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RUSH: Well-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. How about this, ladies and gentlemen? It looks like the establishment Republicans are very worried that Romney cannot win, even if he is nominated. They\u2019re very, very worried that, even if Romney is nominated, he can\u2019t win, yet they continue to push him. There are a bunch of pieces. <\/p>\n
By the way, greetings. Great to have you here on Presidents Day. Yes, I know it\u2019s a holiday. I did not get deceived by the staff, as I announced on Friday. I was given the option, I was told that today was gonna be Presidents Day and I said I\u2019m coming in anyway, \u2019cause there are gonna be a couple of days next month that I\u2019ve gotta take off for a charity thing, so I figured I\u2019ll show up today, \u2019cause when we get to around July or August, it\u2019s gonna be intense, what with the election and everything. <\/p>\n
I mean, folks, they\u2019re salivating over Mitch Daniels. They\u2019re salivating over trying to change Jeb Bush\u2019s mind. Oh, yeah. But, no, look here. In the mood I\u2019m in it\u2019s funny, but it\u2019s actually very irritating. Here you have the Republican establishment which, by virtue of this admission, that if Romney loses Michigan they think he\u2019s gonna lose the nomination. And that means it\u2019s time to ditch everybody and go find somebody else. That is a tantamount admission that they don\u2019t care what their own voters are saying in all of these primaries, in all of these elections. We are seeing the Republican establishment force a candidate down the throats of the Republican base. The Republican base is obviously saying from primary to primary to primary they\u2019re not really sure, really not all that sold on, Romney. And so the establishment, “Oh, well, okay, well, we gotta find somebody else you don\u2019t like that might be able to win it,” which is what it boils down to. <\/p>\n
They are saying, depending on where you go, certain bloggers, certain Republican Party officials, high-ranking elected Republicans are saying that the reason this is happening, the reason that Romney doesn\u2019t catch hold, the reason Romney\u2019s not getting any traction, the reason Romney\u2019s not running away with this, is because of the conservatives who have been challenging him. And they think none of these conservatives can win. Santorum can\u2019t win because he\u2019s too conservative. Santorum can\u2019t win because he\u2019s too big a spender, according to Romney and Paul. The Tea Party needs to stop making demands of Boehner and company. The conservatives are screwing everything up. The Republican establishment is essentially saying that the conservatives are screwing everything up, making a mess of this. That if it weren\u2019t for the conservatives, which is just the party, if it weren\u2019t for the conservatives, Romney would have had the nomination sewn up by now, damn it. If it weren\u2019t for the conservatives, all this would be done and everything would be hunky-dory. It\u2019s funny. It is breathtaking to watch. <\/p>\n
There was a piece over the weekend and I wish I\u2019d printed it out. I didn\u2019t, because there were many, and they all say the same thing, but I wish I had that one piece in front of me to go verbatim. Don\u2019t anybody try to find it. It\u2019s not necessary. But it was hilarious. This official of the Republican Party, unnamed, blatantly saying that if Romney loses Michigan, that they\u2019re gonna have to go back to the drawing board and find somebody else and not broker a convention, can\u2019t really broker one, but try to manage what happens at the convention to stop all this. And you know what\u2019s really scaring them? It\u2019s so predictable. What\u2019s scaring them is that Santorum is coming out and he is unabashed being honest and truthful about his beliefs when it comes to so-called social conservative issues. And they are in a panic. <\/p>\n
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“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the unnamed Republican senator who hadn\u2019t endorsed anybody, who requested anonymity, \u2019cause it ostensibly is his home state, dad was governor there and all of that. So as the program unfolds we will be talking about this in great detail. Audio sound bites, Santorum yesterday on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer. James Taranto at Best of the Web today at Wall Street Journal, the blog, has a really good post on social conservatism and what it means in terms of winning to the Republican Party. The regime now, the Obama regime is in the middle of thinking they\u2019d better retool for Santorum, as opposed to gearing up for Romney. And, of course, they think they\u2019re gonna be sitting pretty because of the social issues. <\/p>\n
But let\u2019s not forget, it was their guy, Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, who tied Jesus Christ to his policies a couple of weeks ago. It was the National Prayer Breakfast, he equated Obamaism with Christianity and said basically what he\u2019s doing is what Jesus would do. So there\u2019s that. We\u2019ll get to that in due course as the program unfolds. In fact, I\u2019ll tell you how big this is. When I did show prep, putting it together this morning, it just evolved. There is a Santorum stack here based on all this, so much that I had to separate it from the primary stack. And Dan Balz had a piece Saturday in the Washington Post, “Is Rick Santorum Too Conservative to Win in November?” And what that headline really means in the Washington Post is this: “Is Santorum Conservative Enough to Actually Win?” <\/p>\n
They\u2019re getting scared. As I\u2019ve told you from the get-go, the left will always tell us what they fear. They\u2019ll show us. They\u2019ll demonstrate what they fear loud and clear. So this headline: “Is Santorum Too Conservative to Win in November?” You could actually make two headlines out of it, a headline and a subhead. The headline would be: “Is Santorum Conservative Enough to Actually Win?” The subhead would be: “Uh-oh, we never saw this coming.” They thought, the establishments of both parties thought, that they had dispatched the bitter clingers into a state of permanent irrelevance. And just the exact opposite has happened.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: It\u2019s gonna be an interesting week for Rick Santorum, because the kitchen sink and the devil are gonna be thrown at him, and how he deals with it will be fascinating to watch. I have my own suggestions and my own ideas which I, of course, will share with you (and thus with him through you) as the program unfolds today. Public Policy Polling is a very liberal polling group out of North Carolina. Their latest polling data out of Michigan shows Romney catching back up. How many…? By the way, they told us that Romney had to win New Hampshire \u2019cause that\u2019s his home state. That\u2019s next door to Massachusetts!<\/p>\n
Now Michigan is his home state. How many home states does Romney have? So now Michigan\u2019s his home state, and Romney went back to Michigan and he… (interruption) Well, he does. He has some vacation homes there. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with multiple vacation homes. There\u2019s nothing wrong with having multiple home states. (interruption) I do not have two home states. Okay, you\u2019re gonna count Sacramento — then I\u2019ve got three. I\u2019ve got Missouri where I was born and raised and I got Sacramento, an adopted hometown.<\/p>\n
And, of course, I lived in New York. So you could maybe say four, plus Florida. (interruption) Yeah, I divorced New York, but they won\u2019t get the message. They keep auditing me every year. New York is trying to collect alimony from me every year. I just had to submit to them the last three years of airplane records, \u2019cause they don\u2019t believe what I\u2019m telling them a bout the number of days I didn\u2019t work there, which was zero! Don\u2019t get me distracted on that. I\u2019m well focused here. We\u2019re gonna get to Santorum and the culture war and the devil and all the stuff is gonna be thrown at Santorum this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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