{"id":14887,"date":"2012-08-09T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-09T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:36:05","slug":"how_should_romney_combat_smears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/09\/how_should_romney_combat_smears\/","title":{"rendered":"How Should Romney Combat Smears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Decatur, Illinois.  Joel, thanks for calling, sir.  Nice to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Thanks so much, Rush.  What an honor, what a privilege to talk with you.  I\u2019ve listened since the \u201980s, watched you in the \u201990s.  I\u2019m saving up for an iPad, and you can bet the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/rush-limbaugh\/id406055530?mt=8\" anchor_name=\"ls=1\">first app<\/a> I\u2019m going to get is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\">Rush 24\/7<\/a>.  I want to talk in regards to the &#8220;Romney Killed My Wife&#8221; ad.  I\u2019m not really surprised about liberals doing this.  Their playbook is predictable; it\u2019s well-worn.  The thing that really gets me is Romney\u2019s weak and passive response.  I want to compare it to a guy in 1988 who had the same lack of response and lack of moral outrage, and that was Michael Dukakis.  Whenever they asked him: &#8220;What would you do if your wife was raped or murdered?&#8221; he gave this passive response, and I think this was his Dukakis moment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DF9gSyku-fc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>RUSH:  Weeell, not quite yet.  If this had happened in a debate, yeah.  This is just an ad right now, and they did go out and respond to it.  But I agree with your seminal point here.  But if this had happened in a debate? If like Bernard Shaw is called out of mothballs and he says, &#8220;Mr. Romney, it\u2019s been said that you\u2019re responsible for a man\u2019s wife\u2019s death because you\u2019re rich and don\u2019t care about people.&#8221; And Romney says, &#8220;If that guy\u2019s wife lived in Massachusetts she would have had health care,&#8221; then yeah. Sayonara. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  What I\u2019m looking for, what I think a lot of conservatives are looking for, is backbone. And, if need be, if somebody attacks you, your wife, your credibility, get pissed off.  You know? In sports, whenever a coach throws a chair, whenever he questions a play and risks getting ejected out of the game or the technical foul, he\u2019s showing he has as much skin in the game as the players, and that rallies the team.  We\u2019re looking for it.  We need it.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65754\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Romney080812Welfare.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, I can tell you that most Republican consultants advise against that, because they fear that a reaction such as that which you have advocated here on this program would irritate independent voters.  And it would not therefore be advisable to react in a high, emotional, dudgeon state over something like this.  The danger is that here you\u2019re in the midst of a smear. And if you accept the premise of the ad in a smear in your response, then you\u2019ve got a problem.  What you\u2019re asking for is what I\u2019ve heard people call this program and ask for over 24 years. <\/p>\n<p>Leadership and passion!<\/p>\n<p>Conservative leadership and passion is what you want to hear. <\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019re not hearing it. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the Olympics might be a factor here.  When they end, I think a whole lot of stuff is going to change. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Dick Morris has an idea on what Romney could do.  He was on O\u2019Reilly last night.  O\u2019Reilly said, &#8220;Look, if I\u2019m Romney, I\u2019d do the fact-check we just did and I say, &#8216;Look, this is what we did.  That\u2019s why we bought the guy\u2019s company. This is what happened.  We tried to save the company.'&#8221;  See, this is the advice that people give Romney.  Go out and tell the truth about the company. Go in there and say, &#8220;No, no, no! We took over the steel company because they asked us in! <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saved that company for three to four years longer than it would have had a life.  The people that worked at that company had jobs and health care for four years longer than they would have.  If we hadn\u2019t gone in there, that company would have gone bankrupt.  This woman had health insurance from her own job, when her husband was laid off.  He was offered a buyout.&#8221; There\u2019s a theory that you go in and tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>And it sounds good.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nj70XqOxptU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But the problem with that is you\u2019re accepting the premise and you\u2019re always on defense.  And what has to happen here is somehow Obama and his team need to be the one on defense.  Otherwise, the Romney campaign is always defending themselves.  Against lies! When you start defending yourselves against lies told about you&#8230;  I\u2019ve been there, folks.  When people lie about you and you try to defend yourself, you\u2019re still defending.  You\u2019re still on defense.  And, in the process, you are accepting the premise.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65759\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RomneySmears080912.jpg\"\/><BR\/>People still think it\u2019s important to get the truth out. Which is it?  Does it matter, really?  It doesn\u2019t matter to the people that the Obama campaign\u2019s targeting here.  