{"id":16885,"date":"2012-01-11T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-11T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:24:00","slug":"a_clarification_on_newt_and_perot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/11\/a_clarification_on_newt_and_perot\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clarification on Newt and Perot"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I didn\u2019t watch cable news last night, so I didn\u2019t find out until I got here this morning to do show prep how I blew up cable news last night<\/a>. I got the sound bites now. And you know, I do not like making this program about me. But I\u2019ve got the first 10 or 12 sound bites and even Steve Schmidt is praising me, who just last week said I don\u2019t influence anything. It\u2019s schizophrenia out there. <\/p>\n

But I started to say something that I want to clarify because of what happened on cable news last night that blew it up. I touched on a point yesterday about Newt, and I said, “Newt is pulling a Perot.” And in that analysis I made the point that Perot didn\u2019t really want to win the White House, that he had as his primary objective sabotaging George H. W. Bush. And I told you what the reasons were, as they had been explained to me. I said that I think what\u2019s going on here is that Newt is so ticked off over the negative ad campaign that Romney<\/a>‘s super PAC ran against him in Iowa, that right now he is solely focused on taking Romney out, making sure that Romney doesn\u2019t win this thing or has a very hard road. I did not mean to say, and I\u2019m sorry if you inferred from that, that I don\u2019t think Newt wants to win. I don\u2019t believe that. I think he wants to win. I think he\u2019s in it to win, but I think he\u2019s now got an equal, coequal motivator, and that is to stick it to Romney as Romney<\/a> stuck it to him. <\/p>\n

When I said that Newt\u2019s behavior reminded me of Perot I just meant to suggest that he\u2019s now also motivated by a desire to get even with Romney<\/a>. And, lo and behold, right here in the Wall Street Journal today: “Nearly all negative spending by super PACs in the presidential campaign over the past week has gone toward opposing Newt Gingrich.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Ninety-six percent of negative super PAC spending has targeted Newt, 96% of it. For example, in Iowa, according to the Wall Street Journal, here is how negative spending by super PACs looked over just the past week. Not throughout the whole month leading up to the Hawkeye Cauci, but just last week. <\/p>\n

Almost $90,000 negative spending on Newt, $1500 negative spending on Romney, $1200 negative spending on Santorum, and $1100 negative spending on Ron Paul. Ninety thousand spent on negative ads on Newt and Newt thinks it\u2019s all lies. Now, like I said yesterday, most of us — I can, but you can\u2019t. You can\u2019t relate to having millions of dollars arrayed against you on television when you don\u2019t have a dime, people saying things that you don\u2019t think are true. A lot of people said, “Rush, Newt shoulda known. Politics, it ain\u2019t beanbag.” He knows. It still doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t tick him off when you think people are lying about you. Look, I\u2019m just offering for you an explanation. Newt hasn\u2019t had a super PAC until the day before yesterday. They\u2019ve just started to spend. And in full disclosure, I was told yesterday — I\u2019m always asked, not told — Newt has bought significant advertising time on this program for the remainder of this week and into next week. “Are you okay with that?” I said, “Sure. I don\u2019t mind.” What, I\u2019m gonna object to that? “Well, you know, the listeners might think…” <\/p>\n

No, no, no, no. It\u2019s commercial time. Anybody can buy time here that can afford it. Well, if Obama wanted to buy advertising we\u2019d probably take it. He\u2019d have to pay up front, pay in advance. But we\u2019d probably take it. It depends. This audience is smart enough to weed through this stuff. I don\u2019t think I have to sit here and shield the audience from liars and cheats and thieves. They know \u2019em. I have no problem with that. I don\u2019t think this audience a bunch of idiots. I have the greatest respect in the world for their intelligence, it\u2019s why I do the program the way I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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