{"id":15164,"date":"2012-07-12T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-12T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:27:38","slug":"romney_speech_looking_like_big_win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/07\/12\/romney_speech_looking_like_big_win\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Speech Looking Like Big Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: John in San Diego. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, El Rushbo. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s been years since we spoke last. Hey, I was watching the speech last night on C-SPAN, and I was very curious as to how Romney started talking about being a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Did you call it &#8220;C-TRAP&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) No, C-SPAN.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: C-SPAN, okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) C-SPAN. And I thought it was interesting how Romney started his speech talking about being the Republican governor of Massachusetts with only 14% registered Republicans in it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/148153889.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So I\u2019m thinking, &#8220;Okay, where is this gonna go?&#8221; Well, the more he spoke, the more enthused I became of the way he was speaking to them. He was treating them like adults, treated them like Americans. Every time he mentioned the middle class, he didn\u2019t say, &#8220;The black middle class and you.&#8221; He said, &#8220;I will do things for the middle class that will also help black Americans.&#8221; I mean, how many times did he tie those together, that whatever he does that\u2019s good for the country is good for everybody?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just good for them. And I should say &#8220;us,&#8221; because I am a conservative black American. I\u2019ve been listening to you for 20-plus years. You know, it\u2019s good for everybody. He didn\u2019t break them down into class like the Democrats are gonna do. So the more he spoke, the more I was saying to myself, &#8220;Romney needs to stay engaged to this group. Every place there\u2019s a large black group between now and the election, he needs to go speak.&#8221; The reason why is because he only needs 8% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: John, it sounds to me like if I were asked to analyze your point, it would be this: It seems to me that you\u2019re saying that Romney spoke to the NAACP as if they were not black.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They were human beings.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly! &#8220;You\u2019re a human. You\u2019re just like every other American. You want an opportunity? You\u2019re gonna get an opportunity in my America. It\u2019s not because you\u2019re a special class. It\u2019s because you\u2019re an American. And I\u2019m gonna do what\u2019s good for this country. Therefore you\u2019re gonna benefit, too.&#8221; And like I said, he only needs 8% of the vote. If he gets 8% of the black vote, Obama\u2019s done. If the Republican gets 12% of the black vote, the Democrat Party in this country is over with. Romney needs to stay in front of them. He needs to stay engaged. He needs to siphon off 10% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true.  I don\u2019t know the percentages.  Twelve percent certainly.  I think it would only take 5%.  If he could take 5% of the black vote, that would be the end of Obama\u2019s chances.  With everything else being equal, that would be a huge dent.  Well, it\u2019s an interesting proposition, this idea, keep speaking to groups that don\u2019t support you.  I thought yesterday that he was taking the occasion of this speech to make a broad-based but very condensed policy speech, because he knew he was gonna have an audience above and beyond this group.  All the media\u2019s there.  They\u2019re salivating. They\u2019re waiting.  They want to see this group just chew Romney up and spit him out.  That\u2019s why they\u2019re there. Romney knows they\u2019re gonna be there, and they know countless cameras and microphones are gonna be there and tape is gonna be rolling. <\/p>\n<p>He took advantage of the opportunity to speak to those people as though he were speaking any other group of human beings.  And as we\u2019ve been told, this is somehow helpful for the independent vote.  Look, I understand that theoretically.  As you know, I have a little bit of a problem with it being necessary, but I understand it as far as the theory goes.  But still, it seems now after, what, 24 hours, it seems that the sands are shifting here and the perception is that this is a big win for Romney yesterday.  Whereas some people thought it was not so hot, not so cool.  But I\u2019ll just tell you what I said earlier.  I think because of his approach to the group yesterday, what you said, he didn\u2019t speak to \u2019em as though they were of any particular race or ethnicity. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAhJh0ADd9k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He spoke to \u2019em as human beings. He treated \u2019em as equals. He empathized with \u2019em.  We got the same desires in life, as human beings, and this is what I\u2019m gonna do as president to try to make it all happen.  