital, when Romney was there, a certain portion of Bain Capital was pledged to the Mormon church?
Well, no, I'm surprised they're doing this now.
I'm surprised they're bringing before Romney has secured the nomination.
I'm surprised they're bringing that out.
We all knew that was coming.
We all knew the Mormon angle was coming.
In fact, we've been surprised where it's been up to now.
The conventional wisdom is a Romney weather debt storm in 2008.
I thought giving to a charity was a good thing.
But now it's not.
Now, Romney, I'll tell you, there's a better way to have done this 15% tax business.
You know, he got, he did not have a good debate Monday night compared to the others.
Romney did not have a particularly good debate, which is a little curious because he'd been doing this longer than any of the others on the stage.
You have his experience in 2008 and the experience this year.
Some answers ought to just roll off your tongue.
Some answers ought to now just be automatic coming out of the oral cavity.
But Mitt appeared to be stumbling and unsure of some things when this tax income tax challenge came up.
Release your income taxes, Middle Rick Perry, up there.
And I think that you should release your taxes.
What Romney should have said, okay, I'll release my income tax as soon as Obama releases his college transcripts.
And he could have said, okay, here's the amount of money I've paid in taxes.
But he went the percentage route.
He was clearly on defense about this.
And he went the 15% defense route.
What he left out is that he's probably paid a lot higher tax rate on the income prior to reporting the capital gains rate on it.
So there's clearly defensive.
Now, Newt, God bless him, is now telling Santorum and Paul to scram.
And Santorum is saying, Newt Gingrich cannot bully me out of this race.
And Romney is now preparing a whole new negative series of attack ads on Gingrich.
Sarah Palin was on Fox last night and she went rogue.
She said if she lived in South Carolina, she would vote Newt on Saturday.
Now, she didn't say that she was endorsing Newt.
She just said if she lived in South Carolina, she'd vote Newt.
And the presumption there is that she's doing her own version of Operation Chaos, keeping this thing going.
No sense in wrapping this up after Florida.
Why is it magic that our race has to be wrapped up after Florida or this soon?
Now, now, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the audio sound bites because Nancy Pelosi has opened her cavity, her oral cavity.
Two things.
Pelosi's out there saying, nah, we don't really have that much to do with Occupy Wall Street.
No, no, no.
We're not tied to that group.
So that's not going to make them happy.
And it's a clear indication that the Democrat calculation is that the Occupy crowd is a drag on them.
Then, Pelosi, at a political playbook breakfast yesterday, she was interviewed by White House correspondent Mike Allen, who said, you think the Republican right is intentionally digging in, assuming a loss, staking out their ground for 2016.
Now, when Pelosi says far right, she means the entire Republican Party.
You have to understand that about her.
She makes no distinction.
The entire Republican Party to her is the far right.
So you have to know that when you listen to her answer to the question.
I don't think they think he's going to win.
If the far right thought that Romney could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him.
But they question what he stands for, and they don't think he's going to win.
So what's a sell?
I'm not sure he knows what he stands for.
And that makes it harder, too, because that doesn't instill confidence as to where he might be on some issues.
Yeah, so Pelosi, the Republicans don't think he can win.
The far right, he doesn't know what his core is.
He can't explain it.
They don't think he can win.
Now, you probably recall I, El Rushbo, offering a similar opinion about certain elements of the Republican establishment.
And it's not so much that Romney can't win, it's that Obama can't lose, is what they really think.
They think that Obama just can't be beat.
And they think it for a host of reasons.
They think that too much of the country has been dumbed down.
They think that Obama's got too much money.
They believe in the power of incumbency.
They understand and don't think they can do anything about Democrat vote fraud, all those things.
They also understand that Obama is black, and they know that they are not going to be nearly as critical of Obama because of that.
So they're not going to really take it to him.
So they think whoever the nominee is is going to lose.
It's not that Romney can't beat Obama.
It's that nobody can.
And I'm not saying everybody, but it's certain elements in the Republican establishment.
That's just what they think.
And they do not think that ideology is a factor in elections.
Not enough people know about ideology, conservatism versus liberalism, and Obama has the power of the purse.
