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RUSH: This is Lewis, Yreka, California. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Welcome to Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He\u2019s not gonna back out.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I know. And, as a matter of fact, Texas — I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard this — is looking at ways to help him get all the delegates and a winner-take-all for Texas, and then I read things like, well, that will never happen, you know, they need to do this and there\u2019s too many things that have to being overcome. You know, well, why is Romney\u2019s path so easy yet everything that Newt or Santorum does, oh, that\u2019s never gonna happen? I can barely watch Fox News anymore, you know? It just seems like there\u2019s an attitude it\u2019s gonna be Romney, and hell or high water, you know, he\u2019s our guy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, this is an interesting thing that is happening. The Romney campaign has really continued to run a negative campaign, full with attack ads on Santorum and Newt —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — back and forth, and they are not helpful in terms of unifying.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: For example, we start in this whole process, we\u2019re all Republicans, but now you I think are a great example of an average Santorum supporter. You guys are ticked off over what\u2019s been done to your guy. Why are Republicans doing this to each other? I mean why can\u2019t you run a campaign, Mitt, that talks a little bit about you? Why can\u2019t you tell us how great you are? Why do you have to constantly bash — and I think Newt people are saying the same thing.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: People are worried that Santorum and Newt supporters are not gonna come together in November because of the lingering bitter taste in your mouths —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, how can Romney win when he hasn\u2019t won all these southern states? He\u2019s gonna need to —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Because his opponent\u2019s Obama.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s how Romney can win.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I don\u2019t know that anybody\u2019s thinking this. I\u2019m just telling you that if anybody at the upper levels of the GOP establishment\u2019s worried about this, they\u2019re telling themselves, come November, come October, everybody\u2019s gonna be on board because the real objective is gonna be getting rid of Obama more than it is going to be electing Romney or anybody else. The real objective people are gonna have will be getting rid of Obama and the only way to do that is vote Romney. That\u2019s what they\u2019re thinking is gonna happen, and they think people like you are gonna be on board when the time comes, and I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, do you feel that this will be different than with McCain? ‘Cause Romney says the same kind of things. McCain didn\u2019t want to call him Hussein, and Romney says I\u2019m not gonna light my hair on fire to make the conservative base happy. And it\u2019s like you are repeating exactly what McCain did. McCain lost. Five million popular votes. You know, if we had a Tea Party, I think we\u2019d feel more comfortable than we feel in the current Republican Party.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, let\u2019s be honest. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s disappointing a lot of people. In 2010, this the Tea Party phenomena happened.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It came to life, and it was the lifeblood of the Republican Party. The Tea Party engineered the 2010 midterm elections. The Tea Party engineered this massive landslide victory, which equals a massive landslide defeat for the Democrats. The Republican Party didn\u2019t do anything. The Republican Party was still running around scared, tail tucked between its legs. The Tea Party, average, ordinary Americans who were fed up, scared, whatever, of what they were seeing wanted to stop it. They get in gear. They mobilize. They bring about this big victory, and after all of that, the party nominee is another moderate.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And the Tea Party people are scratching their heads, “What the hell happened here?” And what happened was that a dyed-in-the-wool Reagan-type conservative never got in the race. The Rubios never got in. The Paul Ryans didn\u2019t get in. Some people think Christie would have been good. He didn\u2019t get in. They didn\u2019t get in. It was Romney and you know who the list was. <\/p>\n
CALLER: I was big for Sarah Palin for a while and then I was thinking if she ran they just would have slaughtered her, you know? I was for her, but I think that we do not know how to handle the press on the conservative side. We don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re really scratching an old wound with me. This business, I can\u2019t tell you, folks, how angry I got during the Palin era of this. I\u2019d run into people on our side who\u2019d say, “We can\u2019t have Palin, she\u2019s damaged goods.” She\u2019s what? “Yeah, the media\u2019s destroyed her.” So you\u2019re just gonna sit there, you\u2019re gonna let the media destroy us? You\u2019re gonna throw somebody away who would be great, just because the media\u2019s destroyed \u2019em? Why did you let it happen? The media\u2019s gonna destroy everybody. Wait \u2019til you see how they will try to destroy Romney. You ain\u2019t seen anything yet. When Romney secures this, if that\u2019s what happens, you wait and see what they got in store. They\u2019re gonna destroy anybody we have. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>I can\u2019t tell you, because on the one hand we\u2019ve got people who know full well what the media is, and yet they\u2019re content to sit there and say, “Well, the media destroyed her, she\u2019d damaged goods, she can\u2019t possibly win.” And then the number of woman that don\u2019t like her astounds me. The argument, “Well, she\u2019s dumb.” Every stereotype the media put out, there were people that believed it. It was endlessly frustrating to me. Not that she was ever going to be the nominee, just the fact that she\u2019s a good conservative, she\u2019s a good person. She never did anything to anybody. And we just had people that casually sit around and throw her overboard \u2019cause the media destroyed her. Well, if we let that happen we\u2019re gonna end up throwing everybody overboard because that\u2019s their objective, is destroy every one of us. <\/p>\n