{"id":14608,"date":"2012-09-12T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-12T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:09:25","slug":"romney_s_presidential_response_to_terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/12\/romney_s_presidential_response_to_terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney\u2019s Presidential Response to Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Remember now, it\u2019s Romney who\u2019s really not behaving properly here. Let\u2019s listen to Romney. This is this morning in Jacksonville. Audio sound bite number four is where we\u2019re starting here as I cue the broadcast engineer. It\u2019s the first of three bites that we have.<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: This attack on American individuals and embassies is outrageous. It\u2019s disgusting. It breaks the hearts of all of us who think of these people who have served, during their lives, the cause of freedom and justice and honor. We mourn their loss and join together in prayer that the spirit of the Almighty might comfort the families of those who have been so brutally slain.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66817\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RomneyCairoJacksonvilleResponse.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, so Romney called the acts of violence &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and &#8220;disgusting.&#8221; Obama didn\u2019t use those words when he talked about it. Obama didn\u2019t get anywhere near describing what happened that way. Here\u2019s more from Romney&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached; protesters were inside the grounds. They reiterated that statement after the breach. I think it\u2019s a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values; that instead &#8212; when our grounds are being attacked and being breached &#8212; that the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. An apology for America\u2019s values is never the right course.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. That\u2019s what this statement is, and they stood by it later. Embassy Cairo stood by it. The White House threw them under the bus. They said (summarized), &#8220;Oh, that\u2019s not us. They spoke on their own. We didn\u2019t, uh&#8230; We didn\u2019t say that.&#8221; They took it back. Then after that, Embassy Cairo said, &#8220;Well, maybe, but we stand by the fact that we don\u2019t like Americans saying things that <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14605\">hurt the feelings of Muslims<\/a>.&#8221; They stood by it.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have time to read this to you, but I also read this last night. Militant Islamists got into tweet chats with people inside our embassy, and the militant Islamists were saying, &#8220;Look, you are justifying what we did,&#8221; and the people inside our embassy were not disagreeing with them. The militant Islamists are doing tweet chats with people inside our embassy, whoever issued the statement. Again, I can\u2019t read it to you. It\u2019s not structured in a way that makes sense to read it. Maybe we can link to it at the website.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one more from Romney&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.mediaite.com\/embed\/player\/?content=1R58SL07QMJ8HPNT&amp;content_type=content_item&amp;layout=&amp;playlist_cid=&amp;media_type=video&amp;widget_type_cid=svp&amp;read_more=1\" width=\"585\" height=\"421\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: The White House also issued a statement saying it tried to distance itself from those comments and said they were not reflecting of their views. I had the exact same reaction. These views were inappropriate. They were the wrong course to take. It\u2019s their administration. Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth, but also for the words that come from his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department. The statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology, and I think was a severe miscalculation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It wasn\u2019t &#8220;akin&#8221; to an apology; it was an apology &#8212; and it was an apology before the fact. It was an apology before the fact. Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something else. This action yesterday did not happen because of a movie, and it did not happen because of a preacher in Gainesville or anywhere else. That was simply the excuse. These Islamists know what they\u2019re doing, and they know what we\u2019ll fall for, and they know what this administration will fall for and guzzle up. This administration is eager to blame this country and people who live in this country, and the militant Islamists know it.<\/p>\n<p>They were coordinating this for 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>There was coordination on this long before word of this movie hit. That has nothing to do with it, in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>You know it and I know it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the latest news on the attacks on our embassy and consulate in Egypt and Libya. &#8220;Intelligence experts and US government officials are starting to view the attack in Libya that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi as a coordinated attack. Sources have said they believe it was a planned operation and have pointed out several developments that seem to support the possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nooooo! Really?