{"id":14552,"date":"2012-09-18T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T16:08:50","slug":"a_golden_opportunity_for_mitt_romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/18\/a_golden_opportunity_for_mitt_romney\/","title":{"rendered":"A Golden Opportunity for Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I tell you, I really hope that Mother Jones pulls down that Romney video pretty fast. Well, what he said about the Palestinians<\/a> not wanting peace, that\u2019s got the media as riled up as anything. The Palestinians are sacred to some people in our news media and the rest of the Democrat Party. Almost as sacred as Mohammed is the to the Islamists. And if they don\u2019t pull that video down, our media might start rioting over what Romney said.<\/p>\n

Okay, let\u2019s just dive in here. Romney\u2019s at a fundraiser, he\u2019s in Boca Raton. I think I\u2019ve mentioned this to you, folks, a couple of times. I have attended such fundraisers. I was not at this one, but I have been at candidate fundraisers, and I\u2019ve had meetings with presidential candidates. And, without exception, this is common. Republican presidential candidates go full metal conservatism when they\u2019re talking to donors. When I saw the Romney video, the first thing I thought, “All right, we have a golden opportunity.” <\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t care how this is being cast by the media. That\u2019s predictable. What are we doing here? What is really happening? This election is about what? It\u2019s about stopping Barack Obama. That\u2019s what this election\u2019s about. And we are hoping that a majority of people agree with us, that Barack Obama needs to be stopped. So here\u2019s Romney at the Boca Raton fundraiser, and he happens to be telling these people a certain level of truth, a certain level of accuracy. I think there\u2019s a bunch of people in that 47% that don\u2019t want to be there. I think there\u2019s a lot of that 47%, they\u2019re there because of Obama. This is such a golden opportunity. <\/p>\n

This could be the opportunity for Romney and for that campaign to finally take the gloves off and take the fear off and just start explaining conservatism. Start explaining liberty to people and what it means, and explain that they don\u2019t have to be in that 47%. There\u2019s no reason for them, for everybody, to essentially have given up on their future in this country. There\u2019s no reason for it. This is, to me, such an opportunity to espouse conservatism and to explain to people. Now that people are focused on this, now that people are paying attention to it, this is a golden opportunity, and we know Romney\u2019s got it in him because of what he said to these people. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been sworn to secrecy. Folks, this is common. If you knew what Republican moderate presidential candidates said to their donors, you\u2019d be a little ticked off because you\u2019d wonder why they don\u2019t speak that way in public. They are as conservative as you and I are. I\u2019ve spoken to them privately. The candidates that I see on the campaign trail versus the ones that tell me what they really think are two different people. There is a fear of being conservative because of what has happened to Romney with this. They\u2019ve been sitting on this video for a while. This goes back to, what, May, or what have you. But the objective here hasn\u2019t changed. It\u2019s been this way since maybe a couple of days after Obama was inaugurated. <\/p>\n

We want to stop Obama. We have got to get Obama and the Democrats out of power if this country\u2019s future is to have any semblance of its past. We don\u2019t want this country to be finished, as founded. We don\u2019t want this country to be over. We don\u2019t want 47% of the country thinking that there\u2019s no hope for them. We don\u2019t want 47% of the country giving up. And, like I say, I don\u2019t think all 47% are made up of people who are dependent, but I know what Romney was trying to say to these people. He was basically telling these people that we have reached a crossroads in this country. You and I talk about it all the time. <\/p>\n