{"id":4028,"date":"2016-03-03T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-20T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:30:30","slug":"the_nation_responds_to_romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/03\/the_nation_responds_to_romney\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nation Responds to Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: So you think this was done on behalf of Rubio? You think they sent Romney out there on behalf of Rubio, and this is making you want Trump even more because you\u2019re so ticked off at what they\u2019re doing? That\u2019s probably gonna be a pretty common reaction here. Trumpists out there are gonna feel like the establishment\u2019s trying to manipulate \u2019em, sucker \u2019em, and they\u2019re just gonna dig in deeper. That\u2019s why I said when I opened the program, “I cannot believe they still do not get what\u2019s happening out there.” By that I mean the establishment Republicans in Washington.<\/p>\n

And maybe everybody, establishment Democrats, too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it\u2019s great to have you back here, folks, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network. Telephone number, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. And, as I said, we\u2019re gonna start with phones here. We\u2019re gonna go to Kathy in Sun City, Arizona, \u2019cause people are lined up and loaded for bear on this. Kathy, I\u2019m glad you called. It\u2019s great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Well, thank you so much, and I\u2019m really honored to be on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I tell you, this is a special day, because we never take calls in the monologue section. So you people on the phones: You really, really rate today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, I\u2019m probably gonna go on a roll, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am absolutely livid by the Romney speech<\/a>. He is condescending. He sounded like a fricking Democrat the whole time. And first off, I\u2019m a Cruz supporter. I support Cruz. But if he does not get the nomination, I will support Trump. I am so sick and tired of being lied to. The establishment said, “We have to have the House in 2010 to fight Obama.” We gave it to \u2019em. “We have to have the Senate in 2014 to fight Obama.” We gave it to \u2019em. And what did they do? Absolutely nothing. They\u2019ve done nothing but lie.<\/p>\n

They support the Dems.<\/p>\n

They support Obama.<\/p>\n

Romney wouldn\u2019t even fight Obama when he was debating him on the debates on Benghazi! For crying out loud, we\u2019ve got people dying in Benghazi because of Obama and Hillary, and Romney didn\u2019t do a damn thing about it. And then we\u2019ve got Rubio and McCain with the Gang of Eight, betraying “we, the people.” Now Rubio is attacking the ICE and the Border Patrol agents as liars. Then you jump on the KKK, and he\u2019s talking to Trump that he won\u2019t denounce the KKK, which he has over and over and over. Why isn\u2019t Romney talking about the Democrats formed the KKK?<\/p>\n

Why doesn\u2019t Romney and the establishment talk about Byrd and McGovern and all the policies of the Democrats where they\u2019ve just decimated the black community? I\u2019m just absolutely livid. I\u2019m tired of being attacked; I\u2019m tired of being lied to. They have absolutely no integrity at all. No honor, no integrity. They demand Trump sign the agreement not to run third party, and what are they doing? Now they\u2019re threatening to possibly bring Romney up for a third party, if the rumor is true. And they slam Trump every five seconds. It\u2019s like, if they don\u2019t want their cake and they don\u2019t want us to toe the line and put the… the… UGH! I\u2019m just so upset. But anyhow —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know how you feel. They tried beating Trump. They tried it with Jeb and they tried it with Christie and they\u2019ve tried it with others, and they haven\u2019t found anybody. So now they\u2019re out there making speeches, and the air and the attitude of the speech is, “Hey, you idiots! You may not know how dangerous this guy is. But I\u2019m here — we of the establishment, we\u2019re here — to tell you what a big mistake you\u2019re about to make.” And you hear it that way and you feel condescended to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, also they\u2019re lying to us about the unemployment. You know, Trump\u2019s talking about bringing jobs and bringing the wages back up by getting the illegals out of this country. They\u2019re the ones bringing the wages down. But all the establishment Republicans, they live in the cushy little houses back in Washington, DC. They don\u2019t have to worry about any of this. My gosh, they don\u2019t even work a 40-hour week! It\u2019s just frustrating, and I\u2019m just tired of it. And for Romney to come out, a loser — and then you\u2019ve got McCain will come out, and he\u2019s a loser.<\/p>\n