He's spent money, he's bought votes, so there's no way they can compete with that.
And so they think their best chance, and again, it's not all of them, but it's some of them, and they think their best chance is to pick a moderate who cannot be tarred and feathered ideologically.
They believe that curp conservatism, if somebody is criticized as a conservative, is a guaranteed loser.
That's what some in the Republican establishment think.
You know it, and I know it.
Now, the liberals are starting to crack because his Pelosi saying that the Republicans don't think Romney can win.
But last night on Charlie Rose on PBS, the New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief, Thomas DeFranc.
And they had a discussion about the Republican primary, and Charlie Rose says, tax returns have come back as an issue here, Thomas.
The White House is ecstatic.
They're already getting ready to tee him up in the fall as just another robber baron, just like a hedge fund trader and all this sort of stuff.
It fits right into their populist riff, and it's going to be a problem for Romney.
Now, this is, I think, another liberal letting the cat out of the bag.
They want Romney.
And for exactly the same reasons that I have suggested to you, they want Romney.
That's exactly the same reason they created Occupy Wall Street.
Because Romney is Wall Street.
Romney's main capital.
Romney's Mr. Private Equity Guy.
Romney's Mr. 15% tax rate.
Romney's all of this rich robber baron stuff.
And now he gave money to the Mormon church.
And so then more and more liberals now starting to crack.
They're getting, I think, ahead of the game, a little bit uber confident.
White House is salivating for Romney.
Now, you have to admit, folks, you have to admit that up till now, actually sometime last week, the word has been that the White House is scared of Romney.
Remember, how many times has that theme gotten on?
The White House doesn't want Romney.
White House is afraid of Romney.
As though they're going to be honest with us about it.
So there is mucho gusto going on.
I mean, all kinds of stuff is happening.
The captain of the Costa, what was it, Concordia?
Is that the name of the ship?
Hear what this guy says now?
He tripped and fell into the lifeboat.
He got trapped and he was running away.
He was running to do his captain duties and he tripped and he fell into the lifeboat and got trapped in there for an hour.
He couldn't get out because it was suspended over the side.
He didn't run away from anything.
He tripped and fell in there.
I mean, the cisification of our worldwide culture is well underway.
Well underway.
Yep, the guy tripped.
Well, who's to say it didn't happen?
All right, I got to take a break.
Sit tight.
Sit tight, my friends.
We've only just begun.
I don't know if Botox affects a person, but you mean Pelosi?
I have no idea.
I'm not sitting.
We are back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here at the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We will get to your phone calls, hopefully, at some point in this hour.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Okay, let me.
That, by the way, the cruise ship captain, what a great politician this guy would make.
No, no, no, no.
I wasn't running away.
I tripped.
I fell in that life book.
Bring this guy over here, legalize him and run him for office as a Democrat.
Okay.
Romney says he is taxed at a restaurant.
Yo, no, I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do the money story from yesterday.
I'm going to do it.
But I've got to do this.
This is today's stuff first.
I've got to get that out of the way.
Republican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate's probably closer to 15% than anything, suggesting that one of the wealthiest people who ever run for president pays a much lower rate than most Americans.
This is Reuters, Sam Youngman.
It is an outrageous story.
Okay, let's look at this lead.
Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate probably closer to 15% than anything, suggesting that one of the wealthiest people to ever run for U.S. president pays a much lower rate than most Americans.
Remember how Reuters said that about John Kerry, who served in Vietnam?
You remember that?
John Kerry, almost certainly the richest man to ever run for the presidency.
He married it, but still, he had access.
He was the wealthiest man to ever run for the president.
We never heard a word about it.
It was covered up.
It was not mentioned.
Now, John Kerry got his money the good old-fashioned way.
He married it.
Ms. Hines, estimated to be worth between $750 million and $1.2 billion.
According to her most recently released income tax, which is 2003, Mr. Kerry and Ms. Hines paid an effective federal income tax rate of 12%.
That's the last tax return of Kerry we've got, an effective rate of 12%.
Now, is anybody suggesting Romney is not paying a legal rate?
