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Feb. 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 29, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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This is how, ladies and gentlemen, it all works.
I have this right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It wasn't long ago, January 7th.
We were all minding our own business, trying to keep up with the Republican presidential primary.
There was a debate scheduled that night.
In that debate, George Stephanie Stephanopoulos, a Democrat Party hack disguised as an objective journalist, was moderating a Republican candidates debate.
And in that debate, he asked Nick Romney what he thought about contraception.
And Romney had no clue why the subject was brought up.
He kept telling Stephanopoulos, well, George, where are you going with this?
Nobody wants to ban contraception.
Yeah, but do you think the states could?
George, it's silly.
Nobody's talking about banning.
There it was.
It was thrown, therefore, right in the middle of the floor of the Republican debate.
And from January 7th on, the notion that the Republicans want to take birth control pills away from the Butts sisters is now the standard operating thought of the day.
No, the Butts sisters, you know, from the song The Troglodytes.
Well, here, put the song in there.
This is what I'm talking about.
Go ahead and hit it.
What we're going to do right here is go back.
Way back.
Back at the time.
What am I talking about with the Butts Sisters?
This.
When the only people that existed were Troglodytes.
The Jimmy Kester bunch, I think.
Cavemen.
Yeah.
Cave women.
Yeah, Romney.
Neanderthal.
Santorum.
Troglodytes.
Gingrich.
Let's take the average caveman at home.
Santorum.
Listen to his stereo.
Send for them.
He'd begin to move.
Something like this.
Dance.
Dance.
Get threatening.
Get pregnant.
When he got tired of dancing alone, he'd look in the mirror.
He'd say, gotta find a woman.
Gotta find a woman.
Get pregnant.
He'd go down to the lake where all the girls would be swimming or washing clothes or something.
He'd look around and just reach in and grab one.
Come here.
Gingrich.
Come here.
Santorum.
He'd grab her by the hair.
You can't do that today, fellas, because it might come off.
You'd have a piece of hair in your hand.
She'd be swimming away from you.
This one woman just laid there, wet and frightened.
He said, move.
Move.
Get threatened.
She got up.
She was a big woman.
Big.
Her name was Bertha.
Bertha Butt.
She's one of the Butt sisters.
He didn't care.
He looked up.
He said, Socket me, socket me, socket me, socket to me, socket me, socket to me, socket me, socket me.
She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him.
So she began to like him.
Ginkgo.
She said, I'll sock it to you, daddy.
Sam Torum.
He said, what?
She said, I'll sock it to you, Daddy.
You know what he said?
He started it on way back then.
Get pregnant.
When she said, I'll sock it to you, Daddy.
Get pregnant.
He said, get right on.
Right on.
Hot match.
From all the way back in the late 1960s, maybe 70s or early 70s, Jimmy Castor Bunch, the Troglodytes, and he died a few weeks ago?
I did not.
I had not heard that.
What about the bunch?
The bunch is still around of Jimmy Castor passed away.
Well, that's where the Butt sisters were born.
Bertha, Butt and her sister.
And it all happened on January 7th, New Hampshire.
That you just heard, that image of Republicans was born once again on January 7th.
And that image has been burnished and it has been flourishing ever since.
And since that time, President Obama has mandated that the Pope give away birth control pills and practically perform abortions.
I know, I said the...
I said practically that the Pope give away birth control pills and perform more.
Practically said, that's what I said.
There have been congressional hearings on whether or not the president has the right to mandate such things, and he does not.
It's not, it's violating the Constitution.
And in those congressional hearings, women ran out, claiming they were not allowed to speak as the Republicans led by Daryl Issa wanted to take away their pills, which nobody has ever said since January 7th they wanted to do.
The Butts sisters are safe.
And then there is this story from the CyberCamps News Service.
Here's February 29th leap day.
A Georgetown University co-ed told Representative Nancy Pelosi's hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex, they are going broke buying birth control pills.
Speaking at a hearing held by Pelosi to tout Obama's mandate that virtually every health insurance plan cover the full cost of contraception and abortion-inducing products, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said that it's too expensive to have sex in law school without mandated insurance coverage.
Apparently, four out of every 10 co-eds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception, said Sandra Fluke's research.
Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be?
Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them or the Pope.
40% of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us, said Sandra Flake, that they struggled financially as a result of this policy.
The policy is Georgetown University student insurance does not cover contraception.
It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to the calculations.
Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.
Fluke told a hearing, $3,000 for birth control in three years.
That's $1,000 a year for sex, and she wants us to pay for it.
All of this just since January 7th.
Just since January 7th.
You guys who are thinking, you're not going to go to college, let me just say one thing to you.
Georgetown.
They're admitting before a congressional committee they're having so much sex they can't afford the birth control pills.
That's all you got to come up with.
And all of this is the Republicans' fault.
Susan Flake.
Fluke.
One of the butt sisters being dragged out of law school by the hair.
Wadele Rick Santorum hears about this.
Wadel Gingrich hears about this.
What do you think he'll do?
They'll put a stop to this right away.
They'll head over to that university.
They'll stop it.
They'll spy on Susan Fluke and interrupt her in mid-coitis.
And then they'll make them get married.
Make them get married and make them have those babies and make them have 10,000 babies and then stay home.
Listening to the troglodytes by the Jimmy Caster bunch.
What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?
What does that make her?
It makes her a slut, right?
Makes her a prostitute.
She wants to be paid to have sex.
She's having so much sex, she can't afford the contraception.
She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.
What does that make us?
We're the pimps.
The Johns.
That's right.
We would be the Johns.
No, we're not the John.
Well, yeah, that's right.
Pimp's not the right word.
Okay, so she's not a slut.
She's round-heeled.
I take it back.
Kate, Rockford, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Rush, do not succumb to the notion of perception.
It's not a good thing for you.
You're better than that.
And I don't think you will.
I think you understand just like.
That's my whole point.
There's no way I'm going to succumb.
And I'm not either.
The only gloomy people in the Republican Party today are the Romney people who cannot figure out why he didn't win in a landslide.
I'll tell you what, us Reagan Democrats and us Newt supporters out here, we are jubilant because we understand what happened in Michigan.
We weren't there.
We wanted to see what's going to happen conservatively.
And we kept his boat down.
And it was great.
Just a second.
Are you saying that the newt people, Republican people, are unhappy he didn't win by a bigger amount?
I think the Republican Party, the insiders in the Romney campaign, are the ones that are gloomy.
We're sure not.
We don't see this as a victory for Mitt Romney.
We see this as a huge loss.
This is his home state.
This is a state that six months ago, Ann Coulter and the Botox Brigade at the Republican Party would have sworn he'd won in a landslide.
Guess what?
This is not a conventional year.
Don't count newt out.
Super Tuesdays next week.
And you know what?
A lot of this goes back to what Charles Kraushammer's talking about.
The Reagan Democrats.
And I was one of them.
I was a young mom in 1980.
And about this time, they'd written him off, too.
And you remember that.
The perception was he couldn't win.
He was from California.
Oh, my gosh, he was divorced.
You know, the whole thing.
He was an actor.
That's right.
And you know what?
We didn't give up.
And now we're old enough to have the money and the time to do this right.
And we've got something we didn't even have in the 80s.
We have the internet.
We have newtsnetwork.com.
We have newt.org.
We have his Facebook page.
We have a thousand ways for people to get involved that doesn't require knocking on doors.
And we're doing it.
We're having a ball.
We're watching all this stuff.
We're watching all the hype from the meeting about Rick Santorum and his three-state win.
Good heavens, we weren't there for a reason.
Those were non-binding delegates.
Why waste the time and the money?
You betcha.
Why not?
We're going for the big guns.
We have a strategy, and we're going to win.
And if we don't win, nobody else will either till we get to convention.
And then we've got the uncommitted delegates, we've got the newt delegates, we've got conservative delegates.
We are hearing a situation.
We will do the right thing.
And Newt's got this thing.
All right.
I like it.
I like upbeat people.
She's not succumbing, not succumbing.
I like the upbeat people.
If we don't win, nobody else will.
We're going to have an open convention.
If we don't.
Yeah, I heard that.
If we don't win, nobody else will either.
So our claim is that the Romney camp is not happy, that Romney supporters are not happy.
Republicans are not happy because they heard Romney say last night, it wasn't a big win, but it was a win, and that's all that matters.
