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.
Romney must figure that by joining the yapping Cuban sh-twawas he’d be a big dog.
Yep, one big S.O.B.!
On the website mittromney.com there is a notation at the bottom of the page reading: Paid for by Romney for President, Inc.
Dear Governor Romney, had you attacked Obama half as vigorously (or even AT ALL), you’d be President today.
But no, you stood up there and ignored almost all of the political vulnerabilities of your opponent (including even just ask him his true name and to provide us with a genuine birth certificate, his immigration file, his citizenship papers, his selective service registration file, his real social security identity, his college records including foreign student status notations, his actual sources of income for all those years up to and including today, and while you’re at it ... you could also challenge his long list of IslamoNazi and Communist and Anarchist friends and associates. But no, you stood up there are talked about... what? the weather?
You were our nominee and the incumbent had failed/sabotaged USA and the American people. Even Obama was resigned to losing re-election... until you started... or rather, did not start running.
Sorry, you looked like a very decent person, all politics aside. But we entrusted you to run for the office.. like a genuine candidate who wanted the job... and you let us down.
Therefore, sir, please do us no more favors now. All the very best to you and yours, Over and Out.
One respectful but disappointed citizen.
If the RINOs try the brokered convention thing, I hope Trump does run as an independent. Yeah, he gave his word, but he gave his word to people with no sense of honor.
There is going to be no brokered convention on the Republican side, Romney just won this thing in a landslide for Trump. Besides, the old guard needs to be wiped out of power and 3rd parties are powerless.
This has nothing to do with the posts here but I have wondered as I have seen photos of Cruz, who is that tall guy with the glasses that kinda resembles Jeb! that stands behind him.
Mitt should be ashamed, who told him to say this.
Let me tease you, Michigander.....
O-H!
Seriously, welcome aboard.
What about Obama?
They are behaving like children. It’s pathetic
Helicondelta is right.
Romney wants to be crowned the republican nominee in a brokered convention.
A vote for Cruz is a vote for a brokered convention.
A vote for Cruz is a vote for Romney.
Cruz, thus far, has not shown any leadership. The Senators don’t like him. Exactly what has he accoumlished?
You know, I don’t care much for Trump. But I’ll tell you this, what Romney did today is DETESTABLE. He GAVE us four more YEARS of this wicked president. He has no standing, he has no right to do what he did today.
And now he wants to wait until these guys have worked their butts off all summer, fall and winter and slide in at the convention????
FUMR
Hurry, quick go to the bathroom. YOU’RE FULL OF IT
Again, Mitt should have tried to talk American out of a second Obama term.
If John McCain had campaigned for himself as hard as he campaigned for The Won in 2008, he might have won.
Beats me.
FUMR, with a rusty aids covered chain saw.
A vote for Cruz is a vote for Romney.
Mitt is wholly owned by the GOPe.
The establishment hates Cruz, but they fear Trump. He is the only one they cannot buy.
Pray America wakes
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