{"id":16959,"date":"2012-01-04T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:02:36","slug":"rick_santorum_s_inspiring_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/04\/rick_santorum_s_inspiring_speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum\u2019s Inspiring Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s what happened last night. Santorum gave his speech<\/a> after the Hawkeye Cauci<\/a> for the most part was over. It was so powerful, and he never uses a prompter, and he never even uses notes. He did last night for a brief moment at the outset of the speech, quoting C.S. Lewis in what ended up being a tribute to his wife. It\u2019s how he opened it. And he said, “Look, I normally don\u2019t use notes, but I want to read this \u2019cause it\u2019s a quote, and I want to get it right.” And I\u2019ll paraphrase the C.S. Lewis quote \u2019cause it\u2019s not in the sound bites that we have. He said, “A best friend is somebody who knows the song in your heart when you have forgotten the words.” Now, I\u2019m paraphrasing that. C.S. Lewis said it a little bit more eloquently than that, but your best friend is somebody who knows the song in your heart when you have forgotten the words. And, at that point, he turned to his wife. After that, total ad-lib. <\/p>\n

And what happened after that was Romney <\/a>spoke after Santorum. Romney ordered his teleprompter taken down. And he winged it, because Santorum\u2019s speech was so authentic. It was from the heart. It\u2019s why he doesn\u2019t need notes. Now, we have three sound bites. I had people sending me e-mail during the top-of-the-hour break, “I\u2019m glad you\u2019re gonna do this \u2019cause I\u2019ve looked for the speech on YouTube but I can\u2019t find it,” which is unfortunate. But that\u2019s why Joe Trippi last night said, (paraphrasing) “You know, if I were Santorum I\u2019d get down there at 11 o\u2019clock and I\u2019d make this speech in time for the 11 o\u2019clock news. I don\u2019t care if the vote tally is not final. It\u2019s close enough that you know you\u2019re gonna be in the top two, so go down there and just act like you\u2019re the winner.” <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t do that. They all waited until after all but two counties were in, so it was after 12:30. We only have three sound bites, but we have the whole speech. Cookie has the whole speech. If we want to roll it all off we could at some point. But here we go with the three that we have. Don\u2019t forget the way it opened. The C.S. Lewis quote, your best friend, somebody that knows the song in your heart when you\u2019ve forgotten the words. And then he turned to his wife, gave her a big hug and kiss. So here are three sound bites. This is number one.<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: People have asked me how I\u2019ve done this, sitting back at the polls and not getting a whole lot of attention paid to us. “How did you keep going out to Iowa and 99 counties, and 381 town hall meetings and speeches?” Every morning when I was getting up in the morning to take on that challenge, I\u2019ve required a strength from another particular friendship, one that is sacred. I\u2019ve survived the challenges so far by the daily grace that comes from God. For giving me his grace every day, for loving me, warts and all, I offer a public thanks to God.<\/p>\n

RUSH: First words, by the way, were “game on.” He came out saying, “Game on!” Okay, so here\u2019s Santorum, who\u2019s unafraid to talk about God. The next bite he addresses electability.<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: People have asked me, “Well, why do you think you can win?” Because we\u2019ve been told by so many people that there\u2019s another candidate in this race who is running a rather close race with me tonight (laughter) that is a better person to choose because he can win. Let me tell you what wins. What wins in America are bold ideas, sharp contrasts, and a plan that includes everyone. And a plan that includes people from all across the economic spectrum, a plan that says we will work together to get America to work.<\/p>\n