<\/p>\n<p>You mean it just wasn\u2019t spontaneous \u2019cause of what happened in Egypt? The hell, you say! We don\u2019t need a news report to tell us what\u2019s going on! We are dealing with Islamic supremacists who believe that their way is the only way (that\u2019s what the &#8220;supremacist&#8221; angle is), and that way is Sharia. And if you don\u2019t abide by it, then the Koran gives them license to do whatever to you.<\/p>\n<p>We sit around and we kid ourselves if we want actually try to make ourselves believe that this wouldn\u2019ta happened if some American wasn\u2019t making a movie, that this wouldn\u2019ta happened if some preacher in Gainesville weren\u2019t mouthing off. This administration has agents that want you to believe that, that this would not-a happened. The Arab Spring, what was it supposed to be? The outbreak of democracy. It was the coming to fruition of the democracy project. Oh, yeah! It was spreading democracy to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood? We were told, &#8220;Yeah, they\u2019re the good guys. We have a good relationship with the Muslim Bros. They\u2019re like the corner bakery in the neighborhood.&#8221; We actually have people in this administration who believe that. Meanwhile, again (and not to be too repetitive), all of this is Mitt Romney\u2019s fault. All of this happened, this embarrassing statement from our embassy, and they shift the blame to whether or not Romney is right or even allowed to criticize Obama.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s because Romney looked presidential.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66827\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RomneyObamaPoliciesMontage.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You know what I was prepared to do today? I spent a lot of time on something last night. I was starting to get frustrated, angry, whatever. I really thought when Romney picked Ryan, that that signaled a huge shift in campaign strategy and direction, and I thought it meant, &#8220;They\u2019re going for the gold, and they\u2019re gonna be hard hitting, and they\u2019re gonna tie Obama to his record, and they\u2019re gonna make ideology a part of the campaign,&#8221; and I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I was prepared to come in here and read them the riot act and tell them what they need to do to revive this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>We ought to be 15 points ahead.<\/p>\n<p>You know, it\u2019s one thing to look at the polls and say, &#8220;Oh, wow, Obama\u2019s lost his bounce,&#8221; and so forth. Look, I\u2019ve tried to keep on the straight and narrow here and keep everything in perspective by not going off the deep end or not getting artificially falsely positive as I discussed yesterday. We ought to be leading here by 10 points, 15 points. Obama ought not be in this race, and there could be a way to make that happen even with the media. But he\u2019s gonna have to be tied to his record.<\/p>\n<p>This notion that he\u2019s a nice guy in over his head has gotta go. It just has to go. The fear of tying Obama to the gas price, to the lack of oil production, to the coming financial collapse? We simply have to! It\u2019s got to happen. We cannot win this otherwise. I don\u2019t think we can win this if our objective is to give wavering Obama voters permission to vote against him.<\/p>\n<p>We tried the McCain way.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve tried the Republican establishment way.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve tried the way that doesn\u2019t anger the moderates, and that doesn\u2019t tick off the independents. We\u2019ve tried that and it never works. The last two landslide conservative presidential wins were Ronald Reagan. What\u2019s important about that is not so much I\u2019m hearkening back to Reagan and trying to turn Romney into one, \u2019cause that\u2019s not possible. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m doing. But the point is, it\u2019s conservatism that triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what somebody said to me the other day?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rush, there\u2019s something you\u2019re forgetting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Yeah, what\u2019s that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, the makeup of the population, demographics in 1980 and \u201984 were quite different than they are today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, yeah? How?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, look at the white population in 1980 and \u201984. What was it, Rush? It was about 90% of the country, and now it\u2019s 74%. That\u2019s a huge difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;What does that matter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, conservatism can\u2019t be the focal point of the campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What, are only white people conservative?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;That\u2019s where you people are off the rails. Only white people can be conservatives? Is that what you\u2019re thinking?&#8221; These are Romneyites. Not part of the campaign, just Romney supporters who are afraid of angering the independents. &#8220;You think only white people are conservative? You think Reagan\u2019s appeal was racial? You sound like a Democrat and think Reagan won because some ancient adherence to the Southern Strategy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again come out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that. He did it optimistically and he did it harmlessly, but he tied Jimmy Carter to that performance of his. He made it clear that the country was in dire straits because of Jimmy Carter.