Is anybody suggesting Romney's breaking the law?
Anybody suggesting that Romney's cheating the tax code?
Then what's the story here?
Well, we all know what the story is.
It fits the template.
The frustrating thing is that they know, we know that they're going to trot this out every year.
We know it's coming and there's never any preparation for it.
There's never, all we do is end up defending.
And I'm telling you, nobody ever won anything defending it.
Now, I can sit here and I can give you facts and figures about Democrats and wealth and tax rates and so forth, and it won't matter.
It won't matter at all.
The Clintons brag.
Romney made $375,000 speaking.
Clinton has made $80 million speaking over something like eight years.
$80 million.
Furthermore, the Clintons brag about it every day.
Yeah, I have so much money now.
You know, I don't need these tax cuts that they're talking about.
I'm in the highest bracket, Hillary and I together.
We don't need these tax cuts.
We're rich people now.
We have more money than you do.
That's their daily weekly message.
Mitt Romney is a piker compared to the Clintons.
And John Kerry, a 12% tax rate.
Reuters insists that Romney's wealth shows that he's out of touch, is out of touch with the experiences and concerns of typical Americans.
All right.
Well, let's compare.
For the record, the Obama's tax return for 2010 showed that they earned $1,728,096.
Are they out of touch?
And forget what the Obamas earned.
Look how they live.
You want to talk.
There's a reason she is called Michelle Antoinette.
She takes her own separate jets to Spain with 35 people.
You and I are paying for it.
She takes her own separate jet to Hawaii.
Barack and Michelle Obama are living like kings.
They are not living on their income.
They are so far above their income.
And yet, it is never said about the Obamas that they are out of touch with the experiences and concerns of typical Americans.
So they earn $1.7 million.
In April of 2008, the Hillary campaign released their 2000, 2006 joint tax returns, which showed that the Clintons had made more than $110 million in those seven years.
Were they ever called out of touch?
No.
And it's not possible for them to be out of touch because they're Democrats.
They're good liberals, big hearts of gold.
They don't give anything to charity to speak of.
That's documented.
Gore, Kerry, Zip.
Biden one year gave $235 to charity, or maybe that was Gore.
I forget which.
They're pikers.
They're tightwatch.
They don't use their own money for anything.
They use as little of their own money for anything, as little of their own as they can get away with.
Bill Clinton, $82 million in speaking fees over six years, 2000 to 2006.
He probably gets more now.
The Clintons hide their money in family foundations.
The Clinton Global Initiative, trying to rebuild and restructure a tainted, blown reputation because of the whole impeachment of Monica Lewinsky thing.
And there's the press and Reuters and all the rest of the media industrial complex doing their best to cover it all up and rebuild a tattered reputation.
Reuters also chides Romney for saying he gets speakers' fees from time to time, but not very much.
Romney's speaking fees total around $375,000 last year.
Maybe Romney is not very much compared to Bill Clinton, who again, $82 million in six years for his speaking fees.
Now, the news media, the rest of the Democrats, even Perry and Newt, are pretending that Romney's breaking some time-honored rule in not releasing his tax returns earlier than April.
And releasing tax returns are relatively new tradition for presidential candidates.
It started after Watergate.
Lastly, Reuters reports the lie that Romney's paying a lower rate than Warren Buffett's secretary.
As we've noted before, Romney's dividend income, like Warren Buffett's, has already been taxed once at the 35% rate via the corporate income tax.
So the 15% tax is likely on top of that 35% tax, the capital gains on it all.
But none of it matters.
It's the image that must be fed.
For what it's worth, I'm just going to give you a little information here.
The facts are these.
A presidential candidate is not required by election law to disclose tax returns.
Most of them voluntarily do, but it's not required.
During the 2008 Republican presidential primary, Romney did not release a tax return.
It was never a problem.
In 2008, McCain released his tax information in mid-April, long after he had wrapped up the nomination.
Obama released his 2000 through 2006 tax returns in late March.
Hillary Clinton released hers in mid-April.
Kerry in 2004 also released his in mid-April.
