{"id":16577,"date":"2012-02-13T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-13T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:55:19","slug":"murphy_mitt_faked_it_in_massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/02\/13\/murphy_mitt_faked_it_in_massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy: Mitt Faked It in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Laurie in Danbury, Connecticut, welcome, great to have you on the EIB Network as we head to the phones. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. How are you? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Good, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First of all, I just want to tell you that you affect my life in so many ways, I can\u2019t tell you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I listen to everything you say, and I believe you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, sometimes I\u2019m kidding. Not very many, but —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I know when you\u2019re kidding —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but I also know when you\u2019re telling the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Awesome. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just have a couple of points to make, if I may.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sarah Palin was totally awesome at the CPAC. <\/a> I\u2019ve never heard a better speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got the sound bites coming up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I also know that I consider Romney to be the Republican version of Obama. He will say, he will do absolutely anything, to get elected. To me, he looks like he\u2019s totally desperate. I think he\u2019s mean, he\u2019s nasty, and he\u2019s not a conservative by my definition or by yours. I will never vote for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got a piece here, I mentioned Peter Robinson of Ricochet. He has a post at Ricochet: “A Sentence I Wish I Hadn\u2019t Read — On the front page of the New York Times this morning, a long story on Mitt Romney\u2019s positions on abortion. In both his unsuccessful 1994 senate race and his successful 2002 gubernatorial race, the Times notes, Romney campaigned as unambiguously pro-choice. Then? ‘By 2005, with Mr. Romney eyeing a possible presidential bid, he began to distance himself from his abortion rights platform.\u2019 In an article that June in National Review, Romney stated ‘[m]y political philosophy is pro-life.\u2019<\/p>\n

“That same article quoted his top strategist at the time, Mike Murphy, as saying Mr. Romney had been ‘a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly.'” That he\u2019s always been pro-life. He just faked being pro-choice once he was in Massachusetts. “‘Faking it?\u2019 … Mike was suggesting that Romney intentionally misled the people of Massachusetts.” His own guy made the point that you\u2019re making, Laurie.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I had a caller at the end of the previous hour who basically said that she thinks Romney fakes it, whatever he has to say, whatever. Clearly not a Romney supporter. And I had to run through something pretty quickly here. I\u2019ll have to spend a little bit more time with it, because it dovetails with what she said. Peter Robinson at Ricochet.com had a little post. <\/line><\/p>\n

“On the front page of the New York Times this morning, a long story on Mitt Romney\u2019s positions on abortion. In both his unsuccessful 1994 Senate race and his successful 2002 gubernatorial race, the Times notes, Romney campaigned as unambiguously pro-choice. Then? ‘By 2005, with Mr. Romney eyeing a possible presidential bid, he began to distance himself from his abortion rights platform.\u2019 In an article that June in National Review, Romney stated ‘[m]y political philosophy is pro-life.'” Now, Mr. Robinson says there\u2019s a sentence in this story that he wishes he hadn\u2019t read. “Which brings us to the sentence that made me wince: That same article,” the June 2005 National Review in which Romney said, “My political philosophy\u2019s pro-life.”<\/p>\n

“That same article quoted his top strategist at the time, Mike Murphy, as saying Mr. Romney had been ‘a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly.'” Now, Mr. Robinson writes, “‘Faking it?\u2019 As best I can tell, there really is no other way of construing this. Mike was suggesting that Romney intentionally misled the people of Massachusetts.” So I just wanted to mention that \u2019cause it dovetailed with her call, and this is one of his own people saying essentially that Romney told the people of Massachusetts what he thought they needed to hear in order to win an election there. And, in fact, we\u2019ve heard much the same thing said when defending Romneycare comes up. “Well, remember now, I was a governor of big blue state.” <\/p>\n

Look, folks, as you know, I\u2019ve not endorsed anybody, and I\u2019ve not chosen anybody. I\u2019ve not expressed a preference here. This is a microcosm of why. I don\u2019t want to endorse early, have stuff come up that you can\u2019t defend or you have to make some flimsy excuse for. So as far as I\u2019m concerned it\u2019s just an information item, and the only reason I\u2019m even spending any time on it is because Romney\u2019s own consultant is the author of the sentence. The 2005 National Review article quoted Mike Murphy, top strategerist at the time, saying Romney had been “a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly.” That\u2019s in quotes. A pro-life Mormon faked it as a pro-choice friendly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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