{"id":13924,"date":"2012-11-16T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-16T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:09:48","slug":"republicans_freak_out_over_romney_s_embrace_of_the_baracka_claus_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/16\/republicans_freak_out_over_romney_s_embrace_of_the_baracka_claus_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Freak Out Over Romney\u2019s Embrace of the Baracka Claus Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I just read another op-ed ripping Romney to shreds. You know, Romney\u2019s out there saying that Obama really had a great bribery operation going. And Bobby Jindal just went nuts when Romney said that. In fact, here let me grab this. Let me find them. This is Romney on Wednesday, conference call, campaign donors.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: It\u2019s a proven political strategy, which is give a bunch of money from the government to a group, and guess what, they\u2019ll vote for you. Let me tell you what I would do if I were a Democrat running four years from now, I\u2019d say, “You know what, dental care will be included in Obamacare.” <\/a>Immigration we can solve, but the giving away free stuff is a hard thing to compete with.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. I mean, Santa Claus<\/a>. It is. Apparently it is dire, Romney saying this. Apparently this is a big problem for the Republican Party. We\u2019re not supposed to look at people this way. People are just insecure. It\u2019s a bad economy. And if somebody\u2019s promised security, workers, they can\u2019t find jobs, they\u2019re not takers and so forth. We\u2019re never gonna win anything if we look at people that way. Grab Baracka Claus is Coming to Town. We gotta put that in here. ‘Cause my whole Santa Claus theory is obviously now under attack by other Republicans. I don\u2019t know how long this will last, so here it is. <\/p>\n

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Yeah, I\u2019m telling you, folks, fires are breaking out all over the Republican Party. Bobby Jindal, I think Peggy Noonan, J. Pod, John Podhoretz are talking about, it\u2019s such a shame, Romney ran such a great campaign, such a great concession speech, and now he\u2019s just imploding. One of my first takes the night of the election returns coming in was, “It\u2019s hard to beat Santa Claus.” I mean, they are really jumping all over Romney. I thought that it was well known by everybody that the welfare state establishment votes Democrat. Apparently that\u2019s not true. <\/p>\n

Even if it is true, the Republican Party doesn\u2019t want to be known as thinking it, because it\u2019s dividing America. It\u2019s dividing America to makers and takers and that\u2019s not what America is, and the Republican Party is never gonna get anywhere if it divides the country into makers and takers, and Romney\u2019s 47% comment<\/a>, I\u2019m gonna tell you Republicans something. If you want to really get to the bottom of why Romney lost, I\u2019m gonna tell you what I think the most telltale reason is. And when I saw this in the exit polls, powerful, influential member of the media, I got \u2019em, I got that first wave at 30 seconds after five o\u2019clock, and it didn\u2019t take me another 30 seconds to find that over 50% of voters still blame George Bush for the economy. <\/p>\n

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If you want to know why Mitt Romney lost, if you\u2019re looking for one reason here or one reason there, you people in the Republican Party had better understand that is your number one reason. If you don\u2019t want to concede that it\u2019s number one, it\u2019s definitely in the top thee. Four years into an absolutely disastrous economy, exacerbated and made worse specifically by policy implemented by Barack Obama, no has spent money like he did. The 2010 elections indicate this. <\/p>\n

We just didn\u2019t get that turnout. Barack Obama totally escaped blame, or escaped blame among enough voters. You Republicans running around trying to figure out why the economy for the first time in history did not mean anything in an election better realize it did, and your party got blamed for it. And you better start asking yourself why. The single most destructive force in my lifetime in this economy escaped any blame, and that would be Obama. We figured, how in the world can Romney be hit by this? He had nothing to do with any of these policies. And yet he was blamed. That\u2019s what happens. When Bush is blamed, Romney, the current candidate is not gonna get votes. <\/p>\n

You Republicans had better figure out why, after four years of this mess, that included Obamacare, stimulus, real life pain, home values under war on terror, no improvement whatsoever in the economy, I don\u2019t care what anybody said, in real life there was no improvement in wages, gas prices going way up, and a previous president gets blamed for it? You better be able to explain to yourselves how that happened, \u2019cause there\u2019s a reason. There\u2019s a reason. <\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t defend yourselves! You didn\u2019t fight back against the lies. The Bush economy was not a disaster. The Obama economy was the disaster. Bush came out of two recessions. The Bush tax rates, the Republicans still won\u2019t speak up for \u2019em. The Bush tax rates enabled a really robust — we had 4.7% unemployment through much of the Bush economy. People don\u2019t know it because every day for six years the media was saying we\u2019re in a recession or we\u2019re heading to a recession, and you had Katrina on top of it. The media was trying to convince the people of this country for six years while we had 4.7% unemployment that we\u2019re in the middle of a recession, or at the beginning of one, the economy stinks, it\u2019s horrible. And because of whatever thinking that existed from the White House on down, none of those charges were ever answered, they were never defended against.<\/p>\n