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RUSH: If you\u2019ll recall, I and I alone, I believe, El Rushbo long ago predicted to you, or opined that the Occupy Wall Street movement was a creation of the regime\u2019s, because Romney is perceived as Wall Street. They want Romney, and they assume they\u2019re going to be running against Romney, and who could blame them. I mean, if you\u2019re the Obama regime and you take a look conservative media today, you would have to assume that the Republican Party also wants Romney. Okay, it\u2019s inevitable. So you gear up for Romney.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And if you — and Obama\u2019s out in Osawatomie, Kansas, today trying to redo Teddy Roosevelt <\/a>in 2012, trying to expand on this whole class welfare business. If you\u2019re gonna run against the 1% and the 1% equals Wall Street you need a candidate that you can tie to Wall Street, i.e., Romney. Romney\u2019s out there talking about it. “I\u2019ve been a success in the private sector. I know these things. I\u2019ve built and run businesses. I saved the Olympics. I did all of these things. Bain Capital.” So they got their Wall Street guy made to order. Then all of a sudden, look what\u2019s happening. Here comes Newt — or, before him, here came Herman. Prior to him, here came Perry; whoever was. But none of these guys — Michele Bachmann included — can be as tied to Wall Street as Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

So I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the Washington Post on December 4th. It is by Peter Wallsten and Anne E. Kornblut. Let me give you the headline: “Some Democrat Strategists Worry About Gingrich\u2019s Potential Appeal.” Some Democrat strategerists? Okay, now stick with me on this. “Newt Gingrich would be such a weak challenger to President Barack Obama, according to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., that his nomination would be ‘the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater.\u2019 Democratic strategist Jim Jordan says he and others in the party ‘passionately\u2019 want to face Gingrich. And from the right, conservative pundit Ann Coulter is warning fellow Republicans that Gingrich\u2019s past extramarital affairs and other baggage make him a far less formidable GOP nominee than Mitt Romney. But…”<\/p>\n

“But.”<\/p>\n

Third paragraph, here: “But even as Gingrich\u2019s sudden rise has filled many Obama supporters with cheer and some Republicans with dread, some Democratic strategists worry that the combative former House speaker would present some challenges for the Obama [regime] that would not exist if Romney were the GOP candidate. Where Romney, the former business executive and Massachusetts governor, poses a threat in his ability to win independents and conservative Democrats…” Wait a minute, Obama\u2019s given up on the conservative Democrats! Conservative Democrats are the “white working class families” that Obama has abandoned. So we\u2019re gonna pick those people up no matter who the nominee is. That was eight days ago in the New York Times. A piece by Thomas B. Edsall said the regime is just abandoning the votes of white working class families. That would be these white conservative Democrats.<\/line><\/p>\n

They say here “Gingrich could pursue a strategy that combines energizing the conservative base and chipping away Democratic support among Hispanics … Some Democrats believe that Gingrich, a hero of the conservative movement, would excite the party base more than a former liberal-state governor with a history of centrist views.” (That\u2019d be Romney.) “And voters yearning for authenticity may be more open to the voluble and rumpled Gingrich, who frequently discusses his past mistakes and his recent conversion to Catholicism.” But here is the money paragraph: Newt “‘does not carry Wall Street baggage,\u2019 said one Democratic strategist working on the Obama reelection effort, requesting anonymity to freely discuss his thinking. ‘He\u2019s really smart. He\u2019s definitely authentic,'” and there you have the fear.<\/p>\n

Occupy Wall Street. By the way, Dana Milbank in the Washington Post today officially calls Occupy Wall Street a failure as a movement. Newt “does not carry Wall Street baggage.” “He\u2019s really smart. He\u2019s definitely authentic.” (interruption) Well, it is an amazing phrase, but it is indicative of where the Obama campaign is headed. He “does not carry Wall Street baggage.” Well, who does? In their mind, Romney. Obama\u2019s out in Osawatomie, Kansas, today when he starts talking about everybody paying their fair share and all that, that\u2019s aimed at Wall Street people. That\u2019s aimed at the 1% — this mythical, magical group of hated Americans that we\u2019ve gotta screw to get even with. Here\u2019s what I said. Let\u2019s go back to October 6th on this show<\/a>, this is what I said about Occupy Wall Street and the presidential race.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I think, folks, the regime wants to run against Mitt Romney. That\u2019s what I think. Here\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking: When do you think these astroturf protests were first talked about, this Occupy Wall Street thing? How long have they been in the works, do you think? I have been asking myself this, \u2019cause this is not spontaneous eruption here. This is a well-thought-out plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. And it was aimed at Romney. Romney equals Wall Street; Occupy Wall Street is aimed at him — and now in this Washington Post story, Newt “doesn\u2019t carry Wall Street baggage,” and this guy speaking on a condition of anonymity. No, he doesn\u2019t want anybody to know who he is \u2019cause he\u2019s given up the ghost here, and he doesn\u2019t want it coming back to him. Newt\u2019s really smart, definitely authentic. He doesn\u2019t carry Wall Street baggage. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. So while the main thrust of the story is that Democrat strategists are ecstatic and can\u2019t wait to run against Newt \u2019cause he\u2019s such a goofball — he\u2019s had so many affairs, he\u2019s so uncontrollable, he\u2019s so Bill Clinton<\/a>. Let\u2019s be honest here, folks. If we\u2019re gonna categorize Gingrich this way, can we categorize Bill Clinton as “undisciplined”? That wasn\u2019t a problem for anybody! At any rate, “He doesn\u2019t carry Wall Street baggage.” There you have it. And you couple this with all of the attacks on Newt from the Republican side today, and to me it\u2019s perfectly clear what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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