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RUSH: Ari Fleischer was on CNN\u2019s special Florida primary coverage last night. He was on with Anderson Cooper. They were talking about Romney\u2019s win in Florida and Ari Fleischer said…<\/p>\n
FLEISCHER: The fascinating thing about this race is if anybody can get Mitt Romney one-on-one, he becomes increasingly vulnerable. But Newt is blocking Santorum, Santorum\u2019s blocking Newt. If it was Santorum, on the basis of how he did in that last debate, the exciting way that he went after Romney on health care, he took it to him on the health care issue with specifics more than anybody else.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s move forward, sound bite number 12. This is Sarah Palin. She was on the Fox election coverage last night with Bret Baier, who said, “You said if you were a resident in Florida you\u2019d vote for Newt Gingrich. If you lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, cauci coming up, who would you vote for there?”<\/p>\n
PALIN: Whomever it is to allow the process to continue. I still say competition breeds success for the US, and that\u2019s what we need in this debate. As it stands, obviously it\u2019s Romney and Newt who are closest to being the front-running candidate, so I would continue to vote for whomever it is to allow the process, and at this point it looks like it still is Newt. You gotta continue to kind of even the playing field with your vote and evening the playing field allows that additional vetting, that additional information about candidates and their ideals and their goals for this nation and how they\u2019re gonna reach these goals for our nation. It allows it all to continue.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Sarah Palin is obviously not in favor of Romney. Anything that propels this and keeps this going is her objective.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
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To Edmund, Oklahoma. This is Jan and it\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good. I have a comment, and then a question, if you\u2019ll allow it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Certainly. I love questions. Not enough people ask me questions. Everybody calls this show and thinks they know everything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggles) Okay. My comment first is that I think if we look back at the — actually four, maybe even less than four years ago — Democratic nomination process and then the election that occurred in our country in \u201908, I think that we can say that this concept that people have been talking about as far as “electability” is concerned, it really is a concept that has changed and it\u2019s no longer what people have always thought and maybe still think it is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019ve often been dubious of this whole concept. You know, somebody in some far away capital says, “Well, you know, the only guy that can beat Obama is Romney.” How do you know? Nobody knows that!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: On what are you basing it? The guy\u2019s won nine out of 25 elections. I don\u2019t mean to be critical of Romney, but where does this come from? These things just get pronounced by consultants or powers that be and everybody just accepts it. Who knows who\u2019s electable and who\u2019s not? Look, it\u2019s like everybody said, that we could not nominate Newt. If we nominated Newt, the whole election would be about Newt. Well, then Romney goes out there and commits a faux pas by saying, “I\u2019m not worried about the very poor.” Don\u2019t care about the poor; they got a safety net. He\u2019s trying to zero in on his concern for the middle class but he gives them something they can take out of context (which they will) and Romney becomes the focus of the campaign, not Obama.<\/p>\n
Anybody who thinks… This is my point here: Anybody who thinks that we can nominate somebody who is not going to be the focus of a media destruction campaign is asinine. Whoever we nominate is who the campaign is going to be about, the election. It\u2019s not gonna be about Obama. The media can\u2019t let it be about Obama. If it\u2019s about Obama, he\u2019s sunk! It\u2019s gonna have to be about what a reprobate racist, sexist, mean-spirited, heartless creep the Republican is — and I don\u2019t care who the nominee is. It\u2019s gonna be about that. They\u2019re setting up Romney as… Romney is gonna be Mr. Pennybags, moneybags on the Monopoly game board. That\u2019s who they\u2019re setting him up to be. So I agree with you. Then they come around and say, “Only so-and-so is electable.” You know, that\u2019s something they try to intimidate everybody into silence by saying. What was your question?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, my question is if that\u2019s the case — that electability is not what it\u2019s all cracked up to be and what people say we should really be looking for the “electable” nominee — then why are people that can\u2019t stomach Romney, that say, “He\u2019s not conservative enough for me,” why are they going to Newt? Why don\u2019t they go to Santorum?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, ummm… I can only speculate. You\u2019d have to ask every particular voter why they\u2019re choosing Newt over Santorum, those who do. I could only hazard a guess. Why do you think?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, my feeling is that they think, “Okay, Romney\u2019s just not quite there. He\u2019s too far left for me. I can\u2019t trust him. Newt\u2019s been a conservative guy. You know, as far as his stance on fiscal matters, he\u2019s been known for that for years and years. Okay, I\u2019m gonna go to Newt. He\u2019s the next big name.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: He\u2019s the next high profile guy —<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think you\u2019re on to something.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — who could be elected.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think you\u2019re on to something. It\u2019s name recognition. It\u2019s name ID. It\u2019s, “What have you done for me lately?” Newt has clearly been a household name for decades. Santorum hasn\u2019t been. I think you\u2019re on to something there. It\u2019s not a criticism of Santorum to say it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s also, when you look at the polling numbers, here\u2019s Romney with 25 or 30. Here\u2019s Newt with whatever he is and Santorum down in the tens, and people say, “Well, why should I support the guy in the ten?” Then people say, “Look at Ron Paul.” Yeah, look at Ron Paul. He\u2019s supposedly got all of this support, got all these people that love him, and he doesn\u2019t even run an ad in Florida. He\u2019s at 7%. So the supposed support that Paul has, he doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The illusion doesn\u2019t match the actual number. Rick Santorum really hasn\u2019t yet been a national figure.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Newt has been.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But, you know, in a way we know more about Santorum as far as his public behavior, his actions, from what he did when he was a congressman and in the — you know, in Congress — than we know more about what we would do than we do know about what Obama was gonna do when he became the nominee for the Democrats.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Uh…<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because he hadn\u2019t even been in the Senate for two full years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, but that\u2019s a whole different set of circumstances. Ugh! (sigh) Gee. Uh, Obama had no record, which is an asset! Obama was a Democrat, which is 95% of it. He has always been a media darling, and the fact that he had the historical aspect attached to his candidate gave him Velcro. He was perfectly insulated against any criticism whatsoever that the media would follow up and echo. He had the largest team anybody could have playing defense for him. I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate it very much, Jan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Ari Fleischer was on CNN\u2019s special Florida primary coverage last night. He was on with Anderson Cooper. They were talking about Romney\u2019s win in Florida and Ari Fleischer said… FLEISCHER: The fascinating thing about this race is if anybody can get Mitt Romney one-on-one, he becomes increasingly vulnerable. But Newt is blocking Santorum, Santorum\u2019s […]<\/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