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July 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Hey, Cookie, give me that Obama soundbite from Friday night in Roanoke, Virginia, the one where he says you started a business, you didn't do that yourself.
Somebody else did that.
It's the most profound thing I've heard in a long time from somebody at such high levels of power and leadership.
And I've been gauging people's reaction to this.
I'm stunned.
This notion that we're just in the middle of commonplace politics is just the same as it's always been.
The Democrats are in charge now.
The Republicans will win an election here and there, and then they'll be in charge, and then Democrats will get it back.
And everything is just, it's normal.
It's not normal.
This is outside the norms.
Have somebody who thinks what he thinks, having this much power, seeking more.
But have you seen, folks, have you seen the mainstream media reports on Obama gutting welfare reform?
Have you seen that?
Now, if you read certain, and it's not very many, conservative blogs, then you will see and read about it.
But in the mainstream media, you've not heard that Obama just gutted it in a lawless fashion.
This is a law passed by Congress, welfare reform.
He just gutted it.
He just took the work requirements out of it last week.
And nobody said anything, really.
Least of all the Republicans.
I mean, maybe if they did, I don't recall it.
So if they did say it, if a Republican or a series of Republicans said something, it wasn't powerful enough that I recall it.
Just amazingly, I don't know, breathtakingly unbelievable stuff.
And we read some conservative, well, you know what the president said is actually right.
We got to the president's right.
People don't get there on their own.
Here it is.
Grab audio soundbite 25.
I'm going to tell you something.
I got a note from a friend yesterday.
I probably shouldn't tell you this, but now I'm obligated to since I said this.
I had a friend write me a note after the program yesterday, and he said, look, Rush, you know as well as I do that it's over.
It's math.
It's simple mathematics.
The debt, the deficit, it's only a matter of time until they come and clean everybody out who still has any money.
So Rush, when you get tired of spitting into the wind, that's how he described me doing the program.
When you get tired of spitting into the wind, call me and let's talk about what we can do to protect our families and what's coming.
Now, Snurdley's in there laughing, laughing himself silly and so forth.
But I got this email from a buddy base.
He honestly believes that he's going to have to take drastic action to protect what he's got from Obama from the government.
Then on the other side of it, you know, Yahoo has this new CEO, employee number 20 at Google.
Marissa Mayer is her name.
I read all the tech blogs.
It's my avocational interest, as you well know.
So I'm reading about this yesterday afternoon, and as I am wont to do, whenever I read, I always ask myself, what are this person's politics?
I'm just and nine out of ten times, they're liberal.
Well, turns out that this babe is not only liberal Democrat, she is a bundler and a fundraiser for Obama and has hosted fundraisers in her house.
She's 37 years old.
By the way, for you women, something interesting.
She got the CEO gig.
She's the first prominent female computer engineer in Silicon Valley.
Badge 20 at Google.
She was an exec there.
She was a programmer.
She's pregnant.
She's going to be going on maternity leave somewhere soon.
Don't know what the deal is at Yahoo.
I don't know if she'll avail herself of all of it, but they hired a CEO pregnant that's going to hit maternity.
And they knew this going in.
It was fine and dandy.
And I'm making no editorial comment about it.
I'm just mentioning it to you.
My point is, here we have Obama saying, if you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made it happen.
Two days later, I learn that the new CEO of Google can't wait to give this guy more power.
And I'm wondering, there's got to be a disconnect here.
What do these people not see?
How can they not see it?
And I could literally go insane asking myself, how could I get through to these people?
And in many cases, I view that as my objective here, getting through to people like this.
Obviously smart.
I mean, you can't be badge 20 at Google, become the CEO of Yahoo if you're not smart in some way.
But now we revive the whole question of, well, how do you define smart?
But, I mean, these tech people are the essence of doing it themselves.
I mean, sure, they've got seed money in many cases from venture capitalists and so forth, like Bain Capital, like Romney.
Of course, they've got seed capital, but do they think that when Obama starts wielding all this power, they somehow are going to be exempt because they gave him money or raise money?
They probably do.