They looked pretty happy to me last night.
I don't know that they start worrying about the margin after the victory.
But we'll see.
Kate, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it very much.
What's the question, Snerdley?
No, it will not be.
You mean after Super Tuesday?
No, it's not going to be over a week from today, I don't think.
Professionals, we're all professionals here.
The professionals are saying this could go to May.
You could go out actually that long.
Remember, it was supposed to be over before it started.
From the establishment Republican types, it was supposed to be over before it started.
Rocco in Westchester, New York.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, thank you for taking my call.
Earlier in the show, you said McCain is worried because Romney may be too damaged.
And that's the problem.
And the fight has been too vicious.
The primary fight's been too vicious, and Romney might be too damaged by it.
Yeah, that's what McCain said.
Well, it was Romney who was the biggest damager of all the candidates.
And it was Newt Gingrich who warned everyone early on not to go down that road of negative attacks.
He knew the liberal drive-by media would just feast on the negativity.
Well, a lot of people agree with you that Romney started this, in fact, back in 2008.
If you, you know, if you ever run into Rudy Giuliani, ask him.
If you run into Fred Thompson, ask him.
Because they were the targets of big-time Romney money back in 2008.
And they're still angry about some of the stuff that Romney said and did.
But that's politics.
But a lot of people agree with you that think that the damager is Romney.
Look, McCain is part of his message was that the Republican campaign no longer sounds reasonable.
It's just descended into too much negativism and name-calling.
And this is nothing compared to the Hillary and Obama knockdown dragout that took place in 2008.
He's very, very worried.
And I think he does speak for the Republican establishment.
We've heard from a number of places going into the vote yesterday that Republicans are alternately worried that Newt has to sound too conservative to win and it's going to hurt him with independence in the general or he's been too bloodied up, all this sort of stuff.
It's all incorrect with him.
Okay, soundbite time.
Grab, let's see, grab somebody 9, 10, 11, and 12 and 9, 10, 11, and 12.
This is the buttress, the notion that the Republican Party not all that ecstatic, despite the outcome yesterday.
Admittedly, it's from the drive-by media.
And once again, it's from MSNBC.
Now the lone source, the lone source we've got of liberal soundbites.
I guess that's actually good news.
I guess we just can't, we get very little from CNN other than when they do a debate.
But up first is F. Chuck Todd last night on MSNBC's special super duper primary election coverage.
And the co-host at Rachel Maddow was talking to F. Chuck Todd about the Republican primary.
She said, F. Chuck, we hear from you that there is a panic in the Republican establishment if Romney doesn't win.
Is that true?
My own reporting today indicates there has been this finger-pointing, if you will, going on among sort of folks outside of Boston who basically look at this campaign and the strategy they've been running and saying, you know what, this is a mistake.
Don't just sit here and destroy your opponents.
You do have to win over conservatives at some point.
You do have to show some leadership skills at some point.
And oh, by the way, you do have to show an ability to organize Republicans in both caucus states and primaries.
There will be a pivot in how this campaign goes about trying to recruit Republicans.
Now, that conversation took place before the votes were counted.
So F. Chuck Todd, a political reporter, talk about his reporting, meaning the stuff people told him, or the facts that he read, however he does it.
Outside of Boston, means outside Romney's camp within the Republican Party, they're starting to get a little worried that all Romney's doing is beating everybody up and that he's not attracting voters to him, but that he is frightening voters away from Santorum and Gingrich.
And they're worried that that is not a strategy.
This is F. Chuck Todd talking.
This is not a good strategy for unity down the road.
So F. Chuck's Chuck's saying that there is panic over the Romney campaign in the Republican establishment.
So Rachel or Scarborough, who was also part of the Super Duper election night panel, said, okay, well, what is your take from last night, F. Chuck?
This is this morning now, after the votes are in, and Romney has won.
Joe Scarborough asks F. Chuck, what's your take now, F. Chuck?
Matt Romney survived.
He had another near-death experience.
He still hasn't won rank-and-file conservative voters.
That's still an issue.
He probably is going to have one or two more rough moments where, because he still can't excite conservative.
That speech last night, I thought, was just such a missed opportunity.
He sat there and he made a case against the president.
He still doesn't want to make a case for him.
