{"id":17397,"date":"2011-11-14T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-14T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:35:42","slug":"brooks_it_s_romney_or_bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/14\/brooks_it_s_romney_or_bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks: It\u2019s Romney or Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Who\u2019s next? Jack in Melrose, Wisconsin. Hi welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled) Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I wanted to get your take on why the Republican establishment and the liberal news media aren\u2019t digging up dirt on Mitt Romney like they do on some of the others.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think the Democrats think he\u2019s going to be the nominee. They\u2019re waiting to release whatever dirt they\u2019ve got \u2019til after he\u2019s got the nomination and the Republicans can\u2019t do anything about it. The Republicans, if there is any dirt on Romney — and I should preface by saying, “If there is any.” I don\u2019t know that there is sufficient dirt to hurt Romney. The only guy that\u2019s ever tried to use some is Perry. As far as if the dirt exists and the Republicans haven\u2019t used it, they\u2019re not… They haven\u2019t chimed in on the Herman Cain thing, either<\/a>. That\u2019s all a media thing. The Republicans are not into self-immolation right now. I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve formed a circular firing squad. The New York Times had a hit piece on Romney. Bill Keller\u2019s got a piece on Romney.<\/p>\n

Bill Keller is out there. He\u2019s the former editor, not just a columnist, and Bill Keller is out there saying Romney is the only guy that can beat Obama, which… They can all beat Obama! But they\u2019re trying to pick Romney. Keller\u2019s piece saying… See, the people in the mainstream media know that the Republicans crave their approval. The people in the mainstream media know that the Republicans think they\u2019re the smartest and the wisest. So the mainstream people, people like — or media, people like Keller, I guarantee you it works this way, he\u2019ll do a story saying Romney can beat Obama. The purpose of that story is to nudge the Republicans toward nominating Romney, because the truth is the regime wants to run against Romney.<\/line><\/p>\n

But the Republicans won\u2019t see it that way. The establishment types will see it as Romney\u2019s the only guy. In fact, David Brooks (he of Obama\u2019s “crease in his pants” as his qualifier to be president) was on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on Friday night on PBS; and David Brooks, he of the Republican establishment, said, “I still basically think there\u2019s just one real candidate, and that\u2019s Mitt Romney. But suppose there were two,” he said. “Suppose Jeb Bush had decided to get into the race. Everybody said, ‘Oh, I can\u2019t do it! You\u2019re Jeb Bush. Your last name is “Bush,”‘ but if Jeb Bush were in the race right now I think he\u2019d be the front-runner even regardless of the name.” This is David Brooks. “A Jeb Bush candidacy,” according to Brooks, “would satisfy the serious establishment types and the more conservative types at the same time.”<\/p>\n

According to Brooks, “Jeb Bush would unify the Tea Party and the establishment types in the Republican Party,” and then Brooks goes on to say: “So it\u2019s one of the things that interests me is what happens if Mitt Romney stumbles. Then where does the party go? Because really there\u2019s option A and no option B, practically. And so that would just create a crisis in the party, and then you really would see people rallying around somebody who\u2019s not in the race right now.” So David Brooks, speaking for the establishment, says it\u2019s Romney or bust — and if it\u2019s Romney who gets the nomination and then something happens to Romney, that the Republican establishment gonna go try to find somebody to replace him that did not run, that\u2019s not running for president now.<\/p>\n

In fact, Brooks\u2019 quote on television Friday night in Washington, DC, was, “If Romney falters, the entire Washington establishment goes into conniption fits.” I mention this only because you\u2019ve got the New York Times pushing Romney now. Bill Keller pushing Romney: Romney\u2019s the only guy that can beat Obama. Here\u2019s David Brooks: “There\u2019s only one real candidate, that\u2019s Mitt Romney.” But Brooks goes farther: “What if something happens to Romney? Gosh, it\u2019s a shame if they don\u2019t have Jeb Bush running, oh, my God! If it\u2019s not Romney and something happens we\u2019re gonna have to go outside and find somebody an immediate replacement, because if Romney falters, the entire Washington establishment goes into conniption fits,” and I think we can take that to the bank. I think that Brooks probably does speak for the so-called Republican, inside-the-Beltway Washington establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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