Mitt is Kicking Butt Out There

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 25, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: Mitt Romney yesterday on his website and his YouTube channel (he has a YouTube channel) released a new ad entitled, "Day One, Part 2." Romney's staying on message. There's one thing... I probably, in the near future, need to spend a little bit more time in this. But you know, everybody's talking about Obama and his daily events and so forth. But Romney is kicking butt out there, and Romney is staying on message, and Romney is rapid-firing back. And this is part and parcel of what has them a little bit discombobulated.

So here is a Romney ad staying on message Day One, Part 2.

ANNOUNCER: What would a Romney presidency be like? Day one: President Romney announces deficit reductions, ending the Obama era of big government, helping secure our kids' futures. President Romney stands up to China on trade and demands they play by the rules. President Romney begins repealing job-killing regulations that are costing the economy billions. That's what a Romney presidency will be like.

ROMNEY: I'm Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.

Day One

RUSH: Now on CNN's Starting Point this morning, Christine Romans, the fill-in host, talked to Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz, who runs the Democrat National Committee. By the way, do you know Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz was scheduled to appear and make a speech after services at a Miami temple, a Jewish temple? And a member of the temple, a man by the name of Tate stood up and said (paraphrased), "I'm outta here. If you bring her in here to make some concocted political speech on Friday night, I'm outta here. I mean, I'm out!"

So they canceled her. A Miami temple canceled the appearance by Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz. When was the last time you heard of that happening? Normally that's the kind of stuff that happens to us. One of us is scheduled to go someplace, the left protests it, and whoever was scheduled to host it shuts it down. Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz was disinvited or uninvited, and this Tate guy... I forget his first name. Stanley? I'm not sure. Anyway, he persevered.

And this temple is very close to her district. It's in Miami but it's very close to her district. Anyway, she was on CNN's Starting Point this morning and Christine Romans said, "I want to start with this attack on Romney and Bain Capital. A lot of people, Debbie, are seeing this as an attempt to disqualify Romney in battleground states, so the lunch-bucket Democrats have somebody to blame for their factories closing. The White House said this is their big strategy: Go after Bain; go after Romney. Will it play in those battleground states, and if it doesn't, what's Plan B?"

Day One, Part Two

SCHULTZ: It's not strategy! What it is is that Mitt Romney has made his record at Bain Capital his experience in the private sector -- which is almost exclusively at Bain Capital -- the central premise to American voters, uh, that ... that they should elect him president. There are thousands of workers who he laid off, uh, companies that they deliberately forced into bankruptcies, and Mitt Romney and his partners run -- made hundreds of millions of dollars.

RUSH: "Deliberately forced into bankruptcy."

So they're doubling down on Bain.

Whether it's working or not, they are going to double down on Bain.

And Romney's ads are entirely positive. And, by the way, remember all these calls against negative ads? "Gotta stop all the negative ads!" Well, Romney's out there running positive ads, and the media is still dissing his ads. The media is still ripping Romney's ads. The media is still criticizing Romney for his ads even though they're the essence of positive. So Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz says there basically is no Plan B. "We're going after Bain, we're going after Romney, and nothing gonna change." So Christine Romans says, "Well, why is it not hypocrisy for the president to take campaign donations from private equity when he's attacking private equity, making that an essential part of his campaign?"

SCHULTZ: Accepting a contribution from a particular person involved in venture capital and criticizing Mitt Romney -- who has made his record as a venture capitalist at Bain the central focus of his credibility and his qualification for being president -- are completely different things! So Mitt Romney, in the way that he ran Bain Capital -- the companies that he deliberately drove into bankruptcy, the creditors that he left with less than pennies on the dollar in return, and the thousands and thousands of people who he left on the unemployment lines while making hundreds of millions of dollars of -- in profits for himself and his partners -- is an appropriate examination for a man who is saying that this is the reason we should elect him president.

Who contributes to Barack Obama --

RUSH: Stop it! I feel like I'm I listening to Hillary. I can't stand it. It's nothing but... It's just poppycock. It's just lies. It's all lies. It's all absurd. I tell you what I'm gonna do. When we come back at the top of the hour, we'll do Marc Thiessen. Washington Post headline: "Forget Bain -- Obama's Public-Equity Record is the Real Scandal." And it's a list of all and every one of Obama's abject failures -- bailing out companies, green energy sector -- using your money. Romney used his own. Obama is using your money, taxpayer money is got a dismal record.

You talk about bankruptcies and people losing their jobs?

Obama's the king of destroying companies!

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RUSH: The fact of the matter is Bain Capital was trying to keep these companies out of bankruptcy, and they were asked in to save these companies. These were not takeovers. This woman doesn't have the slightest idea what she's talking about.

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[southphilly]

smart...that is 2 votes for Obama..

[Hawthorn]

>> an ounce of sanity <<

Obviously not required for posting on this thread!

[Longbow1969]

No one here is an ego-maniac. Your boy doesn't even have all the delegates he needs and the Nominating Convention hasn't even been held.

His "boy"?

How is Romney his "boy"? Pointing out that Romney is going to be the GOP nominee and that he is better than Obama doesn't make him anyone's "boy". Most people here wanted someone else, but our candidates lost or didn't run.

You are engaged in magic thinking.

LOL. You are still grasping at straws that Romney isn't the nominee aren't you? Still living in some fantasy world where you refuse to accept reality? Mitt not only will have all the delegates he needs, he will have lots extra to spare. Romney has 1084 delegates at the moment and will get plenty more when NJ, CA, TX, etc, vote. It's over dude. Romney is the nominee. Deal with it. You make yourself sound ridiculous when you continue to suggest Romney still may not be the nominee.

