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RUSH: I think the regime is in utter panic. And I don\u2019t believe this notion that Romney\u2019s behind Obama by big points in women. That\u2019s from an ABC poll. ABC was number 17 in accuracy in the 2008 presidential race. They rated all polls throughout the presidential campaign plus the final one: ABC was 17th on the list in accuracy. But they\u2019re all out there applauding. (clapping) “Yeah, war on women! This Republican war on women, yeah, it\u2019s working! These women really hate Romney.” We are to believe on January 6th, when there was no war on women…<\/p>\n

<\/a>American women were just like any other citizens. They\u2019re individuals. They\u2019re going about their lives. They\u2019re paying higher gas prices. They\u2019re losing their jobs. Their husbands are losing their jobs. Their homes are underwater.<\/p>\n

On January 7th George Stephanopoulos asks Mitt Romney in a debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, “Do you think contraception should be banned?”<\/p>\n

And Romney says, “What? What what what what?”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m just asking you if you think conception should be banned.”<\/p>\n

“George, what are you talking about? Nobody\u2019s talking about that.”<\/p>\n

“I just want to know, Governor: Should the states have the right to ban contraception?”<\/p>\n

“George, it\u2019s silly. Nobody\u2019s talking about that.”<\/p>\n

And from that point on there\u2019s been this Republican “war on women,” that Republicans want to take away women\u2019s birth control pills. And starting on January 7th, you know what we\u2019re also to believe? Starting on January 7th, every woman in this country started hating Republicans! That night — the night of that debate — why, every woman in America started to understand that Mitt Romney or Santorum or Rush Limbaugh or whoever wanted to take away their birth control pills. And they all believed it!<\/p>\n

And now it\u2019s worked so well that all those women now support Barack Obama! Do they really think we\u2019re that stupid? I know they do. Well, I don\u2019t think they “think” we are. I think they think most Americans are. And particularly you women, they think you\u2019re that stupid. And now they want us to believe — they want us to believe — that in a couple of months, out of the pure ether, women now hate Romney. Just like that! “Well, we\u2019ve got an ABC\/Washington Post poll here that proves it.” I don\u2019t buy it for a second. I don\u2019t believe it, and it doesn\u2019t matter anyway. Even if the poll\u2019s true, it\u2019s April 11th! It doesn\u2019t matter right now.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: We were just talking about this the previous hour, and here comes the evidence. David “Rodham” Gergen is a pundit at CNN. And we talk about “conventional wisdom” on this program a lot, and I make mention frequently that whatever the conventional wisdom is, I am the opposite. I turn and run away from it. Conventional wisdom is groupthink. Conventional wisdom is what all the so-called smart people “know” for sure is going to happen and what is happening. And if there is one guy in Washington who epitomizes conventional wisdom — the essence of what would be a moderate, reasonable, soft-spoken, non-confrontational, brilliant, intelligent, boring individual — it\u2019d be David “Rodham” Gergen.<\/p>\n

He is Mr. Conventional Wisdom. Whenever he says what he thinks, it\u2019s what all of the prime movers and thinkers inside the Beltway think. He was on with Suzanne Malveaux on CNN. Remember when you had a crush on her? (interruption) He still does? Snerdley still got a crush on Suzanne Malveaux! Even though you know she\u2019s a commie babe? See, folks, that… (interruption) What do you mean, she doesn\u2019t look like a commie babe? How do you know? What does a commie babe look like? How about that Anna Chapman, the Russian spy that they had to send out of the country because getting too close to somebody in the Obama regime? (interruption) That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying. She\u2019s a hottie, Snerdley, and she\u2019s a commie. Anyway, she said to “Rodham” Gergen, “Big question: What does Mitt Romney need to do right now to get Santorum\u2019s endorsement and more importantly to get the social conservatives behind him?”<\/p>\n

GERGEN: These primaries, in — in effect, sucked Mitt Romney to the right and the positions he took, especially on social issues. Because he chased after the so-called Santorum social conservative vote. He got himself mired into some of these women\u2019s issues like contraception and so forth —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He did not!<\/p>\n

GERGEN: — which I think have cost him among independents and cost him especially among women. So he\u2019s gotta be careful now that he\u2019s no longer seen as being sucked to the right, pandering to the right, but becoming his own person. Who is Mitt Romney himself?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The primaries “sucked” Mitt Romney to the right? Boy, there are a lot of people on the right to whom that\u2019s big news, that Mitt Romney got sucked to the right — and being mired in these women issues like contraception has cost him? He didn\u2019t get mired in women\u2019s issues on contraception! This is a total fabrication these people have built. It\u2019s a surreal narrative that they have created. There is no reality in it. Romney has no position whatsoever on contraception. Zilch. The Republican Party doesn\u2019t care about it! This is how they lie to themselves. This is how they set themselves up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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