{"id":14189,"date":"2012-10-23T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:59:31","slug":"mitt_used_the_debate_to_demonstrate_his_knowledge_of_the_world_and_ability_to_lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/10\/23\/mitt_used_the_debate_to_demonstrate_his_knowledge_of_the_world_and_ability_to_lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Used the Debate to Demonstrate His Knowledge of the World and Ability to Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a full boat of callers here who think Romney did great last night, a full boat, folks. We\u2019ll start in Los Angeles with Rick. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for having me on. I\u2019m a longtime listener, a first-time caller, and it\u2019s a privilege to be able to be on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do think that last night was actually his best of the three debates. I think Governor Romney took what I call the high road last night. It would have been very easy to attack the president. And it would have come across exactly the way Romney said the president was coming across, when he said, “attacking me is not an agenda.” And I think what we saw last night —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I like that line, by the way, “attacking me is not an agenda.” It\u2019s reminiscent of Bill Clinton to Bob Dole saying, “No attack ever fed a hungry child.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And I think several things came into play last night without even needing to be said, in that what the governor demonstrated last night was a personality on a global stage that would be peaceable yet strong. And undecided voters are the ones right now who are gonna make the difference.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rick, you want to hear an interesting statistic?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The word “peace,” this is from Jim Geraghty, our old buddy at The Campaign Spot blog at National Review, the word “peace” was uttered 12 times last night. Every time by Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s not surprising. And he demonstrated, especially to undecideds, because what undecideds are looking for and that was obvious by these groups afterwards, the Luntz group, that undecided voters, it\u2019s obvious that the economy\u2019s in the state that it\u2019s in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Libya is gonna be what it is. No one needs to point it out. It\u2019s gonna come out in the news as what it already is: something that was either incredibly bad and being covered up or incredibly bad and communication wasn\u2019t being made, and he didn\u2019t need to point those things out. What he needed to do I think he did. He showed the American people and the global population that as our commander-in-chief, he would represent relationships with other nations in a peaceable yet strong format and pointed out his bipartisan capacity that wouldn\u2019t just work here at home, but it would work across the table. Both of those men at the UN, if they acted the way they did last night, which of the two would be a better representation of us in advancing peace in the world?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting observations. I appreciate, Rick, very much. I think Rick\u2019s right about something here, ladies and gentlemen, that is the audience last night. Now, let\u2019s admit something. We\u2019re two weeks out. I am decided. I have made up my mind and nothing is changing it, right? And the same thing I bet for all of you. And on the left, they made up their mind. Nothing could have happened last night to change the committed voters for either candidate. Who\u2019s left? Who\u2019s left out there? Whoever they are, that was the objective of last night\u2019s strategy. And once I figured it out — and I will admit it took me a half hour to figure out what was going on. <\/p>\n