&#8221; That\u2019s what Romney has to do. We can\u2019t leave it up to people to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66828\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaChange-Poster-Large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>We can\u2019t rely on the American people to see it for themselves just because they\u2019re living it. There are some factors that can\u2019t be denied. Yes, he\u2019s the first black president. Yes, that\u2019s historical. Yes, the Bradley Effect is still in play. Yes, people still want to vote for him \u2019cause he\u2019s black because it inoculates them from the charge of racism. All of that is still in play, but we\u2019ve got serious circumstances that face this country. Our future is dire, and you and I all know it. We\u2019re looking at a coming financial collapse of this country.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>This cannot go on. It can be stopped, however.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was all prepared to do perhaps two monologues on this today. And I might yet still get into it, touch on it. But the situation on the ground, as they say, has changed a little bit, what with this series of events in the Middle East. Because today Romney is the only guy looking presidential. Romney\u2019s the only guy who looks like he understands what went wrong, what went right, and what shouldn\u2019t be happening now.<\/p>\n<p>Romney looks like he\u2019s the only adult in the room. And, as such, everybody has their crosshairs trained on him, and I don\u2019t think that it\u2019d be productive to get into what I would consider to be campaign advice. But I\u2019m gonna do it at some point (out of a desire to help). I don\u2019t understand the reluctance&#8230; Well, as I say&#8230; (sigh) I\u2019m too literal. I do understand the reluctance to be critical of Obama. But I don\u2019t understand it at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>I understand why they are, but I don\u2019t understand the fear, and I don\u2019t understand being governed by the fear of tying Obama to his record. I don\u2019t understand why. These&#8230; (sigh) These are supposedly the best of the best. These are the professionals, the best professionals Republican Party has to offer. (Supposedly.) I don\u2019t understand what they\u2019re afraid of. I mean, I do but I don\u2019t. This is my contradiction: I do but I don\u2019t. I understand what they\u2019re afraid of.<\/p>\n<p>I think they\u2019re fools for being afraid. I don\u2019t know why they actually are. I don\u2019t know why they can\u2019t look at history and see that the Steve Schmidt\/John McCain way of running a campaign didn\u2019t work. You look at 2010. I keep going back to 2010 in my mind, the midterms. What happened? It was huge landslide, ladies and gentlemen, and it was a landslide all the way down the ballot. Local Democrats lost. They lost over 700 seats all over the country, from Congress all the way down to town council.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it was a shellacking.<\/p>\n<p>And there wasn\u2019t a Republican candidate that anybody was voting for. There wasn\u2019t any presidential race going on. What was it? Well, it was the Tea Party, but people were voting against Obama as fast as they could and everything he stood for. They were voting against stimulus. They were voting against health care. They were voting to stop what was happening. Because the first two years, 2009-2010, Obama could not be stopped. Republicans didn\u2019t have the votes anywhere to stop him.<\/p>\n<p>So, theoretically, had they played their cards right, they could have had anything they wanted. Nobody could have stopped \u2019em. The American people saw that, and in 2010 finally the votes were on the Republican side of the House because of those elections. In the midterm elections, the Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives. It was major. And why the Romney people don\u2019t see what happened two years ago and want to build on that &#8212; figure out what it was that happened and build on it &#8212; rather than go back and rerun the McCain campaign? (sigh)<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a time and a place for everything, and today is actually a day to praise Romney for his guts and his courage for coming out, knowing full well what was gonna happen to him, sounding presidential, acting presidential.  We even got Republican strategists, my friends, and consultants, even on Fox, who were condemning him for doing what he did, saying, &#8220;Well, there\u2019s only one president, you know, politics ends at the water\u2019s edge.&#8221;  The cliches just keep on coming. &#8220;Sometimes saying nothing is better than saying anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And every time I hear this, I do, I hearken back to 1980, and now with what happened in the Middle East yesterday, we\u2019ve got some similarities to 1979. In fact, the Republicans back then were not holding back.  They tied Carter to his record.  Every day they tied Carter to his record, over and over and over again.  Romney didn\u2019t even have to act presidential today.  He just came off that way.  A couple more sound bites.  I think we\u2019re up to number five, if I\u2019m right.  Yeah.  This is the reporters.  Unidentified reporter said, &#8220;The statement last night was very roughly worded.  Do you regret the tone at all given what we know now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY:  The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. Protesters were inside the grounds. They reiterated that statement after the breach. I think it\u2019s a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values. That instead, when our grounds are being attacked and being breached, that the first response in the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation, and apology for America\u2019s values is never the right course.