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RUSH: I got a fascinating e-mail from a friend of mine last night. I want to share this with you. My friend\u2019s heart and mind are the biggest and most generous you\u2019ll ever find, and he\u2019s totally, totally immersed in saving the country. He is dumbfounded and saddened that it appears Romney will be the Republican nominee. I\u2019m not gonna tell you who he is. You wouldn\u2019t know. He\u2019s not a famous person. I want to read you his note to me. <\/p>\n
My friend\u2019s beside himself, folks. <\/p>\n
“George Romney was a disaster. He was successfully blocked by conservatives. Mitt\u2019s no different. Mitt Romney is like Nixon. I can\u2019t name three serious conservative things he\u2019s ever done. I look at these endorsements. Bill Weld, Massachusetts, the Bush family, McCain, every Washington insider and former Republican politician. And they didn\u2019t do one thing to deliver the House to the Republicans. They didn\u2019t do one thing to help nearly take out the Senate, the Democrat Senate in 2010, they didn\u2019t do one thing. They sit there and they take all the spoils, but they didn\u2019t do one thing to help. Scary.” <\/p>\n
You can tell my friend\u2019s not happy. <\/p>\n
“The reason that we\u2019ve had several wonderful days at the Supreme Court, although who actually knows what they\u2019ll do, is because conservatives are fighting the good fight. Conservatives are filing the briefs. Conservatives are making the arguments. Not establishment Republicans. Establishment Republicans don\u2019t even think the guy can be beat. It\u2019s frustrating, Rush, whatever progress is made on our side, it\u2019s always due to the conservatives, not Republican operatives, not the consultants, not the insiders, not the establishment.” <\/p>\n
My friend obviously was hoping for a far more conservative nominee than an establishment guy. He doesn\u2019t have anything against Romney personally. It\u2019s not that. This is strictly there were so many hopes, the Tea Party, an uprising, conservative grassroots, and there is the old establishment GOP benefiting from it while not doing one thing to assist or to make it happen. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Shirley in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Happy Friday, Rush, from a proud mom of three Rush Babies.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019d like to paint a picture for you of what the Republican primary boils down to for me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s ten minutes \u2019til closing at the used car lot. Moderate Mitt Romney is a used car salesmen who has been hounding me all afternoon, is frantically trying to seal a deal with me on a vehicle I really don\u2019t want. It looks okay on the outside, has a weird smell inside that I suspect indicates might be damaged by a flood, so I ask for the car fax and he swears that it was only driven to church on Sunday and to bingo on Wednesday by a sweet little old lady. When I tell him I\u2019m gonna go back to get the car down the road that I like better at the other dealership, he starts trashing the other dealership, that\u2019s Mitt Romney for me. The man has no core convictions, no principles, no anchor like Santorum does —<\/p>\n
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<\/a>RUSH: Folks, I must be honest with you. I hear this all the time from people about Romney, and I know him and I\u2019ve talked to him. He came here and he sat down and he told me what his plan was, and it sounded like anything you and I would say. He even said to me, “If I accomplish everything I want to do, I may only be a one-term president.” I said, “What do you mean?” “Because I am gonna so fix this. It\u2019s gonna be dramatic. We\u2019ve gotta reverse this. We gotta stop this. Our children\u2019s future is at stake here, and I\u2019m gonna stop the direction that we\u2019re headed, and if they throw me out after four years, fine and dandy.” And from right here in this studio he left to go to a huge fundraiser here in Palm Beach. First traffic jam I have ever been in since I lived here trying to get home. (interruption) No, I don\u2019t go to fundraisers. Of course I wasn\u2019t invited. I don\u2019t go to those things. <\/p>\n