RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know Fox News reported that you were turning 60 today?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Did they?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, they did. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve corrected it, but that\u2019s what they said this morning.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You know, I also wanted to point out to you that on our local news they reported this morning in New Hampshire that there\u2019s been a change in the standings and Rick Santorum actually came in fourth, ahead of Gingrich.<\/p>\n
RUSH: In New Hampshire?<\/p>\n
CALLER: In New Hampshire.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. So we finally found something, at least with you, that matters more than debate performance.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. Yeah, well, I just really felt like he started to… You know, he\u2019s examining his criticism a little bit if he\u2019s gonna start to go after Mitt, he\u2019s really coming after Mitt from the left. I mean, you could go after Mitt on his gun control things that he passed in Massachusetts or on his shifting positions.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, see, that is interesting, Sandra. That would be an interesting line of attack. A better question for Perry and Newt to ask would be something like what you just said: “How did Romney\u2019<\/a>s experience at Bain<\/a> Capital make him a better governor of Massachusetts?” Now, that would be a legitimate question, because Romney is running around talking about his experience at Bain qualifies him, because of job creation, number of other things. “Okay. Then tell us, how did your experience at Bain make you a better governor, and how will it make you a better president?” If you could do that, that would not constitute an attack on capitalism. I mean, whoever thought…? Folks, really, whoever thought that you would hear a conservative campaigning by saying, “The other guy is more capitalistic than I am” as a means of criticizing? Whoever thought you\u2019d ever hear this?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Benjamin in Las Vegas, great to have you, and I really am glad you waited, too. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush, no, thank you for letting me on. It\u2019s an honor to be a part of the birthday show.<\/p>\n RUSH: You\u2019re more than welcome, sir, and I didn\u2019t let you on, you earned it.<\/p>\n CALLER: (laughing) Well, thank you. Thank you.<\/p>\n RUSH: And you better keep earning it.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. Going back to the top of the show, you were talking about the stats that they\u2019re basically clearly manipulating. And while trying to read the top secret and highly predictable liberal playbook, I think it\u2019s clear that Obama\u2019s gonna use these statistics as proof that his job\u2019s bill\u2019s working. I think the neat thing to do, or the trick that maybe the Republicans should do, is actually turn around and say, “No, these numbers didn\u2019t turn around \u2019til after the Tea Party took to power.” I just think it would be a great little scheme to play their game against them.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, yeah. See, I know things you don\u2019t know. (laughing)<\/p>\n CALLER: Probably quite true. (laughing)<\/p>\n RUSH: But since we\u2019re talking about politics and we can lie, yeah, go for it. Yeah, let\u2019s credit the Tea Party with the drop in unemployment numbers. Obama had nothing to do with it, and arguably that\u2019s — in fact, did you hear what Santorum said? I kind of like this. Santorum said the unemployment situation is getting better \u2019cause people are already eagerly anticipating Obama losing in November. There\u2019s already an uptick in positive thinking and attitude out there because of the prospect Obama might lose.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah, no, I agree with it. Any time we talk about unemployment numbers, I like to say that they are getting better just on the premise that the Tea Party —<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, they didn\u2019t start going down until after January 2009. I mean you\u2019re right, especially after the midterms of 2010, that\u2019s when the precipitous drop started taking place.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. I mean I do the same trick with the Clinton surplus when people talk about that. I like to say, “Look, it was after Republicans took the majority back then, too.”<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: So I mean it\u2019s a little game I like to play \u2019cause people always assume that —<\/p>\n John in Wilson, New York. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. Navy Seabee dittos.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you. John, I have to tell you something here.<\/p>\n CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n RUSH: You are the only call on the board that Mr. Snerdley has not told me what you want to talk about so I have no clue. In the comments subject column of your call, it was blank.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay, this is gonna be different, Rush. Newt is exactly what we need. We need a guy who will get down in the trenches and beat the Democrats, because I am tired of these guys, like Romney and everyone else, that is namby-pamby. What Newt\u2019s doing right now is what he has to to win, and that\u2019s what we need this year.<\/p>\n RUSH: There\u2019s a better way of doing this. There\u2019s an indictment of capitalism going on here. I know Newt\u2019s trying to walk that back and just refocus it on Romney and himself. But Bain Capital, we had the sound bite from Robert Kraft. Let me ask you this. You know, you know, I live in Literalville, I live in Realville and I can\u2019t get out of it, and I need to ask you a question. Where do you think Bain Capital gets its money? Are these six or 21 rich guys? Where does Bain Capital get its money to go out and buy these companies?<\/p>\n CALLER: I know where it comes from. It comes from my 401(k). I got it, Rush.