{"id":15721,"date":"2012-05-11T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-11T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:12:47","slug":"what_mitt_romney_hasn_t_done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/11\/what_mitt_romney_hasn_t_done\/","title":{"rendered":"What Mitt Romney Hasn\u2019t Done&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, here\u2019s what I know.  Here\u2019s what I know, and this is after only an hour of&#8230; and, by the way, you must know, I have to tell you what this feels like.  Guilt.  I only did an hour of show prep, but I feel like I\u2019m skipping school today.  I feel like I\u2019m not fulfilling expectations, so we\u2019ll see.  This is what I know.  Mitt Romney was not at Chappaquiddick.  Mitt Romney has not been accused of rape.  Mitt Romney did not have an affair with a mob babe.  He didn\u2019t have an affair with an actress who committed suicide later on.  Mitt Romney did not father a child out of wedlock.  Mitt Romney did not support the tapping of Martin Luther King\u2019s phone.  Mitt Romney was never a member of the Ku Klux Klan.  Mitt Romney did not lie about his law school grades. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_62338\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DemsScandals.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Chappaquiddick is Ted Kennedy.  Accused of rape is Bill Clinton.  Affair with the mob babe and an actress, John Kennedy.  Didn\u2019t father a child out of wedlock, that\u2019s John Edwards and Democrats too numerous to mention.  Didn\u2019t support the tapping of Martin Luther King\u2019s phone, that\u2019s Robert Kennedy.  Never a member of the Ku Klux Klan, that\u2019s Robert Byrd.  Didn\u2019t lie about his law school grades, that\u2019s Joe Biden.  All Democrats, and all of those Democrats did those things well after high school. And Obama even wrote in his book Dreams from My Father how he bullied a young girl.  And he hasn\u2019t even apologized.  Grab audio sound bite number six.  The audio book version, Dreams from My Father, originally published in print, by the way, 1995.  Then-Senator Barack Obama in his book said this about a time he bullied a young classmate named Coretta.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  Her name was Coretta, and before my arrival she had been the only black person in our grade.  She was plump and dark and didn\u2019t seem to have many friends.  I ran up to Coretta and gave her a slight shove.  She staggered back and looked up at me, but still said nothing.  &#8220;Leave me alone,&#8221; I shouted again.  And suddenly Coretta was running, faster and faster until she disappeared from sight.  Appreciative laughs rose around me.  For the rest of the afternoon I was haunted by the look on Coretta\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.  So Obama admits to bullying a young girl, still hasn\u2019t apologized for it.  The Washington Post hasn\u2019t dug deep. The Washington Post hasn\u2019t tried to find her. The Washington Post hasn\u2019t tried to find her family. The Washington Post hasn\u2019t alleged that Coretta was a lesbian.  The Post hasn\u2019t alleged that there was any presumed anti-gay bias in Obama\u2019s bullying.  Same book, Dreams from My Father, this about Obama and his time in high school in Hawaii. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_62330\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/obamapointMAD.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OBAMA:  I spent the last two years of high school in a daze, locking away the questions that life seemed insistent on posing.  I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically.  I discovered that it didn\u2019t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate\u2019s sparkling new van or in the dorm room with some brother you\u2019d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I discovered it didn\u2019t make any difference.  So we have an admitted bully, an admitted user of alcohol and cocaine, and even at that, there has not yet been any energy whatsoever expended to try to find out any more about this.  No, what do we have? A practically made-up story about Mitt Romney starting <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15729\">yesterday in the Washington Post<\/a>, back at the prestigious, distinguished Cranbrook school. Idyllic place.  Romney found this long-haired blond guy, said, &#8220;I don\u2019t like long hair like that,&#8221; pinned the guy down, beat him up, sat on him. The guy was so devastated he commits suicide later.  I mean that was basically the story.  Romney apologized and apologized and apologized.  ABC News led the news with it last night. