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RUSH: The Mitt Romney situation. The media, the media is just beside itself, they cannot understand how in the world some ditz, some Mormon like Mitt Romney raised so much in campaign contributions when he\u2019s so down in the polls. Chris Matthews last night had saliva dribbling down the chin. He can\u2019t figure this out. He had to conclude, ‘Well, he\u2019s gotta be getting money from rich fat cats out there because he\u2019s so low in the polls, where\u2019s he getting all this money?\u2019 Then the Drive-By Media in the print version here says, ‘He\u2019s getting it from the Mormon Church.\u2019 (Gasp!) No, he\u2019s not getting money from the Mormon Church. He may be getting money from Mormons, but not from the Mormon Church or (Cosell voice) the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints out there. <\/p>\n

Anyway, they\u2019re beside themselves, because they tell themselves stories. You\u2019ve heard this. It\u2019s become a clich&eacute;. I\u2019m sick and tired of it. The first fundraising totals the end of the first quarter, March 31st, are the first polls. According to that theory, then whoever is down in the polls not supposed to have much money. You know who surprised everybody is McCain. McCain came in at $12.5 million and the Drive-Bys are all over him. Now they\u2019re trying to sandbag his report out of Baghdad that he was able to walk around in the security zone all unharmed and so forth, and the same Drive-By Media that he considered his base is trying to destroy him. The New York Times is out there, found a couple ringers that supposedly run market shops in Baghdad saying, ‘Who\u2019s he kidding? They haven\u2019t increased security detail! We\u2019re not safe here. McCain\u2019s crazy.\u2019 All over the place now McCain\u2019s nuts now and his fundraising is way down. He\u2019s blown it. The American people don\u2019t want to go to war in Iraq anymore,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, $12.5 million is paltry compared to others.\u2019 <\/p>\n

McCain says, ‘Well, you know, I really don\u2019t like asking people for money.\u2019 Other people are saying, ‘This is what McCain-Feingold gets you.\u2019 Anyway, the real story, though, with the Drive-Bys is Mitt Romney. <\/p>\n

Oh, and then Rudy. Rudy said, ‘Leave my wife alone.\u2019 Now, this worked for a couple other candidates. Let\u2019s see if it works for Rudy. I know it\u2019s not going to work for Rudy. In fact, when you get up and say, ‘Leave my wife alone,\u2019 you may as well be painting a target on front and back of her shirt. ‘Go ahead and attack me,\u2019 Rudy said, ‘I welcome it. There\u2019s plenty about me to attack, but leave my wife alone.\u2019 Leave her out of it. If she\u2019s going to be with you everywhere on these things, you\u2019re inviting it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Romney raised $23 million he announced yesterday. That\u2019s almost twice as much as McCain has raised. His is all for the primaries, by the way, so that\u2019s even more than Mrs. Clinton raised, because she has $36 million out there, but a lot of that came from her own campaign coffers, and then the other was made up with people contributing both $2300 to the primary and $2300 to her general election, should she win the primary. All of Mitt\u2019s $23 million I think is for the primaries, and Chris Matthews, among others, couldn\u2019t understand this. ‘I mean, the guy has no poll numbers. How can he raise this kind of money?\u2019 and he concluded it had to be rich fat cats. It has to be rich fat cats — and, of course, the Mormon Church, one Drive-By Media outlet reports today. On Matthews\u2019 show last night, there was some info babe from the Chicago Sun-Times. She spoke up and she cautioned Chris Matthews.<\/p>\n

She said, ‘Look, nobody knows where his money came from. The breakdown of donors hasn\u2019t occurred yet,\u2019 but Matthews continues to insist that Romney donors were all ‘rich fat cats,\u2019 as though nobody else in politics contributions are coming from rich fat cats. How many rich fat cats have donated to Hillary or Obama? Rich fat cats? The Hollywood crowd is divvying up its money between the two of them. You see, this is another illustration, folks. Mitt Romney is a Republican and of course it has to be ‘rich fat cats.\u2019 My gosh, the rich fat cats in this country are Democrats, and they give to Democrats! Then Matthews is out there. He went nuts on Fred Thompson. He loves Fred Thompson, called him ‘a daddy figure,\u2019 had gravitas, says he\u2019s not a Dan Quayle — and then he said, ‘I just don\u2019t have any idea who Mitt Romney really is and he\u2019s even a total mystery to the people of Massachusetts. ‘ Now, what is it that\u2019s striking about that comment? Here is Chris Matthews of PMSNBC, saying, ‘I don\u2019t know anything about Mitt Romney.\u2019 Chris, what is your job? You are a journalist! <\/p>\n

