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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019re up to number five. I want to skip number four. This was yesterday on This Week. It was during the roundtable. Jake Tapper, our buddy Jacob, again, the fill-in host there. I guess Christiane Amanpour has gone back to foreign affairs.<\/p>\n
Before I play you this bite, I think I was among the early voices who offered the counter-theory that it was the regime\u2019s choice to run against Romney. I thought that\u2019s what Occupy Wall Street was all about. They wanted to run against a wealthy Republican. They want to run against Romney because of health care. I mean, Romneycare takes that whole issue (they\u2019re thinking) off the table. I mean, you\u2019ve got Romneycare as basically the junior version of Obamacare, that Romney will not distance himself from. So I\u2019m sure the regime thinks that takes that issue off the table, and they want to run against this 1% and 99% stuff, and that\u2019s Romney. I\u2019ve oven thought that the regime was trying to take out everybody else. You\u2019ve forgotten but up until recently the regime and the Democrats were not attacking Romney at all. Everybody else, but not Romney. So Donna Brazile is asked about this: You know, the regime, what\u2019s your thinking here who they want to run against?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This goes back to New Hampshire and in South Carolina where Newt was ripping Romney from the left. Ripping capitalism. Remember how everybody was upset with him, including me? “Oh, my God. Newt, what are you doing? What…?” Even Giuliani said, “Newt, what are you doing here?” But Newt was fuming because all the negative ads that Romney\u2019s super PAC had run against him in Iowa. Here\u2019s Axelrod. He was over on Meet the Depressed, David Gregory. David Axelrod, who runs Obama\u2019s operation. Gregory said, “You think that this goes on particularly because of the split between the establishment and the Tea Party?”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And they seem happy about it over at the regime. So it could go either way. The bottom line is the regime is gonna go after whoever our nominee is. But it also stands to reason the regime would love to pick our nominee, just as the media has always tried to pick our nominee. And they\u2019re always going to pick the one they think is the easiest beaten. Sarah Palin was on Fox, Justice with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night Judge Jeanine said, “How can Newt distance himself and say that he\u2019s not an insider? There are those who would say he\u2019s the consummate Washington insider. He was Speaker of the House. He was in Congress for 20 years.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: That\u2019s Saturday night. So Sarah Palin\u2019s done a South Carolina here. In South Carolina she endorsed Newt. “If I lived there, I\u2019d vote Newt.” This is as close as she\u2019s gonna get to it. “Rage against the machine: Vote for Newt! Annoy a liberal: Vote Newt.” She\u2019s clearly sending a message to Florida and other primary voters. Keep this campaign going, keep it running. She keeps talking about the need to have everybody vetted here, the desire to have conservatism debated front and center, full-fledged media attention for as long as possible. Saturday night at the Lincoln Day Dinner, the Palm Beach County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner, Herman Cain endorsed Newt.<\/p>\n
CAIN: I hereby officially and enthusiastically endorse Newt Gingrich for president of the United States!<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
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AUDIENCE: (tittering)<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s Herman Cain Saturday night, West Palm Beach endorsing Newt. Then yesterday on the syndicated program, the McLaughlin Group, John McLaughlin spoke with Pat Buchanan about the Republican primary. McLaughlin said, “Has Newt overstated his role in the Reagan administration, Pat? You were there.”<\/p>\n
BUCHANAN: In the Reagan White House, Newt Gingrich was considered — quite frankly — by a lot of folks, to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and would play no role whatsoever. He was a Rockefeller Republican in the great Goldwater-Rockefeller battle where conservatism really came of age. I don\u2019t think he has a fundamental ideological and political core. I think… Look, he moves. He was a Rockefeller Republican. He comes up… I remember meeting him in \u201978 when he came to town. You know, he\u2019s knocking Reagan. I don\u2019t think he has an ideological core. I think he moves from one issue to another and another and another.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So it\u2019s just all over the place out there — and again, I didn\u2019t know that in \u201968, that Gingrich was a Rockefeller Republican. I only learned that last week when I heard the sound bite, played the sound bite. But my memory is that there was nobody defending Ronald Reagan like Gingrich was in the eighties in those special orders. That\u2019s my memory. All this other stuff is stuff that I didn\u2019t know \u2019til now. And, of course, some people would question Buchanan now. I mean, nobody is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow when they come forth with these assessments of everybody. I think it\u2019s all feeding into this monster that the voters are out there saying, “Enough of this! And I\u2019m gonna tell you: If you people who keep up all this negative conservatism, we\u2019re gonna vote against you.”<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Newt does a lot better tomorrow in the Florida vote than what the polls indicate. (interruption) What are you laughing at in there, Snerdley? (interruption) Oh, of course, I know. I\u2019ve seen the Romney ad. Reagan didn\u2019t know who Newt was, only mentioned him once in a while in the Reagan diaries. I don\u2019t care about any of that. All I know is what I saw Newt do! They\u2019ve got it out there now that Newt was against repealing the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. Do you know that? I got that e-mail last night. I forget who. But Newt was against repealing the Fairness Doctrine 1987. (interruption) Yeah. It\u2019s what said, that opposed Reagan on that. I did not know that, for crying out loud — and I still don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true! That\u2019s one of the things about all this stuff flying back and forth is you have no idea whether any of this is true or what of this stuff is true. But the Fairness Doctrine is kind of important to me. The Fairness Doctrine being repealed is what made this program possible.<\/p>\n
That was from the Club for Growth, I\u2019m told, that put out that Gingrich opposition research. (interruption) Yeah, “They\u2019re reputable,” Snerdley says.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s George Will. Let\u2019s go back to ABC with the guest host Jacob Tapper. During the roundtable, Tapper said, “George, just in the last few minutes here, we\u2019ve got some new polls out of Florida. Marist poll got Romney at 42, Gingrich 27, Santorum 16, Ron Paul at 11. Romney opening up the gap even more than the Miami Herald poll. What\u2019s going on out there, George? Tell us.”<\/p>\n
WILL: I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever told Longfellow\u2019s nursery rhyme to your four-year-old daughter, Alice.<\/p>\n
TAPPER: No, not yet.<\/p>\n
WILL: “There is a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very good indeed, and when she was bad, she was horrid.” And we\u2019re at the horrid stage with Newt Gingrich.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Whew. Whew. Whoa! Whoa ho-ho-ho, folks. So Herman Cain\u2019s out there in the sausage grinder. By the way, what kind of sausages were those that grinded Herman? Herman says he\u2019d been in the sausage grinder. What were his sausages, or what kind? And so here we got George Will and the Longfellow nursery rhyme. We\u2019re at the horrid stage with Newt. Now, Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace said, “The president saying, ‘Brit, our policies, we Democrats will protect the middle class. Republicans will protect the rich.\u2019 One, is that true, and two, is it smart?”<\/p>\n
HUME: A lot of Republicans think Obama is so weak that they ought to nominate the most conservative person they can find because they can\u2019t lose. I think they can lose if they nominate somebody who can be successfully painted as an extremist or an exotic character not worthy of the trust needed for the Oval Office. So I think that the argument that the president makes on class warfare and rich versus poor and all that may rally his base, but it\u2019s not gonna win this election.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think he\u2019s right about that. I think this country is way too sophisticated. This country is not majority sympathetic to Occupy Wall Street, not what they\u2019re doing in Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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