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RUSH: Some audio sound bites. John McCain, on Meet the Press, was asked by David Gregory: “You\u2019re worried about tone of the campaign. You\u2019ve been in some nasty fights yourself politically. Do you think this is having a toll, this Republican primary?”<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: This is the nastiest I have ever seen. It\u2019s a result of the worst decision the United States Supreme Court has made in many years, the Citizens United decision where you have naivete and sheer ignorance, uh, the majority, uh, of the Supreme Court, uh, just unloosened all mo — released all money now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s absurd. With all due respect.<\/p>\n

Oh, folks, by the way, you gotta remind me tomorrow. On Saturday night, we watched Game Change. This movie… This movie is a joke! I\u2019ve read the reviews of this movie by Republican conservative media people. They should have excoriated this movie. This movie is an outright embarrassment. It is so over the top! It\u2019s a cartoon that pretends to reflect reality! It was horrible. Kathryn walked out of it after an hour. It\u2019s a two-hour movie. She got up and left the room! This McCain sound bite made me think of that because it\u2019s about him and Palin and their campaign. This Citizens United Supreme Court decision, that\u2019s not the problem here. Money is not the problem in politics. Anyway, Santorum responded to this. He was on CBS This Morning today, and Charlie Rose said, “Senator McCain said that this the dirtiest campaign he\u2019s ever seen.”<\/line><\/p>\n

SANTORUM: Yeah, he should tell the guy, uh, that he\u2019s supporting to stop spending tens and tens of millions of dollars running negative ads. It\u2019s not Rick Santorum who\u2019s been running all the negative ads or even Newt Gingrich. It\u2019s Mitt Romney who\u2019s systematically just gone out there and run a negative campaign, has had no positive vision for this country, and spends billionaire dollars, uhh, to tear down every single opponent that\u2019s in his path.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That happened in \u201908, too. And that\u2019s why there was the animosity for Romney back then. So that\u2019s Santorum\u2019s answer to McCain. “Hey, it\u2019s not the money; it\u2019s the guy spending it,” is Santorum\u2019s point. “It\u2019s not the money. It\u2019s not the gun. It\u2019s the guy pulling the trigger.” It\u2019s the same thing. But McCain has to say this. McCain-Feingold, campaign finance reform, all of that. But it\u2019s an absurd premise that the money is the problem. Then this morning on Scarborough\u2019s show on MSNBC, Santorum was again the guest, and Scarborough said, “Rick, just so you know, I\u2019ve been critical of the focus on this issue of contraception. I brought it up to you today because we\u2019ve talked about it a lot, and certainly now that we have you here, we want you to respond to it. Let\u2019s move beyond the issue of contraception. Rick, what are you doing?”<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: Hold on one second. Go and come to any of my now almost thousand town hall meetings and let me assure you: I don\u2019t think the word “contraception” has ever come up. Let\u2019s just deal with reality instead of what the media trying to do which is to pigeonhole you and tell a narrative. We are losing our freedom. We have a government that is getting bigger and bigger. We have a group of elites who think they can run our lives better than we can run it ourselves. And unfortunately we have another candidate in the Republican Party, uh, who believes the same things as Barack Obama when it comes to the big issues of the day of government control of your life. And in specific, the biggest overreach of government and be that is in the area of health care —<\/p>\n

<\/a>SCARBOROUGH: All right.<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: — and on that score, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are the same. And that\u2019s what we can\u2019t have in this election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scarborough was not pleased with that answer.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Well, I have certainly talked about your focus on this in the past, and you\u2019ve known me for a long time. Do you think I\u2019m trying to pigeonhole you and stereotype you?<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: Well, I mean, the fact that you continue to bring it up? Yeah! Sure!<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Why would I? I think my record on this in — in Congress is the same as yours. All I\u2019m saying is, it is a legitimate issue.<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: Joe, the only reason I talk about this issue, as I said, is with respect to government mandates on people of faith. That\u2019s why this issue continues to be talked about and should continue to be talked about in the context of government forcing people of faith to do things that are against the religious beliefs — something the federal government has never done and should never do when it comes to whether it\u2019s the Catholic Church or any other legitimate religion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on. Exactly right. <\/p>\n

This is an issue because of Barack Obama violating the Constitution, acting without the authority to mandate that people who conscientiously object to these things must provide them. That\u2019s why it\u2019s in the news. It\u2019s in the news because Obama wants it in the news because Obama wants to be able to construct this phony Republican “war on women.” Nobody was talking about contraception until one of Obama\u2019s operatives, George Stephanopoulos at ABC News, brought it up in a question to Romney. It was in a Republican primary debate on January 7th in Manchester, New Hampshire. <\/p>\n

It was not being discussed until then, and Stephanopoulos\u2019 question came literally out of the blue. And Romney said (paraphrased), “I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about, George. This is silly. Nobody wants to ban contraception.” Well, it turns out that Obama wanted to mandate that the Catholic Church buy it for everybody. If you want your own contraception, go down to Walmart and get it. It\u2019s five bucks or nine bucks. Going to do it? Why does everybody else have to pay for it? And where\u2019s Obama get the authority to tell the Catholic Church or any other church or religious school to buy it for somebody? <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this is about.<\/p>\n

And Santorum is dead-on right about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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