Do they not care about what's going to happen to the rest of the country?
Do they not care about, you know, people at Yahoo worry whether or not their customers are going to have any money to spend on their product and service?
Do they worry about this?
I see, folks, where I'm coming from, and I'm conflicted because I understand the country is divided.
You've got Democrats and Republicans, and people who are Democrats are going to support Obama for that reason alone.
They don't have to know anything else.
On the other hand, there's a part of me that asks, how can anybody with a brain support the guy?
How can anybody who understands free enterprise, and these people were Silicon Valley, I mean the essence of free enterprise, how can any of them support this unless, well, we all know the answer, but it's just still frustrating.
Ideology trumps all.
Liberalism comes first and doesn't it liberalism is basically a way that you can tell yourself you're a good person it's also now a way you tell yourself you're cool liberalism is cool everything else isn't cool and cool matters more than anything else I just I I'm driving home and I'm playing this.
I'm playing this soundbite over and over in my head, where he says, if you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
I guess if you're an Obama supporter, use, eh, he doesn't really mean it.
It's no big deal.
It's just a campaign.
Just whatever.
I mean, I know that we, when we support people and they say and do stupid stuff, we excuse it, either to ourselves or to as many people as we can.
Sometimes, though, we're really bothered by it.
And it ends up mattering more to us, I think, than it does to them.
But see, Obama's not supposed to be talking this way till after he wins his election.
This is not the kind of stuff that they've got to be goofing up here, putting this stuff on the prompter for him.
Maybe he's off-prompter.
Here, listen to the bite in its totality again.
It just, as somebody who loves America, who loves the founding, who understands it and knows everything about it, this is a declaration of war against the country.
This is a declaration of war from the White House.
This is a declaration of war against what this country has always been.
And yet, so many people look at this.
It's just commonplace politics.
It's just no different than it was 30 years ago.
And you know this, Rush, is no different than it was 50 years ago.
Yeah, Obamacare, what?
Just another Social Security entitlement?
Just another, yeah, we'll live with it, Rush.
I mean, it's okay, no big deal.
I have people on our side telling me that.
Ain't that big a deal, Rush?
I mean, the Democrats won.
This is what they get to do.
So I asked myself, what is it going to take?
What would it take for a bunch of people on my side of the aisle to see it as the reality I see it?
I wonder if it's even possible.
Anyway, here's the bite.
It's a Friday night in Roanoke, Virginia.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own.
I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
There are a lot of smart people out there.
It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
Let me tell you something.
There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
The internet didn't get invented on its own.
Government research created the internet.
So then all the companies could make money off the internet.
It was the Department of Defense that created the Internet.
Really, of course, that's the one area of the budget he wants to cut.
But again, I say his audience, here you have a bunch of people going to vote for Obama who are looking for excuses because he's doing his best to divide this country, takers, producers.
And he's talking to the takers, and he's giving them every excuse in the world to explain why they haven't, quote unquote, made it, however, that's defined.
How they haven't made it.
And he comes up and so, well, these guys, there's nothing special about successful people.
This is really what he's saying.
Don't feel inferior to these successful people.
They're no better than you are.
They're no smarter than you are.
They're just luckier.
They won life's lottery or they had help from people that you don't know, that you can't get help from.
And there's nothing special about them.
There's no reason to admire them.
There's no reason to want to emulate them.
In fact, we're going to go take what they got and we're going to give it back to you because they wouldn't be where they are if it weren't for you.
Now, we've had extremist liberals say this kind of stuff on street corners, on the floor of the House of Representatives.
We've never had this kind of divisiveness from the White House.
I wouldn't, maybe not even Woodrow Wilson or FDR.
But he's sitting there.
There's nothing special about successful people.
Such a different when I was growing up, you wanted to be one of those people.
You wanted to emulate those people.
You want to find out what was it?
I've told you the story when I was living in a shack, for all intents and purposes, in suburban Kansas City.
I'm working for the Kansas City Royals, I mean, $12,000 a year.
And I'm one of these people, Obama.
I know I'm smart.
I'm just not doing what I was meant to do.
