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RUSH: So now Newt <\/a>and Perry<\/a> are attacking Romney from the left, like Obama. This is so simple. We got a Marxist in the White House, come up with a conservative nominee, run a campaign, win in a landslide, and save the country. Instead what happened? The establishment Republicans get scared to death of conservatives, thinking it\u2019s gonna result in a Goldwater landslide, and they figure Obama can\u2019t be beat anyway, so let\u2019s find a moderate that doesn\u2019t tick off the independents. Let\u2019s try to win the Senate and get ourselves in charge of the chairmanships and the money, and we\u2019ll call it a day. <\/p>\n

Any conservative that got in the race, the establishment is set out to destroy. That\u2019s where we are. That\u2019s why all this is happening. Because we got a bunch of people in the Republican establishment who don\u2019t think the Marxist in the White House can be beat anyway and really care more about getting themselves in charge of the money than anything else. And they do not share our view that the country\u2019s future is in peril. They don\u2019t. That\u2019s where we are.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to audio sound bites, let me illustrate some of what I\u2019ve said. We\u2019ll start with Newt. This was on Fox & Friends this morning. The co-host, the weather guy, Steve Doocy, said, “I was driving around yesterday my car,” and like every other American, <\/line>“I was listening to Rush, and he was talking about you and how you\u2019ve gone after Romney and Bain <\/a>Capital. He said you\u2019re using the language of the left to beat up Romney over Bain. He said it makes him uncomfortable because that\u2019s what the left is gonna do if Romney\u2019s the nominee.”<\/line><\/p>\n

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GINGRICH: I don\u2019t think I\u2019m using the language of the left. I\u2019m using the language of classic American populism. Main Street has always been suspicious of Wall Street. Small businesses have always worried about big businesses. People have a natural concern when they see financiers come in from out of town, take over a company, take all the profits, and then leave people unemployed behind. There\u2019s a big difference between people who go out to create a company, even if they fail, if they try in the right direction, if they share in the hardships, if they\u2019re out there with the workers doing it together, that\u2019s one thing. But if somebody who\u2019s very wealthy comes in, takes over your company, takes out all the cash and leaves behind the unemployment, I think that\u2019s not a model we want to advocate and I don\u2019t think any conservative wants to get caught defending that kind of model.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but that\u2019s not the model. That\u2019s not what happens. See, this is why my old buddy Jay Nordlinger in Impromptus at National Review is pulling his hair out, because that is language of the left. You could say that Newt actually compounded this and made it worse with these comments on Fox this morning. Small business has always worried about big business. Main Street\u2019s always been suspicious of Wall Street. People have a natural concern, they see financiers coming from out of town, take over a company, take all the profits and leave unemployment behind? My gosh, that\u2019s what the people who indict capitalism say. So it continues to make me uncomfortable. <\/p>\n

The next question came from Gretchen Carlson. She said, “Well, what constitutes acceptable capitalist behavior, then, in your mind?”<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: To put in $30 million and get back $60 million would be a fabulous return. To put in $30 million and get back $90 million would be a fabulous return. Did they really need to take out $180 million if leaving $30 or $40 million behind the company would have survived, the people would have been employed, the jobs would have been there? I just say Romney\u2019s gonna have to have a press conference and walk through case by case the places — these are not places where they lost money when a company went broke. These are places where they made money while a company went broke.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do you translate that? You want me to show you how you translate that? Here\u2019s how you translate that. Audio sound bite number four, Mister Broadcast Engineer. Here\u2019s how you translate what Newt just said.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I do think at a certain point you\u2019ve made enough money, but, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you\u2019re providing a good product or you\u2019re providing a good service.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: (imitating Obama) “Yeah, but we don\u2019t want that. At some point you\u2019ve made enough, and we\u2019re gonna be the ones to say so, and then we\u2019re gonna have you appear at a press conference, defend yourself, making too much money. That\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do. And after you defend yourself, we\u2019re gonna take it, because you don\u2019t need that much, we\u2019re gonna decide how much you need.” The way Newt\u2019s talking here — I never heard him speak this way before — I must tell you, and the way he\u2019s speaking, this sounds like left-wing social engineering, does it not, when I have to play an audio sound bite from Barack Obama to translate what Newt said about Romney and Bain. What\u2019s the number of companies that Bain took over? It was two out of a hundred and some odd. <\/p>\n

