{"id":396668,"date":"2021-05-10T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=396668"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:17:39","slug":"rush-knew-what-romney-was-all-about-years-ago-now-utah-is-figuring-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/10\/rush-knew-what-romney-was-all-about-years-ago-now-utah-is-figuring-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Knew What Romney Was All About Years Ago — Now Utah Is Figuring It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: Who was the first person in your memory to really describe what Mitt Romney is in terms of governance? Because I\u2019m a big fan of the idea that there\u2019s no such thing as Mitt Romney, that he doesn\u2019t exist, that there is a father who\u2019s a really good father, loves his kids very much named Mitt Romney. There is a businessman, Mitt Romney, who is shrewd and brilliant and strategic, and creates values or spots undervalued assets and sometimes breaks them up and sells them, which has a human cost to it, of course.<\/p>\n

\"\"Then there\u2019s a guy who wants to be everybody\u2019s papa. And that\u2019s another Mitt Romney. And, in politics, there is no solid Mitt Romney. I bet you if you went to Mitt and you talked to him about parenting I bet his principles never changed. I bet they\u2019ve been solid from Day One. I bet if you went to him in business it would be about the fundamentals and value creation and are we building this entity to last or are we building it to flip, or are we looking at this entity as something we can improve or something we could break up and sell? And I bet those are numbers-based decisions.<\/p>\n

I bet that\u2019s the same with his philanthropy. Politics? There\u2019s only one number. It\u2019s the polls. Now, you could say, as he has, oh, when I went after Trump, that was my principles, Herman. You don\u2019t get it. No, I do, because you didn\u2019t go after Obama, who committed more harm to this country than all of Donald Trump\u2019s tweets pact into a nuclear missile and fired at the heart of the country ever could do. Tweets don\u2019t do things. Allowing the Taliban and Hamas to smuggle drugs across our border as a political detail, that does things like helps destroy people\u2019s lives with opioids. We could go through the Obama destruction of the country that now continues with Joe Biden\u2019s dementia, reading from Barack Obama\u2019s teleprompter, and Mitt Romney has very little to say.<\/p>\n

Oh, he said what he was getting booed in Utah, because he\u2019s been censored by the Utah County Republican Party, Mitt Romney has. Thank you, Utah County Republican Party. He was booed at the Utah GOP convention. Thank you, Utah GOP convention and the people who booed him. And you could say, well, Herman, those are my principles. No. Because we\u2019re watching right now our energy system in Texas being hacked. We\u2019re watching missiles launch once again into Israel which didn\u2019t happen — this is, what, how long has Biden\u2019s dementia been in there? We\u2019re watching a militarized installation in Washington, D.C., that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna continue forevermore.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re watching a wholesale destruction of the work ethic with the installation of a universal basic income under cover of covid, and Mitt, he\u2019s troubled, he\u2019s troubled by some of the policies of Biden, but not Biden himself, not Obama himself. Those aren\u2019t principles. Those are opportunistic things to say to be the thoughtful senator from Utah. You know, Rush knew what Mitt Romney is all about.<\/a> It\u2019s not about conservatism or fighting against leftism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mitt Romney represents the Never Trump mentality that\u2019s in the Republican, a strain of it. He may not be as virulent as some of the pseudo, so-called intellectual magazine types who compromise the Never Trumpers, column writers and so forth. But he — exactly as I — as I stated — look, here\u2019s Mitt Romney. He\u2019s running for president, what, 2012.<\/p>\n

\"\"And in the early stages of it, there\u2019s a rap going around that he\u2019s not really a conservative, that he\u2019s a RINO, that he\u2019s a moderate Republican and he has to pretend to be a conservative \u2019cause he really isn\u2019t one, and he (kind of like most people in Washington) looks down his nose at conservatives. So in an attempt to persuade people that they were wrong, that he was in fact a conservative, you remember how he described himself?<\/p>\n

He said, “I am a severe conservative,” and all of us conservatives looked around and said, “What the hell is ‘a severe conservative\u2019? We\u2019ve never heard that.” Romney exemplifies the Washington establishment. He is career politics. His family, his father. He\u2019s career. There is a certain way that those people behave. There\u2019s a certain station that they think they\u2019ve achieved, and they maintain it by knowing their place — and the Republicans\u2019 place is always second tier.<\/p>\n

You must acknowledge you\u2019re second tier. You must acknowledge the superiority or the primacy of the Washington establishment. You must always make it clear that you appreciate being in that establishment. You gotta know your place in it. And the one thing Republicans in the establishment do not do is anything like what Trump does or is. You don\u2019t fight back. You don\u2019t really try to win on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n

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