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RUSH: We have been told throughout this process by the media, by the conservative media, by anybody that is considered to be part of the establishment, that Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Newt, Mitt, Santorum, can\u2019t win. We have been told over and over and over again, if Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Newt, Mitt, Santorum get the nomination, then Obama automatically wins. We have been hearing and reading this for months. Members of both party establishments say it, that the only Republican who has a prayer of beating Obama is Romney. My friends, I am here to tell you I simply don\u2019t subscribe. It has become conventional wisdom. And you know me and conventional wisdom. When conventional wisdom forms, I go the other way. Conventional wisdom is groupthink. In other words, the Democrats, the Drive-Bys, Republican “insiders” will not admit that anybody can beat Obama.<\/p>\n
Honest Democrat — the three or four that you can find — will also admit it, from Pat Caddell, to Doug Schoen, to this guy that we read whose story in the New Republic yesterday, it was William Galston, who did an analysis of demographics, and there\u2019s only one group, only one demographic group where Obama leads and that\u2019s blacks. With young people 18 to 49, Hispanics he\u2019s under 50% everywhere, and we\u2019re told that there\u2019s only one guy? Sorry, this is nothing against Romney. Again, I haven\u2019t endorsed anybody. I\u2019m just commenting on intraparty cannibalism here, but intraparty cannibalism against everybody but Romney does not equal a nomination.<\/p>\n
Now, there\u2019s a story in the UK Independent today. I have that story. I was shocked when I read this, because this has not been reported in the domestic US media. In fact, just the opposite is reported in the domestic media. Here\u2019s the headline: “Clooney, Hanks, Spielberg — the stars feted him in 2008. Now the President finds his friends out of the picture. He was young, good looking, and photogenic. He swept to power against heavy odds on the back of a heart-warming, hopey-changey message, completing a rags-to-riches journey that might have come straight out of a blockbuster movie. It isn\u2019t hard to see why Barack Obama\u2019s election in 2008 was the toast of Hollywood. Five-figure checks poured into his coffers bearing such blue-chip names as Hanks, Clooney, and Spielberg. By this stage in the last election cycle, the entertainment industry\u2019s hearts, minds and wallets were already won.<\/p>\n
“People for the American Way (PFAW) — perhaps the most influential advocacy organisation in the US — planned to celebrate its 30th birthday in style, with the cost of a table at between \u00c2\u00a33,200 and \u00c2\u00a364,000.” I didn\u2019t bother to convert it to dollars. But it\u2019s a hundred grand there for the big table. “The host was Alec Baldwin and the list of patrons, organisers and supporters on the invitation included everyone from J J Abrams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Hamm and Martin Sheen to Barbra Streisand, Kathleen Turner, Larry Flynt and Jamie Lee Curtis.<\/p>\n
“Among these pillars of the entertainment industry\u2019s liberal establishment, there is palpable frustration with the President; he has failed to deliver on almost all their pet issues, from gay marriage and climate change to human rights and social justice. In fact, … Norman Lear, an influential producer, last week responded with anger in an interview as Obama\u2019s name was mentioned. ‘He can\u2019t make up his mind about anything,\u2019 Mr Lear said. ‘He just vacillates. Like Democrats do generally.'” Now, I know, these people are still gonna vote for him, as the story says. The excitement\u2019s gone. This is not 2008. All I ask you to do, folks, if you\u2019re asking me… Well, as it turns out, Angela was not asking me who she should trust. She was telling me she doesn\u2019t trust me. (interruption)<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s the same thing, Snerdley, when she says she\u2019s wondering if I\u2019m confused. I\u2019m just gonna tell you, I don\u2019t believe that there\u2019s only one Republican that can beat Barack Obama. I would say this if the house money were on Newt. I would say this if the House money were on Bachmann. If the establishment were telling us that there\u2019s only one Republican that can beat Obama, I\u2019d have the same skepticism. Now, I\u2019m also burdened (sigh), ladies and gentlemen, with a blistering intelligence and common sense. Common sense has taught me to reject conventional wisdom. Common sense has taught me to spot and identify the desires and objectives of establishment political party people on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n
And their objectives are status quo: Big government, government the center of the universities, government the center of the world, government the center of life. They have a universal distrust of conservative voters and conservative candidates, because conservative candidates don\u2019t favor the status quo — and so anybody who threatens the status quo must be stopped, in either party; and when I see that it\u2019s people who are easily identified (even with doubts) as conservatives? When I see they are the targets of the effort to disqualify them, and I see one candidate is not the target of any attack by anybody, from anywhere? Sorry, red flags go up, because it defies common sense. We\u2019re dealing with one of the most unpopular presidents in history. That\u2019s the truth.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re also dealing with one of the cagiest and most corrupt, and we are facing a campaign that is going to be dispiritingly, depressingly negative. There is no doubt about it. If you\u2019re depressed now, the way you\u2019re going to be in nine months? (scoffs) I hesitate to ponder it. It\u2019s going to be brutal, because everybody knows — on both sides in the establishment, everybody knows — that the candidate-of-big government status quo is an utter disaster and it must be protected. The status quo must be protected by people who derive their power from it. The thing you have to understand, Angela, is there is not a conservative movement in the media. Fox News is not part of a conservative movement. This is not a criticism of my Fox News. It just isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a media company and organization.<\/p>\n
The American people will beat the establishment nine out of ten times. The American people will defeat Barack Obama. The American people and the United States economy, which are one and the same, are going to beat Barack Obama. I, frankly — and I\u2019ve said this over and over again. I, frankly, don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna matter all that much who the nominee is. I\u2019m at terrific odds, of course, with the establishment here. But I think it\u2019s a referendum on Obama, and I think if the establishment on our side had any brains they would make it a referendum on Obama instead of a referendum on who our people are and what their supposed weaknesses are. I would relish it just for a couple days. Our establishment could tell us the truth about Obama the way they\u2019re so intent on giving us all the flaws of people on our side. You ever wonder why they don\u2019t?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: There hasn\u2019t even been a vote cast! Not one vote has been cast, and we\u2019re told that 99% of our potential nominees can\u2019t win? Latest Gallup poll: “Newt Gingrich leads Mitt Romney 37 to 22% in Gallup\u2019s inaugural daily tracking of Republican registered voter preferences for the GOP presidential nomination.” This is a national poll — and once again, it\u2019s another poll where Romney maxes out at 22, 25. He tops out at 30% on every poll since the beginning of all this. But Gingrich is at 37. Now, coincidentally Mitt is going on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this Sunday.<\/p>\n
He hasn\u2019t been on any Sunday shows. Did you know that? Why should he have? When you\u2019re the presumed nominee, everybody\u2019s got you in the bag. (interruption) That\u2019s right. The Bret Baier interview. Well, Romney didn\u2019t like the Bret Baier interview, got a little flustered there, but you couldn\u2019t do interviews when you don\u2019t have to in the political realm, political world, so he\u2019s going on Fox News Sunday this Sunday. 37-22. Now, again, this can change next week. This is so fluid, I can\u2019t begin to tell you how fluid it is. That\u2019s another reason why I just reject this notion that everybody on our side is a preordained loser. Nothing makes as little sense as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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