{"id":16478,"date":"2012-02-23T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-23T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:20:33","slug":"rick_s_cringe_worthy_team_player_moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/23\/rick_s_cringe_worthy_team_player_moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick\u2019s Cringe-Worthy Team Player Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Santorum is getting creamed. I cringed when I heard him say this. Santorum is getting creamed for the team player comment. Now, let me explain that to you, because I have on this program several times. <\/p>\n

This is not a defense of Santorum. In fact, if you look at the first hour last night of that debate, all of that inside baseball talk about earmarks and Title X. I don\u2019t even know what Title X is, folks, and I am an expert in this stuff. And I don\u2019t even know what Title X is. Then they start talking about Title XX, and I don\u2019t know what Title XX is. I had to go look this stuff up. So it\u2019s very inside baseball, but here\u2019s the thing. Of all of the things said in the first hour, there\u2019s one guy that appeared as though he had nothing to do with inside Washington stuff, and that\u2019s Romney. If you had just landed from Mars and you tune in that debate, and you are of the opinion that we need an outsider, Romney appeared to be the outsider. Romney appeared to be the guy that had no roots in Washington. In fact, Romney doesn\u2019t have a federal record. Everybody else does. Santorum does, Newt <\/a>does, Paul does. Romney doesn\u2019t. <\/a><\/p>\n

Romney is immune to any criticism. There isn\u2019t any. He hasn\u2019t done anything in the federal level. He is outside it. Santorum, Newt, Paul, all look like insiders. And, of course, in every primary season, base voters claim to want an outsider and you have all these people during the course of a campaign trying to make it sound like they are the outsiders. Even though they\u2019ve lived there 30 years, they\u2019re the outsiders. Santorum looked like an insider. Newt did, too. Nothing they coulda done about it. This is not a criticism. This is an observation that redounds to Romney\u2019s favor, if anybody\u2019s watching it in that context. <\/line><\/p>\n

Look at the questions that were not asked. There wasn\u2019t one single question about the gasoline price. And nobody brought it up. There wasn\u2019t one question asked about Obama\u2019s plans to reduce our nuclear arsenal by 80%. Some people tried to bring it up, but there wasn\u2019t a question about it. They\u2019re in Arizona. There wasn\u2019t one question about Fast and Furious. Joe Arpaio is in the audience, the sheriff of Maricopa County. Not one question. In fact, there wasn\u2019t one question to these guys about Obama. There might have been a couple of scattered, but the moderator, John King, did everything he could to keep this away from anything to do with Obama. There was not one question about No Child Left Behind and Obama\u2019s recent waivers, even though they\u2019re talking about No Child Left Behind and what kind of screw ups these Republicans had made with No Child Left Behind. There wasn\u2019t one question about Obama\u2019s waivers that he\u2019s been granting for it. Or the waivers for Obamacare, et al, in toto. <\/p>\n

<\/a>If you look back, there have been precious few questions about Obama. And what does that lead to? That leads to, psychologically, the assumption that our economic circumstances now are the norm, a new normal. And what are they? We have 13 million Americans unemployed. We have 46 million Americans on food stamps. We have nearly 30% of mortgage holders underwater. This is the new norm. It didn\u2019t get discussed much. Now, understand, this is the last debate, and this is when the guys hit each other with bare knuckles and fisticuffs. But back to Santorum and the team player business. I know what he was trying to say and I know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

What he\u2019s trying to do is be brazenly, blatantly, up-front, honest as a means of distinguishing himself and his candidacy. What he meant by, “Look, I voted all these times. I was a team player,” is: We had a Republican president, and all of us were practically forced to go along with all of his proposals and all of his spending; otherwise there would have been cracks in party unity; we would have had to deal with those allegations and charges. There was already enough criticism of Bush going on.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t, if you\u2019ll recall, until 2007 when the House Republicans finally stood up and said, “no more,” to immigration. I remember on this program I\u2019d get calls from people just ripping the House Republicans from one end of the room to the other for all the spending, and I said, “They\u2019re a little caught between a rock and a hard place here. Their president is the one proposing it!” Tom DeLay. To this day, if you run into Tom DeLay, he will tell you that the Medicare entitlement is the best thing that he did as a member of Congress. He will tell you that, and we don\u2019t do entitlements! The Republican Party doesn\u2019t do entitlements. But we did. Was that Medicare Part B, D, whatever, I forget. Title X, Title XX, Title 69?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what they are. It was Medicare part something or another, the new entitlement, prescriptions or something. Anyway, the White House really wanted it, and if you talk to him — even to this day — DeLay will tell you, “No, no, it\u2019s good.” He\u2019s argued with me about it when I mentioned it to him any number of times. “That contains private sector reforms. That is something that\u2019s gonna be great.” To this day, they sing the praises of it. But there was pressure brought to bear from the highest levels of the White House to all these Republicans. Santorum finally gave up. You know, look, you\u2019re in close proximity. You are now the perceived front-runner. Everybody\u2019s aiming at you.<\/line><\/p>\n

