{"id":14912,"date":"2012-08-07T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-07T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:02:22","slug":"the_romney_murdered_my_wife_ad_is_just_normal_fare_for_the_politicized_left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/07\/the_romney_murdered_my_wife_ad_is_just_normal_fare_for_the_politicized_left\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Romney Murdered My Wife&#8221; Ad is Just Normal Fare for the Politicized Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Mike, have that &#8220;Romney Murdered My Wife&#8221; ad standing by. We\u2019re gonna get to that here again. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14917\">That is the subject today: Mitt Romney murdering a guy\u2019s wife.<\/a> That\u2019s the latest Obama ad, tested among Democrat focus groups to work like a charm. Mitt Romney, Republican presidential nominee, wants guys\u2019 wives to die. Let\u2019s listen to the ad again. It just hit the airwaves today and yesterday. It\u2019s relatively recent.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a guy, Joe Soptic is his name. I hope that I\u2019m pronouncing it right. It\u2019s S-o-p-t-i-c. It might be Soap-tic; I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve not heard it pronounced. But it\u2019s from Obama\u2019s super PAC, which is called Priorities USA, and it\u2019s run&#8230; Who runs this thing? Bill Burton? Yep! Bill Burton, who left the Obama White House to go run the super PAC. Here\u2019s the ad again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nj70XqOxptU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JOE SOPTIC: (dramatic music) When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant I lost my health care (dramatic chime), and my family lost their health care (dramatic chime), and, uh, uh, a short time after that my wife became ill. (dramatic chime) I don\u2019t know how long she was sick. Uhhh, and I think maybe she didn\u2019t say anything because she knew that we &#8212; we couldn\u2019t afford the insurance. And &#8212; and then one day she &#8212; she, uh, became ill (dramatic chime) and I took her up to the Jackson County hospital and &#8212; and &#8212; and admitted her for pneumonia. And that\u2019s when they found the cancer. And by then we were stage 4. There was &#8212; there was nothing they could do for her. (dramatic chime) And she passed away in 22 days. (dramatic chime) I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he\u2019s done to anyone. (dramatic chime) And I&#8230; Furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There you have it.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney killed the guy\u2019s wife and didn\u2019t care about it. Now, stick with me on this for just a second, because here at The Politico, Alexander Burns has done a sort of a fact check on the ad. Would you like to hear this? Alexander Burns: &#8220;The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action lobbed a heavy-duty attack at Mitt Romney this morning, airing an ad that links the closure of a GST Steel plant in Kansas City to the loss of a family\u00c2\u2019s health insurance &#8212; and the death of a woman some time later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man speaking in the ad, Joe Soptic, says, &#8216;Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care and my family lost their health care. And a short time after that my wife became ill.\u2019 Soptic explains he\u00c2\u2019s not exactly sure when his wife became sick, but that when he took her to the hospital she had undetected, advanced cancer and died 22 days later. The Romney campaign has pushed back on other GST Steel-related attacks by arguing that the plant in Kansas City closed after he stepped away from his management job at Bain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Democrats counter that Romney was still listed as a top executive at Bain through 2002, and that he built up the private equity firm during the time it invested in GST Steel.)&#8221; So even he wasn\u2019t there, he was there. We don\u2019t care when Romney left. He was still there. Now, &#8220;In the case of this particularly jarring super PAC ad&#8230;&#8221; Yes, in &#8220;this particularly jarring super PAC ad, it may also be relevant,&#8221; writes The Politico, &#8220;that Soptic\u00c2\u2019s wife died in 2006, years after the GST factory closed down,&#8221; not days, as it\u2019s made to sound here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_65636\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushRomneyMurdererAd.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 2006 story in the Kansas City Star reported the death of Ranae Soptic, a former champion roller skater: &#8216;Soptic went to the hospital for pneumonia, but doctors found signs of very advanced cancer, and she died two weeks later on June 22.'&#8221; So Burns here in the Politico says, &#8220;I asked Priorities USA strategist Bill Burton to explain the connection between Romney, Bain and a cancer fatality that happened near the end of Romney\u00c2\u2019s tenure as governor of Massachusetts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was long gone. He was gone by four years when this happened. &#8220;The lapse in time between the plant closing and Soptic\u00c2\u2019s death doesn\u00c2\u2019t mean the ad is invalid,&#8221; says Politico, &#8220;but it raises questions about the cause-and-effect relationship here.