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RUSH: Mitt Romney. Grab audio sound bite number 19. This is this morning on CNN. It was The Starting Point, a show with Soledad O\u2019Brien. And she\u2019s interviewing the winner of the Florida primary. She said, “Conservative writer Kathleen Parker…” Ahem. By the way, Kathleen Parker is not a conservative, but that\u2019s just me. So we\u2019ll just say “[Columnist] Kathleen Parker wrote about how it isn\u2019t that Romney can\u2019t connect with the people as has been pronounced repeatedly. It\u2019s that the people can\u2019t connect with him. This also explains why the far-less-perfect Newt can attract support against all reason. How do you fix that,” Mitt?<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I\u2019m in this race \u2019cause I care about Americans. I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I\u2019ll fix it. I\u2019m not concerned about the very rich. They\u2019re doing just fine. I\u2019m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90, 95% of Americans who right now are struggling and I\u2019ll continue to take that message across the nation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

“I like firing people.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor.”<\/p>\n

Both of them, if they\u2019re stand-alones and taken out of context, are big problems — and they indicate a problem. Taken in context — which isn\u2019t going to happen with the Drive-By Media. Taken in context, it\u2019s understandable. But I even have a problem with this in context. “I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” The safety net is one of the biggest cultural problems we\u2019ve got! We had better be worried about it just like we had better get angry over Obamacare. Obamacare is worth getting mad about. Mitt said that it wasn\u2019t. This biz, “I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there”?<\/p>\n

Right, the safety net is contributing to the destruction of their humanity and their futures! Everybody knows what he\u2019s trying to say but he didn\u2019t say it and he makes himself a target with this stuff. He comes across as the prototypical rich Republican. And it\u2019s gonna make it harder and harder and harder and harder to go after Obama because this turns around on him. You know, all these Wizards of Smart in the Republican establishment say, “We can\u2019t have Newt out there! Why, Newt\u2019s gonna be the topic. We need Obama to be the topic. We need Obama to be the guy campaign\u2019s about. If Newt\u2019s out there, it\u2019s only gonna be about Newt.” Well, what evidence is there that it\u2019s not gonna be about Romney with these kinds of statements?<\/p>\n

Let me read to you what Aaron Goldstein wrote in the American Spectator today. “Note the contrast: Newt says insane things every now and then because he\u2019s bombastic by nature. He sees himself as needing to fulfill a ‘big ideas\u2019 image that he\u2019s crafted. Romney, by contrast, says stupid things because he doesn\u2019t know any better and it comes naturally to him.” It\u2019s a hard-hitting piece here in the Spectator. “Neither of these character flaws is a prescription for success against Obama.” Like Romney, Obama says lots of stupid things: Corpsemen, 57 states, breathalyzer, take a pill; indicative of the fact that he\u2019s just not as smart and well educated as he\u2019s reputed to be.<\/p>\n

“But Obama has the media covering every one of his screw-ups while Romney will have the media magnifying every one of his. It\u2019s like what Rush noted yesterday about that Politico guy, Jon Martin, talking about Newt going for the ‘cracker vote\u2019 in the South. If a conservative said that, he\u2019d be out of a job but it\u2019s a lefty Drive-By Media guy so it\u2019s ‘ho-hum, another day in the office.'” And then he goes on to say that he\u2019s really afraid that Romney\u2019s ill-equipped to deal with what\u2019s coming. Romney, too… You know, Romney complained about Newt\u2019s onslaught. But he was in a position to outspend Newt 65 to one.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget that number. So the Newt\u2019s onslaught against Romney in the ad war arena wasn\u2019t even a pinprick in the greater scheme of things. But Obama will be able to match Romney dollar for dollar. It says here that Romney “is not a very good politician. Sure he\u2019s a nice guy. Seems more detached than likable.” This is the kind of stuff. And this just bouncing off the “I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor.” Yep, 65 to one. As I said, it\u2019s in the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation, Jim Galloway. It\u2019s right there in his headline. Sixty-five ads for every one Newt ad in Florida. So you can take whatever the exit poll data is and deemphasize it significantly.<\/p>\n