By definition the truth doesn\u2019t matter.  They\u2019re hoping that people that don\u2019t pay any attention to politics will see it. They\u2019re never going to turn on Fox News.  They\u2019re never going to listen to talk radio.  They\u2019re just on Twitter and Facebook all day.  They might spend some time watching Dancing With the Stars or E! or MTV or whatever.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where they\u2019re going to see that this guy\u2019s wife died because of Romney.  So is responding to lies with the truth the way to go?  That\u2019s what most people\u2019s gut reaction is.  But I\u2019m telling you: When you do, you\u2019re accepting the premise and then on defense. Do you remember my saying, &#8220;By definition, when you\u2019re on defense, you\u2019re not advancing the ball.  You\u2019re not moving forward.&#8221;  What has to happen &#8212; and I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m smart enough to know how to do this, folks. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not in politics.  I think I know what has to happen.  In terms of how to do it? I don\u2019t know.  If I knew how to do this kind of stuff, I wouldn\u2019t be doing what I\u2019m doing.  I wouldn\u2019t have time.  Everybody who\u2019s being lied about in America would be paying me to fix it for them.  But what I know is that you\u2019ve got to turn around, you\u2019ve got to get off defense, and you have to be on offense.  Sometimes you win games on defense.  But what do you do, recover a fumble or intercept a pass?<\/p>\n<p>In baseball, how do you win a game on defense? <\/p>\n<p>How do you score a run on defense in baseball?  You don\u2019t.  In football, you can, but it\u2019s really unique.  It\u2019s not a common occurrence.  You\u2019re never advancing the ball on defense unless you recover a fumble or intercept a pass.  You\u2019re just holding ground.  And that\u2019s the problem with it.  I think instinctively that\u2019s what all of us want to see. We want to see these guys under assault.  We want to see them on defense.  We want to see them running for the hills.  The problem is we\u2019re not willing to lie about them to do it. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Morris\u2019 idea.  This is what he said to O\u2019Reilly last night.<\/p>\n<p>MORRIS: I would put Ann Romney on, and I would have her say, &#8220;Barack Obama is running an ad saying my husband is not sensitive to people with cancer and in fact accusing him of helping to kill, aid in the death of a woman who died from cancer.  Well, as you may know I battled breast cancer.  And I had no more a supportive person than Mitt Romney.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65756\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RomneyAnn_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Hmm.  How does that hit you?  Romney goes on TV and acknowledges the ad.  &#8220;They\u2019re running an ad saying a woman died of cancer because I didn\u2019t care.  Well, my wife had cancer.  My wife battled breast cancer.  Here she is right now. This is Ann Romney. She battled breast cancer.  And there was nobody more supportive.&#8221; So put her up there.  &#8220;I had cancer.  There was nobody more supportive of me when I had cancer than my husband, Mitt Romney.&#8221; <\/line><\/p>\n<p>My problem with that is that it makes it look like it was news that Romney would support his wife when she had cancer.  Wouldn\u2019t we assume that?  If you have to tell people that Mitt Romney supported his wife with cancer, isn\u2019t there maybe an admission that there was some doubt about it? That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always said that when people go out and deny something that has not been alleged, they look nervous. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wait a minute.  Nobody accused you of that!  Why are you denying it?&#8221;  You see the problem here?  Did you think this was a good idea, Snerdley? (interruption) You don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea.  Why do you think it\u2019s a horrible idea?  (interruption) Okay.  Okay.  That\u2019s fine.  He said, &#8220;Everything you just said, I agree with.&#8221; Well, I know. When I say it, there\u2019s not much left to be said that\u2019s actually true.  Here\u2019s Jeff in Tampa, Florida.  Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Thank you, Rush.  First-time caller, big-time fan. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  As a proud American, I\u2019m really disgusted in how Romney is being portrayed as an insensitive murderer in this.  I don\u2019t even like to say it, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait a minute.  Wait a minute.  I just thought of something.  There is a guy who didn\u2019t support his wife when she had cancer.  He\u2019s a Democrat and his name is John Edwards. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I just remembered that. Sorry to interrupt you.  I just had a brain explosion there and I had to say that before I forgot it.  Start again.  You said you\u2019re disgusted at how Romney\u2019s being portrayed here as an insensitive murderer.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  And even to say it, it hurts my heart.  But the question is: What does it make Obama with the Solyndra, a premeditated murderer? He knew that the company was failing, driving it into bankruptcy? <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, that was one of my first questions?  How about all these dealerships that Obama shut down when he bought General Motors?  How about all the people, the two million people who do not have jobs today that did have when Obama was immaculated?  How many of them have gotten sick and died?  How many of their wives or family members have gotten sick because they lost their jobs because of Obama?  