{"id":14530,"date":"2012-09-19T17:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-19T17:44:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:44:57","slug":"defeatist_gop_elites_quit_on_mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/19\/defeatist_gop_elites_quit_on_mitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeatist GOP Elites Quit on Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, I could be wrong about this, but here\u2019s Bill Kristol, who is saying that Romney… Let me get this quote in front of me. I always put this stuff the bottom of the Stack. Bill Kristol says Romney was “stupid and arrogant,” <\/a>and every Democrat under the sun is retweeting it. On the tape, talking about the 47%, Kristol says Romney was “stupid and arrogant.” Every Democrat under the sun\u2019s retweeting that all over the place, Donna Brazile and others.<\/p>\n

You know what struck me about this? During the primary, all these people — not all of them, but a lot of the people — who were telling us, “Romney\u2019s the only guy. He\u2019s the only chance we\u2019ve got! Romney\u2019s the one,” they\u2019ve bailed. They\u2019ve bailed on him. Now they\u2019re running around saying, “He\u2019s not the candidate we thought he was gonna be. He\u2019s stupid and arrogant,” and all these things. And those of you, you and me, who were said to be problematic during the primaries? We\u2019re the ones supporting Romney!<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re the ones trying to do everything we can to help get the guy get elected, because this election\u2019s about stopping Obama! <\/a>This election is about stopping the Democrat Party. This election is very important. It\u2019s very crucial. I say it again: I don\u2019t think that the inside the Beltway glitterati look at it all that way. I don\u2019t think they think anything\u2019s really at stake here, except committee chairmanships in the Senate, or control over the federal budget, or finding enough people to tell you they\u2019ll go on a cruise with you after the election.<\/p>\n

But for all of us, this is ball game, the way we look at it. I find it interesting. We\u2019re the ones supporting Romney. And the guys that were all-in at the beginning and saying (muttering), “Romney\u2019s the only guy who can win. He\u2019s the only guy that\u2019s electable. He\u2019s the only one,” now they\u2019re bailing on him. You know all they\u2019re doing is trying to protect their own reputations. They think everybody else sees Romney as stupid, so they gotta say so, too, to make sure that they\u2019re not looked at the same way people are supposedly looking at Romney.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re totally misreading the American people on this.<\/p>\n

The American people… Democrats are wrong to this, too. The American people are not fit to be tied, angry, insulted, or what have you over what Romney said on that tape. Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites. Frank Luntz, well-known… What does he do? Well, he\u2019s a well-known focus grouper. He\u2019s a pollster. (Just a mental block there.) He does all the focus groups with Hannity and so forth. He was on CBS This Morning today and they had a discussion about the “secret” video Mitt Romney recorded at a May fundraiser.<\/p>\n

Again, there are two minutes of this thing missing. David Corn of Mother Jones said (paraphrased), “Hey, we got the whole thing! Here it is! The whole thing\u2019s there.” Bill Jacobson at Legal Insurrection blog said, “No, it\u2019s not. There\u2019s two minutes missing, and nobody knows what\u2019s in the two minutes.”<\/a> Norah O\u2019Donnell, the hostette, says to Luntz, “Now you see a number of Republicans, former Republicans criticizing Mitt Romney for his comment. Is this a turning point in the campaign?”<\/p>\n

Everybody thinks Romney lost the election yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The glitterati, the intelligentsia, the stars inside the Beltway think Romney lost the election yesterday. They really do. That\u2019s why it was so hard for you watching television last night \u2019cause you see all these people on all these networks. “Oh, it\u2019s over!” I never met a bunch of quitters like these in my life. I never met a bigger bunch of defeatists! We haven\u2019t even had the debates. It\u2019s not even October yet. Anyway, here\u2019s what Luntz said. When Norah O\u2019Donnell asks, “Is this a turning point in the campaign, Frank?” what she means is: “Okay, Romney stepped in it. Is that it? Is it over now?”<\/p>\n

LUNTZ: First we had the 99 to 1%. Now we\u2019ve got the 47 to 53%. Americans do believe that there\u2019s too much dependency on government and they want more personal responsibility. What they don\u2019t like is that line in Romney\u2019s statement where he says, “I don\u2019t care about them.” They want a president to care about everyone, regardless of whether you vote for them or not. First you\u2019re trying to decide, are you in the 53 or 47; then (snickers) you\u2019re trying to decide, do you pay or not?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Frank spends all day with these independents who can\u2019t make up their minds, and they\u2019re now trying to figure out whether they\u2019re in the 47%. But they don\u2019t like that Romney said he doesn\u2019t care. Now, did Romney actually say that? Did he say he don\u2019t care about them? See, if he did, it\u2019s a problem, but that still is the opportunity that was presented. He\u2019s gone places on TV now like with Cavuto<\/a>. (interruption) Exactly.<\/p>\n