Mitt comes out of Florida winning every category. But when you learn that he ran 65 ads <\/a>for every ad that Newt ran, it kind of mitigates a little bit of power of this stuff. So we\u2019re being told all kinds of falsehoods and have been told all kinds of falsehoods or misleading things by the establishment such as, “We can\u2019t have Newt…” How many times have you heard this? “We can\u2019t have Newt be the nominee because that means the campaign will be all about him. The media will make it about him, the Democrats will make it him, because Newt\u2019s got so much baggage. We need a guy like Romney.”<\/p>\n

And then you get the electability question. Well, where is the evidence of that? As somebody pointed out last week, he\u2019s won 9 out of 25 elections — maybe 10 out of 26 election — and yet he\u2019s got the “electability” category all sewn up. So Obama\u2019s not that smart, not nearly as smart as his reputation, but the media is there to cover it up. But Romney will say things like, “I like firing people,” and again, in context, you can make a case for what he\u2019s saying. I know what he means by this, “I don\u2019t care about the very poor.” What he means is: They\u2019re taken care of. He\u2019s trying to relate and connect to the middle class with that statement. But the way he put it offers an opportunity for everybody to do everything but point that out.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: I want to get the Romney sound bites here on the “not concerned about the very poor,” comment, two of them, actually, and then we\u2019ll go to the media review of last night. So here\u2019s Mitt on CNN this morning and Soledad O\u2019Brien wants to know, “How do you fix this? Newt\u2019s able to connect to people and you apparently aren\u2019t?”<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I\u2019m in this race \u2019cause I care about Americans. I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I\u2019ll fix it. I\u2019m not concerned about the very rich. They\u2019re doing just fine. I\u2019m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90, 95% of Americans who right now are struggling and I\u2019ll continue to take that message across the nation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody knows what he\u2019s trying to say here, but you give them “I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor,” you chop it off there and it could be about anything. I\u2019m not concerned about the poor in the way they\u2019re eating. I\u2019m not concerned about the poor and the car they have. I\u2019m not concerned about the poor and where they live. You can do all kinds of things with that. And it isn\u2019t gonna be enough to say, (crying) “You\u2019ve taken that out of context.” We know what he\u2019s trying to do. He\u2019s trying to zero in and tell the middle class, “I\u2019m thinking of you.” But this repair the safety net stuff? The safety net is contributing to poverty. The safety net contributes to poverty. It does not solve it. We\u2019ve got proof every year since the Great Society and whatever else Johnson named it, starting in the sixties. It hasn\u2019t fixed anything. Soledad O\u2019Brien then followed up.<\/p>\n

O\u2019BRIEN: I gotta ask you, you just said “I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net,” and I think there are lots of very poor Americans who are struggling who would say, “That sounds odd.” Can you explain that?<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: Well, you have to finish the sentence, Soledad. I said I\u2019m not concerned about the very poor that have a safety net, but if it has holes in it, I will repair them.<\/p>\n

O\u2019BRIEN: Got it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh, okay. Got it. Got it. But even with the clarification you note the headline: “Mitt: I don\u2019t care about the poor.” Headline\u2019s out.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you see the stock market shoot up this morning after Romney said he didn\u2019t care about the poor? I mean, it shot up! I don\u2019t know if it was actually \u2019cause he said he didn\u2019t care about the poor, but the market did shoot up. Mark Halperin, TIME Magazine just now on MSNBC, had a comment. They played the Romney sound bite and then Halperin had this to say…<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: If this debate and this campaign is gonna be fought over who misspeaks and which side\u2019s war room is better able to mock it on YouTube, I think the country will be the poorer for it. That\u2019s not a defense of Mitt Romney. It\u2019s a criticism of our business letting political opposition define the news cycle by taking something where the guy didn\u2019t speak clearly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Weeeeeell, all of a sudden Halperin\u2019s worried about taking people out of context when it happens to Romney. All of a sudden the Drive-Bys are concerned. “We\u2019ll be poorer in our politics for this! Don\u2019t doubt me: We\u2019ll be poorer as a country if we continue to take people out of context.” (chuckling)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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