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_66824\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  And that\u2019s what Embassy Cairo did.  Again, they apologized before anything had happened.  They apologized preemptively.  For those of you in Rio Linda, it\u2019s before it happened.  Remember, after 9\/11 it wasn\u2019t long, maybe a month after 9\/11, Bush State Department, career State Department people wanted to do a forum to find out why they hate us.  In other words, what have we done to make them attack us like they did?  It was our fault.  Our State Department.  You can\u2019t convince me we don\u2019t have people in the State Department in Cairo in that embassy who actually thought that if we put out an apology for this guy doing the movie, without naming him, and for the preacher, Terry Jones, without naming him, if we put out an apology, that will mollify \u2019em and they won\u2019t attack. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the direct result of kids going to school being taught conflict resolution.  We had people in our embassy issuing an apology statement.  A, they think this country\u2019s wrong.  They\u2019re apologizing for Americans exercising their own rights of free speech.  And the purpose of the apology, I\u2019m convinced, they thought the militant Islamists would say, &#8220;Oooh, America\u2019s sorry, they\u2019re on our side; okay, we won\u2019t attack.&#8221;  I\u2019m convinced.  And now, finally, the bright lights have gone off and intelligence experts and government officials are starting, it says here now, starting to view the attack in Libya that killed the ambassador there, Chris Stevens, as a coordinated attack.  Yes.  I wonder what their first clue was. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Charleston, South Carolina.  Daniel, is that right?  Great to have you on the program.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yes, sir, it is.  It\u2019s an honor to speak to you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, I wanted to make a comment regarding the politics stops at the water\u2019s edge.  I think Obama\u2019s a little bit hypocritical to criticize Romney over that, considering during his \u201908 campaign he made a so-called landmark trip around Europe and several other countries, making all sorts of promises and trying to be as presidential as possible before he was even elected.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s very, very true.  I want to be very precise about something.  Obama himself has not said anything about Romney saying things and acting presidential.  Obama\u2019s agents are doing that.  The media, David Gregory, Joe Klein, all of the press that was gathered with Romney in Jacksonville.  They\u2019re the ones who are saying it.  Obama is relying on his agents, but you\u2019re exactly right.  In the 2008 campaign, there was Barack Obama in Berlin. (imitating Obama) &#8220;Citizens of Berlin, I am your future world leader.&#8221;  No question that\u2019s what he was doing.  He was acting presidential. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66835\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushReestablishConserveCongrss.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remember the story we got during the economic crisis when McCain suspended his campaign and everybody headed to the White House for a meeting.  President Bush, McCain was in there, Obama was in there, chairman of Federal Reserve, figure out what they were gonna do.  And the media put out the story that the oh-so-competent and the oh-so-capable Barack Obama finally, after a while, couldn\u2019t take it anymore and just took over the meeting and if it weren\u2019t for Obama, nothing woulda happened in that meeting.  Everybody was dillydallying around, but there was Obama, he took control. Bush didn\u2019t know what he was doing. McCain didn\u2019t know what he was doing. Obama took control and we had a policy.  It was perfectly fine for Obama to be acting presidential when he was just a candidate.  That\u2019s a good reminder, Daniel. <\/p>\n<p>This is Bo in Grafton, Wisconsin.  Nice to have you.  Thank you for waiting and welcome to the big program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.  I appreciate it.  It\u2019s really an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  You\u2019ve been quite an inspiration to all of us.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I appreciate that.  I really do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  The question is, how did the embassy know that the reason for the attack was a YouTube video?  Did someone call the office while they were climbing the wall?  I mean, were they chanting &#8220;YouTube infidel&#8221; as they were climbing the wall?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  This is an excellent question.  The US embassy in Cairo.  How did they know, why were they apologizing for the actions of Americans which hurt the feelings of militant Islamists before anything happened? That\u2019s a great question.  Being charitable, we could say, &#8220;Well, Embassy Cairo felt confident that militant Islamists were gonna hear about this video and were gonna go batty about it.&#8221;  But it\u2019s still a good question.  How did the embassy know that would be the reason given for the attack?  An excellent question.  I\u2019m glad you called, Bo.  Thank you very much.