And one of the things we learned from Kerry's tax return is that he paid zero to charity.
He donated zero to charity the year before he ran for the presidency.
Zero.
And he is the wealthiest guy in the modern era to ever run for president.
And he paid a tax rate of 12%, effective tax rate, with he and Countess Teresa filing jointly.
Ronald Reagan released his tax returns under protest just a couple of weeks before accepting the nomination.
It's not required by law.
So Romney said, I'll probably release sometime in April.
I'm probably paying around 15%.
His net worth, the figure I've seen bandied about here is $270 million.
I want to know where the crime is here.
But it's being reported as almost a crime that Romney is paying an effective rate of 15%.
It's almost a crime that he has given money to the Mormon church.
Now, who would you rather have as president?
You want somebody who earned their money and spent their money legally, invested their money legally, paid their taxes legally, or do you want a guy who buys a house at below market price with the help of a guy who later came to be a convicted felon, Tony Resco?
You note, none of this attention was ever paid to Barack Obama.
And we all know why.
First legitimate black presidential contender, history in the making.
We can't do anything to upset this apple cart.
Plus, he's a liberal Democrat, so he's inoculated against any of this.
Because you see, the template, the narrative is the Republicans equal rich, sleazy businessmen, even though all the rich, sleazy businessmen donate to the Democrats now.
And as I say, the frustrating thing is that you know this stuff is coming.
Every election, you know, it's coming, yet there has not been a defense prepared for it.
There hasn't been, there doesn't seem to be anybody on the Republican side prepared to deal with this, even though everybody knows it's coming.
What would have been wrong with an answer?
It's none of your business.
I'll release it when I'm ready to.
I'll release it when I see Obama's transcripts from college.
Throw it back at them.
I don't know.
That's just me.
Now, I mentioned earlier that Romney is back on the scorched earth attack on Gingrich.
And here's a sample of it.
It's a new Romney ad features ex-Senator Jim Talent.
He's from Missouri.
He's the guy who ran against Claire McCaskill.
And the metal block ad, Michael J. Fox ads on stem cells for McCaskill.
That's just who the guy is.
So you remember, he was also in the House, 94, 95, with Newt.
So Romney gets talent from Missouri to record this ad.
I served in the House with Newt Gingrich.
He would make outrageous comments that would blindside us and undermine our conservative agenda.
Chaotic decisions, erratic behavior.
It's a problem when your own leader is the biggest political problem that you're dealing with, which is why we removed him as the speaker.
This election needs to be about Barack Obama.
And if the Speaker were the nominee, the election would be about him and his unreliable leadership in the past.
He's not a reliable leader.
Oh, man, folks, this is scorched earth.
Remember what the Super PAC ads in Iowa did to Newt.
Remember how they just sent him over the edge?
Well, this is going to have the same effect.
So it's out there.
It's getting hot.
It's just, it is really heating up.
Here's Palin, by the way.
Last night on Hannity, he said, we talked about your husband going rogue.
That'd be Todd Palin, the former first dude.
You haven't gone rogue.
You haven't given an endorsement.
Are you getting any closer to giving an endorsement?
If I had to vote in South Carolina in order to keep this thing going, I'd vote for Newt.
And I would want this to continue.
More debates, more vetting of candidates, because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted to the degree that he should have been so that we knew what his associations and his pals represented and what went into his thinking, the shaping of who our president today is.
That vetting did not take place.
I want to see that taking place this time because America is on that precipice.
It's that important.
We need this process to continue.
Sarah Palin's got that godlike Obama echo.
Now, when she appears from Alaska, great picture behind her of the lake, well, not a picture, that is actually sitting there in front of a window, big lake behind her, the godlike Obama reverb.
Sarah Palin speaking on Fox.
So she didn't endorse Newt, but she said if she was a South Carolinian, she would vote for Newt to keep this going.
This morning on the Fox News channel, Fox and Friends, Dick Morris appeared, and Steve Doocy asked him a point-blank question.
Can Newt Gingrich make a comeback here?
Yeah, he sure can.
I think Newt could very well win in South Carolina.
And if he does, then you have a real contest in Florida and down the road.
