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RUSH: To the phones we go, Livonia, Michigan. This is Ken. Glad you waited, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I just wanted to comment that the suspension of the campaign by Rick Santorum is really a sad day for America. It\u2019s a sad day for those of us that believe in America, believe in the Constitution, and want to get back to the way our country is supposed to be run. What concerns me, Rush… Now, when we look at our economy and how things fell apart, decisions made by Democrats and RINO Republicans — moderate Republicans — led to our country\u2019s collapse. What is gonna happen now with Mitt Romney? I mean, here\u2019s a man that clearly (just look at who has endorsed him) is not a conservative. This is not gonna be good for our country. I hope that Rick Santorum reconsiders, but if we end up having a non-conservative running for president, unfortunately this is not a good thing.<\/p>\n
The only thing I can tell you, Ken, is that Romney came by here in January. I think it was the 13th, the middle of the month. And I met with him after the show. It was about 4:30. I met with him for almost an hour, and he left here for a huge fundraiser a mile down the road, mile and a half. And during that conversation — I\u2019ve mentioned this to you — he said to me that he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he ended up being a one-term president because he\u2019s got to shake things up. This country can\u2019t go the direction it\u2019s going or his children and grandchildren and nobody else\u2019s will have a future. When he was talking about that, he sounds just like you and me.<\/p>\n
He sounds just like you and me when we talk about it. He was very affirmative in his acknowledgement to me of the threats posed by Obama and the Democrats to this country. If you had been in that conversation, you would not have doubted his conservatism at that moment. But then you would read where he has said in years past, “Look, I\u2019m not a conservative. I\u2019m not one of these,” and you\u2019d scratch your head. I\u2019m not saying it wiped any of those other instances out. I\u2019m just telling you that that day, he sounded like me. He was fairly echoing the fears I have about what\u2019s in store for this country if the Democrats are not stopped. This transformation, this belief that our founding was unjust and immoral and we\u2019ve had a fraudulent country for 200-plus years.<\/p>\n
That it\u2019s a country that was structured by the rich, for the rich, at the expense of everybody else. And everybody was just left to fend for themselves. And the Founders knew that most people couldn\u2019t fend for themselves, and that was the way that the Founders kept all the goodies for themselves and their family and others in their socioeconomic class. It was all part of the plan. (This is what Obama believes.) And that it\u2019s finally taken 200-plus years, but the evidence of the failure of the founding of this country is now clear. And Obama is the right man at the right time to finally fix it. And he\u2019s doing it by taking away everything he can from the rich that he can.<\/p>\n
And ostensibly redistributing it and giving it to all the people that have been shafted and screwed since the founding of the country. And he\u2019s gonna do that by growing government and making it the distribution center for all that\u2019s fair and just economically and politically and socially. And Romney that day spoke and made it sound like he understood this, agreed with it, and also agreed that it has to stop. Then the other day… (sigh) What was it? I forget this. It\u2019s on the tip of my tongue here. Somebody said something offensive and Obama condemned, and Romney in five minutes joined in condemning it, too. I said, “No, no. You don\u2019t do that!” It was clearly pandering. I don\u2019t remember what it was. It was just last week.<\/p>\n
He condemned somebody that Obama condemned because they had done something or said something. I forget what it was now. I\u2019m sure many of you are shouting at your radio now that you remember what it was. So, anyway, now, the establishment? There are no more excuses now. Well, there are. That\u2019s why I guess I want to know what the excuses are gonna be if this doesn\u2019t go the way they have it planned. If this doesn\u2019t pan out to big-time electoral victory the way the establishment has it figured, then what will their excuse be? And I think I know. I think that if this campaign goes on and if it results in Obama winning, I think what the establishment is going to do is blame us. They\u2019re gonna blame us conservatives for once again being too rigid and too demanding and too narrow and unrealistic and all this, and telling us that we\u2019re the reason that Obama won.<\/p>\n
“If we\u2019d-a just got behind it,” and so forth… Which, of course, will be bogus.<\/p>\n
It was Augusta National not admitting women. That\u2019s what it was. Obama hyped on it and Romney joined in. Yeah.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I will just say this: If the Republican establishment is not careful, they are going to destroy themselves in the process of this campaign. If they screw this up… We\u2019ve never had a better chance to win than this. If they screw this up, folks… I\u2019ll develop this more tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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