<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. It comes from pension plans. It comes from union retirement plans. That\u2019s what\u2019s so maddening about this, is that these guys at Bain are trying to improve the return on people investing with Bain, and that could be your retirement.<\/p>\n CALLER: I got it, Rush, it\u2019s part of the process. I know it\u2019s not nice, it\u2019s nasty. We need a brawler next November or we\u2019re gonna lose this thing, I can see it happening now. About a hundred feet from the end of the Republican primary Romney\u2019s gonna turn on his left-turn signal.<\/p>\n RUSH: Look, a lot of people think that. I can\u2019t tell you how often I have people tell me that they think Romney is the next Nixon, meaning he\u2019s gonna do whatever he has to do to make the left like him, and Nixon, of course, really expanded the bureaucracy. OSHA, EPA, Nixon gave us a lot of these new cabinet departments, \u2019cause the left hated him. A lot of people tell me they don\u2019t think Romney is a real conservative, that he\u2019s just saying this.<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, I gave a guy that was pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-gay marriage, raise taxes, I don\u2019t know how you turn that around and call yourself conservative. I\u2019m sorry, sir, but I cannot swallow that.<\/p>\n RUSH: And I think this is why people perceive there to be a lack of passion. But, at the same time, let me just ask you this, John. Will you agree with me — and this is not a rhetorical device — I\u2019m asking, would you agree with me that Romney\u2019s not a popular guy on the Republican side?<\/p>\n CALLER: Oh, absolutely.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, why is that? Aren\u2019t they mad at Romney because they think he fights dirty? You go back to 2008, the anger at Romney then was identical to Newt\u2019s anger at him in 2012. Romney was running ads \u2019cause he had money that nobody else had at the time, against McCain, against Huckabee. They were livid. They were livid. Giuliani was livid. Just like Newt and Perry are now. What that means is, okay, Romney\u2019s dirty, Romney fights dirty, Romney runs ads — or his PACs do — that are chock-full of lies. Yet you called and said that he\u2019ll take a left turn into wimpville when it\u2019s time to run against Obama.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I think that\u2019s two different things. He\u2019s definitely gonna go left. Some of the hard left positions of Obama he will curb. I wouldn\u2019t look for my radical changes out of him. I just don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n RUSH: Why does he want to be president, then? Do you not believe him when he says he will repeal Obamacare? Do you not believe him when he says we\u2019re gonna reverse the direction this country, make it strong economically and great? Do you not believe him?<\/p>\n RUSH: Why? I\u2019m not arguing. I want to know, why?<\/p>\n CALLER: I think Romney\u2019s — I\u2019ve seen these guys. They take the safe road. And the safe road is maybe do a token knockdown of it, just to say you did it, and that\u2019s gonna be the end of it.<\/p>\n RUSH: But avoid controversy.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, what\u2019s that?<\/p>\n RUSH: Avoid controversy, don\u2019t want to go anywhere near it.<\/p>\n CALLER: Correct. Correct.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, you are echoing, you are echoing things I hear from a lot of people. So, you are by no means in a boat by yourself. Now, we\u2019re gonna hold the House. The odds are good that we\u2019re gonna increase our position in the Senate. Now, the question is being asked of me, “Doesn\u2019t that help keep Romney…? No, it\u2019s just the opposite. I hate to tell you, but when you have a Republican president and a Republican Congress, the Republican Congress doesn\u2019t buck the Republican president because then you would have story after story of party disloyalty. That is why I\u2019ve maintained for many, many moons now (a little Indian lingo there) that the House Republicans got so beat up by their voters because they went along with all that spending, but they were simply passing into law the budget their president gave \u2019em.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t really until the summer of 2007 that the House Republicans finally broke away from the administration on illegal immigration. The House Republicans finally stood up and says, “There\u2019s no way. We\u2019re not going for this amnesty.” You know, they bit the bullet on Campaign Finance Reform, Medicare Part B, a lot of things. I talked to House Republicans back then and they said, “We\u2019ve got no choice! The president wants to spend this money, and if we don\u2019t go along with it, party loyalty comes into play. We\u2019re accused of not following the president, then we\u2019ve got a mutiny here.” So a Republican Senate and House will follow what a respected president wants 80% of the time. Look at Obama and the Democrats. I mean, it took a whole bunch of chicanery, trickery, tomfoolery, and trickinology, but they got their health care done. Now, Obama is running around against a Congress that won\u2019t follow him, that “won\u2019t do anything,” and it\u2019s majority Democrat for most of his term, but on balance you\u2019re going to find the Republican Congress going along with the Republican president. At least that\u2019s the truth in recent histoire.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Houston, Texas. This is Patty. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hello. Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: This is the second time I\u2019ve called. I\u2019m very happy about that, and I wanted to thank you for being on there. I\u2019ve been listening to you since \u201992.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n CALLER: And the reason why I called was just to, I guess, critique your critique of Newt — and his, as you state, his attack on capitalism. 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