If you can't excite the Republicans about you or conservatives about you, at least have them buy into you.
And you still get the sense that he knows that not everybody's bought into him.
And he's trying so hard to say, look, I'll be okay.
Look, see, watch, I can attack the president.
Let me think about this.
Let me think about this because yesterday morning, now I need to think about this.
The first time I've heard the bite.
No, I don't listen to this stuff before I air it.
You hear it the same time I do.
And I did not watch this last night.
So this is the first I've heard of it.
That's what's fun, reacting to it on the fly.
I haven't listened to it.
Okay, so yesterday in Livonia, Michigan, Romney was out there saying he was not going to set his hair on fire in order to get noticed.
And he was not going to attack the president.
He was not going to get incendiary and attacking on Obama to excite the base.
He wasn't going to do that.
Now, the drive-bys are very narrowly focused.
They live in tunnels.
And when they heard Romney say that, then that set up everything that followed yesterday, including Romney's speech.
Now, I did see Romney's speech after he won last night.
And I did not have the same take on this speech that F. Chuck does, but F. Chuck's looking at it through his prism here of Romney saying he's not going to attack the base or he's not going to try to excite the base.
And what he heard Romney say last night was, look at me, I can attack the president.
I can do it after saying he wouldn't do it.
And F. Chuck saying he didn't bring it off.
It didn't sound genuine.
It sounded like he was trying to please the base.
Can't you just make the case for yourself rather than sit there and rip the president?
So obviously, F. Chuck thinks that what Romney was doing was trying to excite the base last night in his acceptance speech or his victory speech.
I actually, when I watched Romney's speech and what I thought it was, it sounded to me like an acceptance speech.
It had the tone, the tenor, the language of somebody who was accepting the nomination.
That's how it came off to me.
But I have a much broader tunnel in which I hear and see and view things than F. Chuck, Steve Schmidt, who ran McCain's campaign also on MSNBC's special super duper primary election coverage last night.
And Chris Matthews said to him, he's not going to be bossed around.
Romney is.
He's not going to be bossed around by staff or press people.
It's obvious now, Steve.
He's going to run out there.
He's going to be himself.
He's going to do whatever he wants to do.
Unless you've gone through this, it is as physically and mentally demanding as an experience that I think almost anyone can have.
And I wonder if he's tired, whether he's not getting enough rest.
But when you have these statements pile on top of each other, like they have with him, they create a narrative that's been really terrible for him, which is that he's no better than these other candidates in a race against Obama.
The chances of Mitt Romney winning versus Obama are no greater or less great than Rick Santorum.
And of course, that's not true.
Okay, now let's see if we can follow that.
Romney's tired, and therefore saying not smart things, which are giving you idiots out there the impression that he's not more electable than Santorum, which guys like Steve Schmidt know he is because they're the experts.
They know Romney is much more electable, but they just are frustrated.
And Mitt Romney can't bring it off.
Now, this is before Romney won.
We went back to last night.
But they're still puzzling.
Why can't this guy do it right?
Why can't this guy bring it off?
If I'm Romney, I got, well, what do I have to do to please you people?
If I'm Romney, what do you mean?
I won this thing.
I led this thing.
What do I have to do?
It appears that no matter where you look, there's some people.
I guess the establishment is what we've heard is true, getting nervous.
And let's see, one more David Brooks from the New York Times.
Where was he?
Ah, we have something other than MSNBC.
He was on the news hour with Jim O'Lara.
Oh, wait, Jim O'Lara retired, didn't he?
Did Jim O'Lara retire?
That's too bad.
So I don't get to say the news hour with Jim O'Lara anymore.
Darn it.
So it's a news hour with Gwen Eiffel.
By the way, I saw a quote from Gwen Eiffel today.
This is pretty indicative, too.
She was very happy.
She was thrilled and excited when she learned that Jon Stewart watches her show.
That made her day.
She ran or she was saying, yeah, Jon Stewart listens to me.
Jon Stewart watches my show.
That's what she said, snurdly.
That's what she said.
Everybody's got their own standards.
Judy Woodruff was the fill-in anchor.
Well, I guess the co-anchor on the news hour on PBS, talking to David Brooks.
