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Feb. 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And we've got to get out of all the foreign wars.
There's so many foreign wars.
We just got it.
Those wars.
I'm going to tell you something, folks.
Everybody's missing the point of the debate last night.
And I could shoot myself for keeping figuratively speaking.
I could shoot myself for keeping something to myself since January 13th.
I could literally shoot myself.
Anyway, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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If uh the phone number, email is uh Ilrushbo at EIB net.com.
Uh folks.
I want to read to you an email that I sent to some friends, dated January 13th.
Something took place on that day that caused me to have an epiphany.
And I kept it to myself.
When I got home that night, and I started doing show prep for the program the following day.
I composed a very brief email.
And here's what I said.
And my brother was one of the recipients.
He'll confirm this on Twitter, if any of you people doubt me.
Snerdlies, just read it.
I'm just beginning to see huge advantages to Romney if Ron Paul stays in.
I can see Romney offering a plum to Ron Paul's son.
Parentheses, every father cares about such things.
I can see Romney offering a plum to Paul's son and a not run third party to set his son up for the future.
If you've noticed, Ron Paul never rips Romney, which I know Romney appreciates.
In fact, Ron Paul joins the chorus of those defending Romney sometimes.
What I had detected, and I had this is an event that took place, and it is like an epiphany.
And I all these debates I had never seen Ron Paul attack Romney, nor had I seen Romney attack Ron Paul.
I saw Ron Paul attacking everybody else, and of course, everybody else was attacking.
Well, not everybody did attack Ron Paul because he's like the crazy uncle up in the basement or down in the basement.
Just uh you smile when he opens his mouth.
But the guy folks, um I just must must tell you here, Ron Paul is totally irresponsible when it comes to the subject of Iran and U.S. foreign policy, this notion that we are responsible for Iran getting a nuke and that we can't blame them because of what we've done.
He almost sounds at times like Jeremiah Wright.
America's chickens have come home to roost.
But Ron Paul is dangerous on this.
They f they have a nuke because they feel threatened by us.
I mean, they're space state sponsors of terrorism for decades.
But it's irresponsible.
It's dangerously irresponsible.
And and it because he has this the temperament of a you know the lovable old uncle, uh people kind of wink and nod the other way.
Really, nobody ever goes after him, but if you'll notice, that's not really the point, but the point is that there is an alliance between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
This is what this is what I have been remiss in not mentioning.
And now, so last night after the debate.
I start doing show prep, and I see all this stuff in the British press about Romney maybe offering Rand Paul, the vice presidency, and I said, I know I I know, I'm saying to myself, I know I mentioned this in an email to some of my friends, and I told my brother about it.
He went and found the email.
And that's the one that I just read to you.
No, no, no, no.
Look, don't misunderstand.
I'm just I'm just stating an obvious.
I'm not being critical here.
I'm just pointing out something that is obvious.
Romney is never criticized by Paul, but Paul has criticized everybody else that has become the most popular not mit of the moment.
Last night it was Santorum.
You're a fake.
Well, I mean, this is really cool.
Here you go making excuses for it.
You did it, but now you're running for president.
You wouldn't do it.
Romney, I'm sorry, uh, Santorum is getting creamed.
And I cringed when I heard him say this.
Santorum is getting cringed for the team player comment.
Now let me explain that to you, because I have on this program several times.
And this is not a defense of Santorum.
In fact, if you take a look at the first hour last night of that debate, there was all of that inside baseball talk about earmarks and Title X. I don't even know what Title X is, folks, and I am an expert in this stuff, and I don't even know what Title X. And then they started talking about Title XX, and I don't know what Title XX is.
I had to go look this stuff up.
So it's very inside baseball, but here's the thing of all of the things said in the first hour.
There's one guy that appeared as though he had nothing to do with inside Washington stuff, and that's Romney.
And if you had just landed from Mars and you tune in that debate, and you are of the opinion that we need an outsider, Romney appeared to be the outsider.
Romney appeared to be the guy.
They had no roots, and in what in fact, Romney doesn't have a federal record.
Everybody else does.
Santorum does, Newt does, Paul does, Romney does it.
Romney is immune to any criticism.
There isn't any.
He hasn't done anything in the federal level.
He is outside it.
Santorum, Newt, Paul all look like insiders.
And of course, in every primary season, base voters claim to want an outsider.