I think that across the Democrat Party there was a collective, &#8220;Uh-oh,&#8221; combined with the fact that Romney looked good. He didn\u2019t break down during the boos. He didn\u2019t lose his composure. He didn\u2019t lose his place, kept smiling, as though he knew it was going to happen.  And I think that it\u2019s gonna redound positively.  I happen to agree with you on that.  Thanks for the call, John, appreciate it. <\/p>\n<p>Andy in Richmond, Virginia, you\u2019re next here the EIB Network.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, mega dittos, Rush.  I\u2019m a Rush Baby. I grew up on you in the early nineties, and I just had a little bit of a different take on Romney\u2019s appearance at the NAACP.  I\u2019m actually referring to a <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15167\">call that you took in the last hour<\/a>, about a guy who was a Republican, his wife was an independent, and just kind of the idea that there\u2019s this striking thing that people noticed and that made them change their mind about Romney, and I think it goes back to really one word, and that\u2019s courage.  I think Romney went into a place where everybody wasn\u2019t gonna agree with him, and I think we haven\u2019t seen that in a while.  I think for myself, you know, there\u2019s always that concern that Romney might &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait, wait, hold it, hold it just a second.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_64700\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MittNAACP_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  I\u2019m really on thin ice going in this direction, but you\u2019re getting to one of my little bugaboos here.  It\u2019s not the first time somebody went and spoke to a group that didn\u2019t agree with \u2019em.  McCain did it.  Jack Kemp did it.  It\u2019s not the first time.  I\u2019m not trying to take anything away from Romney here, but I am curious at how this one has made such a positive impact.  I\u2019ll take it, don\u2019t misunderstand, but it\u2019s not the first time.  And plus, so the independents are now to be happy, oh, whoa, whoopee-doo.  The independents, we finally got somebody who can go in and work with them. Oh, ho, I\u2019m having a heart attack I\u2019m so happy. We finally can work together and compromise and get along. Oh, lordy, I love it.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Any courage and that, you know, I mean I kind of want a leader who\u2019s gonna be willing to be like a Reagan who stands up in an occupied country and says, &#8220;You know, this isn\u2019t right.&#8221;  And maybe it has to do with, you know, I\u2019ll be honest with you.  I\u2019m following this election a lot more than I did last time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait just a second. You\u2019re comparing Romney going to the NAACP with Reagan going to the Berlin Wall? (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I know it\u2019s not the same.  I know it\u2019s not the same.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  No, no.  If you\u2019re right, that\u2019s profound. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Maybe in our day and age that\u2019s what it\u2019s like. You know, we haven\u2019t seen a president with that kind of guts. I mean, you know, I liked Bush, I liked Bush a lot &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_64699\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DickChina_large.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  Did Bush go to the NAACP?  (interruption) But he didn\u2019t go every year, right?  Didn\u2019t they disrespect him when he was there and he decided not to go or something?  Maybe this is like Nixon going to China.  But the reason I\u2019m a little bit perplexed is because it isn\u2019t the first time, and it\u2019s being treated as though it is.  That\u2019s what fascinates me.  I\u2019m not disagreeing with you.  I\u2019m just saying I\u2019m fascinated with this.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, if I can say one more thing. I feel like my story might be a lot of people\u2019s story.  And that is, you know, I skipped the election four years ago, and I\u2019m a young guy, and it was a stupid mistake on my part. Four years less mature, I thought, man, what was I doing?  And really it was because I didn\u2019t like McCain, and I honestly was not gonna vote for Obama. But you know what, I wasn\u2019t a Romney guy in the beginning, but, I\u2019ll tell you what, I\u2019m gonna vote in this election and I hope, and I\u2019m optimistic that there\u2019s a lot of people like me who would say that, a lot of young conservative guys who would say, you know, I didn\u2019t like McCain last time, I sat out that election, said it was just not worth it. I was living in Texas at the time, too &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  There\u2019s nothing immature about your opinion of McCain.  That is entirely understandable.  Not voting, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.  You learned your lesson on that because there\u2019s always an outcome to that, whether you participate or not.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We were discussing all this during the break here and we think that we have come up with a simple explanation.  