&#8221; Oh, really? That\u2019s all? &#8220;The lapse in time between the plant closing and Soptic\u00c2\u2019s death doesn\u00c2\u2019t mean the ad is invalid,&#8221; says Politico, &#8220;but it raises questions about the cause-and-effect relationship here.&#8221; Oh, really? That\u2019s all? It &#8220;doesn\u2019t mean the ad\u2019s invalid,&#8221; it just &#8220;raises questions about cause-and-effect relationship&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Burton said, &#8220;We\u00c2\u2019re illustrating how long it took for communities and individuals to recover from the closing of these businesses&#8221; that Romney shut down. &#8220;Families and individuals had to find new jobs, new sources of health insurance and a way to make up for the pensions they lost. Mitt Romney has had an enduring impact on the lives of thousands of men and women and for many of them, that impact has been devastating,&#8221; as in death!<\/p>\n<p>Romney didn\u2019t kill just this woman.<\/p>\n<p>Many others have died because of Romney and Bain!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Burton is implying here. Then this guy writing at Politico says, &#8220;Like most of the outside-group ads in the 2012 race, the fairness of this one is open to interpretation.&#8221; Really? An ad accusing Romney murder in the second degree is &#8220;open to interpretation&#8221;? &#8220;But both the Priorities attack and the new welfare-themed hit on Obama from the Romney campaign are provoking more intense outrage &#8212; both publicly and privately &#8212; than most of the other spots we\u00c2\u2019ve seen this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s play that ad. Here is the Romney ad. It\u2019s audio sound bite number three. This is the Romney ad on the fact that Obama has just taken the work requirements out of welfare reform. Obama has just killed welfare reform! If we\u2019re gonna talk about death here, Obama unilaterally took the work requirements out of welfare reform. And since the press hasn\u2019t reported it, Romney put an ad together. Now, you just heard the Obama ad accusing Romney of murder four or five years after he leaves Bain Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and, by the way, folks, let me ask you a very, very quick question. How would Obama have helped this unemployed guy, Mr. Soptic, who didn\u2019t have insurance? He would have been fined! Under Obamacare, Mr. Soptic here would be fined for not having health insurance. That\u2019s the law of the land according to Obamacare. I wonder if anybody\u2019s told Mr. Soptic. &#8220;You know, if Obama is president, and Bain closes down your steel plant, and you don\u2019t have health insurance, guess what? You get fined.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_65650\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaSupremeCourtMandate.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You either pay a fine, pay a penalty, or you go get health insurance on your own. Somehow, some way.&#8221; That\u2019s what Obama would have done for the guy. What are we to assume, that Obama would have saved his wife? Does Obama cure stage 4 cancer? Does Obama prevent stage 4 cancer? Is that what the issue is? Obamacare prevents stage 4 cancer, but if it slips past Obamacare, then Obamacare cures it?<\/p>\n<p>Is that what we\u2019re supposed to believe from this stupid, insulting ad? The truth of the matter is that Mr. Soptic loses his health care in these exact circumstances under Obamacare, and the IRS is gonna track him down and levy upon him a fine. Here is Romney\u2019s ad. Keep in mind we just heard this ad saying Romney kills people. Now we got the Romney ad on Obama and welfare reform, and these two ads have been placed in about the same disgusting sphere by Politico.<\/p>\n<p>ANNOUNCER: In 1996, President Clinton and a bipartisan Congress helped end welfare as we know it by requiring work for welfare. But on July 12th, President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. Under Obama\u2019s plan, you wouldn\u2019t have to work and wouldn\u2019t have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check. And Welfare to Work goes back to being plain old welfare. Mitt Romney will restore the worm requirement because it works.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Politico says both the Soptic ad and the ad you just heard &#8220;are provoking more intense outrage &#8212; both publicly and privately &#8212; than most of the other spots we\u00c2\u2019ve seen this summer.&#8221; What in the world\u2019s outrageous about this ad you just heard. What\u2019s offensive about it? What allegation of it is below the belt? Where\u2019s the dirt? Where\u2019s the filth in that ad? Where are the implied accusations that anybody died because somebody didn\u2019t care? The whole point of the Soptic ad is that the poor guy\u2019s wife died \u2019cause Mitt Romney didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>He even says it in the ad!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he\u2019s done to anyone. And I&#8230; Furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Romney doesn\u2019t care who he kills.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the theme of that ad.<\/p>\n<p>Now Romney\u2019s ad telling the truth about Obama gutting welfare reform is somehow lumped in the same sphere and the same category?