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RUSH: Rhonda from Edenton, North Carolina, been waiting a long time, and I appreciate that. Hi, Rhonda.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush, what an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega traditional Republican dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter) <\/p>\n

CALLER: I was calling about that call yesterday about the TV conservative. I was quite upset yesterday, but I must admit that Romney\u2019s victory toned me down quite a bit. <\/p>\n

RUSH: The tunnel vision guy, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, yes, because he said he was just so mad at the woman because she said if McCain or Huckabee were the candidate, she was not going to vote, and he said, ‘Oh, and we\u2019ll have Clinton, Edwards, or Obama elected, and they might appoint judges, and are they going to appoint,\u2019 I think he said, ‘a Scalia or a Ginsburg or Stevens?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I hate to tell him that Stevens was a Republican appointee, I believe. But anyway, as far as I\u2019m concerned, if I went out and voted for Huckabee or McCain, these compassionate conservatives, I would be voting for Democrats. And do you think McCain is going to appoint any judge that Kennedy is not going to put the seal of approval on? I mean this is crazy. And Huckabee reminds me of Clinton. I mean, he\u2019s got the instrument, he\u2019s on the talk shows, he\u2019s got the Hollywood entourage and he\u2019s constantly whining about Mitt Romney\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughter.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he\u2019s also from Arkansas, he\u2019s from Hope, he\u2019s got the accent, he\u2019s got it all. He\u2019s got the entire kit. Now, I would not vote for McCain or Huckabee, but I would not sit home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What would you do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would start to energize. We\u2019ve got the Internet, we\u2019ve got everything now! I would try to energize a write-in campaign, if I had to. I mean, I\u2019m not going to talk to you and apologize for being a supporter of Mitt Romney. I love Mitt Romney. You know why I love Mitt Romney?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because he\u2019s good-looking?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, his whole family is good-looking, but what I love was, last night he was like a little kid at Christmas. He was not condescending. He didn\u2019t act as if he was about to be crowned. He wanted to bring everybody with him. And he\u2019s got it all, because he\u2019s got the business degree, and he understands the law because he has a law degree, too, but he —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are the second woman who has called today swooning over Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I adore that man because he is a good, decent man. Do you see the way his wife looks at him? Do you see the respect and the enjoyment that his children get being around him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see all that, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: People are so jealous of this man, not to mention that they are scared to death and they have a hatred of Mormons, which they don\u2019t even understand. If this man is evil and he\u2019s dangerous, would you please show me the evidence?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, yeah. You know, you remind me of something. Somebody sent me a list of things, one of these e-mails that\u2019s going around, a list of things that are without question true, but that you don\u2019t know it. Like right now, somebody you don\u2019t even know is thinking about you, or right now somebody that you don\u2019t know loves you, loves you to death.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was this kind of thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And one of the items on the list was — I really got to thinking about this — one of the items on the list was, somebody really hates you, what it means is, they wish they were you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Amen. You got it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You believe that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe it 100%. And, you know what? The fact that the media doesn\u2019t want to follow Romney is the very reason why I want to follow him! Who cares if they approve?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, this is one thing the Drive-Bys are not going to learn, they will not learn. They\u2019re going to do everything they can to try to shape your opinion without realizing they are driving you the opposite direction they want you to go. It\u2019s a fascinating question, these people that say that they aren\u2019t going to vote if Huckabee or McCain get the nomination. Now, we haven\u2019t discussed this, because the time hasn\u2019t really been right, but lurking out there is the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. I think I mentioned this one time. I play golf at certain places in the Northeast, or I play golf at a place down here where there are a lot of members who summer from the Northeast. And they love the guy. <\/p>\n