I'm not doing what I was born to.
I'm not doing what I was cut out to do.
I'm trying to find my place in the world.
All right.
So I'm driving around neighborhoods with big houses, lots of cars.
So what did these people do?
I'm dying.
Just go knock on the front door.
What do you do?
I did not run around asking, all right, who really made it possible for these people to get where they are?
Who really bought them that house?
Who really bought them those cars?
Who really got them that job?
I didn't think that way.
I wanted to find out who they were and what they had done.
I've never thought that everything came from government.
Obama wants you to think that everything comes from government, that without government being involved somewhere, nobody would have amounted to smithereens.
How come some people, what?
Well, I guess you have to assume that if some people never amount to anything, then the government's got something against them.
Because the people that never amount to anything are the people that are not as successful as maybe the government didn't help them.
So then you have to ask, well, why does the government help certain people and not others?
And in Obama's case, you're only going to get help from him if you donate money to him or raise money for him.
How is all this explained?
Let me ask you this question, folks.
Did your parents make the mistake of telling you when you were young that they were proud of you for doing something on your own?
My first job was shining shoes in a barbershop.
I was fascinated with making shoes shiny.
In fact, shinier than anybody could do it on their own.
Anybody could do it themselves.
I literally had a passion for it.
So I got this job three months in the barbershop and I made like 50 bucks.
And my dad was so proud of me, went out and bought me a record player so I could continue to pretend to be a DJ in my bedroom.
Bought me a little white 45 RPM turntable that played 33 that played LPs and so forth.
But he was ecstatic.
He was happy because I had quit everything that I'd started prior to this.
My dad did not sit me down and say, you know, son, you didn't do that on your own.
You know, son, I don't want you thinking you did that on your own.
I'm not proud of you for doing that, son.
You're going to have to realize you couldn't have gotten that job in a barbershop if it weren't for me.
And you couldn't have gotten a job in a barbershop if it weren't for the guy that hired you.
And you wouldn't have kept the job in the barbershop if they didn't like you.
You didn't do anything, son.
No one you're thinking you amount of Hilleby because you don't deserve any credit.
My dad didn't tell me that.
Is that what parents are supposed to tell kids today?
When your kid does something good or you're now supposed to say, I'm not proud of you.
You haven't done anything on your own.
You didn't do this.
Did your parents ever pat you on the back for building a model airplane or an entire town out of Legos?
Did they congratulate you for catching a fish by yourself or cooking your own breakfast?
If so, what the hell were they thinking?
They missed the chance to lecture you harshly that you do nothing on your own.
Nothing.
You didn't fix the chain on your bike without help.
You didn't dress yourself.
You didn't even make a new friend on your own.
It took somebody else to introduce you.
What do you mean you did it on you?
Don't you understand?
You're not an individual.
You're nothing without a whole bunch of other people.
Go read Hillary's book, It Takes a Village Idiot.
Or whatever the title of the book.
I don't know.
Now, in a way, folks, it is natural, somewhat natural, that Obama would think the way he thinks.
He's been given everything in life.
He's had people that turn his C grades into A's.
He's had people get him into schools.
He's gotten into law review without ever having to write anything.
He is in the way paid for.
I mean, that's the way it happens.
He's never even had to earn a paycheck.
Do you understand?
He's never, other than what he gets paid now, but he's never earned a paycheck.
He's been given everything, including a Nobel Prize.
He got a Nobel Prize for doing nothing.
He got a Nobel Prize on the come because this idiots at the Nobel Committee thought he was going to bring peace to the world, so they gave it to him.
He's overwhelmed with all this gooey love junk that just is inexplicable.
And he's got it backwards on the internet.
Prior to the late 1980s, usage of ARPANET and other internet networks for commercial purposes was forbidden.
The internet was not invented for business.
Entrepreneurs found a way to get in there and use it.
The internet was strictly for national security for the Department of Defense.
It was never intended for the business community.
But a bunch of take-charge people saw what it could be and turned it into something anyway.
Now, there's another reason that Obama is saying all this stuff.
Because if you didn't really earn it, it's easier for him to take it away from you.
