Posted on 06/26/2012 3:32:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday Mitt Romney blew it with the response to all the immigration rulings at the Supreme Court. And the Obama administration reaction to it. And the regime basically telling Arizona, "We don't care. We're gonna have spies tattling on you if you start stopping people," and so forth. Yesterday was a warning, I think. Yesterday was a red flag for the Romney team. Yesterday... And it's the first time in a long time. It's the first time I have thought this in a long time. The Romney team was not ready for primetime on this illegal immigration, the Arizona decision.
This is not the time to get too cocky. I know that the Romney campaign is basically saving it all up for after the Olympics, and I understand that. But this is too consequential a week. What's happening this week is going to have legs, and there will be memories associated with it. You can't live off of all of Obama's gaffes like, "The private sector is doing fine." You can't live off that forever. Had that decision happened in the fall on a debate night with Obama pandering away the way he was?
And if Romney's response yesterday had happened in a debate? It would have been a big win for Obama, for the community organizer. Now, health care is coming up Thursday, and it's time to get the ducks back in a row. I'm just saying, folks. I was a little surprised. The Romney camp has been superb. They've had their rapid response stuff ready to go. I know that there's fear about the Hispanic vote, fear of angering it and so forth. But unless we're gonna pander to 'em the way Obama does...
And if we do that, we're gonna lose. We can't outpander Obama. We can't promise a bigger government than Obama will promise. We can't promise that. Not with credibility. That's not who we are. We can't promise this kind of stuff. And if that's the attempt, as a defensive measure, so as not to offend them...? Well, then, fine. I don't think you offended anybody, but you didn't gain anything. And we are about gaining things. The future of the country is riding on this stuff. There's got to be more than a tepid response
Personally, I am a Rush fan. I have him on in the background at work daily.
I've seen JR’s standard rules on profanity, etc. I've also seen posts by him about Romney (or other subjects) that made his position known in no uncertain terms. I've never seen a rule on Rush.
I HAVE seen some posters try to speak for JR. Briefly. If I was IBTZ.
Maybe you and JR go way back and you can speak for him. I don't know.
BTW; I didn’t much care for the personal attack on Rush either, and he’s comparatively svelte these days.
I doubt that JR even knows who I am, and I certainly wasn’t speaking FOR him, I was speaking ABOUT what has happened in the past to those who denigrate Rush on FR.
A long time ago JR had a thread about it too IIRC.
Unless JR has changed that ‘rule’, denigrating Rush on FR is risking your ability to post here.
Gotcha. Now I am off to scream about SCOTUS for a few minutes.
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