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RUSH: How many of you have often thought, often believed that if the Republicans would make some real genuine outreach effort to the black community and just get three to five percent of the black vote, if we could do that, that would end it? A lot of people believe that. And the rule of thumb, standard operating procedure, opinion is that Republicans just never make the effort. They don\u2019t know how. Outreach to the African-American community, they don\u2019t do it. They should try it. Well, Romney did. Romney went to Philadelphia. The Washington Post has the details. <\/p>\n
“When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts.” What persecution would that be? Persecution of blacks in America. What are we talking about? Affirmative action? What is this persecution that\u2019s going on? So Romney goes in for some outreach. This story, by the way, it was in the Washington Post, but it wasn\u2019t picked up. It didn\u2019t get very much attention.<\/p>\n
Not once in this entire article is it ever mentioned that Romney supports school vouchers, which Obama doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s something you think that local school officials would support as well. The article quotes the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, as saying that Romney, “Suddenly somehow found West Philadelphia.” But Nutter said, “I don\u00c2\u2019t know that a one-day experience in the heart of West Philadelphia is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America.”<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s a little ironic, given that you might think Mayor Nutter would be in hiding after what he and his fellow Democrats have done to that once great city. Then there\u2019s a quote from a woman named Madaline Dunn, who said she was “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood. She said it was, “absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.” Now, who is this babe? Madaline Dunn, she\u2019s a longtime Democrat political activist. She has served as a chairwoman for the radical Philadelphia Congress of the National Congress of black women. She\u2019s currently listed as one of Obama\u2019s Truth Team. This is not in the story. I wanted to find out why was this woman being quoted? I was curious. Who is this woman? The Post doesn\u2019t tell us. I found that stuff out on my own. They just portray her as another legitimately and genuinely outraged resident. <\/p>\n
The bottom line is, Romney attempting outreach, goes into an inner city school to talk about his education ideas in West Philly and is basically told to get the hell out. “What are you doing here, pal? We don\u2019t want you here.” It won\u2019t be long before we hear some civil rights leader saying, “They don\u2019t care about us, the Republicans, they don\u2019t care about us. They never reach out. They never try.” So it\u2019s a damned if you do and damned if you don\u2019t situation. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t blame Romney for trying this. In fact, I give him credit for it. But it\u2019s why I am of the belief that there\u2019s no compromise here. I mean Romney shows up and they\u2019re basically gonna say for publication that they\u2019re offended he would dare come into their neighborhood and denigrate him for doing so, say that when he talks he\u2019s speaking garbage? Where in the world is compromise there? Where is the common ground? That\u2019s why to me defeating these people is what\u2019s paramount. Not getting along with them and not trying to find common areas of agreement, particularly in an election year. <\/p>\n
I mean, I wouldn\u2019t expect these people to do anything other than what they are doing. They\u2019re Obama voters. They\u2019re Obama supporters. They\u2019re Democrats. They\u2019re not interested in what Romney has to say. Romney, to his credit, goes in there and he can always say that he did, and he can talk about the effort that he made. But note that it wasn\u2019t widely reported. You probably didn\u2019t know about this. I mean hell, if Dawn hadn\u2019t heard about the new South Beach Diet, I\u2019m sure you hadn\u2019t heard about this story.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: If Romney had not gone to a black neighborhood to campaign, they\u2019d call him a racist. You know how long this stuff has been going on? Does the name Jack Kemp ring a bell? As far back as the early nineties, Jack Kemp had an idea for Republican outreach to inner city communities. One of the ideas he came up with was something called enterprise zones, and in theory they\u2019re pretty cool. There aren\u2019t any to speak of. It\u2019s not for lack of effort. Just the outreach isn\u2019t really desired.<\/p>\n
They talk about it, but all they do is talk. They demand outreach. “Show us you care! Show us you\u2019re not racist! Show us that you\u2019re not the KKK!” So Romney goes in, and they say, “What are you doing here? Get the hell out of our neighborhood! You make me sick! You got no business being here!” Then you have media people that tweet, “Well, what the hell did Romney think was gonna happen when he goes into a west Philadelphia neighborhood?<\/p>\n
“Who\u2019s the idiot that sent Romney in there? What did he they was gonna happen?” Those were media tweets. “Did they not think he\u2019d be peppered by pro-Obama protesters? Who was the idiot sent Romney in there?” Once again, it\u2019s accepting a premise. The premise is that we don\u2019t care about minorities. Which is bogus! We care about everybody. We just don\u2019t see people as minorities. We don\u2019t see people as members of groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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