{"id":15531,"date":"2012-06-01T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:52:53","slug":"bill_clinton_basically_endorses_mitt_romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/01\/bill_clinton_basically_endorses_mitt_romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton Basically Endorses Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: First it was Cory Booker, <\/a>who said that Obama\u2019s attacks on Romney and Bain Capital<\/a> he didn\u2019t like. They were nauseating. This kind of politics he doesn\u2019t like. Then Fast Eddie Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, echoed Cory Booker, ripping into Obama for attacking Romney and Bain. And Lanny Davis, Mr. Bill Clinton defender, goes on TV and totally rips Obama for the campaign of blaming Romney and Bain Capital. And the latest, Deval Patrick, governor Massachusetts; the latest is now Bill Clinton. And you may not have heard this \u2019cause it was on CNN last night on Piers Morgan, and nobody is watching CNN. But we have the sound bite. <\/p>\n

There was a fill-in host for Piers Morgan. You know who the fill-in host was? Harvey Weinstein. You know who Harvey Weinstein is? You don\u2019t know who Harvey Weinstein is? Miramax. Former Miramax chief, now runs the Weinstein Company. You\u2019d know his movies. Huge Hollywood mogul. He\u2019s made his share of very good ones. But Weinstein is one of these huge, slavish Bill Clinton supporters. When Clinton\u2019s portrait was unveiled in the White House, Weinstein was there in the front row. That\u2019s how tight they are. So Harvey Weinstein, who I\u2019m not aware of having made a media appearance as a guest, is guest-hosting the old Larry King show on CNN last night, and he\u2019s got as his guest Bill Clinton, and here came the question from Harvey Weinstein. “Romney keeps talking about his experience at Bain Capital, producing jobs. Do you think Romney can produce jobs that Obama can\u2019t?”<\/p>\n

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CLINTON: I think he had a good business career. If you go in and you try to save a failing company, and you and I have friends here who invest in companies, you can invest in a company, run up the debt, loot it, sell all the assets, and force all the people to lose their retirement and fire them. Or you can go into a company, have cutbacks, try to make it more productive with the purpose of saving it. When you try, like anything else you try, you don\u2019t always succeed. I don\u2019t think that we ought to get into the position where we say this is bad work. This is good work. There\u2019s no question that getting up and going to the office and basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who\u2019s been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh-ho-ho-ho, yes! So Bill Clinton describes Mitt Romney, been governor, sterling business career, crosses the qualification threshold. Yes, Mr. Weinstein, I think he can produce jobs that Obama can\u2019t. That\u2019s how he answered the question. Harvey Weinstein\u2019s question was, “Can Romney produce jobs that Obama can\u2019t?” Translation is: Look, he\u2019s been in business. Does that make him more qualified than Obama? Clinton said: “Yeah, it does.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s basically what Clinton was saying. (imitating Clinton) “Hey, you know, there\u2019s two kinds of private equity guys and I think it\u2019s good work, it\u2019s good work, there\u2019s no question getting up and going into the office and basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who\u2019s been governor, had a sterling business career, crosses the qualification threshold, Harvey. Yeah, I think Romney\u2019s a great guy, Bain Capital, great. You and I both know these private equity guys. Hell, I\u2019m living off of \u2019em, Harvey. I fly around on those private equity guys\u2019 jets. Back in the old days before my heart gave out I was out chasing women with \u2019em. I love these private equity guys that got two, three jets. I\u2019ll give you names. I\u2019m not gonna give you names here, but I mean I\u2019ve been all over the world with them. You know, when I had to go over to Bangkok, give a little speech, how do you think I get there, Harvey? I don\u2019t get there on Obama\u2019s plane. I get there on these private equity guys\u2019 jets and they don\u2019t charge me for it. And then we all go out and party. Now, I don\u2019t think Romney\u2019s a big party animal and all that, but I mean he\u2019s made a lot of money in private equity and he\u2019s saved a bunch of companies, guy is qualified. I think, yeah, I think he\u2019s okay. I think he\u2019s perfectly qualified, Harvey.” That\u2019s Bill Clinton. <\/line><\/p>\n

So Romney this afternoon on CNBC was asked about this. “Do you believe that these attacks on you are unfair? Why have you not more publicly embraced your past in private equity?” Which is a weird question because Romney has been actively defending his private equity days. He hasn\u2019t been running from it. Romney said, “Well, I\u2019m happy to embrace my past in private equity. I\u2019m very proud of my record. I\u2019m proud of the work that I\u2019ve had both as the governor of Massachusetts and as well as the leader of the Olympics. And certainly at Bain Capital, an enterprise I helped found and I think Bain Capital has a good and solid record. I was happy to see President Clinton made a similar statement today, called my record superb. I certainly believe it\u2019s a record that shows I understand how the economy works.” <\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve got Clinton out there praising Romney\u2019s qualifications, performing the essential functions of the office, been governor, sterling business career, yes, he can create jobs, he\u2019s done it. Romney thanks him for it. Meanwhile, Obama\u2019s out in Minnesota as close as he can get to Wisconsin without being there, blaming Congress and Bush for no jobs<\/a>, after being in charge for three-and-a-half years. So you add Clinton to Deval Patrick, Fast Eddie Rendell, Cory Booker and Lanny Davis, and there have been others, I just can\u2019t think of them off the top of my head. But there are other Democrats who have come out and defended private equity. ‘Cause they know. <\/p>\n