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RUSH: Here\u2019s Cliff in Pleasanton, California. I\u2019m glad you waited. Cliff, you\u2019re up next. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m watching Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s political analysis last night, and he\u2019s basically concluding that the Republicans may very well not be able to settle on a candidate and there will be some kind of an impasse. And he\u2019s suggesting there\u2019s a reasonable chance that they may turn to Mitt Romney. And the reason, as he puts it, is because Mitt\u2019s got the support of the establishment. I\u2019m watching this and I\u2019m saying, “He\u2019s not getting it.” If anything, that\u2019s the reason they would not go with Mitt. And I\u2019m wondering when are they going to realize what\u2019s happening here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What a position sometimes I end up in on this program. I mean, there is a simple answer to your question, but I have nothing to gain by providing it to you. Nothing whatsoever. Let me just make sure I understand that you saw this right. Is it your testimony here at the Limbaugh Institute that, last night on The O\u2019Reilly Factor, Bill O\u2019Reilly actually — forget “actually” — Bill O\u2019Reilly suggested Mitt Romney as a compromise solution to the problems that exist in the Republican nomination process because he is an establishment candidate, he\u2019s an establishment Republican? That\u2019s what you heard last night?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Almost word-for-word. And as I said, it\u2019s almost like they\u2019re not getting it, and that\u2019s what I don\u2019t understand. This is a professional pundit, obviously one of the leading ones, and seems to be at such odds with what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. I don\u2019t know why you\u2019re so shocked at this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would think at a certain point they would start to wake up and say, hey, this is the — Rush, it\u2019s more than anti-establishment. It actually is what your previous caller was saying. It\u2019s the frustration with the establishment\u2019s failure to fight for what we want.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I get all of that. The point is you\u2019re talking about — folks, I\u2019m at a no-win here. I don\u2019t want to name other names, but Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s not the only person on that network who is a representative of the Republican establishment. Karl Rove is on that network, and Karl Rove is from the Bush camp. And if Romney is — look, this is not the first time Romney\u2019s name has come up. Romney\u2019s name came up a few weeks ago, again, as a sort of a fusion candidate solution to the fact that Jeb just wasn\u2019t getting it done. The establishment put all their marbles on Jeb. The donor class has put all their marbles on Jeb, and it\u2019s not happening yet, and so they\u2019re actively looking for a substitute. <\/p>\n

In fact, the name now even beyond Romney is Rubio. Rubio is said to be among commentators discussing this, the new establishment choice. They haven\u2019t thrown Jeb overboard, don\u2019t misunderstand. But there\u2019s utter panic. I mean, they\u2019re looking for salvation here. They\u2019re looking for ways to save their campaign. I mean, the establishment wants to win this as much as they\u2019ve ever wanted to win. And if their guy, Jeb, is not lighting fires right now, they\u2019re looking for somebody else, and it was Romney couple, three weeks ago, the name was bandied about. And he even reacted to it by saying, “Hey, you know, if the team needs me, well, then I might consider it.” <\/p>\n

There\u2019s an answer to what you saw last night. I have nothing to gain by answering. I really don\u2019t. You know, some people in the media want to carve out niches for themselves where they believe nobody else in the media is so that they can be said to be the only occupant of a particular point of view. Does that help you understand what might be going on there?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: So is it an agenda thing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No. I\u2019m talking about professional positioning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So they\u2019re speaking to positioning that they would like to arrive at, rather than their true analysis, their true feelings?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Name me anybody else who\u2019s touting Romney.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can\u2019t think of any.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s your answer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Interesting, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well. I appreciate the call out there, Cliff, more than you know. (laughing)<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. I just got a note from somebody who said that is not what Bill O\u2019Reilly said last night. I didn\u2019t see it, so I don\u2019t know what was said. I had a caller who says that O\u2019Reilly thought that Romney\u2019d be good, an establishment candidate and so forth. Somebody I know says, that\u2019s not what happened. So I\u2019m at a loss. But you heard me. I repeated just to make sure, for clarification, “This is what you think you heard he said?” Almost word-for-word. <\/p>\n

This is another thing I\u2019ve found, by the way. It\u2019s not that the caller is trying to be wrong. People think they hear things when they don\u2019t all the time. Communication is a challenging and frustration thing sometimes. You know, oftentimes I will say exactly what I mean in as simple a way as I know how, and people will misunderstand it and think I said something else. Hmm? (interruption) No, no, no. I\u2019m not talking about Media Matters or any of that. I\u2019m just talking about friends, family, whatever. And it doesn\u2019t have to be on politics. <\/p>\n

It could be anything. <\/p>\n

Communication\u2019s a really challenging thing. That\u2019s why I believe brevity is the soul of wit and all that. So I guess we\u2019ll get clarification if it matters. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. What O\u2019Reilly said was that the Republicans could turn to Romney because he got so many votes last time, if they can\u2019t come up with a candidate that wins the primary out right this time around. Best I can figure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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