{"id":16479,"date":"2012-02-23T17:14:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:14:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-23T17:14:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:14:28","slug":"are_mitt_romney_and_ron_paul_in_cahoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/23\/are_mitt_romney_and_ron_paul_in_cahoots\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in Cahoots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “We\u2019ve gotta get out of all these foreign wars. There\u2019s so many foreign wars. We\u2019ve just got wars.” I\u2019m gonna tell you something, folks. I could literally shoot myself. <\/p>\n

Anyway, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies; 800-282-2882 is the phone number. E-mail is ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Folks, I want to read to you an e-mail that I sent to some friends dated January 13th. Something took place on that day that caused me to have an epiphany. And I kept it to myself. When I got home that night and I started doing show prep for the program the following day. I composed a very brief e-mail, and here\u2019s what I said. My brother was one of the recipients. He\u2019ll confirm this on Twitter if any of you people doubt me. Snerdley is saying, “Just read it!” He-he-he-he. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just beginning to see huge advantages to Romney if Ron Paul stays in. I can see Romney offering a plum to Ron Paul\u2019s son (every father cares about such things.) I can see Romney offering a plum to Paul\u2019s son and to not run third party to set his son up for the future. If you\u2019ve noticed, Ron Paul never rips Romney, which I know Romney appreciates. In fact, Ron Paul joins the chorus of those defending Romney sometimes. <\/emphasize><\/p>\n

What I had detected, like an epiphany, all these debates I had never seen Ron Paul attack Romney, nor had I seen Romney attack Ron Paul. I saw Ron Paul attacking everybody else. And, of course, everybody else was attacking — well, not everybody did attack Ron Paul because he\u2019s like the crazy uncle down in the basement. You smile when he opens his mouth, but the guy, folks, I must tell you here, Ron Paul is totally irresponsible when it comes to the subject of Iran and US foreign policy. This notion that we are responsible for Iran getting a nuke and that we can\u2019t blame them because of what we\u2019ve done? He almost sounds at times like Jeremiah Wright, America\u2019s chickens have come home to roost. But Ron Paul is dangerous. They have a nuke because they feel threatened by us. I mean they\u2019re state sponsors of terrorism for decades. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s dangerously irresponsible. And because he has the temperament of a lovable old uncle, people kind of wink and nod the other way. Nobody goes after him. But if you\u2019ll notice, that\u2019s not really the point. The point is that there is an alliance between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. This is what I have been remiss in not mentioning. So last night after the debate, I start doing show prep and I see all this stuff in the British press about Romney may be offering Rand Paul the vice presidency and I\u2019m saying to myself, “I know I mentioned this in an e-mail to some of my friends.” I told my brother about it and went and found the e-mail, and that\u2019s the one that I just read to you. (interruption) No, no, no. Look, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just stating an obvious. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not being critical here. I\u2019m just pointing out something that is obvious. Romney is never criticized by Paul but Paul has criticized everybody else that has become the most popular not-Mitt of the moment. Last night it was Santorum<\/a>. “You\u2019re a fake.” Well, I mean this is really cool. Here you go making excuses for it. You did it but now you\u2019re running for president, you wouldn\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the very beginning here: What is paramountly obvious now… And, by the way, if you are a Romney guy and a supporter, you\u2019re thinking, “This is brilliant, a brilliant campaign tactic.”<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s true or not that there has been an actual meeting of the minds in conversations and strategy developed between the two guys, it is clear that there\u2019s a hands-off policy between Paul to Romney and vice-versa. Paul does not attack Romney. Ron Paul attacks every one of Romney\u2019s opponents; Romney doesn\u2019t attack Paul. And so last night, we start seeing these stories in the British press. One of them, Toby Harnden, was that Ron Paul would be offered the veep slot. Then another one followed that and said maybe Rand Paul, and then Rand Paul put out a statement saying he would be honored to be Romney\u2019s VP.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when I said, “Damn it! Damn it, I wrote that e-mail on the 13th of January. I saw this, I knew what was happening, and I didn\u2019t say anything about it.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “We\u2019ve gotta get out of all these foreign wars. There\u2019s so many foreign wars. We\u2019ve just got wars.” I\u2019m gonna tell you something, folks. I could literally shoot myself. Anyway, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies; 800-282-2882 is the phone number. 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