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March 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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All right, we have uh Jeb Bush endorsing Mitt Romney about an hour ago.
Which not a surprise.
Uh not a surprise.
You you might infer from this at the establishment's coalescing behind Romney.
Uh some might uh make that uh a draw that inference.
I think it's probably uh accurate.
The um the big news is that Romney won the Illinois primary by twelve points, the turnout reported to be about twenty-four percent, which would make it the lowest turnout for a presidential primary in the last 70 years.
But uh that was before the Jeb Bush endorsement.
The uh Jeb Bush endorsement might have uh goosed the primary turnout just a bit.
Never know, could have uh really lighted a fire there under the um Republican base.
Here's the delegate situation.
Romney is stretching out his lead of the more than twelve hundred outstanding delegates.
Romney now needs uh no, that can't be right.
There's a total of 1144 delegates that one needs.
Anyway, percentage-wise, Romney needs to win 45% of the outstanding delegates to wrap this up.
Santorum needs to read about or again, about 70% of the outstanding uh delegates.
Romney's speech last night was his best.
Romney's victory speech last night was his best, and it it reminded me again of Daniel Henniger's column last year in the Wall Street Journal, which said that Romney was going to have to be nudged to the right, and he was clearly nudged to the right, and he spoke about the economy and Obama's stewardship of it.
And I it was really good.
We have some uh some examples of it.
And I I just uh as I as I listened to Romney talk about Obama and his stewardship of the uh of the economy.
I I really had to laugh.
We just had I talked about this yesterday, a cartoon of a made-for-TV movie about how incompetent Sarah Palin is.
Meanwhile, we have Obama as president for the last three and a half years redefining incompetence.
And Romney pointed that out last night in his um in his victory remarks.
It wasn't a big crowd either at the Romney victory celebration.
But nevertheless, uh he was there and he was wound up.
It was um uh I I think it was his best to date.
Now, little housekeeping here, folks.
Yesterday on this program, we played for you a couple of audio sound bites from an advertiser of this program in New York City, a guy by the name of Mark Stevens.
He was on the Fox Business Channel with Stuart Varney, and he pointed out that he's being hit by a coordinated attack that he calls terrorism.
Not angry consumers, but he thinks that this is a coordinated attack.
He doesn't name the group, but we will.
It's media matters.
And he knows, Mark Stevens knows that the people contacting him, many of them don't even live in New York, have never patronized any of his businesses.
They're simply trying to intimidate him.
Let's go back, let's just listen to a brief soundbite from Mark Stevens yesterday, Varney and Company, Fox Business Network.
I just want to the reason why I want what I'd like to say is that what is not known about this is not a boycott.
That is a polite term for an organized terrorist activity that is descending on people, on businesses and advertising on Rush, and it's part of the larger war on business in America today.
That's an excellent point.
It's uh it's uh it's an organized action by the left attempting to terrorize individuals who uh own businesses and uh operate radio stations.
It's not angry consumers.
These people couldn't have cared less what happened three weeks ago, other than the opportunity it presents.
They're not even they're not even really offended by what happens.
This is just an opportunity to execute a plan that they've had in their drawer since 2009.
Well, today on the Fox Business Channel, on Varney and Company, a co-host of this uh of this show is Charles Pain, and he has his own show.
He interviewed Mark Stevens yesterday on his show after his Stevens appeared on on Fox, and he had this little recounting of how that went talking to Varney about it.
I actually had him on my radio show.
He doesn't say near terrorists, he's he says this is terrorism, and it's terrorism uh against uh you know everything that America stands for, and now he has become the brunt of it.
Now, Mark has put himself right in the center of this thing.
He has now become the same sort of target that Russ Limbaugh has become.
Listen, it's brutal.
He's gonna say it of course because he feels like this is more than just a First Amendment thing.
This goes deeper.
He thinks it's a war on America, as we are as a country right now.
We'll discuss the free speech and the first time.
Oh, by the way, though, the good news though for him, I think he said that 40,000 emails, 38,000 were supportive.
Really?
So there are a lot of people out there who are coming to his defense.
38,000.
Yeah.
That's Rush Limbaugh's reach and power, I suspect.
Stuart Marty, Fox News network uh recognizing the reach and power of the program.
But what happened is after Mark Stevens appeared on, and I've never met him.
Just so you know, I I've never met Mark Stevens.
