RUSH: You said "ship" with a P, right?Posted on 01/18/2012 12:04:34 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Southampton, New York, Bill, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. And thank you for what you do for us.
RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Okay, what I really want, Rush, for our side is to have somebody in the Oval Office who is gonna be a street fighter for us, not the class president; and that's why I have a problem with Romney in addition to not being sure of how conservative he really is. He has all the right answers, he has all the politics down, but does he really understand how angry and upset -- as you have so well articulated over the last couple of years, how mad -- we really are and how much we've yearned for action to turn this ship of state around?
RUSH: You said "ship" with a P, right?
CALLER: Ship. With a P, yes, sir.
RUSH: Whew!
CALLER: I just don't see Mitt Romney as being that guy that's going to grab hold of it. He's gonna do the typical political --
RUSH: I want to play a sound bite, Bill, I want to play a quick 14 second sound bite and get your reaction to it. It's Charles Krauthammer last night on The O'Reilly Factor, and the question: "I really think the press intimidates Romney and some of the others."
KRAUTHAMMER: He simply doesn't have ... the capacity to explain ... with some color and sort of force conservative ideas. He's a businessman. He -- you know, he looks like he's chairing a meeting of the board.
RUSH: Charles Krauthammer says that Romney does... I wonder when he figured this out. You --
CALLER: Look at this debate in South Carolina, Rush. I mean, the people will, as you indicated... I mean, they were all over any... Any time there was a major, pointed conservative concept or principle enunciated, the crowd went wild.
RUSH: Yep. Yep. And Krauthammer says that Romney can't do that, that Romney just doesn't have it in him. Now... (groans) Good Lord, I don't know. Why don't they figure that out?
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RUSH: Now, a lot of people agree with the previous caller: We want a street fighter in there, and a guy talked about the audience and the standing ovation for Newt on the Monday night debate. Folks, Newt was not street fighting Monday night. He was inspiring and uplifting. He wasn't attacking anything. This might have been a subtle difference to you, but Newt was not street fighting. You might think so, but the things that he said, the things that he said that brought people out of their chairs inspired and uplifted. I gotta take a break. I wish I had more time to develop this. Actually, I do have more time. It's gonna be six minutes from now so don't go anywhere.
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RUSH: Dick in Hockessin, Delaware, it's great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Real pleasure to be here today, Rush. I've been listening to you since 1989 in Sacramento, California. So thanks very much for taking my call.
RUSH: I appreciate that, sir.
CALLER: The reason I'm calling is I'm getting pretty fed up with this constant bashing of Mitt Romney, and it seems no matter what the guy does, there's always somebody out there with a snippet or something to put down whatever he's done. I don't care what it is.
RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute. Newt's getting pretty slammed here by Romney.
CALLER: Well, I understand that. All's fair in love and war, and in politics, and I agree with Sarah Palin that all of these candidates should be vetted. But, for instance, if Newt Gingrich changes his mind -- and I was an avid supporter of Newt. But if Newt Gingrich changes his mind on global warming and he wrote about it and talked about it for five years, sat on the bench with Nancy Pelosi, he makes one statement and it goes away; almost goes away. He was censured and lost by over 300 votes to 26. Nobody brings that up. He paid a $300,000 fine; nobody brings that up. But if Romney says one wrong word...
RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Now, hold it. They brought every bit of that up in Romney's ads in Iowa. That's what took Newt out of the Iowa caucus.
CALLER: Well, what I'm talking about, Rush -- and this does not apply to you, 'cause, like I said, I listen to you almost three hours every day, and you're the only one that brings up the good points of Mitt, for instance, when he gave a away his inheritance. I wonder how many...? I betcha Newt Gingrich or none of those others did that same thing. He's been married for 42 years, seven kids (not three times) and all the rest of this stuff. He turned the Olympics around. Then he was the governor -- and is he perfect? No. Absolutely not. I'd be the first to admit that. And then when I hear a guy like Krauthammer say that he isn't tough enough or he isn't boisterous enough? We don't need that. We need somebody that's gonna go in there and do the job.
RUSH: Well, Krauthammer said that he can't articulate conservatism, that he's a businessman; he doesn't know conservatism. A previous caller said we need a street fighter, and I understand how you mighta gotten the two confused, but believe me: Mitt is dishing it out every bit as much as he's getting it. That's one of the things going on in this campaign a lot of people don't like, but it's happening.
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Conservatives may want a street fighter but the rest of the country sees that as anger, bitterness, and an unstable personality. Rush may succeed and get his favorite Newt but the country will not vote for him. The women detest him and only the far right eat up that anger.
I am pretty sure most of the country will share his anger with where Obama has taken this country. With Newt, this election will be a referendum on Obama. With Mitt, this election will be a referendum on Wall Street.
It seems that Willard’s the unstable one each and every time he’s asked about his goons attacking Newt.
I’m a paul supporter, but if I have to choose between Mitt and Newt, it’s Newt every time.
I would vote for Newt, Santorum or Perry.
That goes for the primary as well as the general.
No Romney, Not Ever.
You are flipping delusional
While Obama is a complete and total disaster, I would rather lose with Gingrich than win with Romney!
I will not vote for Romney! I will sit it out and pop some corn!
While Obama is a complete and total disaster, I would rather lose with Gingrich than win with Romney!
I will not vote for Romney! I will sit it out and pop some corn!
Newt is an intellectual not a street fighter. He is a true conservative and there are a lot of women that support him..love Sara Palin stating she would vote for him if she lived in SC. Santorum and Perry should go after Mitt and hit him hard like Newt does...instead Santorum is going after Newt lately. We have to take out Mitt. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEWT!!!!!!!! WOOT WOOT
Looking at some of your past posts...are you a Romney supporter?
“Conservatives may want a street fighter but the rest of the country sees that as anger, bitterness, and an unstable personality. Rush may succeed and get his favorite Newt but the country will not vote for him. The women detest him and only the far right eat up that anger.”
Is this the robo-post of the day?
I swear I’ve seen several posters literally using the same language over several stories.
If you guys really think we are going to fall for your little coordinated nonsense, then you need to get better training.
Compared to the wussy milquetoasts we’ve got in D.C. now, Newt’s a street fighter. An intellectual street fighter to be sure, but a street fighter, and I like it. We cannot convince the country that we’re on the brink of disaster with Obama unless we look and sound like we mean it!
“The women detest him [Newt] . . .”
Certainly there are a lot of women of a certain age who find Romney more attractive, and to give the devil his due he does have that Ted Bundy style of charm that was seductive to some.
bttt
and to give the devil his due he does have that Ted Bundy style of charm that was seductive to some.ROTFL. FTW.
I feel the same way.
Yes, this is what the Romney campaign has told his supporters to say.
The women in the SC debate audience sure did like him. They were like 12-yr-old girls on Justin Beiber.
I think you are projecting your opinion on the rest of the country. As to Mitt, I do not see his manner as a reflection of a person with a stable personality but someone who adjusts his words and actions to suit his present clients. While in Massachusetts he acts like a liberal Republican, but In South Carolina he says he is a conservative Republican? I am reminded of an anecdote of Lincoln’’s who is talking about the politician who is a woman who observes her husband fighting with a bear. But wishing not to be partial, she looks to one and then to another, saying, “Go it man, go it bear!”
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