{"id":16416,"date":"2012-02-29T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-29T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:12:16","slug":"should_i_just_declare_the_republican_primary_over_and_anoint_mitt_romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/29\/should_i_just_declare_the_republican_primary_over_and_anoint_mitt_romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Just Declare the Republican Primary Over and Anoint Mitt Romney?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m minding my own business yesterday — (interruption) put a stop to what? What do you mean am I gonna put a stop to the primary? I really don\u2019t understand. What do you mean? Oh, no, no, no. It\u2019s not time to put a stop to it, anoint anybody and say that we\u2019re done. Newt\u2019s not getting out. He\u2019s gonna stay in through Super Tuesday. That\u2019s where he\u2019s got all of his money banked. This thing could go on as far as May. Santorum\u2019s not going anywhere. Santorum doesn\u2019t have a lot of money even now. Romney outspent Santorum six to one in Michigan. I mean just some facts about Michigan. Romney won by nine points in 2008. He won by three points last night but got more votes last night than he did in 2008. But the percentage of his victory in 2008 was nine. It was three points last night. Santorum — and this is preliminary, I\u2019ve gotta double-check this all, but this is what I have now — Santorum won 57 out of 83 counties. <\/p>\n

As of now, Santorum, who lost the popular vote, won because of the way delegates are apportioned. Seven of the 14 congressional districts, Romney has won six. So that\u2019s seven and six, a total 13 out of 14. One is still too close to call. Now, according to what I\u2019m told, the 28 delegates, of those 28 delegates in Michigan, Santorum will either win 14 or 15, something like that, the way things get apportioned because of the number of delegates and counties, districts, so forth and he won in Michigan. So it\u2019s not winner-take-all. So when you ask me if I should pronounce it over, it\u2019s not my job to do that anyway. <\/p>\n

In fact, grab audio sound bite number two because this came up last night with Ted Baxter, who had Charles Krauthammer on, and they were talking about the Republican brand. I got two sound bites here, since Snerdley has raised this thing: Should I put a stop to it and just anoint Romney and get on with it now? Why do you think that? Just stop all this destruction, well, that\u2019s what Krauthammer is saying. Krauthammer is saying the Republican Party\u2019s brand is being destroyed with all of this. It may have been destroyed so much that it\u2019s hard for Romney to win. Let\u2019s go to the two sound bites. O\u2019Reilly said, “If you see all the national polling, Rasmussen did one yesterday, Romney either wins or is very close in Michigan. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s so much a weak candidate or in this situation where Republican conservatives dominate a lot of these votes. I\u2019m not sure. What\u2019s going on, Charles?”<\/line><\/p>\n

KRAUTHAMMER: On Romney\u2019s <\/a>weakness, in an election year where the incumbent president\u2019s got over 8% unemployment and he promised it would be 6% or less if you did his stimulus; when you\u2019ve got the worst economic comeback of any recession since the Second World War; when you\u2019ve got a government that\u2019s added $5 trillion in debt in one term, you should not be running neck and neck. So that already is a sign of weakness, and he really ought not be struggling with Santorum. The problem with Romney is he keeps saying stuff like the wife\u2019s two Cadillacs or I\u2019m not really a big fan of NASCAR, but I know the owners of the race car teams. This is just a candidate who\u2019s not fluent in candidacy. It\u2019s just not his thing. He\u2019s a good man, I think will make a good president, but he\u2019s not a good candidate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s Charles Krauthammer. That may sum it up for a lot of you, by the way. He\u2019s not fluent in conservatism. It\u2019s just not his thing. He\u2019s not fluent in candidacy. It\u2019s just not his thing. He\u2019s a good man. I think he\u2019ll make a good president, but he\u2019s not a good candidate. But, according to Krauthammer, this campaign has resulted in Romney appearing weak. So then Baxter said, “Okay, do you think Romney is gonna have a hard time with Obama even though polls and research show that independent Americans are more likely to vote for Romney than the president. What are you basically saying, that some conservatives are just gonna sit it out and not vote?”<\/p>\n