And you have all these people during the course of a campaign trying to make it sound like they are the outsiders.
Even if they've lived there 30 years, they're the outsiders.
Newt did too.
I mean, it did nothing they could have done about it.
This is not a criticism.
This is an observation that redounds to Romney's favor.
If anybody's watching it in in that in that context.
Look at the questions that were not asked.
There wasn't one single question about the gasoline price.
And nobody brought it up.
There wasn't one question asked about Obama's plans to reduce our nuclear arsenal by 80%.
Some people tried to bring it up, but there wasn't a question about it.
They're in Arizona.
There wasn't one question about Fast and Furious.
Joe Arpayo is in the audience.
The sheriff, Maricopa County.
Not one question.
In fact, there wasn't one question to these guys about Obama.
Well, there might have been a couple of scattered, but but not.
The moderator, John King, did everything he could to keep this away from anything to do with Obama.
It was uh it was odd.
There was not one question about no child left behind.
And and and Obama's recent waivers, even though they're talking about no trial left behind and and what kind of screw-ups these Republicans had made with No Child Left Behind.
And it wasn't one question about Obama's waivers that he's been granting for it.
Uh or the waivers for Obama care at al in total.
If you look better, there have been precious few questions about Obama.
And what does that lead to?
That leads to psychologically the assumption that our economic circumstances now Are the norm, a new normal, and what are they?
We have 13 million Americans unemployed.
We have 46 million Americans on food stamps.
We have nearly 30% of mortgage holders underwater.
This is the new norm.
It didn't get discussed much.
Now, understand this is the last primary, and these are the uh are the last debate, and this is when the guys hit each other with bare knuckles and fisticuffs.
But back to Santorum in the team player business.
I know what he was trying to say, and I know what he's doing.
What he's trying to do is be brazenly blatantly upfront honest as a means of distinguishing himself and his candidacy.
What he meant by, I look, I voted all these team player.
What he meant was we had a Republican president, and all of us were practically forced to go along with all of his proposals and all of his spending.
Otherwise, there would have been cracks in party unity.
we would have had to deal with those allegations and charges.
There was already enough criticism of Bush going on.
It wasn't, if you'll recall, It wasn't until 2007 when the House Republicans finally stood up and said, no more to immigration.
I remember on this program, I get calls from people just ripping the House Republicans from one end of the room to the other for all the spending.
And I said, you know, they're little caught between a rock and a hard place here.
Their president is the one proposing it.
Tom Delay, to this day, if you run into Tom DeLay, he will tell you that the Medicare entitlement is the best thing that he did as a member of Congress.
He will tell you, and this is we don't do entitlements.
The Republican Party doesn't do entitlements, but we did.
Was it Medicare Part B?
Is that the D, whatever?
I forget.
I got Title 10, Title 20, Title 69.
I don't know what they are.
It was Medicare Part Something or other, the new entitlement, prescription or something.
Anyway, the uh White House really wanted it.
And if you talk, even to this day, the label to he's argued with me about it when I've mentioned it to him any number of times.
That contains private sector reforms.
That is something it's gonna to this day.
They sing the praises of it.
But there was pressure brought to bear from the highest levels of the White House to all these Republicans.
Santorum finally, you know, look at you're in close proximity.
You are now the perceived front runner.
Everybody's aiming at you.
After a while, you get sick and tired of defending yourself because you know that doesn't sound good.
You know that doesn't look good.
And by the way, let that be a lesson to you.
People have called here and asked, you rush, why why don't you why don't you respond to all this stuff?
Say, but once you start, you never stop.
Once you start defending against all these charges, that's all you are is on defense, and nobody ever won anything defending it.
And I direct your attention to last night.
Now, Santorum had very little he could have done about it other than stop talking about some of these things a little sooner than he did.
But the the the what he was trying to do here on the team player business was was simply look at uh just being loyal to my president.
That's and that's what the that that's what the that's what the specter endorsement was.
And this is why people got so ticked off at politics in 2007.
Well, look at if you can't stand up for principle, if you gotta follow the party wherever it takes you, then what good is that?
But Santorum was simply being a good soldier.
What's his name?
Um uh Spectre was the incumbent.
It was from Santorum state.
The rule book says you endorse the incumbent.
He's a Republican.
It doesn't matter what else he is.
That's the rule book.
Santorum was simply trying to explain to look, I I uh was a loyal foot soldier.