Yesterday was the first time I saw him, and that was quite by accident.
I don't even know how the Fox Business Network ended up on the monitor, but it did.
And he was interviewed by Pain, and what happened as a result of his appearance yesterday, 38,000 of you emailed him in support.
38,000.
This is why, and I say this with all the love and affection, appreciation for you that that I can muster.
This is why they are never going to succeed in their primary mission of ousting me.
They don't understand.
Nobody else in media understands.
The um, and I don't quite know how to say this myself because I don't want to I don't want to make it sound like I take it for granted, but it I don't.
It's something uh unlike anything I've experienced in my career uh, this program, and I'm talking about the relationship that I have with you of often at Thanksgiving and Christmas time when I am feeling particularly thankful, I always try to tell you how familial this all feels to me.
That we're just a one giant family, and it's because of things like this.
Nobody asked you to email anybody.
You don't even know how to get hold of March.
The 38,000 of you took it upon yourselves to find out who this guy is, where he is, how to get an email to him, and then you did it.
And the terrorists that he's describing who are hassling him managed 2,000.
There's no way, folks, that they cannot be beaten.
There's no way they can win.
They're not going away, however.
They're on a mission now, and it's all based on the fact that their ideas cannot win in the arena.
Their ideas are representative of a genuine minority of thinking and of the population.
They have to use intimidating tactics.
The mistake that they're making is that they're going after people who have never advertised on this program and don't understand what this is all about, and as such are figuring out that this is a coordinated attack by the Democrat Party and its operatives.
It is a great warning opportunity for a lot of these people.
And I think the upshot at the end of this is that all of these attempts to create boycotts and secondary boycotts are ultimately Going to be blown to smithereens because the objects, the targets, are going to realize it's all phony.
None of it's real, none of it's genuine.
It's all drummed up.
It's a political operation, opposition research.
And now this guy, Jake, this Mark Stevens, what a gutsy guy.
Because he has willingly made himself as big a target as I am in this.
And as I say, I don't even know him.
So I just uh I don't know how to thank you all.
You did this, and you do it every day, by the way.
This man is not the only one hearing from you.
You know what you're doing, and you're doing it on your own.
Never ever have there been marching orders.
The only marching orders we're giving are to follow me on Twitter, which we're gonna post this on Twitter.
They want you to go there, and we're gonna retweet it, send it out, working on a couple of other things as well to do today.
So that's as much time as I want to spend on it, but everybody continues to ask what they can do to help, and it turns out you know on your own what you can do to help, and you're doing it.
Forty thousand emails this guy gets.
People don't know how to reach him.
I mean, that to me, that says something.
That you hear a guy's name on a television show, he all you know he's in New York, and you find out where he is and how to get his email address.
Forty thousand total emails yesterday, 38,000 supportive of him.
That's all you.
Never doubt how appreciated you all are.
Now, brief time out.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of the program right after this.
Don't go away.
Media matters and the Democrat National Committee, the Democrat Party, are, and it's an unintended consequence.
They're exposing the fact that their AstroTurf campaigns are not grassroots at all.
They are ginned up, they're totally professionally created and executed Democrat Party opposition research type attacks, and nothing to do with consumers here, nothing to do with the audience, nothing to do with customers.
And you know the 40,000 emails that Mark Stevens got, 2,000 of them were critical.
And I will bet you that those 2,000 critical emails were written by three or four people and just signed by different names.
That's exactly this.
Look at this been going on with me since this program started, practically.
And this is how this has always worked.
In fact, way back in the days of my TV show, a Microsoft employee got fired for trying to run one of these operations from her cubicle, aimed at television show advertisers.
That's back in 1992.
So this is, it really is nothing new.
It's just this time uh they sense blood in the water and they're going for it.
And see, have you ever heard a conservative media member express a desire that the opposition be shut down and silenced or thrown in jail or prosecuted.
Do you ever hear that?
No.
We're not afraid of discussing what we believe.
We know we'll triumph.
We're not afraid of debating our ideas, and we're not threatened by virtue of their existence.
We're threatened by what they want to do, we're threatened by their ideas, but we're not threatened by their existence.
We don't seek to shut them down, but this is all they've got.
And it's uh it's it's obvious now here that there's no grassroots anything going on.
Pure political party opposition research.