KRAUTHAMMER: No, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the analysis. Here\u2019s the analysis. I think the weakness that Romney has is not the conservatives won\u2019t show up in November. They will. They want Obama out, and that will override everything. The problem is with the Reagan Democrats, the white working class that Obama lost in 2008 by I think about eight or ten points. You\u2019ve gotta win that by 20 points, and you can do that. Some of the Republican candidates in theory could do that. Romney is weak with that segment. He knows it. That\u2019s why he tries to do the everything and he keeps tripping over himself. If he wins that constituency, he wins the presidency, but that\u2019s where he\u2019s gotta work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what\u2019s interesting about that, white working-class constituency. I keep harking back to the piece by Thomas Edsall in the New York Times<\/a>, it\u2019s now a month old. Edsall used to be at the Washington Post, now he\u2019s with the Huffing and Puffington Post, and he\u2019s tight with the campaign, with Obama, with the White House. And they basically admitted, they conceded in that op-ed piece that they\u2019re not going after white working-class voters, white working-class families. And those people are defined alternately as white working-class Democrats, Reagan Democrats, white working-class voters. As you heard Krauthammer say, Obama lost that group by eight to ten points in 2008. And Obama\u2019s not even going to campaign for them, we know this. <\/p>\n

In fact, the great unifier just this week set up an organization, African Americans for Obama. Now, why does he have to do that? What was the percentage of African-Americans that he got in 2008? It was 99-plus. Yeah, easy — as it is every presidential race. So why does he have to set up African Americans for Obama? Why is that even necessary? But you tell me. Is there some fear that they won\u2019t show up and vote? Are they dispirited or something? Is there some fear they\u2019re gonna vote for the Republican nominee? I haven\u2019t seen that anywhere. But, anyway, despite that, the great “unifier” is setting up all of these divisions now. <\/p>\n

But Obama is going to be campaigning exclusively to the people who are being pulled in the cart: The people that aren\u2019t paying income tax, the people that are on the federal dole. He has made the calculation that that\u2019s where he wins. It\u2019s clear to me that the Democrat Party has now made the determination that, of the people that vote in this country, a clear majority of them don\u2019t work. A clear majority of them don\u2019t want to work. A clear majority of them live and breathe on this class envy stuff, and are gonna vote for somebody who\u2019s gonna make sure their contraception pills keep coming; their welfare checks keep coming, their disability checks keep coming, their unemployment checks keep coming. Food stamps, you name it.<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s his group. That\u2019s his constituency. Illegal immigrants or families of illegal immigrants. As many minority groups as he can create and convince they are victims of an oppressive America. And, in that calculation, he just casts aside white working-class families while setting up African Americans for Obama. I think Krauthammer\u2019s right: If the margin of victory in that group, for whoever the Republican nominee is, is 20 points, then it is over. What Krauthammer is saying is that Romney is attempting to reach that group. When he goes to the Economic Club of Detroit and says (paraphrased), “Yeah, I drive a Ford pickup or whatever, a Chevy pickup and a Mustang and the wife drives a couple of Cadillacs,” that\u2019s what Krauthammer\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s just not natural doing this. He\u2019s like somebody embarrassed of his achievements, embarrassed almost of his wealth, and is trying to excuse it. While, at the same time, trying to sound like everyman. So he went to the Daytona 500, and they asked him about NASCAR, and he says, (summarizing) “Well, you know, I rarely follow it, but I know a bunch of owners of the teams.” And that is what Krauthammer\u2019s describing as not being fluid in candidacy and not being fluent in conservatism and so forth. So still thinks he\u2019d make a good president. He is just not all that good a candidate. So here are the numbers: Romney won by nine in 2008; he won 41-38 or three points last night.<\/p>\n

Santorum won 57 out of 83 counties. That\u2019s an incredible percentage, and it reminds me of the map of the United States, red and blue by county, when you look at that after a presidential race. The whole country is red (signifying Republican) except LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Washington, New York, Boston, Chicago and Detroit. The Republicans win 80% of America\u2019s counties and lose the White House. Santorum won 57 out of 83 counties. And, as of now, Santorum, while losing the popular vote, has won seven of the 14 congressional districts; Romney won six; there\u2019s still one at least right now (earlier this morning it was one) still too close to call. This means that, of those 28 delegates, Santorum will either win 14 (if the last district goes to Romney) and 16 if Santorum wins the last district.<\/p>\n

So the delegate count from those 28 will be either a 14-14 tie or 16-12 Santorum. Of those 28 delegates. There are two at-large delegates. They could go to the candidate who gets 50% of the vote. Since nobody did, they will be split, one each, between Romney and Santorum. So the final delegate count coming out of Michigan will be either 15-15 tie or 17-13 Santorum. Now, that might shock you. I\u2019m getting looks of curiosity from people on the other side of the glass. But that is the way it breaks down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m minding my own business yesterday — (interruption) put a stop to what? What do you mean am I gonna put a stop to the primary? I really don\u2019t understand. What do you mean? Oh, no, no, no. It\u2019s not time to put a stop to it, anoint anybody and say that we\u2019re done. 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