I was a team player.
It didn't go well with um what he's trying to break out and become.
It was situation where he's between a rock and a hard place.
They had everybody gunning at him.
And I think the team player thing probably is offered at a at the at a point in time where he just felt frustrated by it.
Okay, let's let's I was just being a team player, okay?
Let's leave it at that.
And I heard it, and I looked at Catherine, I said, it's gonna be hell to pay for that one.
Because I knew that Santorum opponents, both from the left and right, were gonna harp on it.
But back to the very beginning here.
What is paramountly obvious now?
And by the way, if you are a Romney guy and a supporter, you're thinking this is brilliant.
Brilliant campaign tactic.
Whether it's true or not, that there has been an actual meeting of the minds and conversations and strategy developed between the two guys.
It is clear that there's a hands-off policy between Paul to Romney and back uh vice versa.
Paul does not attack Romney.
Ron Paul attacks every one of Romney's opponents.
Romney doesn't attack Paul.
And so last night, start seeing these stories in the British press.
One of them told me Harden was that Ron Paul would be offered a V slot.
Then another one followed that said maybe Rand Paul, and then Rand Paul put out a statement saying he would be honored to be Romney's VP.
And that's when I said, damn it, damn it.
I wrote that email on the 13th of January.
I saw this, I knew what was happening, and I didn't say anything about it.
Let me take a break.
And I have to say, folks, even now, as I look at the remaining precious busy broadcast moments, I'm still overwhelmed.
I don't know how I'm gonna get it all in today.
We're gonna try.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network, the Lindbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
Here's a headline: Santorum campaign suggests Romney may have done deal to make Ron Paul his running mate.
This is Toby Harden, the UK Daily Mail.
And then there's this, see, this is uh same story printed out, looks a different way.
Anyway, stuff all started percolating after the debate last year.
It's one of the problems, by the way, that senators and members of Congress who run for president have.
They've got voting records.
Romney does not have one.
So Romney cannot be hit on his voting record.
Romney cannot be criticized on anything that he's done in Washington because he hasn't done anything in Washington other than help design Obamacare.
Which I know, I know Romney care was 70 pages, Obamacare 2700 pages, but Romney's got his advisors out there saying that's what happened.
I'm just having a little fun with here, folks.
But by the same token, Santorum has got a record.
And Newt's got a record.
They voted for things.
And as you heard last night, did you hear Santorum trying to defend his votes?
Well, sometimes it's an appropriations bill, another thing has to pass.
It doesn't play well, but that's the way it goes.
It doesn't sound good.
It sounds like he's making an excuse.
It's a guy who's supposed to have courage, talk about his leadership, but he votes to go along.
Members of Congress, how many how much stuff do they vote for?
They don't even read.
As we learned about Obamacare.
This is one of the inherent risks that you uh run.
Oh, I'm told I'm wrong here.
Uh it's not just voting records.
It's when you're in Congress, you have to work with the team.
And this is what Santorum was trying to say.
And it just being blatantly honest.
He's I don't, he's the whip in the Senate.
He is supposed to round up the votes for his president.
But when you get into this degree, even with me now of trying to explain it, uh, it sounds defensive.
It sounds like you're making excuses, even though you you can adopt a tone that uh perhaps at its optimum is educational.
Look, I've got to teach you a little bit how things work.
I But it still sounds defensive.
No matter no matter what you say how you say at the end of the day, when you are being criticized for the way you voted, and the way you voted contradicts what you're saying on the trail, and then you start to explain why.
He says, well, you know, this is I had to.
Team player, uh, this president wanted this to pass.
What do you go with it?
It's a it's an unenviable position to be in.
And my only point is Romney has an advantage in it, nobody can go at him in that way because he's never been in the federal system.
He does not have a voting record.
And to his credit, he made good use of the advantage last night.
I mean, if you're a Romney fan, you're going to be saying that this alliance and Ron Paul's brilliant campaign strategy.
I mean, it's a brilliant tactic.
Go for it, bro.
Best to you.
People can have opinions on this from all sides of it.
Now I thought Newt was outstanding last night.
I I I once again, Newt illustrated a point when the pressure's off is when you do best.
And uh Newt's pulled out of Michigan.
By the way, speaking, not really pulled out, but he's not going to make any effort in Michigan.
And Newt claims that he expects Santorum to win Michigan.
So he's pulling out.
