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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I had an amazing See, I Told You So prediction last Friday about Mitt Romney. By the way, just a little side question. Somebody sent me an e-mail last night wanting to know what Mitt Romney\u2019s real name is. Do you know what his real name is, Snerdley? Well, you know it\u2019s not Mitt. It\u2019s a nickname. If you thought it was Mitt, did you think it was short for something like Mitten or Mittendorf? Well, no, it\u2019s not his real name. Willard, I think. I think his real name is Willard. No, like the hotel. Like the hotel in Washington, the Willard Hotel. (interruption) Are you thinking that Michael Jackson song about the rat? Oh, yeah, that rat movie. (interruption) No, no, no. Don\u2019t do that. It\u2019s Willard the hotel. (interruption) You\u2019re gonna make fun of Willard and Obama as a standard, ordinary, everyday name, huh? (interruption) Standard Muslim name. All right. <\/p>\n

At any rate, let me go to the audio sound bites. Let\u2019s go back to last Friday. I want you to listen to this. Mitt is the middle name and it\u2019s not short for anything. Willard Mitt Romney. People wanted to know what I thought he was going to do vis-a-vis Romneycare in Massachusetts and his presidential run. Last Friday I made a prediction, I offered some advice. Let\u2019s revisit it.<\/a> One week ago, this, my friends, is why we say give us your ears for three hours, and you will be ours for life.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m not a political advisor. I\u2019m just a Big Voice on the Right, driving the independents back to Obama. But I really think that he\u2019s gonna have to disown it at some point. So far he won\u2019t. And I don\u2019t know — well, I know he says he wants to repeal Obamacare. If I were Romney — he-he-he — what I would do — I\u2019m sure the guy\u2019s cell phone battery died or I\u2019d-a heard from him — if I were Romney and this question came up, I would be tempted to say, “Why are you asking me for logical consistency? I\u2019m running against Obama. Why don\u2019t you go ask him these questions. He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s got some explaining to do. Obama\u2019s the guy. Job creation, how\u2019s that working out? Hope and change, how\u2019s that working out? Saving the housing market, how\u2019s that working out? Energy independence, how\u2019s that working out? Obama\u2019s the guy that\u2019s intellectually inconsistent.” So Romney could say that, and he has said he wants to repeal Obamacare, but the Republicans are gonna take him on first in the primaries if he says that he fully supports repealing Obamacare. One of his Republican opponents could say, “Well, you ought to support repealing your care, too.” So far he has not chosen a path that would distance himself from it nor throw it under the bus. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s going to do. Right now it\u2019s almost like a — wild guess here, folks — it\u2019s almost like the strategy is that showing a commitment to himself, policies, by not being bullied off of his own piece of legislation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s one week ago. Did I call that or did I call it? Right down the middle I said you\u2019re gonna have to disown it at some point because your Republican opponents are gonna take you on. He also said that one of the reasons why he\u2019s not going to change is he doesn\u2019t want to further this reputation he\u2019s got that he is a flip-flopper. So he basically said he wasn\u2019t going to be bullied off of his own piece of legislation. So he\u2019s committed to it now, for whatever reasons. And here is Romney yesterday afternoon in Ann Arbor. He\u2019s at the University of Michigan cardiovascular center and he spoke about health care policies. This is a portion of what he said.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I respect the views of those who think we took the wrong course and who think we should have taken a different course. I also recognize that a lot of pundits around the nation are saying that I should just stand up and say this whole thing was a mistake, was just a boneheaded idea and I should just admit it, it was a mistake, and walk away from it. And I presume that a lot of folks would conclude that if I did that, that would be good for me politically. But there\u2019s only one problem with that. It wouldn\u2019t be honest. I, in fact, did what I believed was right for the people of my state. And I\u2019m gonna describe for you now what I think would be right for the people of the United States, which is quite a different plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s a wedded to it. It\u2019s a home run in terms of the prediction. I shudder to think what this means for him. It\u2019s a big roll of the dice. Well, yeah, you could say it is gutsy. You could say gutsy and, you know what, folks, I was almost right about Romney being named after a hotel. Not a rat, Snerdley, as you said. It wasn\u2019t the historic Willard Hotel in Washington. But Romney was named after J. Willard Marriott, the famed hotel magnate. That was his father\u2019s best friend. J. Willard Marriott was George Romney\u2019s best friend. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Dennis in Burbank. It\u2019s great to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great. It\u2019s great to get on your show. I\u2019ve never been able to get on before, but I wanted to talk to you about Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a little surprised at how much criticism he\u2019s getting for what he did in Massachusetts with the health care, especially from people that supported him back two or three years ago when he had already done it. Nobody complained about it then. I think we need to understand that Mitt was a governor of a largely Democratic state — one of the most Democratic states in the country — a small state, and the people wanted health care. The big thing about Mitt is he\u2019s a solution-oriented guy. He\u2019s a leader and he gets things done, and he had a state of people that wanted health care, and he helped put together a package that — I think, in his mind — was the most free market-oriented type of system that he could get passed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I will say this: I do recall when that health care bill was passed that there were some conservative publications who sang its praises and thought, “Well, this is great.” Of course it turned out to not be so good. But as to the point that, “Hey, he was the governor of a liberal state. He gave the people what they wanted,” that does not cut it with me.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mitt Romney and Massachusetts care. The reason why I think he\u2019s vulnerable on it (and why a lot of other people do, too) is it\u2019s a dead ringer for Obamacare and the country wants Obamacare repealed, and Mitt is saying he wants Obamacare repealed. Now, I understand, Romney does not want to admit a mistake because he doesn\u2019t want to fuel the fire that he\u2019s a flip-flopper, and he thinks that there is something to be gained by staying committed to something that he did. But the argument that the people of Massachusetts, in a liberal state, wanted this and therefore Mitt — as the governor of a liberal state — had to give them what they want?<\/p>\n

