Posted on 03/03/2016 3:42:07 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Okay. I just finished watching, like many people probably did, the Mitt Romney attempted takedown of Donald Trump. And once again, as loudly as they apparently are able to say it, the Republican establishment telegraphs they have absolutely no idea what is happening in this country. It's just stunning to me, folks, to watch this.
So many different takeaways -- well, there are many takeaways you can have of this thing. You can analyze it just in its vacuum, was it good, was it bad, did Romney succeed in making the point that he wanted to make? Then you take it out of that little bubble and you put it in context of everything, and the questions about it just overwhelm whatever substance or content there was in what Romney had to say.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, it's great to have you. Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
It appears to me that the establishment in Washington, both parties, still believes that whatever is happening out here that is causing people to support Donald Trump in large numbers is something temporary. That it is a fever, that it is a tantrum, that it is a child that has gone astray and that a lecture will straighten them out. That a talking-to will show them the error of their ways. And that's not what this is, as I divulged in great detail yesterday and on many days and weeks prior. This is not temporary, it's not a phase, and is not a tantrum.
Now, Mitt Romney had some substantive things to say about Trump that, as I say, if you just look at it within the bubble of his comments, might make some sense. But it's nothing nobody else has been saying about Trump in this entire campaign. There wasn't anything new, and not one instance in the past of anybody saying any of these things about Trump has caused massive defections from Trump's campaign. So the questions then arise, okay, if it hasn't worked prior to today, why do it today? What's the deal? And the answers to me are rather obvious.
I think these establishment people still can't get it through their heads that this is real. They've expected Trump to implode. They have expected his supporters to abandon him and wake up from all this. And now that we've had Super Tuesday and every passing day the establishment learns that it isn't temporary, that it isn't gonna go away on its own, they ratchet up their levels of panic and try to take matters into their own hands. And then you start questioning the timing and the person they decide to use to do this. I'm not saying that Romney isn't sincere in any way, shape, manner, or form. But where was this months ago?
Everything Romney said about Trump today they have thought about Trump since this campaign began. Where was this kind of analysis of Barack Obama? Where has this kind of analysis been of Barack Obama the last seven years? The way this is gonna be heard -- I don't know if they're ever gonna understand this, these establishment guys. The way this is gonna be heard is, why are you trying to destroy your own base over and over again? Why are you rejecting the majority of people in your own party and their expressed desires and wishes? Why are you continually ignoring and trying to thwart the will of your voters?
That's how it's gonna be heard. That's how it's gonna be reacted to. They can't think this, can they? Take the universe of Trump supporters and however they hear this, maybe they watched it live, maybe they'll watch it streaming on their phones or they'll see highlights of it later on TV or whatever, but they're gonna see it. Do they really think that a significant number of Trump supporters are gonna go, "Wow! Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, I hadn't thought of that. You know, Romney's right. Okay. Okay, good. I'm finished with Trump. Okay. Okay. I admit, I was wrong." Do they really think that's gonna happen?
It's going to be seen as the establishment once again unable to win and therefore they're resorting once again to trying to talk their supporters out of the thinking that they are at present engaged in. Now Cookie is, as we speak, working on excerpts from the Romney speech, but I want to play you a couple of sound bites. And the reason I'm playing these sound bites is not to point out any hypocrisy in Romney, although that'll happen.
But the reason I want you to hear these sound bites is because these sound bites, matched against what Romney said today, are a glaring reason, one of many reasons why the Washington establishment is being rejected and not trusted and not supported. Let's go back, February 2nd, 2012, in Las Vegas, the Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Donald Trump endorsed Romney for president February 2nd, 2012. And we have two Mitt Romney sound bites. Here's the first.
ROMNEY: There are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. This is one of them, being in Donald Trump's magnificent hotel, and having his endorsement is a delight. I'm so honored and pleased to have his endorsement.
RUSH: Don't think the people supporting Trump don't remember this. Don't think they're gonna hear this either on this program or elsewhere and they're not gonna be questioning Trump. They're gonna be questioning Romney. Here's the second bite. Get this.
That One Time When Mitt Romney Praised Donald Trump...
ROMNEY: Donald Trump has shown an extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works, to create jobs for the American people. He's done it here in Nevada. He's done it across the country. He understands that our economy is facing threats from abroad. He's one of the few people who stood up and said, "You know what, China has been cheating. They've taken jobs from Americans. They haven't played fair. We have to have a president who stands up to cheaters." So I want to say thank you to Donald Trump for his endorsement. It means a great deal to me to have endorsement of Mr. Trump and people across this country.
RUSH: Trump's the same the guy that he was four years ago in 2012. But here's Romney accepting his endorsement and praising him, praising him on the terms Trump is using in this campaign. He's gonna get back at the people cheating Americans (i.e., the Chinese). He's gonna get back at the people taking jobs from Americans. Romney applauds that. Trump is campaigning on those very things. But strip away the details.
