Romney Says Rush is Right: Obama is Running Against CapitalismMay 24, 2012
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RUSH: Now to the audio sound bites. Fox News, Gretchen Carlson. I'm not sure about this. They had Romney on. Yesterday on this program, I said that as far as I'm concerned, Obama's the first president running for reelection against capitalism. So they had Romney on today, and they asked him about that. Now, if I were in cable news, I ask this question hoping that Romney disagrees with Rush Limbaugh. If Romney disagrees with Rush Limbaugh, then I've got a story! I've got a story. I've got the Republican presidential nominee, presumptive nominee, disagreeing with Limbaugh.
And I've got news.
I'm gonna have this clip played all day long on all the other cable channels. Now, that could be wrong. They're our friends at Fox & Friends, don't misunderstand, but business is business. Gretchen Carlson said, "Would you go as far as Rush Limbaugh did yesterday..." That's why I thought: Okay, she kinda wouldn't be disappointed here if Romney "wouldn't go as far" as I did, right? "Would you go as far as Rush Limbaugh did yesterday, saying that this is the first president modern times who is going to run a campaign against capitalism?"
ROMNEY: Well, it certainly sounds like that's what he's doing. There's no question but that he's attacking capitalism, in part I think because he doesn't understand how the free economy works. He's never had a job in the free economy. Neither has Vice President Biden. They spent their lives as either community organizers or as members of the political class. And the American people understand that the free economy and free enterprise is tough; it's hard work. And when they hear that a business like Bain Capital was successful 80% of the time and 5% of its investments only went bankrupt, they say, "You know, that's a pretty good record," and if all the president wants to do is talk about the failures, why, he's misrepresenting the nature of free enterprise.
RUSH: So Romney takes that and runs with it! It was nice. It was a great answer, and he accepts the premise that Obama is running against capitalism. It was a nice setup, and he took it. What we've done here is we put together a montage of Obama's history of attacking capitalism, from September of 2008 all the way through the present day.
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