The more people he can convince that successful achievement-oriented people really didn't earn it, that they just got it by luck, then it's easier to marshal support for taking it away from people.
And do not discount that aspect of this.
He's talking to these crowds of college students and union people, and he's out there.
Those people didn't earn it, those people, they don't deserve that.
You deserve it more than they did.
They couldn't have done it without you.
That means they'll eagerly support whatever confiscatory tax policies he comes up with to take money away from people.
Another thing that bothers me about all this is this presumption that the government never makes a mistake.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Yeah, and the government never makes a mistake.
They're perfect.
Whatever they do, whatever they decide, whatever mess they make, they're the ones to fix it with a brand new program to compound the problem.
You know, there aren't any stories on Obama gutting welfare reform.
No way.
Mainstream media not even touching that.
But you know what?
Both the Washington Post and the Politico, two mainstream media sources, are carrying the breathtaking news that Obama's favorite Girl Scout cookies, The Thin Mint.
I kid you not.
Not just the Washington Post, but somehow two major news organizations have this scoop.
His favorite Girl Scout cookies, The Thin Mint.
But you can't find any news in either organization.
He's gutted welfare reform.
I literally, if I did not have ways of distracting myself, I would go nuts trying to figure out when we've got a president campaigning.
If you got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen.
I don't understand why anybody who has ever amounted to anything or wants to cannot be horrified by this man.
That's a question I'm never going to have answered.
It'll never be understandable to me because there's too much irrationality in the world, and irrationality is inexplicable.
You know, I remember wasn't all that long ago.
The people that got lectured in this country were the people that were lazy.
You got lectured if you were a do-nothing kind of guy.
Your parents lectured you.
High school guidance counselors, teachers, whatever, lecture you.
If you didn't do anything, you were the one that got lectured.
If you were sitting around lazing it all up and not accomplishing any, you got the way.
Now, the people being lectured to in this country are those who succeed, are those who achieve.
If you got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Every time I hear that, I'm bowled over by it.
It's the president of the United States saying every audience he speaks to is little college students or union workers.
So he's going to find people that'll applaud this.
But I'm telling you, folks, do not forget what this is about.
One of the reasons for doing this is to make it easier to take money away from people.
If he goes out and he tells these audiences that people who've achieved and have success really didn't earn it, and they just did it on the backs of other people.
And they had a lot of help.
And the people that really made it happen haven't gotten anything out of it.
Obama is paving the way for raising taxes on those people or other confiscatory measures with ease.
And have the public applaud it because, yeah, they took it from you.
Obama's telling, he took it from you.
You built the road that led to the guy's factory.
And you should be compensated for that.
But you weren't.
You made it possible for the guy's factory.
So we're going to go take this money away.
And people are going to end up applauding this.
Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie?
Was the Dark Knight Lights Up or so?
Whatever the name of it is.
That's right.
Dark Knight Rises lights up.
Same thing.
Do you know the name of the villain in this movie?
Bain.
The villain in The Dark Knight Rises is named Bain.
B-A-N-E.
What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there's now this make-believe controversy?
Bain.
The movie has been in the works for a long time.
The release date's been known, summer 2012, for a long time.
Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it is villain in this movie is named Bain.
Somebody else made that happen.
In case you're wondering what's going on, I am so astounded by this.
I have told a broadcast engineer to play that whenever he feels like he's on his own.
He's getting no help from me.
He can put that soundbite anywhere at any time he thinks it's called for.
It's totally up to him.
I don't know what is going to happen.
I had Cookie roll off the little excerpt of that big long bite, and this thing's going to show up because I can't tell you how it's affecting me.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Just stop and think of that just from the standpoint of logic.
And then I had to read today that some conservative commentator, well, even president is right.
He actually is writing.
And he's, I'm not, I'm not going to embarrass the guy by mentioning his name because I'm not trying to pick a fight with the guy.
I'm trying to point out that we have a bunch of people that want to be thought of as the smartest people in the room and the most reasonable.
And they don't want to be lumped in with me having a reactionary take on this.
So they're going out of it.
