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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, because Nancy Pelosi has opened her cavity. Two things. Pelosi\u2019s out there saying, (paraphrasing) “We don\u2019t really have that much to do with Occupy Wall Street. No, no, no. We\u2019re not tied to that group.” So that\u2019s not gonna make them happy and it\u2019s a clear indication that the Democrat calculation is that the Occupy crowd is a drag on \u2019em. Then Pelosi, at a Politico Playbook Breakfast yesterday, was interviewed by White House correspondent Mike Allen, who said, “You think the Republican right is intentionally digging in, assuming a loss, staking out their ground for 2016?” Now, when Pelosi says far right, she means the entire Republican Party, you have to understand that about her. She makes no distinction. The entire Republican Party, to her, is the far right. So you have to know that when you listen to her answer to the question.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: I don\u2019t think they think he\u2019s going to win. If the far right thought that Romney <\/a>could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him. But they question what he stands for, and they don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to win, so what\u2019s the sell? I\u2019m not sure he knows what he stands for. And that makes it harder, too, because that is — doesn\u2019t instill confidence as to where he might be on some issues.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. So Pelosi, “Republicans don\u2019t think he can win. The far right, he doesn\u2019t know what his core is, he can\u2019t explain it, they don\u2019t think he can win.” Now, you probably recall I, El Rushbo, offering a similar opinion about certain elements of the Republican establishment. It\u2019s not so much that Romney <\/a>can\u2019t win, it\u2019s that Obama can\u2019t lose, is what they really think. They think that Obama just can\u2019t be beat, and they think it for a host of reasons. They think that too much of the country has been dumbed down. They think that Obama\u2019s got too much money. They believe in the power of incumbency. They understand and don\u2019t think they can do anything about Democrat vote fraud. All those things. They also understand that Obama is black, and they know that they are not going to be nearly as critical of Obama because of that, they\u2019re not gonna really take it to him. So they think whoever the nominee is, is gonna lose. It\u2019s not that Romney can\u2019t beat Obama. It\u2019s that nobody can.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure everybody, but certain elements in the Republican establishment that is just what they think — and they do not think that ideology is a factor in elections, not enough people know about ideology, conservatism versus liberalism; and Obama has the power of the purse. He\u2019s spent money, he\u2019s bought votes, and there\u2019s no way they can compete with that. So they think their best chance — and, again, it\u2019s not all of them, but it\u2019s some of them think their best chance — is to pick a moderate who cannot be tarred and feathered ideologically. They believe that conservatism, if somebody is criticized as a conservative, is a guaranteed loser. That\u2019s what some in the Republican establishment think. You know it and I know it, and the liberals are starting to crack because here\u2019s Pelosi saying that the Republicans don\u2019t think Romney <\/a>can win, but last night on Charlie Rose on PBS, the New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Thomas DeFrank; and they had a discussion about the Republican primary, and Charlie Rose says, “Tax returns have — have come back as an issue here, Thomas.”<\/p>\n

DEFRANK: (whispering) White House is ecstatic. They\u2019re already getting ready to tee him up in the fall as just another, uhh, robber baron, uh, just like a hedge fund trader —<\/p>\n

ROSE: Mmmph!<\/p>\n

DEFRANK: — and all this sort of stuff. It fits right into their populist riff and it\u2019s, uhh, gonna be a problem for Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is, I think, another liberal letting the cat out of the bag. They want Romney, and for exactly the same reasons that I have suggested to you they want Romney. It\u2019s exactly the same reason they created Occupy Wall Street, because Romney is Wall Street, Romney\u2019s Bain Capital, Romney\u2019s Mr. Private Equity Guy, Romney\u2019s Mr. 15% tax rate, Romney\u2019s all of this rich robber baron stuff — and now he gave money to the Mormon Church!<\/a> More and more liberals now are starting to crack. They\u2019re getting, I think, ahead of the game, a little bit uber-confident. The White House is salivating for Romney. Now, you have to admit, folks, that up \u2019til now (actually sometime last week) the word has been that the White House is scared of Romney. Remember? How many times has that theme gotten out there?<\/p>\n

“The White House doesn\u2019t want Romney, the White House is afraid of Romney,” as though they\u2019re gonna be honest with us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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