If you want to find out about Mitt Romney, you can do so. He\u2019s not a mystery figure cloaked in all black that you can\u2019t see through. He\u2019s a mystery even to the people of Massachusetts? Chris, this is not a credible statement here from you about how good you are at your job. There\u2019s no excuse. There is no excuse for any journalist saying, ‘I don\u2019t know who Mitt Romney is. I don\u2019t know anything about him. He\u2019s a mystery.\u2019 He\u2019s only been running for president for how many months. He\u2019s been governor of Massachusetts. He ran the Olympics in Salt Lake City. How in the world can anybody in journalism say, ‘I don\u2019t know anything about Mitt Romney\u2019? And then to assume all of his money comes from the fat cats. The whole theme continued earlier today on the Today Show. Matt Lauer was interviewing Romney, and said, ‘Some say you\u2019ve tapped into a lot of financial support from the Mormon community, and that\u2019s a natural. The New York Times puts it this morning just that way, that Mike Dukakis got a lot of support from Greek-Americans. Lieberman got a lot of support from Jewish-Americans. But because Mormons make up a relatively small percentage of population, explains why you haven\u2019t reached higher poll numbers. Is that fair?\u2019<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: It\u2019s not terribly accurate, but it\u2019s an interesting point. I\u2019m sure people of my faith have contributed, but overwhelmingly our money has come from all 50 states. The number one state in our contribution list is California. There are people coming from all over the country to support my effort. I ran for governor, of course, got good support here in Massachusetts, and so I\u2019m pleased that my message is connecting. This isn\u2019t about a particular ethnic group or religious group or subset.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mitt, it is. It\u2019s not, but as far as these people are concerned, it is. All right, Romney\u2019s number one state in list of donors is California<\/emphasize>. Does that not just explode the myth? By the way, not only is it a myth, it is now the template — and I don\u2019t care what Romney says. I don\u2019t care what anybody else says, and I don\u2019t care what he releases the breakdown of downs. It isn\u2019t going to matter. ‘Mitt Romney got his money from the Mormon Church and rich fat cats,\u2019 and that\u2019s going to be it, and they\u2019re not going to be able to understand it because his poll numbers are so low. So it has to be that every Mormon in the country got together and decided to contribute to Mitt Romney. Otherwise it doesn\u2019t make any sense, because he\u2019s so low in the polls. Up next, Matt Lauer says, ‘You also wrote yourself a check, wrote your campaign a check for $2.3 million, and it raises a question that you\u2019ve heard a lot, governor, ‘How much are you willing to spend of your own money to win the presidency?”<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: Gosh, I hope as little as possible. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

LAUER: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I\u2019d like to get as much as possible from people across the country and that\u2019s why we\u2019re working hard to do that, but of course I\u2019ll always keep open the very unfavorable idea of having to write a check myself at some point, because this is a very important campaign. I think McCain-Feingold, the campaign finance reform, has been a real bust. I think there\u2019s more money in politics, not less. The money is going around the old regulations. It has not worked. It\u2019s time for us to completely revisit McCain-Feingold. I\u2019d repeal it, and let the people make the contributions they\u2019d like and disclose them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely. You know, this whole thing about ‘money in politics\u2019 is a straw dog anyway. The total amount of money spent in politics, you might have heard these type analogies. The total amount of money spent in politics is less than the American people spend on potato chips in a year. You didn\u2019t know that? Hell, people spend more on candy than they spend on politics! It\u2019s just not reported that way. Can you imagine if every month Hershey and Mars and all these other companies had to report what their sales were, in a public way? They do in publicly traded companies, but just imagine if it was reported the way political donations were reported, and imagine if everybody who bought candy was treated as a suspect. Or if everybody who bought potato chips was treated as a suspect. <\/p>\n

‘But, Rush! But, Rush! Those are food items.\u2019 That\u2019s my point! Everybody says it\u2019s so outrageous. Spending money on politics is how we manage and govern our affairs. It costs a lot of money to get into the business. It doesn\u2019t help when you got people like McCain out there saying all this money corrupts people, good people in politics. Who was it, Jesse Unruh out in California, who said, ‘Money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics.\u2019 Yeah, I guess you could say McCain\u2019s not ‘corrupt.\u2019 He\u2019s not getting any money. He got $12.5 million. Hell, the Drive-Bys ought to be happy. ‘Look at McCain! He got less money than anybody. He\u2019s our guy.\u2019 They\u2019re dumping all over McCain for not getting enough money! They\u2019re getting on Romney for getting too much, and it was the New York Times that said that the money came from the Mormon Church, which of course, is flat-out untrue.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, we need to get the money out of movies. The top grossing movie this past weekend, made $33 million in three days. It took Mitt Romney, what? 12 weeks or longer, to raise 23 and a half million. Hillary Clinton 36 million. We gotta get the money out of movies, $33 million in three days. That\u2019s patently absurd. We gotta find out who\u2019s giving it to them, too, because whoever is giving the money to the movies is supporting trash, ladies and gentlemen, and debauchery and the destruction of our culture! Let\u2019s find out who\u2019s giving money to the movies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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