Oh, no, I don't think the president hates the, I would not.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no.
In fact, I think the president's some level it's obvious he's right.
It's so simple to see.
Then later on, they point out their disagreements with it, but after that, what's the point?
Anyway, so this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bain.
And there's now discussion out there as whether or not this was purposeful and whether or not it'll influence voters.
It's going to have a lot of people.
This movie, the audience is going to be huge.
A lot of people are going to see the movie.
And it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they're going to hear Bain in the movie and they're going to associate Bain.
And the thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama, the Democrats keep talking about Bain, not Bain Capital, but Bain, Romney, and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie.
Oh, yeah, I know who that is.
There are some people who think it'll work.
Some people think it'll work.
Others think, yeah, it's, you're really, you're really underestimating American people.
You think that'll work.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Right.
At the polls, will the brain dead people show up in the polls?
I don't know.
See, I think you have to assume they will.
I think you have to plan on the fact that they will show up and vote.
No, just from the standpoint of dealing with you, you've got to get your own turnout.
You can't go into an election thinking, well, that group's not going to show up.
The young, yeah, they got disappointed.
Obama's not who they thought he was.
Yeah, the college student.
They're not going to show you.
You can't think that way.
You have to think they're going to show up.
You have to count on it.
You have to plan for it.
Come up with a way of neutralizing it.
A Bain character was a terrorist.
He's out to destroy Gotham, New York City, which is the case in every Batman movie.
But instead of sounding Romney, he sounds like an Occupy Wall Street guy.
In truth.
Now, there's a student at Washington Times today, is Mitt Romney, Batman.
Opponents of Romney, you've noticed the name of Batman's villain, the upcoming film The Dark Knight Rises, is homonymous with the name of an investment firm that Romney founded in 1984.
The childish aha moment was not unpredictable.
Americans have tolerated condescension remarkably well for the past four years, so we can presumably take an insult to our ability to spell or ability to follow a storyline for that matter.
But anyway, I don't really know what the point of this story is, but they're trying to point out that in Batman, the good guy and the rich guy are one and the same, and that's Bruce Wayne.
And so what this guy is saying here, hey, instead of falling in with the evil guy being vain, let's just say Batman is Romney.
Batman's Romney is the evil rich guy.
He's the good rich guy.
He's out to save New York.
The rich guy's the good guy.
Of course, the evil guy is always rich, too, in these Batman.
I'm just, you may think it's ridiculous, but to tell you, this is the kind of stuff the Obama team is lining up and thinking it's going to make that the kind of people who would draw this comparison are the kind of people that they are campaigning to.
These are the kind of people that they are attempting to appeal to.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back and continue.
Much more right after this.
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I've got a business.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
See, I know you stuck that in there right when I'm talking about what we built.
That's right.
I didn't do it.
In fact, you know what, folks?
I wouldn't have mounted to a hill of beans if it weren't for Ronaldo's Magnus.
If Reagan hadn't gotten rid of the fairness doctrine, none of this would have happened.
That's exactly.
That's what the leftists say.
That's what they, oh, yeah.
Reagan, I've never met Reagan, to tell you the truth, but well, that's right.
See, it was Clinton that actually made it possible.
For you listen to the media, Clinton made my program popular.
Clinton being elected, that's what made this program launch.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Right.
See, I've never done anything on my own.
Nothing here that I did has had anything to do with the success of the program.
First, it was Reagan and the Fairness Doctrine.
Clinton got elected.
And that's all it took.
And that's why we've succeeded.
I want to go to the audio sound bites yesterday on this program advising Romney how to get down and dirty with Obama since Obama, the aggressor, sets the rules in these fights.
This is one of the things I advised Romney to do.
Okay, so Mr. Limboff, if you have the answer to everything, then what will you suggest that Romney do if he's doing a thought?
Okay, fine.
Look, pal, when I was out creating jobs, investing in business, and growing this economy, you're at Columbia smoking weed, snorting coke.
You write about it in your book.
You talk about how you got into Columbia and a Harvard law, and you'd have to do anything.