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A family member of the classmate whom Mitt Romney allegedly bullied in high school says she has no knowledge of the incident, according to news reports.  Christine Lauber, the older sister of former Romney classmate John Lauber, has told ABC News she was at college when the incident allegedly occurred while her brother, John, and Romney attended high school at the Cranbrook School, in Bloomfield, Mich.  The Washington Post story Thursday states Romney and at least one other classmate held down, then cut off the long, bleached-blond hair on Lauber, who was presumed to be gay,&#8221; but the family says all these presumptions about the guy in the story are wrong.  They don\u2019t specify which presumptions are wrong.  They just say that the caricature of this guy in the story is not correct, and they\u2019re upset about it.  The guy\u2019s dead. He can\u2019t defend himself, and so what\u2019s happened here is the media, in typical left-wing fashion, has taken a couple of people, set out and just destroyed \u2019em, all for the purposes of advancing some really silly, pathetic &#8212; and, by the way, this is not an accident. <\/p>\n<p>This story has been waiting in the wings for Obama to announce that he wasn\u2019t gonna do anything different on gay marriage.  Which is what he did.  I\u2019m reading reports of the fundraiser at the Clooney estate last night.  Exactly what I thought would happen.  They all sat around, applauded each other, applauded Obama, talked about how great it was.  Nothing\u2019s different.  There is not a shred of change in gay marriage policy in this country, and Obama didn\u2019t make a shred of change.  But it doesn\u2019t matter, because we don\u2019t look at results; we look at intentions.  So all these people are feeling really good about themselves, but in the meantime, how pathetic is this?  Literally pathetic.  This is all they\u2019ve got.  And this is something that they have obviously been waiting and holding in reserve. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_62344\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushJoinRush247.jpg\"\/><\/a>I\u2019m convinced, folks, it\u2019s all part of a conceived strategy waiting for execution with a timeline.  The only thing that\u2019s gone wrong here is that the family member of this classmate that Romney allegedly bullied is now saying it didn\u2019t happen.  Ah, that\u2019s not a big problem, is it?  It didn\u2019t happen.  Family member says she doesn\u2019t remember anything about this.  She didn\u2019t hear anything about this. &#8220;I don\u2019t remember that incident,&#8221; Romney said. &#8220;And I\u2019ll tell you I certainly don\u2019t believe that I &#8230; thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s, so that was not the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;Ms. Lauber, of South Bend, Ind.,  said she and her sisters will likely issue a statement later today through their attorney. She also said that if her brother were alive &#8216;he would be furious\u2019 about the story.  Ms. Lauber told ABC her brother was a &#8216;very unusual person.\u2019 <\/line><BR\/>&#8216;He didn\u00c2\u2019t care about running with the peer group,\u2019 she said. &#8216;What\u00c2\u2019s wrong with that? Even if it did happen, John probably wouldn\u00c2\u2019t have said anything,\u2019 Ms. Lauber added.&#8221;<\/line><BR\/>The sister didn\u2019t know about it. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m still struck by the fact that\u2019s it\u2019s such a pathetic, I mean, really, is this all they\u2019ve got?  No, I\u2019m serious.  I\u2019m sitting here, correct me if I\u2019m wrong, and I probably am on this, I\u2019m sitting here, I can\u2019t imagine this being effective with one person who\u2019s undecided about anything.  I know I\u2019m wrong.  I know that this country\u2019s full of people who, hell, want to ban football, for crying out loud.  Cutting off a blond kid\u2019s hair is probably worse than anything that happens on the football field with some people, I can imagine. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Rasmussen tracking poll\u2019s out, and Obama\u2019s down 50-43.  That\u2019s the news. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, there are a couple of other family members of Mr. Lauber speaking out. Betsy Lauber, one of John Lauber\u2019s three sisters, spoke with ABC News. &#8220;The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, here\u2019s what I know. Here\u2019s what I know, and this is after only an hour of&#8230; and, by the way, you must know, I have to tell you what this feels like. Guilt. I only did an hour of show prep, but I feel like I\u2019m skipping school today. 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