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_65652\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-side-by-side.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: So this woman, Mrs. Soptic, died seven years after Mitt Romney left Bain Capital and yet Obama\u2019s super PAC is running an ad that Romney essentially killed her because they took over the steel plant. And, of course, Romney\u2019s company, all they wanted to do was destroy companies, take the money out of them, loot the company and shut the company down, that\u2019s how Romney got rich, shutting down everything.  Romney was a destroyer.  That\u2019s what he did.  He went out there, took over all these companies, shut \u2019em down and gave nobody any health care when he closed the businesses, and everybody\u2019s spouses died.  And Romney didn\u2019t care about it. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>This woman dies seven years after Romney left Bain, Romney left Bain in 1999, the woman died in 2006.  Okay?  Even the Washington Post &#8212; Warshington for those of you in Rio Linda &#8212; said in an article on the Obama ad today that it\u2019s a lie.  The Politico couldn\u2019t bring themselves to say it was a lie, but the Post does.  They point out that the Republican candidate &#8212; that would be Romney &#8212; left Bain before the steel plant went bankrupt.  Obama\u2019s team has argued the story\u2019s fair because Romney was at Bain when the initial investment was made.  What the hell kind of a connection is that?  So Romney was there when they bought the steel company, he leaves in 1999, six years later the woman dies, doesn\u2019t matter, he was there.  Why\u2019d they buy it?  He tried to save that steel plant. <\/p>\n<p>Bain Capital tried to save that steel plant.  So Romney is to blame because Bain tried to save GST Steel.  And now let\u2019s put the final nail in the coffin here.  That GST Steel company was shut down when an Obama bundler was running that part of the Bain Capital.  An Obama bundler, a current Obama bundler ran Bain Capital at the time Mr. Soptic was put out of work.  And now we have an ad from Obama\u2019s super PAC that Romney essentially killed this woman and doesn\u2019t care about it.  You know, it\u2019s really tough in politics, Mr. Limbaugh, but it\u2019s a fair ad.  It\u2019s a stretch, but we can see the connection here at The Politico. We can definitely see the connection. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lavine, managing director at Bain who has bundled between a hundred grand and 200 grand in donations for Obama 2012, was one of the guys running Bain when this steel company went belly up.  Now, let\u2019s ask something else that needs to be said here.  This guy in the ad took her to Jackson County hospital, admitted her for pneumonia, and that\u2019s when they found the cancer, stage 4.  But earlier he said: my health care was lost, my family lost their health care, and a short time later my wife became ill. <\/p>\n<p>She got health care.  The guy in the ad admits he took her to the hospital.  She got health care.  She was not denied health care.  He might not have had insurance, and she might not have, but she went to the hospital and she got health care.  Whether she had insurance or not, she got health care.  Health care was not denied.  Her death was not due to lack of health care.  I know.  I know.  I know.  I know.  I\u2019ve gotta back out.  Folks, this is where I get in trouble, way too honest here.  This is way too insensitive, and I can\u2019t do this. It\u2019s gonna be Fluke all over again if I go any further with this.  If I go any further with this the whole thing is gonna turn around to be about me now.  &#8220;The man\u2019s wife died, Limbaugh\u2019s out there&#8230;&#8221;  Yep. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m dying to go forward and close the loop on all this, but my staff on the other side of the glass is begging me to shut up.  &#8220;Don\u2019t say any more. You\u2019re already hip deep.  My God, do you want to drown today?&#8221;  And all I\u2019m doing is telling you the truth.  That\u2019s all I am doing, is telling you the truth about this ad.  I\u2019m just gonna tell you, she got health care.  She got her health care.  Well, read the transcript.  &#8220;When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care, and my family lost their health care,&#8221; okay?  Lost health care.  Realville here.  They don\u2019t have health care anymore.  That\u2019s what that means, right?  &#8220;A short time later after that my wife became ill. I don\u2019t know how long she was sick, but I think maybe she didn\u2019t say anything because she knew we couldn\u2019t afford insurance.  One day she became ill and I took her to the hospital and admitted her for pneumonia.  That\u2019s when they found the cancer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Folks, they lost the insurance. They went to the hospital and they found what they thought was pneumonia and it was cancer.  They got health care.  &#8220;I don\u2019t know how long she was sick&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_65653\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/><\/a>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A couple of questions here, ladies and gentlemen.  Any of the people who had General Motors and Chrysler dealerships when Obama shut them down, have we heard any stories of any of them coming down with cancer and dying?  