Now, Obama in the Keystone Pipeline, this is such a neat trick, and this is a great example of how he couldn't pull this off without a totally supportive and in the bag media.
According to reports, our president, Barack Obama, who doesn't like oil, is afraid of it, is trying to get rid of it, trying to wean us off of it, is going to go to Cushing Oklahoma today for a photo-op near the southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline.
That he claims all of a sudden that he's fast tracking.
Barack Obama, after months of steadfast opposition, passionate opposition, with detailed explanations of why the Keystone Pipeline's banned.
It's not going to affect the amount of oil we have.
no, no, no, no.
We've got to get ourselves off of oil.
All of a sudden now wants to be seen as approving the Keystone Pipeline.
Not doing that, folks.
He's going to Cushing, Oklahoma, photo op the southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline that he claims to be fast tracking.
He's not going to do anything about the northern half of the pipeline.
It remains blocked.
The northern half of the pipeline remains unauthorized.
And that's the argumentative part.
That's the part that uh was going to go through a sensitive swampland or whatever, whatever kind of land in Nebraska.
But Obama is it's going to be reported today or tonight that he has authorized the construction of Keystone Pipeline.
He hasn't, folks.
He hasn't.
Nothing is going to change with a Keystone pipeline.
It's not going to be built.
Not now.
He's not authorizing it to be built.
He's trying to have his cake and eat it too.
He's got to keep his base happy, but he's also got to create the impression among the rest of Americans that he actually cares about country the way they do.
That's his big problem.
How do you do both of those?
Because his base, I'll tell you, anything good for America, they don't like.
That's the position a Democrat Party is in.
I wouldn't want to be in that any anything that happens good for America, they have to oppose.
Anything bad for America they support, that's Obama's base.
So he's got to placate him.
He needs them to turn out.
He is in deep trouble on the re-elect side at every poll you look at.
And that's why he's going to Oklahoma to create this literal false impression that he's all of a sudden had a change of heart is authorizing the Keystone Pipeline.
He's not authorizing the Keystone Pipeline.
In fact, Obama campaigning at an oil center like Cushing Oklahoma.
It makes me what's more dangerous, the Republican so-called war on women or Obama's all-too-obvious war on reality.
So just to give you a heads up on that, that is going to happen.
Also, take you back to Monday of this week.
Remember that front-page story in the Washington Post about the debt deal last summer, this interminably long piece by Peter Walston and a couple of other people.
We spent good part of the program trying to figure out why now.
Because that piece, nine pages, if you printed out, front page Washington Post, top of the fold.
Let it be known that Obama lied to the people of this country in a nationally televised address.
The lie was that the Republicans did not budge.
They were interested only in expanding a debt ceiling by virtue of budget cuts, that they would not agree to tax increases when in fact Boehner and Cantor had agreed to tax increases, $808 million of them.
And when they did that, Obama immediately shut down negotiations because that was what he wanted.
They gave him everything he wanted.
He couldn't have that.
He didn't want a deal where the Republicans were compromising in a way that helped the deal get done because he wanted to run against a do-nothing Congress.
So when they agreed to $800 million in tax increases, panic set in, shut it down, call the media in for a nationally televised address, and just out and out lie.
And this story said so.
And the story also said that as a negotiator, Obama was two things arrogant but incompetent.
It also pointed out that Harry Reed and Pelosi were mere useful idiots in all of this.
That it was Obama's show.
They had nothing to do with it, but they were set Up to take a lot of the heat politically.
Those were the three primary things that came out.
I said, what is going on here?
Washington Post, and you remember if you were here Monday, we agonized humorously and with good cheer for two hours.
We finally came to the conclusion that the best guess was that this story resulted from angry Democrats in the House and the Senate because Obama, when he runs against a do-nothing Congress, he's running against Democrats in Congress too.
And Obama had told Reed and Pelosi, I'm not campaigning for you, and I'm not giving you any of my war chest for your campaign efforts.
So the Democrat Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Committees were told I'll give you one fundraiser stop each, and I'm not going to give you any money.
So therefore this story hits.
And that's the best guess we came with.
Now I've got to add something else to the mix.
It's David Korn's book, which tells an entirely different story.
We will be back.
Hi, we are back, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Again, to explain the reason I'm spending time on this is because Obama's in trouble and forces are at work, obviously, to help him overcome the problems that he has towards his re-election.