I\u2019ll guarantee you this, folks &#8212; and this may be one thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>You want to start talking about killing jobs?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nobody in Barack Obama\u2019s league! Mitt Romney saves jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney and Bain Capital saved jobs.  That is their objective to go in and save companies which are failing.  Barack Obama is a job killer, and every bit of that is true.  It might even work to put them on defense a little.  They clearly, by the way, they don\u2019t like being on the defense.  You can tell the way they reacted to this ad that Romney is running accusing Obama of stripping the work requirements out of welfare.  They don\u2019t like that at all. <\/p>\n<p>And the media doesn\u2019t like it at all.  So it\u2019s possible to put these people on defense.  You\u2019ve just gotta &#8212; once it happens &#8212; keep them there.  Bain Capital saved 150 companies from bankruptcy.  And there were people that worked at these 150 companies.  And they didn\u2019t go into bankruptcy.  That means the jobs there were saved.  But, yeah. You can\u2019t assume that everybody would support their wife when she had cancer.  John Edwards didn\u2019t. (pause) Well, you tell me where I\u2019m wrong.  You tell me where I\u2019m wrong. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Remember this, ladies and gentlemen: Nobody benefits from driving companies into bankruptcy, except maybe unions and the Democrat Party.  Certainly not Mitt Romney.  Certainly not Bain Capital.  Nobody benefits driving companies into bankruptcy except maybe unions and the Democrat Party.  Snerdley told me that we had a drive-by caller, a caller who didn\u2019t want to go on the air, didn\u2019t have time.  A little old lady, is that what you said?  Sweet, sweet little old lady.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_65755\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROmneyObamaPoliciesMontage3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;You tell Rush that Mitt Romney was sure able to lie about Newt Gingrich, so why can\u2019t he lie about Obama? He can lie about Rick Santorum! He can lie about every Republican in the primary! He knows how to lie! Let\u2019s see it!&#8221;  Something like that, right?  She has a point.  Well, it was Romney\u2019s super PAC, but those Newt ads had Newt fit to be tied! He was so ticked off and he didn\u2019t know what to do about it, primarily because he didn\u2019t have any money. <\/p>\n<p>But those ads that Romney\u2019s Super PAC ran against Newt arguably took Newt out of the race in Iowa.  And I do recall saying that myself, from my own oral cavity. I remember asking, speculating, &#8220;Will Romney be as hard hitting against Obama as he was with the conservative Republicans in the Republican primary?&#8221;  Now, the Olympics.  I mentioned that a little while ago.  I don\u2019t think that the Romney camp is going to spend a whole lot of money (I never thought they would) while the Olympics are on. <\/p>\n<p>Nobody\u2019s paying attention. <\/p>\n<p>Believe me, the standard operating procedure in professional politics is that the vast majority of voters are nowhere near paying attention to the election right now.  They\u2019re watching the Olympics or they\u2019re on vacation or what have you.  And they\u2019re not going to start paying attention really until the conventions, but not even then.  It really doesn\u2019t start until after Labor Day.  That\u2019s when the real spending starts.  That\u2019s why all this fundraising is going on now.  Now, to a certain extent that\u2019s true.  But I think we\u2019ve cited enough evidence, polling data and the like, to suggest that people are paying attention. <\/p>\n<p>We know enough people are paying attention that 65% do not want Obamacare, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Linda in Las Vegas.  Great to have you on the EIB Network.  Hello. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi, Rush!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Hi. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  This is just awesome, because I\u2019ve listened to you forever.  I\u2019ve been a Dittohead for years and years.  I cannot believe I even got through. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, you did.  It\u2019s your big showbiz break.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Whoohoo!  I\u2019m a cancer patient, and my husband\u2019s job may be coming to an end soon.  Because of that I will be losing my health insurance.  So I\u2019m looking now at what I can do before that, if that occurs.  And I feel that the ad that Obama\u2019s campaign has put out is trying to &#8212; without saying &#8212; make it look like or tell that type of Democrat that is always looking for the entitlements, that even when you hire on and get insurance through your company, when it no longer exists anymore, it\u2019s an entitlement for that company to give you insurance. Even though it\u2019s not.  But that\u2019s their mentality.  And for myself, I need to find my own insurance and take responsibility for my own life.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, I\u2019m sorry to hear about your cancer.  I don\u2019t like hearing that about anybody. But you could always blame Romney.  That\u2019s what the Democrats are doing.  But you don\u2019t want to do that?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  No, I could blame Obama because of what his health care plan has done already has ruined insurance. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Let me ask you a question real quickly.  Hasn\u2019t Obama told everybody &#8212; hasn\u2019t he promised everybody &#8212; that they\u2019re going to have health care?  