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RUSH: Okay. I just finished watching, like many people probably did, the Mitt Romney attempted takedown of Donald Trump. And once again, as loudly as they apparently are able to say it, the Republican establishment telegraphs they have absolutely no idea what is happening in this country. It\u2019s just stunning to me, folks, to watch this.<\/p>\n

So many different takeaways — well, there are many takeaways you can have of this thing. You can analyze it just in its vacuum, was it good, was it bad, did Romney succeed in making the point that he wanted to make? Then you take it out of that little bubble and you put it in context of everything, and the questions about it just overwhelm whatever substance or content there was in what Romney had to say.<\/p>\n


\nAnyway, greetings, my friends, it\u2019s great to have you. Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It appears to me that the establishment in Washington, both parties, still believes that whatever is happening out here that is causing people to support Donald Trump in large numbers is something temporary. That it is a fever, that it is a tantrum, that it is a child that has gone astray and that a lecture will straighten them out. That a talking-to will show them the error of their ways. And that\u2019s not what this is, as I divulged in great detail yesterday and on many days and weeks prior. This is not temporary, it\u2019s not a phase, and is not a tantrum.<\/p>\n

Now, Mitt Romney had some substantive things to say about Trump that, as I say, if you just look at it within the bubble of his comments, might make some sense. But it\u2019s nothing nobody else has been saying about Trump in this entire campaign. There wasn\u2019t anything new, and not one instance in the past of anybody saying any of these things about Trump has caused massive defections from Trump\u2019s campaign. So the questions then arise, okay, if it hasn\u2019t worked prior to today, why do it today? What\u2019s the deal? And the answers to me are rather obvious.<\/p>\n

I think these establishment people still can\u2019t get it through their heads that this is real. They\u2019ve expected Trump to implode. They have expected his supporters to abandon him and wake up from all this. And now that we\u2019ve had Super Tuesday and every passing day the establishment learns that it isn\u2019t temporary, that it isn\u2019t gonna go away on its own, they ratchet up their levels of panic and try to take matters into their own hands. And then you start questioning the timing and the person they decide to use to do this. I\u2019m not saying that Romney isn\u2019t sincere in any way, shape, manner, or form. But where was this months ago?<\/p>\n

Everything Romney said about Trump today they have thought about Trump since this campaign began. Where was this kind of analysis of Barack Obama? Where has this kind of analysis been of Barack Obama the last seven years? The way this is gonna be heard — I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re ever gonna understand this, these establishment guys. The way this is gonna be heard is, why are you trying to destroy your own base over and over again? Why are you rejecting the majority of people in your own party and their expressed desires and wishes? Why are you continually ignoring and trying to thwart the will of your voters?<\/p>\n


\nThat\u2019s how it\u2019s gonna be heard. That\u2019s how it\u2019s gonna be reacted to. They can\u2019t think this, can they? Take the universe of Trump supporters and however they hear this, maybe they watched it live, maybe they\u2019ll watch it streaming on their phones or they\u2019ll see highlights of it later on TV or whatever, but they\u2019re gonna see it. Do they really think that a significant number of Trump supporters are gonna go, “Wow! Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, I hadn\u2019t thought of that. You know, Romney\u2019s right. Okay. Okay, good. I\u2019m finished with Trump. Okay. Okay. I admit, I was wrong.” Do they really think that\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be seen as the establishment once again unable to win and therefore they\u2019re resorting once again to trying to talk their supporters out of the thinking that they are at present engaged in. Now Cookie is, as we speak, working on excerpts from the Romney speech, but I want to play you a couple of sound bites. And the reason I\u2019m playing these sound bites is not to point out any hypocrisy in Romney, although that\u2019ll happen.<\/p>\n

But the reason I want you to hear these sound bites is because these sound bites, matched against what Romney said today, are a glaring reason, one of many reasons why the Washington establishment is being rejected and not trusted and not supported. Let\u2019s go back, February 2nd, 2012, in Las Vegas, the Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Donald Trump endorsed Romney for president February 2nd, 2012. And we have two Mitt Romney sound bites. Here\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: There are some things that you just can\u2019t imagine happening in your life. This is one of them, being in Donald Trump\u2019s magnificent hotel, and having his endorsement is a delight. I\u2019m so honored and pleased to have his endorsement.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t think the people supporting Trump don\u2019t remember this. Don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna hear this either on this program or elsewhere and they\u2019re not gonna be questioning Trump. They\u2019re gonna be questioning Romney. Here\u2019s the second bite. Get this.<\/p>\n