And in the process, they're going to have to massage and spin and lie a little bit.
And he's not universally loved in the Democrat Party.
And when it comes to Obama versus our nominee, there'll be unanimity there, but within the Democrat Party universe itself, when the president, who had put out that he's going to raise a billion dollars, tells the House and Senate Democrats, you're on your own.
I'm not giving you any of my war chests.
And furthermore, I'll only do one campaign appearance for you.
Whether or not that's helpful or not, that's that's an arrogance that uh it's not appreciated.
Thus, the story in the Sunday Washington Post.
Now, I also mentioned on Monday while trying to figure out why, because we don't see these kinds of stories in Obama supported media.
That's what so striking about this.
One of the possibilities that we alleged existed was this book by David Korn coming out.
Bob Woodward's doing a book on this, by the way.
This whole debt deal negotiation last summer.
The New York Times magazine has a story coming out on this.
So the Washington Post jumps the gun, beats everybody with their version on Sunday.
Korn's book released this week.
By the way, a little humorous factor, Korn had some kind of a, it's being reported anyway, that he had some kind of a temper tantrum at a Barnes and Noble store in Union Square in New York the other day because his book wasn't prominently displayed enough.
He walked in there, I guess he was going to do a signing, and they didn't have big David Korn pictures and posters up with big displays of the book, and apparently it's reported he threw a fit.
And the manager of the Barnes and Nobles, it's not us.
We just do what the boss and management people tell us to do.
And Korn, it's reported, was overheard yelling as Union Station, D.C., not Union Square, sorry, Union Station, D.C. in Union Station in Washington.
And Korn was overheard yelling at the manager that every paper in America was going to be talking about his book that day, and nobody could find it.
It was all kicked off.
But see, everybody in America wasn't going to be talking about his book, but Korn thinks so.
In Korn's universe of Washington and New York, that's America, and he thought everybody was going to be talking about his book.
You wouldn't even know about his book were it not for I. L. Rushboat telling you about it.
And he lives in this world, and they all do, where everybody knows who they are and what they're doing and what they think.
So he goes into the Barnes and Noble and there's no display, there's no big deal.
He freaks and starts ragging on the manager.
The manager says, well, we're just executing the orders that came from on high.
The manager explained that uh corporate tells him what books get displayed, and the uh the order didn't call for corn's book.
So uh Corny started yelling at him at the bookstore wasn't well run and stormed out in a huff.
But what is his book say?
Well, if I don't tell you this, you won't know, because I guarantee you're not gonna go buy it.
You'll go buy Ted Bell's book.
Phantom, Ted Bell.
Alex Hawk is his great, great book.
I, of course, a powerful, influential member of the media have had my advanced copy for weeks.
The E-version came out.
Yeah, I think the whole the hardcover copy is out as well.
Phantom by Ted Bell.
That's what you'll read, not Korn's book.
You don't have to read Korn's book.
I'm going to tell you what's important about it here.
It's an entirely different version of events than the Washington Post story.
Remember now, just to review, Washington Post, Boehner gave Obama what he wanted: $800 million in tax increases.
Obama cancels the negotiation, says he can't work with the Republicans, calls a national address to the country, and lies about the Republicans being unwilling to compromise or help.
Washington Post story says that Obama is arrogant and incompetent is negotiations, and that Harry Reid and Pelosi are basically useful idiots or were useful idiots in this process.
This morning on Morning Joe, MSNBC, David Korn the guest, and the co-host Willie Geist, and he said to Korn, you got a great great color in here, some behind the scenes about the grand bargain, that's what the debt deal was called.
How close were the president and John Boehner to striking the deal?
And at what point did the third wheel on the date come in, the Tea Party, Eric Cantor.
I think the president and Boehner were quite close, and were quite sincere.
And everyone in the White House really thought that Boehner was trying.
He was talking about this deal and the trigger.
What would happen if the House Republicans didn't raise revenues on their own would be that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would expire.
And that would give you the $800 billion over ten years that they were trying to get into the grand bargain.
So as he was negotiating that deal, House moderate Republicans, some old friends of yours went to Boehner's office, sat down with him and said, listen, you gotta get out of this now.
Eric Cantor is going around the caucus and saying that you're going rhino.
What is Rhino?
A Republican and name only.
The worst thing you can say he couldn't cut the deal because he couldn't sell it to his own caucus.
All right.