How many people that owned General Motors and Chrysler dealerships and were shut down by Obama when he bought General Motors for the unions, how many of those people got sick, maybe?  How many of them lost their health insurance because Obama shut down dealerships, closed \u2019em down, and how many of \u2019em got cancer?  How about all the General Motors and Chrysler workers who were not UAW, who lost their health care and pensions, did any of them ever get cancer and die after Obama took over General Motors and Chrysler? <\/p>\n<p>Did any of the workers at NASA when Obama shut down the space shuttle program, anybody in the manned space flight division in NASA, any of them get cancer since the division was shut down?  Have any of them been unable to get health care?  Have any of them died?  Any of the Department of Defense workers who have been fired under Obama, any of them ever gotten cancer?  You know what they\u2019re saying about Romney\u2019s ad on welfare reform and how Obama took the work requirements out of it?  Obama\u2019s Truth Team &#8212; and they actually have a Truth Team &#8212; they have just tweeted the following:  &#8220;Romney\u2019s welfare message: &#8216;False, contradictory and fraught with racial undertones.'&#8221; So Romney\u2019s ad on Obama taking the work requirements out of welfare reform is racist.  <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Grab audio sound bite number 23. At the White House press briefing the spokeskid, Jay Carney, was asked about the latest Obama ad in which Romney is accused of killing a guy\u2019s wife. The question comes from CNN White House correspondent Brianna Keilar. (impression) &#8220;The priority super PAC has an ad out today, Jay, that features a man who used to work in a steel plant and it closed in 2001. This was after it was acquired by Bain Capital. The implication is that Mitt Romney bears responsibility for the death of this man\u2019s wife because he lost his insurance when the plant closed, and then in 2001, and then in 2006 &#8212; five years later, Jay &#8212; his wife, who was uninsured at the time, died of cancer. I\u2019m wondering if the president believes that Mitt Romney shares responsibility in her death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CARNEY: You know, I have not seen the ad, and I would refer you to the campaign or to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>KEILAR: But &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CARNEY: I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>KEILAR: I mean &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CARNEY: I can\u2019t comment on an ad I haven\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n<p>KEILAR: But &#8212; but you just took a very back &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CARNEY: I\u2019m simply saying that I have not seen this, so, uhh, how could I probably, uh, assess it without&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>KEILAR: But you can&#8230;? Will you assess it later?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14925\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_65657\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushNoLibsAttackFreedom.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CARNEY: If you (pause) ask me tomorrow, sure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But I just told you what\u2019s in it!<\/p>\n<p>Well, I can\u2019t assess it \u2019til I\u2019ve seen it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay! Jay, will you assess it tomorrow then after you take a look it and you assess it? Will you answer my question tomorrow, Jay?<\/p>\n<p>Yep, yep. If you ask me tomorrow, sure. If I call on you tomorrow, after I\u2019m told what to say about it tomorrow. If we get some life out of this thing and it\u2019s still alive tomorrow, yeah. I\u2019ll be glad to tell you how Romney killed the guy\u2019s wife tomorrow. (sigh) Carney is also going through back flips to keep from saying anything negative about the smears that <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14911\">Harry Reid\u2019s engaging in here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14930\">So yesterday, folks, I warned you on this NFL stuff and the coming ban<\/a>, that they will politicize anything (concussions). And people were pooh-poohing me. They just politicized a heretofore anonymous woman\u2019s death for their own advantage and put it in an ad for Obama. They have politicized a woman\u2019s death. You tell me they don\u2019t do that?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Martin in Miami. Martin, I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a great honor to be on the line with you. I\u2019ve been listening to you since the late eighties.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m a proud-born American of Cuban descent. Actually, your name is known in our family, including my mom. I got her hooked on you back with the Elian Gonzalez situation, and she listens every day. My call has to do with this ad that they\u2019re running, having to do with the health insurance and the guy being left without work. I, too, was left without work. I had a 20-year career in the mortgage industry up until 2008 where I had to go ahead and pick a new career, and I became a financial planner.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Were you one of those predatory lenders that was out picking on poor people to give money to that you knew couldn\u2019t pay it back?