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<\/p>\nRUSH: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Patty. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m so excited to be a first-time caller and a (garbled) longtime listener.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have waited such a long time to say that. This is a defining moment for me. I\u2019m so happy and thrilled to be talking to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (crosstalk) Yes. I\u2019ll get to my point, which you were talking earlier about Romney. And I am so disgusted with Romney. I am (unintelligible) again and when Romney ran for president, I was so proud to vote for him. I thought he was the leader we needed. I talked to everybody about him being the right man for the job. And he has done nothing but disappoint me ever since then.<\/p>\n
I am so disgusted. I wish the people of Utah would recall him. He has done nothing but fight us, fight Trump all the way. And those are his supporters too. The people that voted for Romney are the same people that voted for Trump. He needs to get a clue. I am so tired of hearing about him — every step of the way — just block everything the president is doing. You can tell how disgusted I am. I just can\u2019t stand it. He makes me so mad.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I hear how disgusted you are. A lot of people are. Mitt Romney represents the Never-Trump mentality that is in the Republican Party. He\u2019s a strain of it. He may not be as virulent as some of the pseudo, so-called intellectual magazine types who comprise the Never Trumpers — column writers and so forth. But he… It\u2019s exactly as I stated. Look, here\u2019s Mitt Romney. He is running for president in, what, 2012.<\/p>\n
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And in the early stages of it, there\u2019s a rap going around that he\u2019s not really a conservative, that he\u2019s a RINO, that he\u2019s a moderate Republican and he has to pretend to be a conservative \u2019cause he really isn\u2019t one, and he (kind of like most people in Washington) looks down his nose at conservatives. So in an attempt to persuade people that they were wrong, that he was in fact a conservative, you remember how he described himself?<\/p>\n
He said, “I am a severe conservative,” and all of us conservatives looked around and said, “What the hell is ‘a severe conservative\u2019? We\u2019ve never heard that.” Romney exemplifies the Washington establishment. He is career politics. His family, his father. He\u2019s career. There is a certain way that those people behave. There\u2019s a certain station that they think they\u2019ve achieved, and they maintain it by knowing their place — and the Republicans\u2019 place is always second tier.<\/p>\n
You must acknowledge you\u2019re second tier. You must acknowledge the superiority or the primacy of the Washington establishment. You must always make it clear that you appreciate being in that establishment. You gotta know your place in it. And the one thing Republicans in the establishment do not do is anything like what Trump does or is. You don\u2019t fight back. You don\u2019t really try to win on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n
Yeah, you can test for the presidency every four years, and you may win now and then. But then you acknowledge you\u2019re gonna be destroyed the next four years. You acknowledge that you\u2019re gonna be hit. That\u2019s the price that you will pay for winning, and you have to smile and grin and bear it. It has grown to just so frustrate Republican voters and conservative voters who have thought all along that the Republicans are actually in this to win and to dominate and to push the other side aside, that we are there to exercise our will over the forces of opposition.<\/p>\n
We are there to win.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not the way Republican establishment people look at their role in the establishment. Look, you know this as well as I do. Trump comes along and he just totally upsets the established norms, and it\u2019s on that basis he\u2019s gotta go. And then they claim that he\u2019s incompetent and a boob and doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, is filled with chaos, endangering the United States, losing our respect around the world. “We can\u2019t have this!<\/p>\n
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