That was what's great about it.
love getting into Columbia because all you had to do is go to class, get your grades, and smoke a little weed.
Well, I was out building the country when you were doing that.
That's the kind of this is a Chicago barroom guy who doesn't care about the aftermath as long as he wins.
Now last night on MSNBC, I'm told, Limbaugh's racist.
You start talking about a black guy doing drugs.
That's racist.
Oh, no, no.
He wrote about it in his book.
And they said, well, but Limbaugh should know that Obama just did this to try to deal with the pain of losing his father.
That's the only reason.
He's just racist.
Limbaugh being racist here if I bring this up.
And by the way, that is one of the reasons Romney won't go.
They don't want that charge.
This, well, no, I've never been told that.
I'm just convinced.
One of the reasons that they're not going to get the same reason McCain wouldn't.
You know, we're asking, a lot of people are starting to ask, where is the way you dealt with Santorum and Newt?
And the answer coming back is, well, those guys are conservatives.
It's okay to hate conservatives.
It's okay to be mean to conservatives.
You don't do it to Obama.
Well, Sununu, John Sununu, didn't get the memo last night on Fox News.
Actually, I'm sorry, it was this morning on American Newsroom.
Sununu was on with Martha McCallum, who said, do you think the Romney campaign's done a good enough job of coming out with their own take on that statement Obama made about business owners not building the business themselves?
He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and frankly, when he came to the U.S., he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago.
There has been no experience in his life in which he's earned a private sector paycheck that meant anything.
Now, Sununu, in every one of his TV appearances, takes no prisoners.
So I think Sununu has been appointed with the task of going out and performing the duties that I am suggesting need to happen.
Because that's smoking something in Hawaii.
He's doing it.
Never had a paycheck, Chicago politics.
The only thing he left out was that Obama's been mentored, educated, bent in shaped by a bunch of communists.
Somebody else made that happen.
Marxists.
Right.
Now, Carl Rove was asked about this last night, special report with Brett Baer.
Said, look, Carl, there's this growing conservative voice out there that seems to be saying the Romney campaign, you need to go on the offense.
Here's the conundrum.
Obama wants them to fight back in the same way that he's attacking.
He wants them to get down in the gutter with him.
So when they go back and refute this, they need to flip this to a higher level.
They can't take the bait and fall into the mud with President Obama because at the end of the day, if this is a battle between two sort of mudslingers, neither one of them looking presidential, people will tend to go with the guy who is already president.
We'll find out here why the Bush White House never responded to anything.
It's the assumption, in this case, that Obama will win because he's got incumbency on his.
I'm just lost.
Anyway, so here's Joe Trippy.
Joe Trippy was also on the same show with Brett Baer.
And after Rove said that Romney campaign shouldn't get in the mud with Obama's campaign, Brett Baer turned to Joe Trippy.
He said, Joe, you agree with that?
I think care-to-be-cautious candidacies always don't do very well.
And Romney's a care-to-be-cautious candidate, and they're running a care-to-be-cautious campaign.
It's not going to work.
I think they've got to get proactive and get aggressive and start defending or deflecting these attacks a lot better than they've been doing.
Now, Trippy's a Democrat.
Obviously, his sympathies are with Obama, so you have to factor maybe he's trying to roll Padope the Romney campaign into getting down and dirty.
But I just want to point something out to you.
It was only last week that the economic roof of Obama's house caved in.
Economic news that should have ended his candidacy.
And now, what are we talking about?
How does Romney recapture the offense here?
Remember the long discussion we had here about how the economy, traditionally used in a campaign, isn't going to work this time.
In a sane world, Obama doesn't have a chance in heck of getting re-elected because of the economy.
And yet, what are we talking about here?
How does Romney recapture the offense?
That's how out of whack all this is.
We'll be back.
Don't go.
Okay, so the Democrats always have a war room, but we are not supposed to go to war.
No, we're supposed to stay above DeFray and surrender, essentially.
Stay above Defray.
We go to war.
We can't go to war because the press will not treat us fairly.
So it's nothing.
He says to go to war, and that's where we are.
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