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No. We\u2019d actually give money.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It was one of those evil subprime lenders.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The game was basically that people who couldn\u2019t get a loan somewhere else because of whatever ding they had on their credit would come to us. We\u2019d keep them in their house a little bit longer. The whole idea was, &#8220;You know, you gotta pay your bills. You can\u2019t just sit there and not pay.&#8221; But you know what? They just didn\u2019t want to pay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, what? What? What did you say? You pay your own bills?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They had to pay their mortgage. I guess they didn\u2019t read that in the fine print when they signed. (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pay your own bills? Where does that happen?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) I know. That\u2019s the problem that we\u2019re having today. And I\u2019ll tell you: Based on what I\u2019ve seen with this whole thing, people don\u2019t have an income problem most times; they have a spending problem. And this guy saying you can\u2019t afford health insurance and all that. What I\u2019d like to know is: How many times did he go out to a ball game instead of paying his bills or paying insurance? Or how many times did he go out and buy the latest shoes out there instead of going out and buying health insurance? &#8216;Cause I\u2019ve seen that way too often when I got into this field.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I was going out too people\u2019s houses and they wanted to get some type of insurance and when you tell them how much it was, they had the money to afford it. They just chose not to do it because they wanted to go ahead and buy an expensive car or the latest TV or latest cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s big. Yeah, the latest TV. And you gotta have your cell phone, and the coverage. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So, you know, that didn\u2019t sit well.<\/p>\n<p><a view=\"full\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14977\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_65672\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-Rush24YearsAnniversary400WIde.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH: Cell phone insurance.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And a tip for the Romney campaign &#8212; and this is me listening to you all these years &#8212; is so he\u2019s an unemployed worker. Where in his contract maybe did he have so many coffee breaks that he had to have during the day that maybe drove the company out of business?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, now, I don\u2019t know that we necessarily want to go that far. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I have my staff getting nervous all over again.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019d just calmed \u2019em down. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you think some people would rather die than pay for their own health care?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, what I think is that people make poor choices and poor decisions, and health care is always there. So whether you can afford it and you have your insurance or you go to the hospital and they see you, you get covered.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Even here in Florida. People who can\u2019t afford it, if they\u2019re really down on bottom, they got Medicaid. And if they\u2019re a little bit higher up and they can\u2019t afford health insurance for the kids, they have Florida KidCare where they can go that route. They\u2019re pushing that all the time in Dade County Public Schools. All the time they\u2019re pushing that, KidCare, which is another program.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, that\u2019s the dirty little secret. You\u2019re absolutely right. You\u2019re absolutely right. Look, Martin, I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate it. You mentioned Elian Gonzalez. I wonder what he\u2019s up to now. I\u2019ll never forget. I\u2019ll never forget Fidel, during the Elian Gonzalez controversy, when Janet Reno flew down there and basically followed that ATF agent into the house and took Elian Gonzalez out of there, not physically, and sent him back to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>During that whole thing Fidel was talking about his father, Juan Gonzales. &#8220;Juan Gonzales is a good worker. He\u2019s a good worker. He does really good work. He workers well. He is a good worker.&#8221; I\u2019m just cringing when I\u2019m hearing that. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they\u2019ve turned poor old Elian Gonzalez into a child of the revolution. Anyway. I have to take a time-out here. Martin, I appreciate the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Mike, have that &#8220;Romney Murdered My Wife&#8221; ad standing by. We\u2019re gonna get to that here again. That is the subject today: Mitt Romney murdering a guy\u2019s wife. That\u2019s the latest Obama ad, tested among Democrat focus groups to work like a charm. Mitt Romney, Republican presidential nominee, wants guys\u2019 wives to die. 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