As long as Obamacare is out there, everybody\u2019s going to have health care. And, in many people\u2019s minds, it\u2019s going to be free.  My question for you is this. You\u2019re an average citizen.  You\u2019ve got cancer. God bless you.  I want to ask you:  Why do you think Obama is not out saying, &#8220;This woman that Romney killed would not die in America today because of Obamacare&#8221;?  Why isn\u2019t he out touting this great achievement?  Why is he not using this great achievement of Obamacare instead of lying about Romney? <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Because it\u2019s not true.  After speaking to the doctors, I know it\u2019s not true.  And my doctor stressed that very much to me that, because of what care is today, I have to have insurance.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  But Obamacare\u2019s supposed to keep your situation from ever happening.  And yet Obama can\u2019t go out there and timeout his own achievement.  I wonder why. Wouldn\u2019t it be easier to just say (impression), &#8220;Obamacare takes care of everything.  If Soptic\u2019s wife had gotten cancer under Obamacare, well, she might have survived because she would have had health care.&#8221;  But he can\u2019t say that.  Why can\u2019t Obama say that, folks? <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Annette in Tallahassee, Florida, you\u2019re up next on the EIB Network.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hello. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi.  I have a question. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What would that be? <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_65773\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  In all of the years between this guy refusing the buyout and getting laid off and his wife passing away from cancer, did he not find a job? <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Apparently not, no.  This is Romney\u2019s fault.  But you know something? I mentioned this yesterday and I want to ask this question again.  The guy didn\u2019t have health care, right?  It turns out his wife did.  All of this is a lie, but let\u2019s discuss it just for the sake of it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If his poor wife didn\u2019t have health care, if he didn\u2019t have health care, how the hell did she get diagnosed? <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Exactly. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Where did she go to get diagnosed? <\/p>\n<p>She thought she had pneumonia, sat around and didn\u2019t do anything for a while. <\/p>\n<p>But how did she get diagnosed if she didn\u2019t have health care? <\/p>\n<p>The point is she had health care.  Whether they had insurance or not, they had health care.  She got diagnosed.  Now, what they did with that information? Well, that\u2019s their business. But your question is right on the money.  Six years went by! Did this guy not try to find another job? We don\u2019t know because that\u2019s not part of the story.  That doesn\u2019t matter. I think he had a job.  As I recall, he had a job making $24,000 a year.  He could have qualified for Medicaid is that point.  He was a school janitor after that job. Yeah, that\u2019s what it was.  He was a school janitor making 24 grand after the steel mill shut down.  So he\u2019s an instant qualifier for Medicaid. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hello? Are you still there?  You\u2019re pondering that?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I am.  And this was during a good economy.  And this is when there were plenty of jobs out there.  I\u2019m just wondering why. And she was not pre-existing condition at that point. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m just wondering why she didn\u2019t have health care. And she may have been ill.  I don\u2019t know the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  She did have health care for two years from her own job after he was laid off.  She had health care for two years &#8212; she had health insurance for two years &#8212; after he got laid off. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  This is what we have subsequently learned.  This whole thing is made up. If I didn\u2019t know better, I\u2019d say this is right out of <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37769\">Media Matters for America<\/a> &#8212; this whole thing has been trumped up right out of David Brock\u2019s fertile imagination &#8212; because this has too many similarities to all these other stories that turned out to be totally fake, manufactured items that have been created by the Democrats and their allies to attract media attention, raise money, whatever. <\/p>\n<p>The impression left by the ad is wrong in every way. <\/p>\n<p>It is a lie every which way you slice it. <\/p>\n<p>But, of course, the big thing is that Romney killed the guy\u2019s wife and didn\u2019t care.  He wasn\u2019t even concerned!  I don\u2019t doubt the guy\u2019s real, no.  I don\u2019t doubt that this guy is personally vicious.  He\u2019s a union guy, for crying out loud.  I don\u2019t doubt that he exists.  I just think he\u2019s invented. I just think that the whole way that his story has been presented strikes me as artificially manipulated, manufactured, created, and put into the public square the same way all the bogus crap that comes out of Media Matters for America ends up there. <\/p>\n<p>And it always has ties back to Obama or high-ranking Democrats somewhere.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Decatur, Illinois. Joel, thanks for calling, sir. Nice to have you here. CALLER: Thanks so much, Rush. What an honor, what a privilege to talk with you. I\u2019ve listened since the \u201980s, watched you in the \u201990s. 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