If Romney wins in South Carolina, this is basically over because then he'll go on to win in Florida fairly easily.
And we won't have much to talk about in mornings.
Okay, we'll see if, and I don't misunderstand this now.
Please don't misunderstand.
We'll just see if Sarah Palin saying on Fox last night that if she were a South Carolinian, she'd vote for Newt impresses enough South Carolinians, Carolinians, to move Newt over the top here and, in fact, keep it going.
You remember Operation Chaos?
One of the things that one of the primary, I think there were two things that I decided I wanted to do in Operation Chaos, aside from having fun here on the radio.
The Republican nomination was wrapped up in April.
It was over.
Obama wasn't being vetted.
The press was totally covering for Obama.
About as far as the press had gone with Obama was Aaron Wright in the L.A. Times with the Magic Negro column.
And there had been some other black leaders who were debating whether or not Obama was authentic, down for the struggle.
But in terms of being vetted, who he really was, who his friends were, where did he go to school?
What were his grades?
None of that was being investigated.
None of it was being reported.
And I thought that Hillary and her campaign would be the only organization willing to go there.
And since the Republican primary was over, I wanted to keep the Democrat primary process alive for a host of reasons, sending in as much confusion into their convention as possible.
Plus, it was a fun radio thing to do, but it was primary.
It had a political objective as well, and it worked.
Operation Chaos.
Okay, Republicans, your votes don't matter in your primary anymore because McCain's got it.
So go out there temporarily find a way to vote in the Democrat primary and vote Hillary everywhere.
We became her best bud.
And in Indiana, it pushed her over the top.
In Texas, it had an impact.
It kept that race going in the hope that Obama would end up being vetted.
And at the end of the day, the Democrat primaries went on for more than seven months, and Obama still wasn't vetted.
Obama to this day, after all the years of the 2008 campaign and now the three plus years of his presidency, he still hasn't been vetted anywhere near as much as Romney gets vetted for one day or Newt gets vetted for one day.
Not near like these.
Here, ABC, I guess they went to the crypt and they found Brian Ross.
Okay, time to get out of the casket, bud.
We got a thing we want you to look into here for Romney.
Mitt Romney sent millions to Mormon Church.
Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross, underscoring the prominent, if little discussed, role that Mitt Romney played as a Mormon leader.
The private equity giant once run by Romney carved his church a slice of several of its most lucrative business deals, according to securities records, providing it with millions of dollars worth of stock in some of Bain Capital's most well-known holdings.
So what?
Valerie Jarrett just broke the law, went into a church and gave a political speech ripping into the Republicans.
And then after the church speech, they did a voter registration drive in a church.
Romney's not breaking the law.
What's wrong with giving to your church?
It's a charity.
He didn't take all the money himself like the Clintons do.
He's not hiding it in some family foundation where he gets access to it later.
Plus a charitable deduction off the top of the donations made.
Zero interest in Obama from the ABC investigative unit.
unit zero.
I don't know how much money Obama gave Reverend Wright.
We don't know how much money Obama gave Reverend Wright.
We don't know how much money Reverend Wright gave Obama.
We don't know any of this.
All we know is Obama says he never heard Reverend Wright in 20 years.
Oh, okay, good.
You didn't hear him.
You can count the number of journalists who have vetted Obama on one finger, Lynn Sweet.
Lynn Sweet, and she didn't do it as much as she could have.
At the Chicago Tribune, I believe.
Now, the Mormons tithe, I think, what is it, 10% of their income goes to the church?
Okay, 10% of their income goes to the church.
That's what Romney did.
Big whoop.
It's now the subject of an investigative report at ABC News.
Hey, Brian Ross, you know, Harry Reid is a Mormon.
Why don't we do some investigation to find out how much money Harry Reid's giving to the church?
How about an investigation of Harry Reid and his land deals and his son's land deals?
The L.A. Times has broken the ground there.
All you got to do is basically go to the L.A. Times archives and start doing some updated investigation.
Oh, no, can't go there.
Well, Harry Reid's not presumed to be guilty of anything because he's a Democrat.