The way people who have had it with the establishment are gonna hear this is they're gonna think it's Romney who has to explain himself, not Trump. They think Trump's being consistent. They think Trump's the worthwhile. Whatever they think about Trump, they think whatever Trump stands for, whatever Trump means (which I think is bigger than Trump)... Romney's the one who seems to be in diametric opposition to himself. How do you go from lavish praise and almost acting like a groupie just to be in Trump's presence...
"There are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. This is one of them, being in Donald Trump's magnificent hotel, and having his endorsement is a delight. I'm so honored and pleased to have his endorsement." That's one of those wonderful things you never expect. How do you go from that to this today? Now, I realize some of you may not have heard the Romney speech. As I say, we are feverishly assembling sound bites from it, and I'm gonna get your input on this, too, because there's a lot of different takes on this.
It looks like the establishment beast extends farther and deeper than we ever imagined. Without Trump, they would not be exposed.
The guy that inspired millions to stay home has spoken.
I have newer flamed anyone on this forum but that is probably the most stupid thing I have read. Do you know anything about ANYONE other than Orange Gumby.
Helicondelta is correct. The only way voters get to choose the candidate is if the candidate gets enough delegates to win before the convention on the first ballot of the convention. If there are no candidates that pass that threshold, the party will ensure that Romney or Bush will be nominated. The only candidate right now that can pass that threshold is Trump. Cruz can't. He has already won the races he is likely to win. He has peaked. He will win more delegates, but he can't pass the threshold. The same is true with Rubio and the others. From now on, every delegate Cruz wins is a delegate Trump can't use to get over the threshold and stop Romney/Ryan/Bush from being appointed.
You should see it inside the beltway. The entire apparatus has gone mad. They have no connection to reality. These are folks who cannot do anything except write ponderous 10 year strategy plans on ever more banal subjects trying to sound as though they are the serious minders of serious people doing the serious work of governing the country when they are mere apparatchiks replicating the apparatus that brought down the soviet union and like them do so so incompetently that it will all collapse of its own weight without a shot fired. The 50 states ought to put up a security cordon about 50 miles out and shoot anyone going in or out.
Well, them too, but there are always those people that never will vote because no candidate is good enough for them. Trouble is, they think the lesser of two evils is still evil, so who cares if the greater evil wins?
It’s simple - vote for Trump if he’s the nominee if you think a President Clinton would be worse. He is the candidate of the will of the primary voters, so the GOPe better not overrule their base and nominate some loser. The Democrats can get away with that kind of behaviour with their idiotic base but not the GOP.
Very telling. I’ve lost respect.
Mitt’s attack may very well earn a place in History as one of the greatest political backfiring boondoggles of all time.
I believe that time will show that Mitt’s attack speech is the thing that puts Trump over the top in delegates.
If the GOP honors that choice at the convention is another question.
If they don’t it could be the end of the republican party as an occasionally viable alternative to the democrats.
Go vote for Cruz like Little Lord Romney wants you to....peasant.
This is a fabulous find. Unless it is a Chinese hack of the FEC website, you can assume it is a legitimate document filed with the US government.
PS - For the sake of preserving the evidence and alerting folks can I suggest posting this as a separate post.
Combat - A 1/30/2016 FEC filing for Romney / Ryan as P/VP is documentary evidence of the conspiracy.
This is a fabulous find. Unless it is a Chinese hack of the FEC website, you can assume it is a legitimate document filed with the US government.
Agree. Indeed.
Key words: Why are you thwarting and ignoring your voters?
Thanks, Rush.
Note to Cruzers: If Sen. Cruz were in the lead, Mitt’s speech would have been to tear him down. We owe these two our support. We don’t gain a thing by joining Mitt and the GOPe.
PPS you can go to the FEC website and do searches on anyone
http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/candcmte_info.shtml
If it’s legit....someone (with much better skills than mine) better grab it, while we can.
Quit wasting your time listening to Limbaugh and watching the trash on Fox News. Stuart Varney and Lou Dobbs (on Fox Business)are MUCH smarter and MUCH more in tune with the American people than that blowhard on the radio and the male and female bimbos on FNC.
For an example, you should have seen Lou Dobbs blister Romney and Ryan tonight as well as handing the odious Juan Williams HIS butt.
Lower your blood pressure and raise your IQ in the process. Watch Dobbs and Vsrney.
I do not approve of the losers remarks about Trump...and am angry at shenanigans to rig the convention.
That doesn’t surprise me. Gutfeld is 100% establishment. I bet the Bush tool Dana PeRINO was in complete agreement.
I haven’t watched “The Five” in over a year and don’t miss it at all.
I agree.
Trump never denied endorsing Romney. Don’t lie.
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