Now Korn's version is the one the White House wrote for him.
Uh dictated to him.
I think Korn wrote the book.
I'm not saying he didn't write the book.
But his version is the White House version.
Now that's a we're talking about two media outlets of totally far left here.
Washington Post, David Korn.
No conservative media involved here.
David Korn says, oh yeah, Boehner, President were very, very close.
But the Tea Party came in and they ended up telling Boehner he's acting like a rhino forced Boehner to pull out.
Washington Post doesn't say anything like this.
Washington Post, I mean they mentioned a Tea Party, but the Washington Post story is that Boehner wasn't just quite close.
He gave Obama what or yeah, what he wanted.
So now we have two stories, two versions of the same story that are at big variance with one another.
We don't pretend to know what it all means yet, but one thing is happening is there's discord on the left over this whole thing, and for some reason, a lot of people think that what happened in that debt deal last summer could come back to really bite Obama on his re-election.
That has us scratching our heads too.
But you gotta throw the Paul Ryan budget in the mix, and Dana Milbank and the Washington Post is out today with his review of the Ryan budget, and as as predictable as the sun coming up, uh Milbank and the Washington Post compare Ryan's budget to a Dickens novel.
Where the poor get everything they have taken away from them, that Ryan's gonna starve the poor, take away all their programs, take away all their money.
That's how Ryan's budget's being reported.
There's a lot going on with this, and it's all about Obama's re-election, and they're trying to cover up what is apparent to all, and that's his incompetence.
And apparently, which version do you think is right?
Washington Post or Corn here.
Because the differences are stark.
And the Washington Post makes clear that Obama went out and lied to the nation.
There's another soundbite on this.
CBS this morning, Senator Dick Durbin.
He of the fame that attached to him in the Senate floor by comparing our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and Guantanamo Bay to being just like the troops in the Soviet gulag or pole pot's killers.
Yeah, that's the guy, Dick Durbin, who compared our troops to Nazi thugs.
He weighed in on this with Charlie Rose on CBS, who said to him, the president was late in coming to his support of uh Bowl Simpson.
That's the deficit reduction committee that Obama ignored.
He hasn't completely supported every aspect of it, Dick.
Let's make it clear here.
When you have the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell saying his sole goal is to make sure that Obama's a one-term president, it's no wonder that President Obama did not want it to be known as the Bull Simpson Obama plan.
It would have been dead on arrival.
What he has done is support a negotiation with Speaker Boehner to bring the deficit down three times now.
Speaker Boehner and Congressman Cantor, his leader, have walked out of those negotiations.
The president has made a good faith effort to deal with this deficit.
Now when's the Washington Post gonna write their follow-up after this?
Because now you've got Durban, and now you've got Corn basically saying that not saying it by name, not even talking about the Washington Post, but for people who've read that piece or heard about it like you, you got Dick Durbin and David Korn here basically challenging everything in that Washington Post story, or most of it.
So you got Corn and Durbin saying that Boehner and Cantor walked out.
Washington Post says Obama walked out.
And then goes to the cameras for a nationally televised address and lies to the nation.
Okay, let's move on to the Republicans, and let's uh skip number 14, go straight to 15, 16, 17, and 18.
Mitt Romney, last night Schoenberg, Illinois at his campaign headquarters after his win in the Illinois primary.
And I just want to remind you that not long ago, you were calling and writing, Rush, this long Republican primary, it's killing us.
None of these guys are any good and they're incompetent, it is killing us.
And the press is beating us.
I said, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Long primary is fine.
It's a great vetting process.
It's a rules anyway, there's no changing it midstream now.
It's conservatism on display, and whoever wins this is gonna have to be nudged to the right in order to win it.
And that is happening, as evidenced by Romney's acceptance speech last night.
And remember there's a Daniel Henniger in his Wall Street Journal piece last year, who pointed out that Romney, he doesn't naturally reside in the conservative right, but he's gonna have to be nudged there.
And this long primary process has done that, at least as far as Romney's public statements.
What's what he really thinks, we'll find out.
In fact, Cookie, do we ever get that CNN soundbite that I asked for this morning?
Is it at the bottom of the news stack?
Okay.
I'll get I'll find that.
Here comes Romney from last night.
See if see what you think of these.
The simple truth is that this president doesn't understand the genius of America's economy or the secret of the American economic success story.
