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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, shall we? This is Mitt Romney last night. He was on Hannity on Fox and they were talking about the remark that he made that he\u2019s “not concerned about the very poor.” Hannity said: “Obviously, taken out of context, but this is what you\u2019re gonna deal with in the campaign. Is this frustrating to you?”<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. So that\u2019s gonna be out there throughout the campaign. Obama, even in the debates, will more-than-likely bring this up. Last night on MSNBC, Hardball, Chris Matthews talked with Steve Kornacki, who is the, I guess, news editor at Salon.com. Matthews said, “Six percent of whoever these full-mooners are said that they would be more likely to vote for a candidate after a Trump endorsement.” Matthews couldn\u2019t believe it, couldn\u2019t get over it: 6% of people said that Trump endorsement would make a difference to \u2019em. That\u2019s why he called them “full-mooners.” So he\u2019s asking Kornacki: Who are these full-mooners? Who are these idiots? Who are these one-in-16 people that say they would more likely switch to Romney after Trump said he\u2019s my guy?<\/p>\n
KORNACKI: I don\u2019t read this as a general election move at all. The entire story of the 2012 Republican race is Mitt Romney\u2019s struggle to relate to and win over the Tea Party base of the Republican Party. They watched Gingrich come back from the dead once before. They think they have him right now — they probably have \u2019em right now — but, you know, Donald Trump has credibility with that Sarah Palin-Herman Cain-Rush Limbaugh wing of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n
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PETERSON: When you get folk like Rush Limbaugh critiquing, you get those folk on the far-right coming at you, Mitt Romney understands that in order for him to close this deal, he\u2019s gonna have to pander to them and continue to do so. I think he makes too many political faux pas. People are now critiquing you about whether or not you have any compassion for the poor whatsoever or the fact that the middle class is becoming the poor, and the next day you\u2019re standing side-by-side with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s an entire disconnect. That\u2019s the least we see! That\u2019s the last thing anybody sees about this. You want to talk about wealthy people endorsing candidates, go look at the money talking for Obama. It\u2019s another of these silly, stupid double standards that have always existed. Last night on Hannity, Gingrich was on. (I don\u2019t know if it was before Romney, but he was on there.) Hannity said, “Look, this has happened to you twice. You\u2019ve had to withstand pretty strong attacks in Iowa, negative advertising. Now it\u2019s happened in Florida. And I would anticipate that Obama will do the same thing if you\u2019re the nominee, Newt.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah. So… Look, we\u2019re playing the sound bites here just to show you how influential, important, and necessary to the news cycle your host is. Where would the news cycle be without your host? Where would the media be without your host? What would they be talking about? That\u2019s why this is show prep for the media. Rachel\u2019s in there. Rachel\u2019s in for Dawn today. Dawn is dealing with something, and so Rachel is our substitute court reporter who transcribes people on the phone. You may not have anything to do today, Rachel, depending on how things go. But Rachel, she says, “Wow, you\u2019re so popular. I am so impressed. You\u2019re just everywhere! Everybody\u2019s talking about you.” Yeah, it happens every day, Rachel. Happens every day. Here we go to Fox News Channel\u2019s Bret Baier, Special Report with Bret Baier. He had John Roberts on, the former CNN reporter now over at Fox. And this was a report about the Santorum campaign.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: Santorum — who\u2019s also campaigning heavily in Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota — got a boost of his own when Rush Limbaugh recently said he is the only candidate not guilty of a transgression against conservatism. Since that time, and that was just a couple days ago, Santorum has seen his fundraising nearly triple.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow! Santorum\u2019s fundraising has tripled ever since I said that about him, and that was just a couple of days ago. It might have been Tuesday, but I think… No, it probably was Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, shall we? This is Mitt Romney last night. He was on Hannity on Fox and they were talking about the remark that he made that he\u2019s “not concerned about the very poor.” Hannity said: “Obviously, taken out of context, but this is what you\u2019re gonna deal with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n