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Pal, I have read what he said, seen posted what he said, and posted myself what he said -- that same clip you use there -- too many times to count. I heard the show on which he said it. Later I was stunned that anyone who heard it could twist and distort Rush's words into anything approaching an endorsement. In its context, the tone of Rush's voice, the place where it resided in the total Rush discusion for the segment ... it was really a kind of lamentation of the state of the primary line-up on the Republican side. There was ZERO praise of Romney. There was the observation that "probably" Romney "embodied" -- as in, created the appearance of being -- the three legs of the stool. The use of the words "probably" and "embody" tell me that Rush had zero intention of seeing his words spun for Romney's use.

If Rush made it clear on his show that he wouldn't "endorse" anyone, how on earth can you have his name, and that quote, on a list CLEARLY TITLED "ENDORSEMENTS" ??? You LIE to mislead your fellow Republicans in order to convince them to support your guy. You have to do it -- you are reduced to doing it -- because the truth is that conservative pundits that I know FOR SURE -- Limbaugh and Levin and Michael Reagan, because I have taken the trouble to track down the actual words and context of their supposed "endorsements" -- I know FOR SURE that when Romney supporters claim that those three guys are on the same side they are, that they are LYING. Plain, clear, absolute, FALSEHOODS they must resort to.

It is disgusting, and you people who do it should be embarassed, ashamed, and hounded until you weep. YOU ARE LYING to fellow Republicans about what others think about your candidate. The worst part is that you do it over and over and over and over and over on Free Republic at least, and it frightens me to think of other places you do it where people are ignorant and gullible enought to believe your repeated, proven LIES and MISREPRESENTATIONS about what respected conservatives think of Romney.

You are playing the game that if you repeat a LIE long enough and loud enough, that people will just believe it as fact. YOU ARE BAD DOGS, every one of you, and you make me ashamed to have you in the same political party. You don't belong here if you have to LIE and DISTORT TRUTH to convince others to support your guy.

That says volumes about your candidate.

What is your deal about repeatedly pinging the MOD?

You make it sound like Rush didn't mean what he said. He did, clearly.

Let me make this very clear, with yet another statement by Rush, right after his speech on Faith. It's quite remarkable, even for Rush, I hope you read it!!

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This speech, the kind of stuff he said today is the kind of stuff I’ve been dreaming of hearing in a presidential campaign in a long time in terms of what this country is and where we’re headed.

Do you realize how long it has been since a political person, a presidential candidate of either party, spoke extensively of the founding of this country and how crucial everybody’s understanding of that is to maintaining American exceptionalism?

Mitt Romney took the long view of this country, from its founding to its future, farther than we can see, and he described what it is that binds us together and defines us as Americans. It is crucially important that people understand this. This was a speech of the long view, a speech of leadership and of vision. It didn’t attack anybody. It was optimistic. It was positive. It had reinforcement of American traditions and values. So the criticism I’m hearing of this really does a disservice, I think, to the critics and the whole process here. Politics is dirty, I understand that, but this speech today that he gave was — when I do speeches, when I do the Rush to Excellence Tour, I go out and I’ll do two hours, sometimes an hour-and-45 minutes, depends on whether or not I run out of water. But that’s a theme of every one of them: American exceptionalism; American greatness. How did we get here? Why are we here? Why are we who we are? What defines us?
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All Romney was doing today was answering all these charges and criticisms that his religion makes him unfit to lead, and he was trying to, and I thought did a bang-up job, of defining this country. He gave a brilliant analysis of what he thinks the country is and where we’re headed as a country, filled with optimism that’s been sorely lacking in the campaign. This was not a speech that was designed to say to various members, “Okay, you want health care, I’m going to give it to you and here’s my plan, and my religion is not going to get in the way. You’re worried about the environment, don’t worry. I’m going to make sure we cut our CO2 emissions and, by the way, my Mormonism is not going to get in the way. You’re worried about these forest fires and the lead in the toys from the ChiComs, I’m going to make sure there’s no lead in the toys from the ChiComs and I’m going to make sure my Mormonism is not going to get in the way.” It’s not what it was about today. It’s not what he was doing. It was grander than that.

All these other things, when you get right down to it, are distractions in a genuinely good presidential campaign. I think it was a welcome speech, and some of the criticism now that’s being levied at this just doesn’t fit the moment, which is why I think some campaigns are behind this, which is understandable. It is a presidential race, and it’s dog-eat-dog out there, and it is to be expected. But, when it happens, I, El Rushbo, will comment on it and analyze it as I see it.
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Let me say one more thing here about Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney did today was raise the bar. Mitt Romney raised the bar today. In the process of laying out his own personal views on his religion, I think he raised the entire level of political discourse to things that matter, to things that are important in determining the kind of country we shall be in the future, and this is exactly what I have been hoping would happen in a presidential campaign. What Mitt Romney said today, I don’t care what you think of it. It doesn’t matter. If you disagree, if you were threatened by it, it doesn’t matter to me, but what he said today is important, because he was right about what he said the way this country was founded and how crucial that is to this country staying who and what it is. What Barack Obama thought in kindergarten is not important! That Mrs. Clinton flew on trips to China with President Clinton and, therefore, is qualified to foreign policy, is not important. That Mrs. Clinton has “fought for children” for 35 years is not important, nor is it qualifying. What Romney said today is important, and I think that’s what everybody is so scared about. I think that’s why a lot of people are so scared by it, including people on the conservative side of the aisle. I stress again here: I am not endorsing anybody. That hasn’t changed. I analyze this stuff day-to-day as it goes. Look, it may not be morning in America again, but we are sure a long way from midnight, now, if this keeps up.

Early in the century	Later....

“A lie told often enough becomes truth.”	"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."
*Vladimir Lenin.*	*Joseph Goebbels*