These are Republicans. ‘What do you think about Bloomberg?\u2019 They see Bloomberg — these guys are all business types — they see Bloomberg and the Bloomberg Network and his 13-billion-dollar wealth, they see somebody that\u2019s cool. ‘The guy has that much business savvy.\u2019 Anyway, he\u2019s lurking out there as a potential third-party candidate. He\u2019s out there doing polls to find out if this person is a Democrat nominee, if this person is the Republican nominee, do I get in? And I\u2019ll guarantee you, if Huckabee is our nominee, he gets in. He\u2019s going to realize that there are a whole lot more Republican votes he might be able to get if Huckabee is the nominee. McCain, I don\u2019t think he\u2019d step on. Then the question becomes, if a guy like Bloomberg gets in, does he hurt Hillary or the Republican more? There\u2019s no consensus on that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you remember, we came up with a term here; we\u2019ve had the gender gap, what other gaps have we had? We\u2019ve had the minority gap; the gender gap. We had the NASCAR gap. But we also, we invented a term, the ‘Arousal Gap.\u2019 And that was all these lib Democrats and the Drive-By women reporters just swooning over Bill Clinton. ‘Why not me?\u2019 they would ask. We get these stories about the power crackling in his jeans and so forth. So we had an Arousal Gap problem. Do you realize, I don\u2019t know, ladies and gentlemen, if I can extrapolate here from two calls. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had two women today simply going bonkers over Mitt Romney. Now, I don\u2019t know if they are part of the Romney organization. I\u2019m not trying to castigate them here. You just don\u2019t know, and I didn\u2019t ask them, but I\u2019m just going to assume here they\u2019re just ardent, just pumped-up Romney supporters. If Romney gets the nomination, and all of these, if there are indeed a lot of these kinds of women out there, they look at Romney, and he\u2019s a good-looking guy, they see the family, and it\u2019s a wholesome, really good-looking family, a lot of things to recommend it, in terms of if you look at what women look at versus men, and political candidates and so forth, can you imagine the Arousal Gap being on the Democrat side? Well, here\u2019s the difference. There\u2019s a big difference with the Clinton women and Romney women. The Romney women know they don\u2019t have a chance of sleeping with him, but they don\u2019t want to. The Clinton women all wanted to sleep with the guy. Remember Nina Burleigh, TIME Magazine reporterette, she said, ‘I would personally give Bill Clinton oral sex for saving abortion.\u2019 Oh, they were all over. You could see them swoon in the press conferences. So if the Arousal Gap — especially if Hillary is their nominee (laughter) the Arousal Gap, can you imagine? Can you imagine the Drive-Bys and the Democrats going nuts if there is a huge amount of women in this country who are going to swoon over Romney the way these two who called here today swooned over him? Whoa, that\u2019s going to be fun to watch, if that all transpires, the Arousal Gap Two. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Ruth in New Paltz, New York, nice to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m honored to speak with you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know what is more exciting today, me getting through to you or you getting the third female from across this beautiful country of ours who is just applauding Romney\u2019s win last night in Michigan. <\/p>\n

RUSH: So you\u2019re a big Romneyite, too?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I have to be honest with you. I did not know who Romney was quite so until the beginning of the debates, which I have been watching, and watching, and watching, and listening, which I wish everybody else would do. I have always been, since my younger years as a teenager on through adulthood, I\u2019m a year older than you are, but that\u2019s not too far — a true conservative Republican, and I listened to what this man was saying and the principles that he stood for, and he won me over. He won me over and I had been hoping that people would start to just pay attention, pay attention. Keep to their values, as you have been saying, and pay attention to what Romney is saying. And they did. And the only thing that made me —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m wondering — it\u2019s hard to say this with three calls in one busy broadcast — but I wonder if we\u2019re uncovering something here that\u2019s being missed, and that is that there\u2019s this army of women who apparently are really drawn to Romney. In all the analysis, breakouts of exit polls, men and women, I\u2019ve not seen it on the Republican side, they haven\u2019t broken it down by gender that I have seen, but this is new to me. You\u2019re right, you are the third babe today that\u2019s just going on and on and on about Mitt Romney. It\u2019s all based on policy, right, it\u2019s not based on how he looks?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is based on policy, yes. He\u2019s a very good-looking man — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but it is based on policy, because we women who are true conservative —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — Republicans — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and comfortable in our own skin — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and would never vote for anybody based on gender or race, want to listen to what these candidates are saying.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yes.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: And we\u2019re listening.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: What do you think of his wife and family?<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I think that he has a lovely wife and five beautiful sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren. He comes across as a very wholesome American. More important than that, though, is for us to begin to see that he believes in Americans\u2019 ability to use their own mind and ingenuity, to produce the best ideas and products, and hope that the government would just step aside and allow the free market system to work and let our government just continue to protect us so that we remain the strongest country in protecting freedom and homeland security and the war on terror, and I — <\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Let\u2019s get to the character side. I\u2019m running out of time. Does Romney, to you, exude a powerful morality?<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: He exudes the most powerful morality I have seen in any candidate.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: So you have no doubts he would never cheat on his wife?<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: That is correct.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: This is fascinating. Ruth, I can\u2019t thank you enough.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I thank you, Rush, and just keep up the wonderful work. My husband and I listen to you every day, and we love you, and just keep that faith, because there are Republican conservatives out there who will prove who the true candidate will be, and I believe it will be Romney.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: We\u2019ll see. I\u2019m glad you called, Ruth. <\/line> <\/line> BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: We have decided to come up with a name for you babes who are smitten with Mitt Romney, first of many, but this works: Mittens. We\u2019re going to refer to you as Mittens. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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