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RUSH: Orrin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to say I\u2019ve been listening to you for 20 years and I\u2019ve never been so upset at you. You spent your whole program on this story when nobody else is talking about it. You have ABC wants to come <\/a>out with it now, Drudge who\u2019s in the tank for Romney.<\/a> I mean in this type of climate we should be demanding a conservative candidate. And if you think the most conservative candidate is Newt Gingrich<\/a>, you should say so, you should endorse him. This whole business is ridiculous with Marianne. Romney was pro-abortion. Romney, all that Obama has to do in a debate is turn to him and say, “Thank you, Mr. Romney, for Romneycare. It was beautiful.” I mean he\u2019s a weather vain. You\u2019re spending all your time with the Gingrich story —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think I\u2019m the one who said that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think I\u2019m the one who has — yeah, I gotta take a break here. I forgot the time. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, folks, I went too long in that last call. I gotta go take a quick time-out here. We\u2019ll be back and I\u2019ll answer all these charges when we return.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think the cable networks are not covering the Newt story because they don\u2019t think it\u2019s newsworthy? They\u2019re not covering it because they don\u2019t have the video yet. ABC hasn\u2019t aired it. ABC\u2019s issued one clip. You wait \u2019til tomorrow. After Nightline tonight, all day long that interview with Marianne is going to be played. We\u2019re gonna have bet beat them by a day. You know we have Open Line Friday. I need to think that Thursdays are “damned if you do, damned if you don\u2019t.” That\u2019s what today\u2019s turned out to be: “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don\u2019t Thursday.” They can\u2019t show ABC footage. They can only show what ABC releases prior to the show airing.<\/p>\n

MSNBC is showing excerpts. Fox has shown excerpts. But that\u2019s it. I also think that they don\u2019t want to give ABC any additional ratings boost tonight. But you wait. They will be all over this. AP right now: “GOP Fields Leaves South Carolina\u2019s Religious Rights Uninspired.” That\u2019s a story that the AP is running right now. I also got a note here from a friend. I\u2019m not gonna mention a name. “You\u2019re not wrong, Rush, to attack ABC over this Newt stuff, but it certainly seems you\u2019ve written off Santorum\u2019s chances. Maybe you\u2019re right. Maybe he can\u2019t make it all the way although I think you could, but if you keep dismissing him then we really are left with Romney (too moderate), and Newt (too unpredictable), are those the only real choices we want?”<\/p>\n

And then I reminded of the news story that Iowa GOP switches stance and declares Santorum the winner. I\u2019ve not chosen anybody. I\u2019m not advocating anybody here, precisely because of this stuff. This is why I don\u2019t endorse anybody. I have not spent this program defending Newt at the expense of Romney and Santorum! To me this is the news today. There is a concerted effort by ABC — and if you think Santorum\u2019s not gonna get his turn, you have to think again. If Santorum ends up… In fact, I said in the last hour a friend of mine told reminded me that he had predicted way, way back… No, no! A friend of mine who had talked to Santorum said Santorum told him by end of January it was gonna be Santorum and Romney.<\/p>\n

Everybody else was gonna have either dropped out or forced out, and it may well be that way. I\u2019ve got nothing against Santorum. I spent a lot of the last hour including Santorum in the list of Republicans who are not responsible for anything that\u2019s gone wrong in this country, and I have made it — I hope I have made it — abundantly clear that what I don\u2019t want is Obama. I also believe, and I\u2019m gonna sit here and say this and I\u2019ve said this all along; and I\u2019m going to be consistent that I think any of them can beat Obama, and I think what ABC\u2019s doing here proves it. I think any of them can beat Obama. I think if we\u2019re smart and if we go on offense (and that\u2019s asking a lot of the Republican Party) Obama can be beat. I am not of the school that he can\u2019t be. I don\u2019t have the say-so in who wins this nomination. I don\u2019t have the ability if I even wanted to try.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have the ability to sweep this Newt stuff under the rug and tell people to forget it, they\u2019re gonna do that on their own. I have always respected the intelligence of those of you in this audience. You make up your own minds. You are your own thinkers. This program validates what you believe. I know that we\u2019ve had a lot of liberals, former liberals that we persuaded here, but you\u2019re not mind-numbed robots. There\u2019s some realities, though. You go to Florida, Newt does not have any money and Santorum doesn\u2019t have any money. Newt doesn\u2019t have any organization. Florida… There are ten media markets in Florida. That means ten places you\u2019ve got to spend money in Florida.<\/p>\n

There are some realities in politics that you have to face: Retail politics can work in tiny states like Iowa or South Carolina, but Florida is a different game. Florida\u2019s two different time zones, for example. There are a lot of people that you have to reach in Florida and a lot of different demographics. It\u2019s not just God\u2019s Waiting Room all over the whole state. I don\u2019t want anybody to get the idea from today\u2019s program that I am pro-Gingrich. I think Gingrich had a great debate Monday night and I think that debate is one of the reasons he\u2019s surging in South Carolina. I think everybody had a great debate Monday night except Mitt. Mitt was the weakest of the viable candidates on Monday night and I found it strange because he\u2019s been at this a long time.<\/p>\n

Some answers by now should roll off his tongue smooth as glass, and they just still don\u2019t, especially who comes time to defend himself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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