Now, Snerdley thought, as soon as Romney\u2019s speech to the NAALCP was over, it was a home run.  And I wasn\u2019t quite certain because of the optics.  He was convinced it was a home run.  So time has gone on, time has passed. We have the various reactions from the media and so forth.  Now we\u2019re getting reaction from you, the callers, and my e-mail I\u2019m checking, too.  And it\u2019s all good.  And a lot of people are saying this is gonna be good for the independents to see.  Maybe I ought to just leave that alone.  My instincts say leave that one alone.  I\u2019ll take it, that\u2019s fine. I\u2019m really busting out here wanting to talk about it, but I\u2019m gonna rein it in. <\/p>\n<p>But it seems that the best way to describe why this particular speech by a Republican to an enemy group, in this case the NAALCP, was that Romney didn\u2019t go in and pander. He didn\u2019t change his accent.  He didn\u2019t try to tell stories about all the black people he grew up with or all the black people that taught him things.  He didn\u2019t pander.  He spoke to them as human beings.  As Snerdley pointed out, &#8220;You always asked, how would you approach the Hispanic vote?&#8221;  I said, &#8220;I would talk to \u2019em about conservatism. Go out and talk to \u2019em as human beings, as Americans. We\u2019re all Americans. We all want the same things. We all have the same desires.  As human beings who are Americans, we all have the same desires for our kids and for ourselves,&#8221; and that\u2019s what I would say to \u2019em. <\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t talk to \u2019em about being himself.  I wouldn\u2019t say I got a special program for you because you\u2019re Hispanic or because you\u2019re black.  I\u2019d say I got a program for the whole country because we\u2019re all in it together.  That\u2019s what Romney did.  That\u2019s how Romney came off.  Romney came off as a guy who wasn\u2019t pandering to his audience.  He thinks Obamacare ought to be repealed. He knows that audience doesn\u2019t want to hear that. He said it, he stuck with it, and when they booed him he smiled about it.  He didn\u2019t change one thing he believes in. He didn\u2019t make one alteration in a policy that he has planned. He didn\u2019t pander in any way, shape, manner, or form.  Well, essentially he spoke to the group as I would have, and that is why he is being heralded. <\/p>\n<p>I think as time goes on that seems to be the reaction.  And the left is getting nuts on this.  They\u2019re focusing on the boos.  Like I said earlier, I think there\u2019s a collective, &#8220;Uh-oh.&#8221;  Romney was supposed to walk out of there yesterday destroyed. At least wounded.  The boos and the criticism and the lack of acceptance was supposed to have sent the signal that Romney\u2019s finished, there\u2019s no way, doesn\u2019t have a prayer. It\u2019s just the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Rich, White Plains, New York, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019ve been watching all the news reports about Romney addressing the NAACP, and I think there\u2019s something that\u2019s being strategically left out by the Drive-By Media. And that\u2019s to mention the fact that he was invited, you know? And they seem to come at this story with the perspective that he went down there to lecture them or something like that. And I think he was set up. I think the White House set him up. Because we all know that the NAACP and women\u2019s groups and PETA are liberal groups. They\u2019re not the groups they claim to be.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think he was being set up.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_64698\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH: Yeah, but the Republican presidential candidate is always invited to speak to the NAACP. This is not the first time it\u2019s happened. Your point is they want to make it sound like Romney forced his way in there and then wanted to go there? It\u2019s a standing invitation just like it is a standing invitation to the president every year to show up and speak.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Interesting, Clayola Brown, the representative of the NAACP who invited Romney to speak, &#8220;said the point of inviting Romney to the convention wasn\u2019t to give him a chance to win over African American voters [but] to &#8216;show respect for the [NAACP].'&#8221; So that\u2019s their point. Their point of view is: You\u2019re just here to kiss our ring.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;Yeah, you\u2019re there to suck up to us, but you\u2019re also there to hear what we expect. Yeah, what we want from you.&#8221; I get your point.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think my point is: If he didn\u2019t show up or he did show up, the liberal media woulda spun it either way they want. And what I notice strategically missing from news reports&#8230; And, of course, people don\u2019t know this. You know, Rush, you say, &#8220;Yeah, you know, traditionally he\u2019s invited.