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RUSH: There\u2019s an ad that does not exist. Are you aware of this? Romney\u2019s got this super PAC, and this guy runs the super PAC, and the guy running the super PAC said he was gonna produce an ad that was gonna be critical of Obama, was gonna talk about Jeremiah Wright. The ad doesn\u2019t exist. Romney went out and said don\u2019t run it, I don\u2019t want to be a part of this. He asked the super PAC, which I thought you couldn\u2019t do, not to run it or he disavowed it. The ad has not run. But listen to this, sound bite four. We have a montage of journalists in a frenzy over the Reverend Wright ad that does not exist. By the way, the first voice, Snerdley\u2019s hottie, Suzanne Malveaux. She barely kept her dress on at the White House Correspondents Dinner cause Obama was in the room.<\/p>\n

MALVEAUX: He is a billionaire. He puts forward this ad. They\u2019re going to use Jeremiah Wright.<\/line><\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: An expensive anti-Obama ad campaign that would have put the issue of race front and center.<\/p>\n

DOBBS: A Republican super PAC attack ad featuring the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n

SMITH: Campaign commercials that feature President Obama\u2019s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n

SUAREZ: A multimillion dollar ad campaign attaching President Obama to his old pastor, Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n

MORGAN: Pretending to be a metrosexual black Abe Lincoln. (laughing) That is really offensive, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

ANDERSEN: We\u2019ve had a history of vile politicking, but it\u2019s gotten to an extreme.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The ad doesn\u2019t exist, folks. The ad has not been made.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites. We are up to number five. Gonna go in order. I want to take you back to January 30th on this show. Now, this is about the ad that doesn\u2019t exist. This is about the Romney super PAC ad that was going to focus on Obama\u2019s ties with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, super PAC was gonna launch into that. Well, what happened was that somebody leaked the plans for the ad to the New York Times, and that was it. The New York Times reveals the details and all heck breaks loose. Everybody\u2019s up in arms. The media starts excoriating Romney and his campaign for an ad that doesn\u2019t exist yet, talking about how they\u2019re just nothing but a bunch of racists in the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

Clearly what\u2019s happened here is that somebody in the Romney campaign found out about this, it\u2019s obvious Romney doesn\u2019t want to go there, just like McCain didn\u2019t want to go there, they can\u2019t really tell legally the super PAC what to do, what not to do. So somebody in-the-know leaks the plan to the New York Times. I\u2019m fully convinced, unless somebody can convince me otherwise, that this was done to protect Romney. Somebody\u2019s standpoint thinks it would be very bad politically for Romney to go after Wright, tie Obama to him. So they\u2019re trying to save Romney here. I, El Rushbo, not surprised. Do you remember during the primary when Romney and the super PAC that he had, even himself, just ripping Newt and Rick Perry and everybody else to shreds, negative ad after negative ad after negative ad. And during that period, people said, “Gee, I hope Romney\u2019s prepared to do this to Obama and not just Republicans.” So back on January 30th on this program, your host said…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Whoever the nominee is, if he chooses to, can lay off Obama — which will happen, by the way. I am sure of it. Particularly Romney. I don\u2019t think there is any way… Romney\u2019s already said, “He\u2019s just in over his head. Well, you know, he\u2019s a nice guy. Misguided. The Republican consultants that are in play here are not going to permit their candidate to go after Obama. They think they\u2019re gonna be losing independents. And if I didn\u2019t know better, I would say that the consultants will also try to rein in the super PACs, too. … I hope I\u2019m wrong. I want to be wrong. I\u2019ll be stunned, though, if we see from Romney (if he\u2019s the nominee) this kind of stuff against Obama that we\u2019re seeing against Newt. If we\u2019d had a super PAC in 2008 vetting Obama, that was running television ads on Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright and all these things? “Where are Obama\u2019s friends? Who are his girlfriends?<\/a> Where are the students of his that were inspired?” All of that was in television ads, media ads? Who knows what 2008 would have been.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. But McCain didn\u2019t want to go there. My prediction was back on January 30th that Romney would not treat the Democrat like his super PAC had been treating Republicans. And, lo and behold, here\u2019s Mitt Romney yesterday in Jacksonville, Florida, talking about this proposed ad, linking Obama to Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I repudiate that effort. I think it\u2019s the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign. I\u2019ve been disappointed in the president\u2019s campaign to date, which is focused on character assassination. I just think that we\u2019re wiser to talk about the issues of the day, what we do to get America working again, talk about our respective records. The centerpiece of his campaign is quite clearly character assassination and the centerpiece of my campaign is gonna be my vision to get America working again and provide a brighter future for our kids.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So he understands the centerpiece of Obama is going to be character assassination, but he\u2019s not gonna go there. And I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s the consultants. And Romney may be of this opinion himself. Although if being critical of your opponent\u2019s gonna drive the independents away, he sure wasn\u2019t afraid of that when his opponents were Republicans. When his opponents were Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry and Rick Santorum, he didn\u2019t care what the independents did. Now, all of a sudden, it\u2019s always about the independents with the Republican establishment, with the DC Beltway Republican clique, can\u2019t scare off the independents, oh, no, they\u2019re gonna call us racists. <\/p>\n

By the way, is this not in fact Romney trying to influence what the super PAC does? He said it\u2019s the wrong course for a PAC. I don\u2019t think PACs should be doing that? Back in January, Romney couldn\u2019t tell the super PAC\u2019s what to do, Newt and everybody, (imitating Romney) “You call off the dogs. Hey, I can\u2019t tell the super PACs what to do, Newt, you know, it\u2019s against the law. It\u2019s election law. I can\u2019t tell super PACs what to do.” Here he\u2019s telling the super PACs what he thinks. He continued. He had more to say.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: My effort at Bain Capital, as you know, was in every case designed to try and make the enterprises we invested in more successful, to grow them. The purpose of the president\u2019s ads are not to describe success and failure but to somehow to suggest that I\u2019m not a good person or not a good guy, and I think the American people will know better than that, if they don\u2019t already. Having the campaign focused on character assassination is one of the things I find offensive among many others in the PAC description that came in the New York Times. If that\u2019s accurate, why, obviously that\u2019s something I\u2019d repudiate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s repudiating what his super PAC was going to do based on what the New York Times said. He\u2019ll let Obama run a character assassination campaign, but he\u2019s not going to do it. No big deal. I remember I took a lot of heat, but I tried to warn people that the presidential campaign was not gonna look a whole lot of like — now, having said that, Romney does have a rapid response team that does get in gear responding to what Obama says. You gotta give him credit for that, but they\u2019re not gonna go after Obama this way. They\u2019ve made that very clear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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