The American economy is fueled by freedom.
The history of the world has shown that economic freedom is the only force that has consistently lifted people out of poverty.
It's the only principle that has ever been able to sustain prosperity.
But over the last three years, this administration has been engaged in an all-out assault on our freedom.
Crowd ate it up.
We hope he means it.
Watching it last night, and I'm reacting, this is good.
This is good.
I turned to Catherine.
This is his best victory speech yet.
I just hope he means it.
Here's the next bite.
Under Barack Obama, those pioneers he mentioned would have faced a very difficult time.
Try to innovate and invent and invest and create and build jobs.
You see, under Dodd Frank, they would have found it almost impossible to get a loan from their community bank.
And of course, the regulators would have shut down the Wright brothers for dust pollution.
You know, and and of course the government would have banned uh Thomas Edison's light bulb.
Oh, by the way, they just did, didn't they?
Right?
Yeah.
It's right there.
I mean, even the people on the other side of the glass hear it.
The EIB Southern Commander smiling and laughing at this.
That's dead on right.
Regulators had shut down the Wright brothers for dust pollution.
And government would have banned Thomas Edison's light bulb.
Oh, by the way, they just did.
Here's the next one.
Every great innovation, every world-changing business breakthrough begins with a dream.
And nothing is more fragile than a dream.
The genius of America is that we nurture those dreams and the dreamers.
We honor them.
And yes, we reward them.
That's part of what's uniquely brilliant about America.
But day by day, job-killing regulation by job killing regulation, bureaucrat by bureaucrat, this president is crushing the dream and the dreamers, and I will make sure that finally ends.
Right on.
So maybe the conservative alternative to Romney is Romney.
Let's hope so.
That's it.
It all boils down to whether he means this.
It's that simple.
Here's Santorum talking about this, in fact.
Santorum, last night, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, said he was glad to see Romney moving to the right.
Whether it's in the economy, whether it's in the budget crisis that we're dealing with.
All boils down to one word.
And that's what's at stake in this election.
And it's right behind me on that banner, and that's the word freedom.
I was pleased to hear before I came out that um Governor Romney is now adopting that theme as uh his speech tonight.
I am I am glad we are moving the debate here in the Republican Party.
Well, he's right.
These exactly I don't know who if he wants to give himself credit for it, let him take it.
Somebody's moving Romney in that direction.
And Romney's willingly going there.
Now, some of you, I know you're Romney supporters.
What do you mean if he really means it?
Why do you have to compliment him and then dump on him?
Why do you do because of what's next here?
And I just have you have to hear this.
This is on CNN this morning on their program called Starting Point.
The guest is Romney's senior campaign advisor Eric Fernström.
And they're having a discussion about Romney's positions in the Republican Party.
And one of the panelists says it's fair to say that McCain was considerably more moderate candidate than the ones that Romney faces now.
Is there concern that the pressure from Santorum and Gingrich might force Romney to tax so far to the right that would hurt him with moderate voters in the generals?
The question is, okay, yeah, he definitely sounded conservative last night.
Is he sounding too conservative?
This typical left-wing media question.
Is he too conservative?
Listen to the answer from senior campaign advisor Eric Fernstrom.
Well, I think he hit a reset button uh for the fall campaign.
Everything changes.
It's almost like an etch a sketch.
You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again.
There is a growing recognition within the Republican Party that Mitt Romney is going to be the nominee, and there's two reasons for that.
The first is people see in him uh the capacity uh to for of someone who can lead on the economy.
And secondly, they see someone who can defeat Barack Obama.
Okay, uh uh you hit a reset button for the fall, meaning okay, it's a new.
Once we win the primaries and the nomination, then we go to the general, and it's like an etch a sketch.
You've got to shake it up, start all over.
You can erase everything.
People hear that.
Well, okay.
Romney's own campaign is saying he said last night, it's just part of getting the nomination.
We'll wipe it out when we get into the general.
Don't worry, we'll do the right things to get the moderate.
That's what this guy's saying, and that's why people are saying it'd be great if Romney believed it last night.
That's all.
You heard it.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Holy smokes, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton suspended for a full season for the Bounty Gate problem of the Saints.
The defensive coordinator Greg Williams' indefinite suspension.
And Tim Tebow to the New York Jets for a fourth round draft choice.
We dedicate the rest of the program to Mark Sanchez.
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