Ron Paul, get this now.
Ron Paul is not really competing in Michigan, but he's running anti-Santorum ads in Michigan.
Even though Ron Paul is not viable in Michigan, he's still running anti-Santorum ads.
The um, but Newt pulling out is gonna coalesce support to Santorum.
And Paul pulling out.
I don't know.
The thing, the thing that's interesting to me about the Paul and Santorum, uh, the the Paul Romney alliance is I don't know how the Ron Paul camp is gonna feel about that.
If if uh if this alliance is actually a purposeful strategically assembled alliance, and if it has an electoral purpose here to benefit Romney, I don't know how Ron Paul's crowd is going to react to that.
They may love it.
I I don't know how Ron Paul supporters feel about Romney.
I don't know if Romney's their second choice enough.
If they don't like it, uh, and if they figure out there's this alliance, who knows?
But this is going to increase Santorum's odds uh in Michigan with with Gingrich putting no effort uh forward there.
Now, I don't think Gingrich is doing this to benefit Santorum per se.
I I think Newt still wants to win this himself.
So he's positioning uh himself so that a poor finish cannot be chalked up to a poor finish following a full-fledged all-out effort to win.
If you don't make a big effort, if you uh uh make no effort at all in a state and you don't do well, well, it's not unexpected that you wouldn't do well.
So Michigan and Arizona are next Tuesday.
And we shall see.
But I thought Newt, with no pressure on him, uh, hit Obama better than anybody did last night.
He reminded CNN's audience that Obama as an Illinois state said, this is what Newt is so great at.
It tried to focus on Santorum and contraception, and Newt said, you know, you know, let me tell you something.
Why don't we ever talk about the president of the United States who, as an Illisnoy state senator, voted for infanticide?
Barack Obama voted to allow babies who survived an abortion to go ahead and be killed.
Let the doctors do it.
The original intent was the abortion.
If the abortion fails, the doctors are permitted to go ahead and complete the job.
And Barack Obama promoted that and voted for it.
And we're gonna talk about contraception, let's talk about that.
And the audience went nuts.
These are the kinds of things that Newt did last night, and he is just, he's so good at it.
And he even he had the courage to use the word infanticide.
It's exactly what was being defended.
And uh unbelievable as This may sound to um those of you never heard about this, it every word of it is true.
It is the most shocking and underreported significant story I can ever remember.
It's all on the record.
Obama and infanticide.
We talked about it during a 2008 campaign.
Nobody wanted to hear it.
The Hope he changed thing was just too big of um that was absorbing all the energy.
But it was it was shocking the details of this um of this story.
He also Newt had some absolutely brilliant conservative thoughts on education and on our schools.
He noted Newt noted a three fundamental mistakes on education.
They assume that teachers' unions care about kids.
He said this self-esteem nonsense where kids hear about self-esteem, but they can't even spell it.
They're taught that they have self-esteem, they're taught that they're wonderful little darlings, they're taught all of this, but they can't even spell a word, self-esteem.
And then he talked about the bureaucrat-driven curriculum.
And he wanted to talk up charter schools, suggested the Department of Education be uh shrunk down to nothing.
And about teaching, he said, and this I think is accurate.
When I was in school, this is what we all thought of of the profession.
He said teaching is a missionary vocation and regulation kills it.
Bureaucracy kills it.
So Newt, spot on.
There weren't as many giant applause lines, and there weren't as many instances of standing ovation applause.
I don't know that there was a standing ovation at all last night.
But Newt was on his game.
He was good.
Let's go to the phones.
Let's grab uh Ann in Bradford, New Hampshire, as we kick it off.
Great to have you on the program, Ann.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Well, good.
Um I just want to let you know that I think you have obviously made your decision that you are backing Santorum.
And I just want to tell you that he's a loser, in my opinion.
He will lose big time.
Well, as to me, he's just like Obama.
He's a lawyer.
He's done nothing else, and he's holier than now in his um, you know, his presentations, I think.
All right.
Well, you may be right that he's gonna lose.
I haven't uh chosen anybody.
Well, it sounds like you have, it's so obvious.
Well, but I haven't said that.
No, you haven't said it, but you are seeing you're you're drawing inferences from implications I haven't made.
I don't think so.
Well I don't think so.
I think so.
I think I'm right on the money.
Well, I'm lying to you now, then, right?
No, I don't think so.