What he meant was: In the terms of the election, those people are already committed to Obama in his view. Obama starts out with 47% of the vote, is what he means. And he\u2019s gotta focus on the remaining people that he can get to vote for him. But, anyway, you also hear Luntz say, “Americans do believe that there\u2019s too much dependency on government and they want more personal responsibility.” So O\u2019Donnell then says, “But Romney was suggesting that these people are mooching off the system. He wasn\u2019t offering a helping hand. That\u2019s how they might interpret it.”<\/p>\n

LUNTZ: That\u2019s the whole issue. It\u2019s the interpretation versus what is meant. I want to make this clear: The race isn\u2019t over. It\u2019s not a game-changer. Not only is it not over, if Romney can change the focus with 23 million unemployed, he\u2019s got a tremendous opportunity.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it, folks! The expert says it\u2019s not over, nowhere near over. And it\u2019s not a game-changer, but everybody in the media thinks it is. There was a Politico story somebody sent me last night. It was a Politico headline, or story, and it literally said the race was over last night. It was finished, it was done, because of this Romney comment.<\/a> Now, Luntz says, “Not only is it not over, if Romney can change the focus with 23 million unemployed, he\u2019s got a tremendous opportunity.”<\/p>\n

I guess what that means is there are some in the 23 million unemployed who would vote for Obama because they want a continuation of unending benefits? My way of thinking — which I know is crazy, cockamamie, out of the mainstream. By my way of thinking, I don\u2019t understand why more than ten or 20% of the unemployed would want anything to do with Barack Obama! Why are they unemployed? Romney hasn\u2019t had anything to do with them being unemployed.<\/p>\n

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Not one Romney policy has had anything to do with unemployment in this country. Not one! The only candidate in this race who can be tied to high unemployment is Barack Obama. Now, somebody explain to me how the 23 million unemployed wouldn\u2019t automatically want an alternative to Obama? At least a majority of them. (New Castrati impression) “Mr. Limbaugh, what you are forgetting, sir — what you are missing — is many of these 23 million unemployed really blame Bush, George W. Bush, who\u2019s really responsible for this!”<\/p>\n

Well, there probably is some of that because of the media. But, again, common sense is rearing its head here, and I don\u2019t know how you make the case that a guy who has not been in office — who has never been president, who hasn\u2019t had his hand on one aspect of federal policy — is in any way linked to unemployment. “Mr. Limbaugh you\u2019re forgetting something else! There are guys like Romney who are going to increase unemployment by giving all the money to the rich!”<\/p>\n

Well, if we\u2019ve gotten to that point where people think that, then this is all academic anyway, and I just refuse to accept that. I just think this is all cockamamie. I think way too many people on our side fall for this. It\u2019s hard to avoid it, I must admit. The media bubble is there every day. Snerdley? It traps him every night! He leaves here with one view of the world after having listened to this program — and after absorbing the news for three hours later that night, he\u2019s back down so low that when he looks up, he sees the gutter.<\/p>\n

And if you choose to expose yourself to the modern day so-called news media for any length of time, you\u2019re gonna end up thinking the same thing. If you don\u2019t think that, then you\u2019re gonna think, “My gosh, there\u2019s no way. How can we overcome this?” And it\u2019s true. There has never, ever, in any of our lifetimes been anything this. We\u2019ve never seen a news media so activist and in the tank like this for a candidate. Never, never. I mean, to the point of making up news stories, to the point of being ridiculous. The guy in the video <\/a>caused the riots in the Middle East and ultimately it\u2019s Romney\u2019s fault?<\/p>\n

And they try to do news stories, serious news stories with that premise? Now, I\u2019ve never understood how the rich steal from the poor anyway. I\u2019ve never understood the math on that, how the rich got rich from taking from the poor. I know I didn\u2019t go to college, but nobody\u2019s ever shown me mathematically how that formula works, that the rich got rich by taking from the poor. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Wiesbaden, Germany, Angelo. I\u2019m gonna get you. How long do you have here with us?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can stay with you as long as you need, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, cool. Okay, what\u2019s on your mind?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, sir, first off: Thank you very much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I was listening to you during the Republican convention and the coverage after the convention, and it struck me that the advisers to Mitt Romney sound to me a whole lot like RINOs that just don\u2019t want to lose their jobs. They\u2019re so entrenched in the status quo that they just want to keep it the way it is. That\u2019s why they\u2019re giving him all this, um, I would say “questionable advice” about not running on Obama\u2019s very public lack of a record.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. But he hired them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that if —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but wait. It\u2019s a known quantity. He hired \u2019em. Is it their fault or his? He hired \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (sigh)<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s the one who decides.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He doesn\u2019t have to listen to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, you\u2019re right. You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It could cut both ways. If you go hire the architects of McCain\u2019s defeat and expect something different… So, I mean, they are who they are, is the point. There\u2019s not a… (groans) Thanks for the call. I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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