Why? <\/p>\n

What\u2019s leadership? <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what it comes down to, to me. Now, see, this is again why I would never succeed in politics. Because the first order of business is get reelected, and that means either giving people what they want or creating the illusion that you\u2019re giving people what they want. I wouldn\u2019t have passed, I wouldn\u2019t have conceived this version of health care. I don\u2019t care who wanted it or where I was. That\u2019s just me. I know this is going to be interpreted as criticism of Romney. It\u2019s not. I\u2019m answering a question I got here from somebody on the phone. If the people of a state want something that I know is wrong and not good, I\u2019m not gonna do it. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s just me. <\/p>\n

If the people of the state want a health care plan that they foolishly believe is gonna end up costing them less and expanding their coverage, when I know it won\u2019t do either, I\u2019m not gonna do it and then hope I could live with the fallout. But, if that\u2019s what Mitt did, why doesn\u2019t he just say that? Why doesn\u2019t he say, “Look, I was a governor of a liberal state. The people of that state were clamoring for health care reform. I believe in the states being laboratories, trying different things and after all these various experiments, we come up with the best way to do it for the country.” That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying that he would do as president.<\/p>\n

Open it up, here. States, do what you want to do here and we\u2019ll come up with the best system we can. But (sigh) politically, I don\u2019t know how he defends the substance of Romneycare and rips the substance of Obamacare at the same time, because there\u2019s not that big a difference between them. In fact, Obama is, we are told, happy to point out, “Hey, you know, Romneycare is a mirror image of Obamacare,” which is not good for Obama. It\u2019s bankrupting the state. It\u2019s not delivering on any of its promises. But I do remember, folks, when Romneycare was passed and signed into law, the Wall Street Journal praised it. <\/p>\n

There were some other conservative publications –I can\u2019t remember off the top of my head which ones, but — they praised it, they praised Romney. This was the model, this was going to be the blueprint, this is how we do this going forward. But it\u2019s not. I remember there was some praise for one reason. If my memory serves now, the reason for the original praise for Romneycare is because it shifted some costs to the patients. They had to go out and pay for it. Well, turns out they couldn\u2019t. The prices never became reachable, just like we had yesterday: The health care that people get now, they\u2019re only spending 12 cents for every dollar that\u2019s spent. <\/p>\n

Well, that means it\u2019s unaffordable, pure and simple. So we\u2019ll see how this shakes out. It\u2019s too soon to tell. I think all the analysts say, “Well, this kills Romney.” I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true yet. There\u2019s too much to happen here, too many other factors. We don\u2019t know if this is going to be the end of Romney\u2019s campaign, speech yesterday. There are a lot of pundits out there telling you that it is, and it\u2019s just way, way too soon for this. The Founders, you want to go constitutional on this, believed the states should be free to experiment with various solutions to problems, and that was part of the reason that they wanted states: So that different things could be tried.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d see what worked,; see what didn\u2019t work. This worked, this didn\u2019t work, but it wasn\u2019t a crime against humanity to try it on a state level. Now, if the people of Massachusetts really hated it, they could move, they could leave, they could go to another state. It\u2019s hard for people to move out of the state — some people don\u2019t like having to do that — but you can\u2019t move out of the United States. If you do something nationally, people are stuck. That\u2019s why federalism is important: If the Feds screw something up and you don\u2019t like it, you\u2019re kinda caught. If Massachusetts or Missouri or somebody else does something you don\u2019t like, you can split the scene. You can go somewhere else. <\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t leave the country as easily. You can\u2019t escape the United States — and what is this business (just to show you about the conventional wisdom) that being Romney\u2019s worried he couldn\u2019t survive being a flip-flopper? Oh, really? Obama has never flip-flopped? Yeah, except on almost every part of his foreign policy and national security policy. In one way, I would even give Romney some credit. He got the liberals of Massachusetts to hate government-run health care. There are a lot of ways… (laughing) Well, it\u2019s true. There are a lot of ways Romney could go with this, if he wanted to. But, again, I\u2019m not in politics. That probably would be a death knell for a politician, to say, “Hey, vote for me! I finally got the liberals in Massachusetts to hate government-run health care,” and they do! They don\u2019t like it at all.<\/p>\n

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