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: From CNN: &#8220;A pro-al-Qaeda group responsible for a previous armed assault on the US Consulate in Benghazi is the chief suspect in Tuesday\u2019s attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya, sources tracking militant Islamist groups in eastern Libya say. They also note that the attack immediately followed a call from al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri for revenge for the death in June of a senior Libyan member of the terror group Abu Yahya al-Libi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So Libya was the result of a call by Zawahiri for action. It had nothing to do with the movie. It had nothing to do with the preacher. Now, I don\u2019t know if you saw the Obama press availability that took place around 11 a.m., sometime between 10:30 and 11. When Obama finished, somebody in the press corps shouted, &#8220;Is this an act of war?&#8221; Obama didn\u2019t answer. He turned his back on the press &#8220;corpse&#8221; (as he would say), put his arm around part of Mrs. Clinton (as much as he could), and they walked back into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why shouldn\u2019t we be able to get answers to simple questions?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this an act of war?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Was what happened in Libya, the killing of our ambassador, an act of war? Don\u2019t forget this central element: Our ambassador was taken, according to procedure, to a supposedly secure location when the attack started. But our &#8220;friends&#8221; &#8212; our friends in Libya who transported our ambassador &#8212; then told the mob where he was, and that\u2019s how the mob was able to go kill him and commit the acts of violence on the additional three. So somebody shouts to the president, &#8220;Is this an act of war?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama just turns around, walks away, and doesn\u2019t answer. Why shouldn\u2019t we be able to get answers to simple questions from this president? Remember The Daily Caller guy a few months ago who dared to call out a question when Obama was about to end one of these appearances? The media was standing there. They attacked him and chased him all the way down to Washington Monument. I forget the guy\u2019s name. It was a Daily Caller guy.<\/p>\n<p>He asked a question, and the media turned on him for being disrespectful to the president, for being disrespectful to The One. Meanwhile, Romney is out there answering questions, and the media is ganging up on him. It\u2019s a great example of the corruption that exists in the media in this country. Now they\u2019re tweeting. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14609\">I mentioned to you earlier that David Gregory, the host of Meet the Press, and others, are tweeting. <\/a>They\u2019re piling on. They\u2019re not questioning how this could happen, the reaction, statements, the confusion.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14609\"><img id=\"eZObject_66836\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/David-Gregory_large.jpg\"\/><\/a>No, no!<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re all focused on how inappropriate it is to them that Romney dared to talk about any of this. They don\u2019t care. There hasn\u2019t been one question of Obama about this. He goes out, gives his little statement; he and Hillary walk away. Not one question! Well, the media shouted one question: &#8220;Is this an act of war?&#8221; He hasn\u2019t answered one question about it. Romney has, and Romney is the enemy. Romney\u2019s the guy that\u2019s gotta be taken out. By the way, Romney\u2019s response was basically the same as the vast majority of Americans who love this country.<\/p>\n<p>What Romney said is: What the hell kind of statement is our government issuing once again, apologizing for our country, apologizing for our way of life, apologizing for our free speech? That\u2019s what that statement from the Embassy Cairo yesterday was: An advance apology before anything had ever happened! We don\u2019t owe anybody an apology for who we are. We don\u2019t owe anybody an apology for our First Amendment. We don\u2019t owe anybody an apology because we have free speech.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Romney\u2019s comments are quintessentially American, and the Obama administration\u2019s reaction here was not. Their first reaction was to go after Romney, not go after the attackers &#8212; and, of course, that told the media which way to go. When the White House and the campaign came out and attack Romney, that\u2019s the signal to the media: &#8220;Okay, that\u2019s where we want you to go. You hit Romney.&#8221; And they did.<\/p>\n<p>Romney took questions. Go back to the audio sound bites. This in Jacksonville, Florida. CBS correspondent Jan Crawford said, &#8220;Governor Romney, do you think, coming so soon after the events really had unfolded overnight was appropriate?&#8221; Do you think you\u2019re appropriate here, Governor Romney, speaking out so soon? Do you think it\u2019s appropriate for you, sir, &#8220;to be weighing in on this as the crisis is unfolding in real time?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: The White House also issued a statement saying it tried to distance itself from those comments and said they were not reflecting of their views. I had the exact same reaction. These views were inappropriate; they were the wrong course to take. It\u2019s their administration. Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth, but also from the words that come from his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department, and the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a severe miscalculation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And he went on to explain why it is appropriate to criticize Obama now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: We have a campaign for the presidency of the United States and they\u2019re speaking about the different courses we would each take with regards to the challenges that the world faces. The president and I, for instance, have differences of opinion with regards to Israel and our policies there. With regards to Iran, with regards to Afghanistan, with regards to Syria. We have many places of distinction and differences. It\u2019s also important for me &#8212; just as it was for the White House last night, by the way &#8212; to say that the statements were inappropriate and, in my view, a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Damn straight. Another unidentified reporter asked, &#8220;Governor, can you talk about why specifically you\u2019re better qualified than President Obama?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: My foreign policy has three fundamental branches. First, confidence in our cause; a recognition that the principles America was based upon are not something we shrink from or apologize for. The second is clarity in our purpose. Which is that when we have a foreign policy objective, we describe it honestly and clearly to the American people, the Congress, and to the people of the world. And number three, is resolve in our might that in those rare circumstances where we decide it\u2019s essential for us to apply military might, that we do so with overwhelming force, that we do so in the clarity of a mission, understanding the nature of the US interests involved, understanding when the mission would be complete.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u00c2\u2019s exactly the way it used to be. There nothing vague about it. There\u2019s nothing &#8220;jumping the gun&#8221; about it. That is a simple statement and articulation of the way it\u2019s always been in American foreign policy, and what\u2019s different and perverted and corrupt is our foreign policy today. I defy anybody to explain it. I defy you. Do you know what our foreign policy is? &#8220;We have this charismatic, messianic guy that you love so much that you\u2019re not gonna mess with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66837\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-Rush24YearsAnniversary400WIde.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Of course, look what\u2019s happening around the world, in regards to militant Islam and the United States. We\u2019ve got a rank amateur. With all due respect, in terms of experience, we have a rank amateur, and the bad guys of the world are laughing themselves to sleep every night talking about the clear road they\u2019ve got. Can you imagine a guy like Zawahiri? Here\u2019s Zawahiri in his cave in Pakistan or wherever, and he sees that Obama\u2019s embassy apologizes for its country before anything happens?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Zawahiri is saying, &#8220;I wish Sheik Bin Laden were alive to see this! The United States, the evil Satan &#8212; the big, bad mama &#8212; is apologizing to us in advance of anything we might do!&#8221; That might even make him want to have a glass of champagne, and those guys don\u2019t consume adult beverages (that anybody knows about). Folks, this is a joke. Can you imagine the Muslim Brotherhood? They\u2019re sitting around saying, &#8220;Do you realize how easy this was? We have some people raise hell in Tahrir Square. We got this idiot CNN reporter out there asking people what they think of Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we\u2019re getting rid of Mubarak, sending him to the insane asylum in a hospital bed. We\u2019re taking over the country and Obama\u2019s praising us as the neighborhood grocery store owners.  This is the easiest takeover in the history of the world.  And then they\u2019re laughing about what\u2019s going on in Iran. They\u2019re laughing about what\u2019s going on in Syria, while all of their crosshairs are aimed at Israel, who Obama doesn\u2019t have time for.  Obama\u2019s sitting here thinking the world thinks he\u2019s The Messiah, the world thinks he\u2019s the smartest, greatest guy that\u2019s ever been around.  He sits there living this illusion that everybody thinks of him the way he thinks of himself.  In the meantime, everybody\u2019s laughing at him &#8212; and don\u2019t think they\u2019re not &#8212; when our statement department issues an apology for American citizens before anything has happened. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, here it is again.  &#8220;The Embassy of the United States in Cairo.&#8221;  This on the website.  It\u2019s official.  &#8220;The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals &#8211;&#8221; that\u2019s Americans, is what they mean &#8220;&#8211; to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.&#8221; Now, I can\u2019t get past that, just to read the rest of this.  &#8220;The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy,&#8221; except the Catholic Church and abortion.  &#8220;We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others,&#8221; except for Catholics in America.  We will not only hurt their feelings, we will make them violate their most sacred religious beliefs, under threat of government punishment.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Remember now, it\u2019s Romney who\u2019s really not behaving properly here. Let\u2019s listen to Romney. This is this morning in Jacksonville. Audio sound bite number four is where we\u2019re starting here as I cue the broadcast engineer. It\u2019s the first of three bites that we have. 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