[Longbow1969]

What you have on FreeRepublic is a bunch of egomaniacs who believe they’re doing the Lord’s work by being anti-Romney and anti-Morman.

Yup, a lot of those type of people found a home here. I think because Romney was not the candidate most conservatives wanted, the anti-Mormon haters were given a lot of leeway. Their anti-LDS vitriol has spread all over the site now though, instead of just being confined to the religious forums. I really think it's driven a lot of mainstream conservatives away.

Fortunately, 90%+ of conservatives don't have these fringe anti-Mormon, anti-Romney positions. Most are going to vote for Mitt even though he is not their preferred candidate. The stakes are too high. Hussein must be defeated. The overwhelming majority of conservative voters understand this. The fringe Mormon bashers will make no political difference, though I do think they are hurting this website.

[citizen]

Stay positive! That’s the right way to go. Quickly debunk the Obama lying ads but keep Romney’s ads as positive as possible. Like ‘Morning in America’ Reaganesque.

[matthew fuller]

I will definitely vote against Barrack Hussein Obama Dada in November.

[citizen]

2012 thru 2020 is going to be a long, hard stretch for you to pull, pal.

However, Romney is on record (at least on record second-hand via a Rush monologue) as saying he expects to be a one-term president. After making and implemening the hard choices necessary to realign the course of our republic, even many fiscal conservatives won’t want to re-elect him.

The serious austerity the slackers of America need to experience will be a hard way to go for all of us.

[Hawthorn]

>> 90%+ of conservatives don’t have these fringe anti-Mormon, anti-Romney positions <<

Almost but not quite. The latest survey I’ve seen puts the number at 87%.

[citizen]

I used to think Blabbermouth Schultz should do something about her hair. I now think it’s just perfect just as it is ;) Blab on, Schultz.

[Dagnabitt]

ALL THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST OBAMA ARE MOOT WITH Milt.

You've convinced me. Guess I'll vote for Obama.

[muawiyah]

The 0bots don’t fear Romney.

[muawiyah]

You know Barry Goldwater was saying the same thing about black Republicans and Social Conservatives in 1964.

He lost in one of the great landslides ~ and against a man who was corrupt to the core!

[muawiyah]

Regarding “Mormon bashers” might we ask which bunch of Mormons it is who are legitimate and which ones are illegitimate? I’d hate to be bashing the phony ones and wasting my time (if I were bashing Mormons).

[Kazan]

If you have a better plan, lay it out so we can analyze it.

I do:

Wait four more years for, at least, a somewhat conservative Republican nominee and, in the meantime, ride the backlash against a lame duck Marxist President to a record majority of Republicans in Congress.

Liberals might actually be right about Romney Republicans -- you are reactionaries. You're so desperate to get rid of Obama that you refuse to consider the damage a Romney President will do to the conservative movement and Republican party.

Republicans in Massachusetts held less seats in the legislation than at any time since the civil war after Romney was done there. And, Romney's leftist judges and healthcare plan continue to wreck havoc on the state.

[Kazan]

You absolutely want that arrogant pos get reelected, don’t you?

No, I want to avoid a Romney President that will likely be a bigger disaster than the Bush 41 Presidency was. I want to prevent a liberal Republican from wiping out the gains that were made by the conservative movement in 2010. I want to avoid a scenario where Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia retire and are replaced by another David Souter.

[Kazan]

People staying home and not helping us ost this freak have a death wish.

Voting for Romney is political suicide for the conservative movement.

Romney's liberal policies devastated the Republican party in Massachusetts to the point there were less Republicans in the legislation than there had been since the civil war.

[Kazan]

Look these words up they will help you in your quest for sanity.

Here's a link to help yours:

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/

Yeah, voting for liberal, one that was the father of gay marriage and provided the blueprint for Obamacare, is going to advance conservatism? ROFLOL! That notion is what is brain dead.

[Kazan]

casting the question that way unconsciously is how we have people worried that their souls might be damned for checking the box by the Mormon’s name

Maybe their souls will, barring repentance, for casting a vote for the father of gay marriage, someone that openly supports gay adoption and gays in the military and who is likely to replace judges like Scalia and Kennedy, neither of which would retire with Obama in the White House, with pro-Roe and pro-gay marriage justices.

[Longbow1969]

Regarding “Mormon bashers” might we ask which bunch of Mormons it is who are legitimate and which ones are illegitimate? I’d hate to be bashing the phony ones and wasting my time (if I were bashing Mormons).

Huh? No idea what you are going on about. My point was simply that recently there was a lot of Mormon bashing here. That may have always been the case on the religion forums, I wouldn't really know. What I have seen though, is that anti-LDS venom is being spewed all over the regular discussion threads. I think this is because almost all of us opposed Romney in the primaries and perhaps overlooked some of it. In that sense, maybe we are all at fault for not speaking up loudly enough before this nonsense spread.

There have always been cranks, crazies, religious bigots, conspiracy theorists, tin foil hatters, etc, here. That is part of any political forum, and not necessarily a bad thing. The key for a healthy forum is that the vast majority of grounded, sane, reasonable people keep the fringe in check. What has happened, unfortunately, is the anti-Mormon(ism) vitriol being spewed was allowed to go unchecked for too long. That has badly affected these forums and probably driven a lot of good, decent conservatives away.

[Kazan]

I get it that you hate Romney. How does that remove Buckwheat?

It doesn't. But, it avoids a bigger disaster -- a Romney Presidency, which will be bigger than either Bush Presidency.

You keep wanting to pretend voting for a man with liberal record and no principles is going to make the country better. It won't.