She said, when we hear Romney today, again, taking some responsibility, saying, well, if I were willing to make incendiary comments, if I were to light my hair on fire, I might be doing better.
What does that mean?
That's another mistake.
You don't say, oh, these Republican voters are so crazy.
If I would light my hair on fire, they'd be impressed.
You don't.
A, politicians should never use the word the base because it's your voters.
They're not the base.
And second, it denigrates the voters.
It's a sign of his awkwardness.
There's been awkwardness.
I know I have a lot of great friends who are NASCAR owners.
There's just been a constant stream of mini-gaffs.
Mini-gaffs.
Never forget now, folks, in the Republican establishment.
Romney was their guy.
Romney's the only guy that could beat Obama.
Romney's the only guy that had any chance whatsoever.
Has Brooks not seen the crease in Romney's slacks?
Is that the problem?
Maybe Romney needs to go to a sit-down with Brooks and have freshly pressed slacks on, get them right out of the dry clears, put them on right before the interview, and sit there, cross his legs the right way so Brooks couldn't help but notice the crease.
And then that's how you get his approval.
That's how you get the support of Brooks.
You're going to have the right crease in your slacks.
Okay, brief timeout, my friends.
Yeah, that's true.
Romney's wife says she wanted to strangle the news media.
She said if she could just strangle a news media, and then they thought, oh, she's just kidding.
She's just going to disinvite someone from the bus.
That's right.
She's going to disinvite some of the media people from the Romney bus.
A Cadillac bus, but there's a bus a shuttle.
He just a Ford truck made in Detroit bus, by the way, too.
CyberCash News Service has it: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday that the days of private health insurance are coming to an end in the U.S.
The private health insurance market is a death spiral, Sebelius said, contending this be the case whether Obama's health care law had been enacted or not.
Private health insurance markets, a death spiral, it's over.
Kathleen Sebelius.
Here is Sue in Manchester, Connecticut.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I was calling because just looking at Massachusetts, in the past probably 30 years, any social conservative that were running as governor or senators, actually, you know, they've never been elected as a social conservative.
And, you know, it just seems like for the whole country to have someone running and to get elected, they don't get elected unless they are social conservative for Republicans.
But in Massachusetts, just looking back in 30 years, there haven't been any.
Say, in Massachusetts, social conservatism loses, but everywhere else it wins.
Is that your point?
Yeah.
And so that means what?
Well, you know, Massachusetts is like the California on the East Coast.
And if you were a social conservative, you wouldn't even run.
You wouldn't get elected.
Are you tying this to Romney somehow?
Yeah.
Oh, so you can't hold it against him because he had to run in Massachusetts.
Is that what you mean?
I'm just trying to understand.
Well, he probably ran in Massachusetts because he could get elected not as a social conservative, but as more, you know, fiscally conservative.
Well, let me give you some stats because your instincts are right here, at least nationally, Jeff Bell.
The rise of the culture wars in national politics dates from the social unrest of the 60s.
So since then, Republicans have won seven of the last 11 presidential races, came on the heels of the New Deal of economic-centered elections, 32 to 64, in which social issues were absent.
Republicans lost the presidency seven of those nine times.
But let's drill down a little further.
In the post-Reagan era, social issues took on a high profile in two of the last six national elections, 1988, where it was furloughs, ACLU membership, Pledge of Allegiance, 2004, judicial imposition of same-sex marriage.
These also happen to be the only two elections in which Republicans won a popular vote majority.
It's not a coincidence.
Social issues, presidential races.
That's the numbers.
It's Jeff Bell and his new book is The Case for Polarized Politics: Why America Needs Social Conservatism.
He's a former Reagan staffer and some other things.
Well, I guess now we know why Bill Clinton went to Georgetown and why Hillary went to Wellesley.
Well, all the sex going on at Georgetown.
Susan Fluke, so much sex going on they can't afford birth control pills.
She said that to Nancy Pelosi yesterday.
Pelosi probably said, have you heard what Botox costs?
I can relate.
Anyway, folks, another exciting, busy broadcast day.
Already hump day behind us.
Tomorrow is already Thursday, and we'll be back at it again in a mere 21 hours.
Thanks so much for joining us today.
It's always a thrill and delight to have you here, and we look forward to tomorrow.
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