I I well, I really maybe you are, I don't know.
But I really feel just listening to the last couple of days.
It hasn't been before, but it's the last couple of days I have noticed a change.
Yeah.
Let me tell you something.
It's a good thing that you called.
You you have given me an opportunity here.
Take the occasion of your call to say something.
Um I haven't chosen anybody.
I said each of the last two days that my realize I'm a powerful, influential member of the media.
Will you agree with that?
Yes.
Okay.
When this is all over, I have to be able, I have to be in a position to be able to support whoever our nominee is with full credibility.
Now, if I make a choice during this race, and if I or let's not say that.
Let's say that I just spend this whole time ripping somebody to shreds, and they end up winning it.
Where am I when I then start talking about how qualified they are and how you ought to vote for them?
Well, you're absolutely right.
I can't put myself in that position.
And the reason I do understand that.
Okay.
Okay.
And I don't take any of this personally.
I this is not personal.
I don't have any personal attachment to Romney or opposition.
I don't have any personal attachment to Santorum or uh not.
I I don't have any personal attachment to any of these people, and I have no personal investment in the outcome.
Meaning, I'm not sitting here telling myself that, okay, I subliminally want people like you to think I'm for Santorum.
And when Santorum wins, I want to tell myself how powerful.
I don't.
That's not at all the way I look at that.
I have no personal investment.
My power, credibility, what is not on the line here.
I'm just uh sharing with you each and every day when I hear something said by one of these guys that I don't like, like Romney yesterday's tax plan.
Uh but at the same time, I when Romney said things I like, I've said so.
And like I the bottom line is this, Ann, if you didn't hear me yesterday, let me repeat it.
I want whoever gets this nomination to be the best they can.
I uh when Romney announced his tax plan yesterday, and I thought it could have been better.
My criticism is rooted in I want him to do it right.
And or Santorum, or what that's why I tried to explain a little bit this morning what his team player comment was all about.
I wasn't making excuses, I was trying to explain with more time than he had what he was trying to tell people.
I just I want all these people to be good.
I want because one of them is gonna be the nominee.
Right.
Well, we think maybe one of them.
Well, yeah, that's we can't be sure about that.
That's uh that's another thing.
Uh Chris Christie says they're beating down his door.
I know.
Well, if I had my brothers, I would pick Christie.
Well, by the way, did you hear that Chris Christie called Obama a coward?
No, I didn't hear that.
Yeah, this is uh uh a blog called the rights fear.com, uh talking on morning Joe today about gay marriage and his recent veto of a New Jersey marriage equality bill, the guy who should be running for president, according to his blog, found a way to use the issue to attack Obama.
It was glorious.
Christie defended his recent veto of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry, reiterated his call to put the question to a popular referendum, arguing the Democrats in my state are criticizing me, saying my feet are firmly planted on the wrong side of justice.
I said yesterday, yeah, my feet are firmly planted right next to Obama.
He could have gotten more votes in New Jersey out of Democrats in the legislature.
Not all of them voted for it if the president would have taken a stand.
But that that wasn't the best part.
The real fireworks started when Jonathan Capart pressed Christie on putting civil rights of a minority up for referendum, and Christie was was unfazed.
He went on to say that Obama's a coward about all of this.
And he's out there saying, Warren Buffett, why don't you shut up, pal, and cut a check.
Right.
Yeah, I like that.
Well, this is the kind of combativeness that our side likes in Chris Christie.
And he says that people are beating down his door trying to get him to run.
Right.
Change his mind.
Right.
Well, I appreciate your listening to me.
You bet anyway, that's how I feel.
Call any time.
All right.
All right.
Thank you.
We'll be right back after this.
Okay, folks, we have the soundbite.
This is uh, I think.
Yeah, this is Newt.
This is newt, and Obama voting for ins infanticide.
Uh and it is a it's an exchange between John King and the Nutster.
Which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?
As you can see.
It's a very popular question in the audience as we can see.
Look, we're not going to spend a ton of time on this, but it is.
Please make a point.
Sure.
These guys are giving you some feedback here, John.
I see that.
I think I think they're making it very clear.
I just want to point out you did not once in the 2008 campaign, not once did anybody in the elite media ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide.
Okay.
So let's be clear here.
And he went on our bite ends there.
He went on to explain what infanticide is.
He went on to explain the abortion is botched, the baby is born alive, and the doctor is permitted to finish the job.