After a while, you get sick and tired of defending yourself \u2019cause you know that doesn\u2019t sound good. You know that doesn\u2019t look good. And, by the way, let that be a lesson to you. People have called here and asked, “Rush, why don\u2019t you respond to all this stuff?” I said, “Once you start, you never stop. Once you start defending against all these charges, that\u2019s all you are is on defense and nobody ever won anything defending it,” and I direct your attention to last night. Now, Santorum had very little he coulda done about it, other than stop talking about some of these things a little sooner than he did. But what he was trying to do here on the team player business was simply say, “Look, I was just being loyal to my president.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the Specter endorsement was, and this is why people got so ticked off at politics in 2006. “Look, if you can\u2019t stand up for principle, if you gotta follow the party wherever it takes you, then what good is that?” But Santorum was simply being a good soldier. What\u2019s his name, Specter, was the incumbent and was from Santorum\u2019s state. The rule book says: “You endorse the incumbent. He\u2019s a Republican. It doesn\u2019t matter what else he is.” That\u2019s the rule book. Santorum was simply trying to explain to people, “Look, I was a loyal foot soldier. I was a team player.” It didn\u2019t go well with what he\u2019s trying to break out and become.<\/p>\n

It was situation where he\u2019s between a rock and a hard place, and has everybody gunning at him. I think the “team player” thing probably is offered at that point in time where he just felt frustrated by it. “Okay, I was just being a team player, okay? Let\u2019s leave it at that.” I heard it, I looked at Kathryn, and I said, “There\u2019s gonna be hell to pay for that one,” \u2019cause I knew that Santorum opponents, both from the left and right, were gonna harp on it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s one of the problems, by the way, that senators and members of Congress who run for president have: They\u2019ve got voting records. Romney does not have one. So Romney cannot be hit on his voting record. Romney cannot be criticized on anything that he\u2019s done in Washington \u2019cause he hasn\u2019t done anything in Washington, other than help design Obamacare, which… (laughing) I know, I know!<\/p>\n

Romneycare was 70 pages, Obamacare is 2,700 pages, but Romney\u2019s got his advisers out there saying that\u2019s what happened. I\u2019m just having a little fun with you, folks. But by the same token, Santorum has got a record, and Newt\u2019s got a record. They voted for things. And as you heard last night… Did you hear Santorum trying to defend his votes? “Well, sometimes it\u2019s an appropriations bill and another thing has to pass, and you vote for it.” It doesn\u2019t play well, but that\u2019s the way it goes. It doesn\u2019t sound good. It sounds like he\u2019s making an excuse. Here\u2019s a guy who\u2019s supposed to have courage, talk about his leadership, but he votes to go along with his party.<\/p>\n

Members of Congress, how much stuff do they vote for they don\u2019t even read, as we learned about Obamacare? This is one of the inherent risks that you run. (interruption) Oh, I\u2019m told I\u2019m wrong here. It\u2019s not just voting records. It\u2019s when you\u2019re in Congress you have to work with the team, and this is what Santorum was trying to say, and just being blatantly honest. He\u2019s the whip in the Senate; he is supposed to round up the votes for his president. But when you get into this degree (even with me now) of trying to explain it, it sounds defensive. It sounds like you\u2019re making excuses. Even though you can adopt a tone that perhaps, at its optimum, is educational (look, I\u2019ve gotta teach you a little bit how things work…) It still sounds defensive no matter what.<\/p>\n

