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RUSH: Here is Amy in Potomac, Maryland. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi. I just wanted to call and just make a comment about what I think is the headwind that Mitt Romney\u2019s running into that nobody\u2019s talking about. We talked about it the first time around but not so much this time, and that is the evangelical vote. And when you talk about the earlier caller who hates him and you talk about people who hate him, I don\u2019t think what\u2019s being said is that there is an undercurrent of evangelical disapproval with Mormons. I think they would vote for a secularist over a Mormon. And my daughter, you know, was looking it up, were kind of hurt by comments from evangelicals towards Mormons being offended because we claim that we\u2019re Christian. And Christ is the center point of our religion, and we honor the Bible, we love the Bible, and we teach from the Bible. But our other belief, the way we get to Christ, they disagree with so vehemently and she started looking up articles, saw something out of the Washington Monthly that was written by a woman for 2008 and it talked about how she, as a young child in her Baptist church, was shown films where Mormons were placed right between Jim Jones and devil worshipers. And there\u2019s a lot of —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, when he went in there to Iowa the first time and had a very good ground game, a lot of organization, Huckabee came in late and papered that area with anti-Mormon literature and turned that caucus around. And it had a profound effect. And I think he suffers from the same thing you suffer from. How many times over the years have I heard people call in how they needed to defend you and stand up to people, and a lot of times they\u2019re women or they\u2019re mothers or they\u2019re wives or people that they work with, and they get down to the point where they admit, “No, I\u2019ve never really heard him, I just hear what other people say about him.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And oftentimes they\u2019ve done some external and internal polling, and people\u2019s view of Mormons is so low, incredibly low, because they believe what other people say about them, and then when they know a Mormon, their opinions of Mormons is tremendously raised. They see them and they\u2019re not this devil that they\u2019ve been painted out to be.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute, I\u2019m still trying to figure out, are you a Romney supporter?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I wasn\u2019t honestly. I\u2019ve come to that point. I am now at this point. <\/p>\n
RUSH: Because it says up here what you wanted to talk about was that he\u2019s getting hit from the right and the left.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right, he\u2019s getting hit from the right and the left. And inside the party I think it\u2019s very much an anti-evangelical vote. A year ago, I happened to —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, hold it. I don\u2019t understand that. You mean the evangelicals are voting “no”?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, I think so. When you talk about why Mitt Romney was plateauing at 25% and everybody\u2019s looking for the anti-Romney, I think the unspoken thing is the evangelicals want to vote for anybody but a Mormon. I really think that\u2019s a lot of it, and so when they hear negative things about Romney, they believe it. And it has gotten emotional, but —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think, frankly, the Mormon thing\u2019s been out there for so long, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what this is.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think the people that oppose Romney oppose him because they know he\u2019s not a conservative.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, but he has come to a conservative position that he strongly —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, they don\u2019t trust that, because he\u2019s got too much on the record of proudly saying, (paraphrasing) “I am a moderate. I voted for a Republican every time there\u2019s been a Republican on the ballot.” That\u2019s a little bit of a stretch of things, too. But don\u2019t fool yourself here. The Romney thing\u2019s been vetted, it\u2019s out, it\u2019s been done since 2008. There\u2019s a fear here, because of Obama, that he\u2019s not conservative enough.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Ron in Rochester, New York, great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush, for putting me on. I\u2019m not a — a — a seminar caller. I do listen to your show, love it. And your comedic pieces in between when you put me on hold, I\u2019m either laughing or crying. It\u2019s just — it\u2019s got me off my game and I forgot why I called. So I had to write it down. Notably, the woman caller you had on earlier. I take it she was a Mormon. I\u2019m not sure about that, but that she was saying that evangelical Christians would not vote for Mitt Romney because he was a Mormon.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That just made my blood curdle. Are we not as Republicans and conservatives…? Do we not have, as you say, “half our brain tied behind our back”? We can think on our feet. We\u2019re looking at Mitt Romney\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, look, for all that you\u2019re saying, I find it uncomfortable and all that. But I could point you to websites that are urging people not to vote for Romney \u2019cause he\u2019s a Mormon. They\u2019re out there. I don\u2019t know how widespread it is. I don\u2019t think… See, my problem with it is Romney\u2019s been a Mormon for the last five years, six years, all of his life. But it\u2019s been an issue since 2008.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Absolutely. When I look at it, it\u2019s just black and white. When he governs, he governs to the left. There\u2019s no denying that. He governs to the left. He\u2019s been campaigning now for six years in every state that he\u2019s been in thus far, and still his level of voters that want him hasn\u2019t changed all that much. So I highly doubt it\u2019s from him being a Mormon.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think that the opposition of Romney, such that it is, is on substance, is on what you said: They think he governs to the left. He\u2019s proudly said that he\u2019s a moderate, at times. The Mormon thing — and by the way, the caller that you heard did not say that. She said she was not a Mormon, that she was just upset about it. But I\u2019ll tell you one thing: Obama\u2019s super PACs, the labor unions and the media are gonna bring it up. You better know that they are. You better know that they are! Obama super PACs? Remember, he\u2019s got two built-in super PACs: He\u2019s got labor unions and he\u2019s got the media. They really don\u2019t have to raise any money. The unions have dues, and the media is in the private sector. But there will be legitimate super PACs above and beyond that. You don\u2019t even think they\u2019re gonna bring up the fact that Romney\u2019s a Mormon? You don\u2019t think Obama will do that? (New Castrati impression)<\/p>\n
“No, Mr. Limbaugh, he won\u2019t, because Mr. Obama will be afraid that will open up charges of Jeremiah Wright!”<\/p>\n
No, no, no, no. The media super PAC will be castigating anybody brings up Jeremiah Wright. (interruption) Why do you have such a puzzled look on your face? You don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s super PACs will trying to go after Romney on being a Mormon? You don\u2019t think that will happen? You don\u2019t think…? It may not be between-the-eyes-type hits. It will be ever so subtle. You wait. I could probably dream up a typical super Pac, anti-Mormon TV commercial right now. I could probably do it. I don\u2019t have any doubt about that. I mean, half of these fringe blog sites that are attacking Mormons now are probably fronts for the Democrats. Of course they\u2019re gonna come up with it. But I don\u2019t think, on the conservative side, that Mormonism explains the vast opposition that exists to Romney. Every caller that we\u2019ve had here today has expressed dissatisfaction with what they consider to be Romney\u2019s moderate political stance.<\/p>\n
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