I guess it\u2019s time for some full disclosure here. Bain Capital is one of… how do I phrase this? My former syndication partner was Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel Communications was taken over, bought out by Bain Capital and another private equity firm. So Bain Capital would safely be said is my syndication partner here. It used to be Clear Channel. I\u2019ve never met anybody at Bain, I\u2019ve never talked to them, they\u2019re distant and so forth, but I need to mention this just in the interests of full-fledged, hundred percent disclosure. But I can tell you that this has not happened here. Every EIB employee, and nobody has yet come to me and said you gotta get rid of… it just has not happened. By the way, this happened long after Romney. Romney has nothing to do with Bain now, so Romney\u2019s not part of this. Don\u2019t misunderstand. <\/p>\n

But when you have to play Obama to translate what Newt just said, basically, “Romney, it\u2019s okay they made that much, maybe it\u2019s okay they made that much but at that point nobody needs to make that much, $180 million, no, you can leave some of that in there and not fire a bunch of people and what have you.” It\u2019s none of his business. It\u2019s none of the government\u2019s business. This stuff, if you just leave it alone it will all shake out. You could have read this in an Occupy Wall Street flier. (interruption) I know, a lot of people don\u2019t think Newt should have taken a million dollars or whatever it was from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, it was too much, he didn\u2019t need that much. (interruption) Right, left the mortgages standing, I know. I know. Where does this stuff stop once you start going down this slope?<\/p>\n

So here is an ad. Newt\u2019s got some super PAC money now. Let\u2019s put it this way, there is a super PAC now for Newt. We gotta be very careful, because the candidates are not allowed to have any contact with the super PAC, and I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood saying that there has been between Newt and his. Newt\u2019s super PAC has got an ad running out there on the YouTube channel called Winning Our Future, and we\u2019ve got the audio. It\u2019s about 21 seconds. Here it is.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: A story of greed, playing the system for a quick buck. A group of corporate raiders led by Mitt Romney. More ruthless than Wall Street. For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began… (dramatic pause) when Mitt Romney came to town.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) It\u2019s funny listening on the radio. (imitating voice) “The suffering began….” Music stops. “…when Mitt Romney came to town.” (laughing) The suffering began. A group of corporate raiders. The left could not improve on this. (laughing) Hey, you people at the Newt PAC, you need to add a line, you need to add Romney saying, “I love being able to fire people” at the end of this ad. “The suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town. ‘Hi, I\u2019m Mitt Romney, and I love firing people.'” Why don\u2019t you close the loop, make this ad really good? Now, then they brought forth — this is not all that\u2019s in the ad. Then they brought forth a parade of victims, little old ladies whose lives were ruined by Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: Mitt Romney became CEO of Bain Capital the day the company was formed. His mission? To reap massive rewards for himself and his investors.<\/p>\n

MAN: Mitt Romney, them guys, they don\u2019t care who I am.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: He\u2019s for small businesses. No, he isn\u2019t. He\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: And that hurt so bad, to leave my home, because of one man that\u2019s got 15 homes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: David Axelrod\u2019s shop, they\u2019re listening to this stuff, they\u2019re looking at these ads and saying, “Man, these Republicans are good. These Republicans are great at playing the class envy game.” Of course they can use it. Fair usage, take a ten second excerpt of it. At least I\u2019ll say this. At least Romney knows how many homes he\u2019s got. McCain didn\u2019t, if you recall.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course this is not unprecedented, ladies and gentlemen. George H. W. Bush once referred to Ronald Reagan\u2019s economic policies as voodoo economics. So it\u2019s not unprecedented. There are a number of comebacks that Romney could use. “Yeah, I like firing people, but I never fired a wife on her deathbed.” No, I know that\u2019s not what Newt did, but we\u2019re talking political ads, you can say anything. <\/p>\n

There were two companies that Bain took over that this kind of thing happened out of over the 150 that Bain took over. The New York Times is writing about those two and it\u2019s those two that Newt is discussing here. And Newt wants Romney to do a press conference to explain all this. But again, folks, there\u2019s a reason we\u2019re here. Last week, I told you, after Romney took Gingrich out in Iowa, this was totally predictable, totally 100% predictable. (laughing) And there\u2019s Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz up there on MSNBC, she\u2019s salivating. They actually need to wipe the saliva off the corners of her mouth. She can\u2019t wait \u2019til they put together their ad where Romney says he likes firing people, but again, isn\u2019t that what we want in somebody? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the Newt PAC, I got an idea for you guys. Re-cut your ads on Romney and your tagline is, “I am Barack Obama, and I approve of this message.” Put that at the end of your ad. I\u2019m considering what to do about this, folks. I know it\u2019s serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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