So that's how this is all played.
And this is what's happening.
Now, you add to it the Republicans going after each other.
But it is what it is, folks.
It is what it is.
This is politics.
The old cliché, it ain't beanbag.
It's dirty stuff.
Snerdley made the observation.
Every time Newt has a good day, the next day, look out.
So Newt has a good day, and it says, okay, Rick and Rick, get out of this.
Get out of the race.
Coalesce behind me.
I'm the conservative can beat Romney.
I'm the conservative can win.
Meanwhile, Santorum is outperforming Newt in every primary so far.
It's getting more votes up until South Carolina.
We'll see.
And Santorum's going, I'm not going to be bullied out of this.
So, on one hand, folks, you have to say it's entertaining, it's fun.
On the other hand, it's tough to watch.
I got to take a break.
Well, you think I'm going to pay for that comment?
Well, that was well, that's what that happened yesterday.
There was a woman, I was watching Megan Kelly, she had like eight or nine, a cross-section of average Americans, fat white women.
Well, there were a couple of women, and they were fat, fat white women, and one of them said, I don't want Newt as a nominee.
He's a fat, old, rich white guy.
And I had to point out he's not rich.
I wonder if ABC News will do an investigative report and tell us, you watch, this is going to happen.
How much does Tim Tebow give to his church?
You watch.
Some point.
Thibault, by the way, Thibault said no to CBS Sports.
He's not going to show up on their Sunday pregame show.
Good for him.
He don't want to show up and have to fake laugh.
They also, it's said that the Dancing with the Stars people are going to seek out Tebow.
And he'll say no to that, too.
Tebow doesn't need these media.
The media has not made him.
He does not need to turn himself over to the media here.
He's bigger than the media.
He doesn't need him at all.
They want Tebow in a position where they can break him by having made him.
And he's smart to stay away from all this stuff.
Now, when I say it's fun watching, I don't want you to misunderstand.
It's fun like watching nature documentaries, like watching animals eat each other.
It's fun.
It's interesting.
It's wow, look at that.
But it's not something that you'd leave your house to go see.
All right, to the phones.
I promise we're going to grab a call.
Southampton, New York.
Bill, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, and thank you for what you do for us.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
Okay, what I really want, Rush, for our side is to have somebody in the Oval Office who's going to be a street fighter for us, not the class president.
And that's why I have a problem with Romney, in addition to not being sure of how conservative he really is.
He has all the right answers.
He has all the politics down.
But does he really understand how angry and upset, as you have so well articulated over the last couple of years, how mad we really are and how much we yearn for action to turn this ship of state around?
You said ship with a P, right?
With a ship.
With a P, yes, sir.
And I just don't see Mitt Romney as being that guy that's going to take, you know, grab hold of it and he's going to do the typical political.
Want to play a soundbite, Bill?
I want to play a quick 14-second soundbite, get your reaction to it.
It's Charles Krauthammer last night on the O'Reilly factor.
And the question, I really think the press intimidates Romney and some of the others.
He simply doesn't have the capacity to explain with some color and sort of force conservative ideas.
He's a businessman.
He looks like he's chairing a meeting of the board.
Charles Krauthammer says that Romney does.
I wonder when he figured this out.
Look at the debate in South Carolina, Rush.
I mean, the people will, as you indicated, I mean, they were all over anytime there was a major, pointed, conservative concept or principle enunciated, the crowd went wild.
Yep.
And Krauthammer says that Romney can't do that, that Romney just doesn't have it in him.
Now, good Lord.
Well, I don't know when they figure that out.
Now, a lot of people agree with the previous caller.
We want a street fighter in there.
And a guy talked about the audience and the standing ovation for Newt on the Monday night debate.
Folks, Newt was not street fighting Monday night.
He was inspiring and uplifting.
He wasn't attacking anybody.
This is a, it's a, might be a subtle difference to you, but Newt was not street fighting.
You might think so, but the things that he said, the things that he said that brought people out of the chairs inspired, uplifted.
I got to take a break.
I wish I had more time to develop.
Actually, I do have more time.
It's going to be six minutes from now.
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