No matter what you say, how you say it, at the end of the day when you are being criticized for the way you voted — and the way you voted contradicts what you\u2019re saying on the trail — and then you start to explain why, and he says, “Well, you know, I had to! I\u2019m a team player. The president wanted this to pass.” Where do you go with it? It\u2019s an unenviable position to be in. My only point is, Romney has an advantage in that nobody can go at him in that way because he\u2019s never been in the federal system. He does not have a voting record. And, to his credit, he made good use of the advantage last night. I mean, if you\u2019re a Romney fan, you gotta be saying that this alliance<\/a> with Ron Paul is brilliant campaign strategery. I mean, it\u2019s a brilliant tactic. Go for it, bro! Best to you. People are gonna have opinions on this from all sides of it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: David in Oklahoma City. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. My opinion is, on the Santorum equivocation, he just needs to cut equivocating. He needs to apologize. He\u2019s a politician. Just apologize. Everybody else running as a candidate for the nomination is a politician. Just apologize. Romney has not even acknowledged his responsibility, his culpability in Obamacare, much less apologize for it. I respect, you know, someone who does something that is pragmatic to get a job done, but I also have a problem with doing things against conservatism. He just needs to apologize for being a politician and let that be it. I would support that.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s only going to compound the problem. For example, Romney very deftly is out today building off of Santorum\u2019s “I took one for the team” comment. Romney\u2019s line today is, “Well, I wonder which team he was working for. I\u2019m working for the American people. That\u2019s who\u2019s on my team. I\u2019m not working for a bunch of Washington insiders.” For Santorum to —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019m a Republican. I look at it, the team is Republican right now, the team is America in general. Right now it\u2019s primary time. I want to know who I\u2019m gonna support come Super Tuesday. And, you know, the equivocation is not gonna help.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who is equivocating? I\u2019m not disagreeing. I just want to know who you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — equivocating for why he made votes as a Senator that are not conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want him to explain it? <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t need him to explain it. Apologize.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, apologize.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s a politician. Just apologize for being a politician. I\u2019m cynical. I\u2019m very cynical. I\u2019ve been alive long enough to know that politicians are politicians, and attorneys are attorneys. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think attorney\u2019s ought to apologize too?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My wife\u2019s an attorney so I\u2019m not gonna go that far. I\u2019m usually at fault, so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your wife\u2019s an attorney so you — (laughing), oh, man, you get hit with a double whammy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean she\u2019s an exception.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but seriously now, what would possibly be helpful for Santorum to apologize for being a politician. He\u2019d have to follow that with, “Look, I\u2019m Rick Santorum and at the debate last night I want to apologize for being a politician.” Then what does he say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, you can have your campaign adviser write up why you\u2019re apologizing and how it affects, you know, what you\u2019re doing, but the simple fact of the matter is whenever you equivocate for voting for pork barrel spending in doing things that are against conservatism, you\u2019re gonna get booed. I don\u2019t support that. I don\u2019t want to hear that. I know why politicians do what they do. I have a friend who\u2019s a politician and I know why he has to do some of the things, and I don\u2019t necessarily support those things that he does, but he\u2019s a member of the Republican Party as well. I don\u2019t necessarily like that. It\u2019s the sausage thing. You don\u2019t want to see what goes into it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Whenever it\u2019s laid out there by the media and by your opponent, you need to address it, “I\u2019m sorry, I did do that. I\u2019m a politician and I –“<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me run this by you. Dave, let me run this by you. I want to see if something would work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you, I\u2019m gonna pretend to be Santorum. And for you Romney people, chill out. I am not doing anything here but getting into a think piece exercise here. I want you to listen to me as though I\u2019m Santorum and I\u2019m doing everything you want me to do. I\u2019m not gonna say I\u2019m sorry \u2019cause I don\u2019t think that would help, but I\u2019m gonna tell you what this is all about, and I want you to tell me how you hear it, how it affects you. <\/line><\/p>\n

(imitating Santorum) “I know that last night a lot of people think that I really stepped in it by saying ‘I took one for the team.\u2019 I want to explain what that means. We had a president who was under constant assault by the Democrats and the media. He was engaged in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to attempt to protect us from further attacks after 9\/11. The Democrat Party and the media<\/a> would not let this man rest, and yet he was doing what he thought was best for the country at each and every turn. There are some things that he proposed that I wasn\u2019t crazy about, but he\u2019s the president, he\u2019s the leader of our party, I\u2019m the whip in the Senate. One of my jobs is to see to it the president\u2019s legislation passes. <\/p>\n

“Sometimes, you know, I don\u2019t get everything I want, and I don\u2019t agree with everything that I have to support, but that\u2019s the nature of the job. And I didn\u2019t like it when it was happening, but that\u2019s what I had to do. I took one for the team. At some point there were a lot of things that President Bush stood for, wanted to do, that a lot of us opposed, but if we had stood up publicly and openly and opposed President Bush, it would have caused problems like you can\u2019t believe for the party. The media woulda jumped all over it: divided Republican Party. The president would have been effectively cut off at the knees, and it was a real tough balancing act. <\/p>\n

“No Child Left Behind, I was not at all in favor, but it was his piece of legislation, and we\u2019re duty-bound to follow our president. I\u2019ve learned from this, and I don\u2019t want to be in that position again. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m running for president, and I\u2019m gonna understand that there are people that might have to go along with it that don\u2019t want to or whatever, I understand how the process works, but this is all like life is, a totally fulfilling educational exercise as well as everything else. I can admit to you here that I made a mistake doing this. And I\u2019m not happy about it, but this is why, and this is what I meant, and I don\u2019t think that there\u2019s anything wrong with being loyal to my party.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that would work, and he needs to follow it up with, “And whenever I\u2019m the president, I will expect the whip to stand by me. The executive sees more than the legislative. The president knew more than I knew, but whenever I\u2019m the president, I will know more than the Senate. I would hope that my party would stand behind me.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: The problem with all this, it doesn\u2019t erase the fact that Senator Santorum said he disagreed and did not approve of the legislation that he eventually supported, No Child Left Behind. Well, okay, if I say this to you, “Look, I want you people to know, this is the business we\u2019re in. This is politics. This is how things get done. Now, we get tired of hearing you complain and whine and moan about how we don\u2019t govern as we campaigned, but this is the way the business operates. And grow up and understand this is how it happens. And when we make mistakes, we\u2019re going to do our best to fix \u2019em and learn from \u2019em. (Raspberry)” Would that work? Would that propel him down the road to the nomination? <\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not a supporter of any of them, but I\u2019ll vote for any one of them over the president, and come Super Tuesday right now —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, at the end of the day that is going to end up happening here. And all of this right now is gonna be ancient history by the time we get into the conventions in August and September. David, I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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