&#8221; Well, people don\u2019t know that! You know, I think to do due diligence in your reporting, you should say, you know, &#8220;The presidential candidate, Romney, was invited to speak at the NAACP convention blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re asking for actual reporting and fairness. You\u2019re not gonna get that. That\u2019s a lofty expectation. Look, I get your point. A lot of people don\u2019t know that Romney\u2019s invited. They think that he just stormed his way in there or forced his way in and made \u2019em listen to him. Here\u2019s the reason why this appearance of Romney is apparently such a success: It\u2019s because everybody knows this is a setup. When I say &#8220;everybody,&#8221; I\u2019m talking about in the political class, Rich.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody in the Boston-New York-Washington Media Corridor knows that every time a Republican goes to the NAALCP, it\u2019s a setup. That\u2019s essentially what you\u2019re saying. It\u2019s a setup. It\u2019s a setup because there\u2019s no way any of these people in there are gonna ever vote for Romney, nor are they gonna leave there and tell anybody else to vote for Romney. It\u2019s a setup! That\u2019s why Romney is receiving such rave reviews over this. He walked into the setup, and he didn\u2019t pander to it, and he didn\u2019t buckle to it. And that\u2019s why the reviews that he\u2019s getting are starting to trickle in now as positive. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: We go to Minneapolis. This is Jackie. Nice to have you on the EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Oh, this is a nice honor. I\u2019ve been listening to you since 1991, I think during Desert Storm. I wanted to get the true facts, and I found it with you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you. I really appreciate that. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. Well, I wanted to touch on the point with why you were so puzzled or wondering why everyone thinks it\u2019s such a big deal that Romney spoke at the NAACP when &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; other presidents or candidates have before?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no. That\u2019s not why. I\u2019m glad you put it that way.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What I was reacting to was everybody citing how wonderful it would be and was for the independents to see it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, I\u2019ve got a bugaboo about independents.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I know that. (giggling) I know that and yes, I agree. I agree with the independents you have a bugaboo about, too. What I was gonna say about that is, I think it\u2019s different because he went there while there\u2019s a sitting black president. That\u2019s what\u2019s different than other presidents that have gone and spoken at the NAACP or why this is so different. And so he went there while there\u2019s a sitting black president. And Romney\u2019s basically saying, &#8220;I know Obama\u2019s black. I\u2019m aware of that, but that doesn\u2019t intimidate me.&#8221; And I think that\u2019s what people see as him being strong or courageous.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I have to say, I hadn\u2019t thought of that. That\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: In terms of long-distance perception, you have a first black president, it\u2019s known that this is a setup. It\u2019s known. There\u2019s no winning, and he still went.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He still went, and he made his case to this group &#8212; as an adult, as equals &#8212; even though there is a black president sitting in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. And so that\u2019s what makes it so different.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Wait, wait, hold it. Hold on a minute. Hold, hold, hold on. Wait a minute. I just remembered something. Obama is not &#8220;the first black president.&#8221; Clinton was. I just remembered that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hee-hee-hee-hee. I just remembered that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, yes, this is true. But Romney\u2019s saying, &#8220;You know, Obama doesn\u2019t own the black vote. He doesn\u2019t own the blacks. The blacks own themselves.&#8221; And, you know, they\u2019re Americans like everyone else. The blacks and every other American, they own their own future. And so I think Romney went there laying out a plan to help make, you know, Americans be able to pursue a better future for all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, I\u2019ll tell you what. Now, you say that, and if you want to say that people would then conclude that Romney\u2019s got guts and is pretty courageous, I understand that. That makes sense. I hadn\u2019t thought of that \u2019cause I don\u2019t&#8230; (sigh) Obama ceased being black to me a long time ago. He\u2019s just a full-fledged disaster (chuckling) and it doesn\u2019t matter to me. And that\u2019s why I don\u2019t think that way. That\u2019s an excellent point in terms of people\u2019s perception. I have to hand it to you, Jackie. Thanks very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: John in San Diego. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hi, El Rushbo. How you doing? RUSH: Good. Thank you, sir. CALLER: It\u2019s been years since we spoke last. 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