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RUSH: This is Todd in Decatur, Texas. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call, and I am a Rush member. Just some headlines for today that I haven\u2019t heard yet, “Romneycare Helps Illegal Immigrants,” LA Times reports. Politico, “Romney Health Care Law Helps Illegal Immigrants.” USA Today and LA Times are saying medical help for illegal immigrants could haunt Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019ve got the story here in the stack. I\u2019ve got it in two different stacks here, and you\u2019re reading the headlines basically correct. So what do you think USA Today and the LA Times are trying to do here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good question. You know, I guess my plug and prediction is, I think Perry has the best, you know, living in Texas, and we\u2019ve been here 15 years, and under his leadership I think he\u2019s got the best story. I think he\u2019s got the best experience for social and fiscal conservatives, and I think his people need to get this message built on a national level. And I think America\u2019s gonna see what we\u2019ve seen here in Texas. But my prediction is, if Romney gets the nomination, I think he\u2019s got experience, I think he\u2019s got some things he could bring to the White House beyond what this president is, but my fear is we\u2019re gonna have a RINO in the White House, and he\u2019s gonna set the conservatives back again and we\u2019re probably gonna end up losing ground both in the Senate and the House.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now, what about Herman Cain? You\u2019re throwing Herman Cain to the wind. He happens to be leading the polls out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m just basing it on what it looks like the two big guns long term are probably gonna be. I don\u2019t know. I like certain things with Herman Cain. I know what we\u2019ve had underneath Perry here. I\u2019ve been at odds with Perry four years ago on a couple things, but in the last three years he\u2019s really put up the conservative bills and here in Texas —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me just say I\u2019ve met Rick Perry a couple of times. I have no doubt in my mind that he\u2019s a conservative, none whatsoever. I don\u2019t have any doubt that Herman Cain is conservative. Romney is — well, George Will said it, George Will said <\/a>the Republican Party is looking at Romney as a technocrat. The Republican Party is not seeing Romney as a conservative, and that\u2019s very true, and that\u2019s what the Republican Party wants. They do not want an ideological conservative as the nominee. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the LA Times story that Todd talked about. This is by Noam Levey, the headline: “Medical Help for Illegal Immigrants Could Haunt Mitt Romney — On the Republican campaign trail, he derides any such public aid. But the healthcare law he signed as Massachusetts governor allows it. The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance. Uninsured, poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.”<\/p>\n

Now, the story talks about, wait a minute, we thought this was only gonna be for people in Massachusetts. “The Romney campaign referred questions to Tim Murphy, who served as Romney\u2019s state health and human services secretary. Murphy said the governor never intended the Health Safety Net to serve undocumented immigrants. ‘Our view when we signed the law was that all benefits would be for people in the commonwealth who were here legally,\u2019 Murphy said, noting that the regulations implementing the program were written after Romney left office in 2007.<\/p>\n

“But Massachusetts officials involved in crafting the healthcare law said there was broad understanding when Romney signed it that at least some people who would benefit would be in the country illegally. That\u2019s supported by language in the law. Although it explicitly bars undocumented immigrants from getting certain health benefits, it does not prohibit them from receiving aid through the Health Safety Net.” What a tangled web this is. What an absolutely undecipherable web. If you are a Massachusetts resident trying to translate this — let me try it again here. This is Tim Murphy, who served as Romney\u2019s state health and human services secretary, “Our view when we signed the law was that all benefits would be for people in the commonwealth who were here legally.”<\/p>\n

“But Massachusetts officials involved in crafting the healthcare law said there was broad understanding when Romney signed it that at least some people who would benefit would be in the country illegally. That\u2019s supported by language in the law. Although it explicitly bars undocumented immigrants from getting certain health benefits, it does not prohibit them from receiving aid through the Health Safety Net.” And again, the health care law, Romneycare, signed in 2006, includes a program known as the Health Safety Net. It\u2019s separate and apart from the main Romneycare, but it\u2019s still tied to it. So while they can on a technicality say, no, no, no, no, our health care plan does not service illegals, the Health Safety Net over here does. And people are now scratching their heads, wait a minute, we thought this was just for people in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

So here you have the Republican establishment wants Romney. It is our firm belief the White House wants Romney. We think the White House wants to run against Romney because of Romneycare. See, Obama knows nobody wants Obamacare. But he doesn\u2019t care. Obama knows a majority of Americans don\u2019t want it. So if he can tie Romney to it, fine and dandy. He doesn\u2019t intend to ever get rid of Obamacare, but he wants to tie Romneycare around Romney\u2019s neck. So in that case, why would the LA Times, State-Controlled Media, be out with a story that\u2019s harmful to Romney, rather than a story that would build Romney up? Because everybody (the Republican establishment and the White House, as best we can tell) wants Romney to be the nominee. <\/p>\n

This LA Times story, by the time it circulates around, is gonna provide a little bit more ammo for the Herman Cains, the Michele Bachmanns, the Newts, the others, the Santorums in these debates, to take another shot at chipping away at Romney and his credibility. And you just heard the call, said we don\u2019t want a RINO here. And you add that to George Will saying that the Republican Party looks at Romney as a great technocrat, meaning good, that\u2019s what they want. So the long knives are out for Romney from people that you would not expect to be trying to take him out, i.e., the media, supporters of Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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