And that was a piece of legislation Obama pushed.
Obama voted present most of the time in the Illinois Senate, but this he couldn't wait to vote yes.
In fact, he was one of the uh uh leaders.
Spearheading this thing.
Now, the other end of the spectrum.
Grab audio sound by 36.
This is Mark McKinnon.
He of the No Labels Group.
McKinnon ran the media for George W. Bush in 2000-2004.
McKinnon is the guy, you're looking at me like you don't know who he is.
He's the guy who uh uh told McCain, if you criticize Obama, I'm out of here.
He was working for McCain.
If I hear you for one criticism of Obama, then I'm out of here.
And he started this group called No Labels, which is a home for wayward uh liberal Republicans who um uh the front doors locked.
And so they they've had they've had to go find an orphanage for themselves.
And the no-labels bunch uh thinks that we can advance our our our culture and says I lot further if there were no liberals and no conservatives, if there were just liberals that didn't have to say they were liberals.
And he was on Morning Joe today on MSNBC.
McKinnon's a co-founder of the group.
They're having a discussion about a bill in Virginia that would have required women seeking abortions to receive a transvaginal ultrasound first.
The left just hates that.
Stands in the way of the profit associated with abortion.
Joe Scarborough said Bob McDonnell, a governor of Virginia, stepped back yesterday from the cliff and said he wouldn't support that part of the bill.
Very interesting.
And here's what McKinnon said.
He tried to, you know, Republicans are supposed to be against government, big government inserting themselves into our lives, and then we have this situation in Virginia where the Republicans are literally trying to insert themselves into women's bodies.
Okay.
Okay, so that's that's uh Republican media strategist, Mark McKinnon, who ran the media for George W. Describing Republicans in Virginia as trying to insert themselves into women's bodies.
I thought Republicans were so stupid they didn't know where to do that.
I thought they're so blockheaded and old fashioned and so forth.
What do you mean insert ourselves into a woman's body?
Where would we do that?
Is the impression.
Who's next?
Miles in Amherst, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh, thank you for letting me share your audience.
Yes, sir.
You're welcome to it.
I want to talk about the debate last night, but I don't think I should let the uh discussion on abortion pass without notice.
Uh you brought that up.
I your screener said to get right to it about the debate, but this business about uh a woman's body.
Well, once a child is conceived, it's a second body, and what this what the Supreme Court did in 1973 was re-established in making that infant the property of the mother.
Now to get to Romney's debate performance last night, to the extent that people are cheering about it.
It's a uh it's the triumph of form over substance because Romney revealed a great many things last night, and and uh he uh to me he lost the debate quite badly.
Why?
How?
Well, he uh he said he saved the Olympics.
Wait a minute.
Miles, have you and I ever met?
No, sir.
Okay.
Continue.
Uh he saved he said he saved the Olympics by taking a bailout from the taxpayer.
Romney care was made possible by a taxpayer bailout.
And in the debate several times he sang the Obama song.
Uh, which is, you know, work hard, play by the rules, put your children through school and retire.
And he behaved throughout like every spoiled little rich kid I've ever met.
Well, who do you think won the debate?
Well, it isn't a question of who won and who lost.
The the his performance uh is dressed up and made to look like he's he's coming out tough, he's firing on all cilliners against uh Santorum and everybody else's peripheral.
Now, as you've pointed out, uh Ron Paul is an adjunct to the Romney campaign.
And we have everybody saying that I shouldn't say everybody, we have a great many people saying that Romney is a presidential timber.
Well, he has a record.
And his government record is taking bailout.
His government record is is flopping all over the place as the people uh or the people who tell him which way the wind is blowing, that's the way he follows.
By the way, let me I've got precious few broadcast seconds left.
Do you know these endorsements that Romney is getting from members of Congress, governors so forth?
Well, do you think their voting records are similar to Santorum's?
I I have no idea in the aggregate or in the specific, I should say.
In the aggregate, there's many people that have similar voting records to Santorum.
I bet there's not a whole lot of difference in uh some of the senatorial congressional endorsements of Romney from Santorum's voting record.
And who out however many of them might have uh supported Spectre.
I'm just asking.
I just want to warn you folks, the phones are smoking.
Literal smoke is pouring out of our phone lines.
People think I'm being unfair to Romney.
And my email pretty much the same way.
So fasten your seat belts.
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