You know, and they don\u2019t push conservatism. They say they\u2019re conservative. That\u2019s what\u2019s so frustrating, too. They run and say they\u2019re conservative, and they do absolutely nothing. Look at the Paul Ryan budget. Oh, my gosh, they just crap… They don\u2019t care. They… It\u2019s all about themselves and their money and their money and their power. And then we\u2019re supposed to work like slaves, get taxed to heck, and just come begging for the crumbs that they give us. Well, once you start accepting government handouts, you are now a slave to the government. Period.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For those of you in the establishment listening to this, I want to remind you of one thing: Nobody had to tell her what she thinks. She thinks that, obviously, and feels what she feels on her own. This is not the product of listening to the radio. It\u2019s not the product of propaganda that\u2019s persuaded her. This is what Kathy thinks, independent of anybody else. Simply because of what she\u2019s able to see, remember, observe, this what she thinks. It\u2019s real, is my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And I\u2019m 58 years old, and I love this country. And I\u2019ve seen this country just fall, fall, fall, and it is so frustrating. And I worry about my children and my grandchildren. It really bothers me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I have to ask you. I have to ask you one question, Kathy. You mentioned in all of this that you are a Cruz supporter.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what if Romney\u2019s speech would damage Trump. Would that not benefit you in your quest to have Cruz elected?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I would suppose yes. But like I said: If Cruz for some reason had to drop out before the Arizona primary March 22nd — which I don\u2019t think he is — I would support Trump. I absolutely will not support Rubio, Kasich. Cruz and Trump are the only two. And the reason for Cruz is because he\u2019s doing just what Trump is doing. Maybe not so boisterous, but he has fought the establishment. He has called Mitch McConnell out as a liar because he is. He called Boehner out as a liar because he is. And, yeah, I\u2019ll call \u2019em liars because that\u2019s what they are. They lie about everything. They tell Obama, “We\u2019re not gonna fight you. We\u2019re not gonna fight you!” So Obama does whatever he wants! I mean, the Constitution? He\u2019s shredding it every day, and they\u2019ve done nothing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nothing!<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019ve done nothing to stop it and they come out and act like the problem is in their own party, but not them. It\u2019s Trump on it\u2019s Cruz or whatever. I hear what you\u2019re saying. You\u2019re a Cruz supporter, but your fallback is Trump, and you don\u2019t want them succeeding in destroying the only two candidates you see with a legitimate chance to stop the direction we\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Exactly! Because they\u2019re the only ones who are gonna call Hillary out. Where is the Republican Party calling out Hillary Clinton? They\u2019re responsible for the deaths of four Marines, four brave people in Benghazi. The crisis in Libya, the disaster of Syria, the ISIS, and then here in Arizona we\u2019ve got McCain running ads, “I\u2019ll protect you from ISIS.” Well, hello, McCain? ISIS is coming across the Arizona southern border and you\u2019ve done absolutely nothing that you promised to do for six years to shut the border down. You\u2019ve done nothing. In fact, you did the opposite and became Gang of Eight. It\u2019s just frustrating, the lying, the lying, the lying. And we see it. And we\u2019re awake. And “we, the people” have had it, and “we, the people” are going to fight and we\u2019re going to take back our country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kathy, you have done just a fabulous job of appearing as a caller in the monologue segment of the program. It\u2019s not very many people who could carry that load, but you have done so, and you\u2019ve done so phenomenally well. I would like to offer you — I don\u2019t want to call it a “prize” — a gift, if you would like it. You don\u2019t have to take it. If you don\u2019t want one, don\u2019t feel obligated, but I\u2019ve got an iPad Pro here. If you don\u2019t want it for yourself, you give it to somebody, if you know somebody who wants it. But I would love to give you something here because you\u2019ve been so good. You didn\u2019t stumble; you didn\u2019t stutter. Obviously you\u2019re speaking from your heart with profound passion, and it was great.<\/p>\n


\nCALLER: Well, I really thank you, but I would rather you give… (chokes up) Since you support the military so much, and the fallen officers — \u2019cause my husband\u2019s retired PD. I would rather have you give it to one of the families in need. You know, the Fisher House Foundation<\/a> or one of the military families or something like that, because I really don\u2019t need it, and I would rather you do something like that. Give it to something like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s awesome. That is so, so touching, and you can be guaranteed that I will.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I\u2019ll do it in your name, Kathy from Sun City, Arizona. I appreciate that. Thank you so much, Kathy. Well done. Superb.<\/p>\n

Steve in Temecula, California, you\u2019re up. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just got a quick reaction. I heard part of Mitt\u2019s speech on the way in to work this morning and it made me mad. Because I heard him say we understand your anger. And the implied message in that is we understand your anger, but you\u2019re just gonna have to get over it. And I got a little message for Mitt. The Republican electorate is not a bunch of completely ignorant fools. We know who Donald Trump is, and we\u2019re gonna use Donald Trump to either take over the GOP or blow it up. And we understand, Mitt, that might make you a little angry, but you\u2019re just gonna have to get over it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean to say that you understand Trump\u2019s flaws. You understand he\u2019s not perfect. You understand the contradictions and maybe some of the hypocrisy, but so what, because it\u2019s bigger than Trump. Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. And what the establishment should understand is that when you set everything up so that you get everything and leave the bill for somebody else, finally you leave \u2019em with nothing to lose.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you realize there\u2019s some Republicans out there, and I hope to hear from them, who think Romney\u2019s speech was great. There\u2019s some Republicans that think Trump is an absolute disaster, that we\u2019re guaranteed to lose, and we\u2019re gonna lose 25 years now. We\u2019re gonna have the Supreme Court be total lib and everything. Not every Republican is of the frame of mind that you and our first caller, Kathy, are. Many of you are, but it\u2019s still a fractured party.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it may be a fractured party, but the fracture is between the Republican electorate and the GOP establishment. And it was only within about the last year, after being a Republican for decades, that I finally realized — and, you know, I feel stupid for not figuring it out sooner — that these people don\u2019t really want the same things I want.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what you mean, not having figured it out sooner. You can\u2019t be blamed. They\u2019re Republicans, they campaign as though we\u2019re all on the same team. They campaign using your language, they —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — get your support claiming that they\u2019re going to actually implement your interests and represent you. It just doesn\u2019t happen very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And if they were serious, if they were serious about wanting to stop Donald Trump, all they gotta do is go to Kasich and Rubio and tell \u2019em, “Hey, guys, pull out, we\u2019re gonna unify behind Cruz.” But they won\u2019t do that. You know why? Because then they would have to give up their agenda. You know, they understand you\u2019re angry —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me jump in. That is actually a profound point. If you look at the delegate count, we went through this a little bit today, but Cruz is, for all the talk of Trump having swept the field — and he has — Trump only leads Cruz by a hundred or so delegates. It\u2019s 336 to 220, something like that. It is not an overwhelming lead. And I know Trumpists don\u2019t like to hear this, but it\u2019s still relevant. If you look at the vote in the Republican primaries that Trump is getting — and it\u2019s large, 30, 35% — it still means that there are more Republicans voting for other candidates who are not Trump. And if you add them together, it\u2019s a greater number than Trump supporters are.<\/p>\n