Why does limbaugh hate romney

Limbaugh: I do remember. But there's still this confusion about pre-existing conditions out there. Limbaugh: It's a frustrating thing 'cause it's not even the correct title for what the plan is it, but that's what people —.

The President: What they do is they love to say that I'm gonna get rid of pre-existing conditions. I want to terminate Obamacare and then come up with a great — and we have it — come up with a great health care plan that's much less expensive and does include people with pre-existing conditions.

That's what I want to do. Now, they'll also say about Social Security —. Limbaugh: But you need a Republican Senate for that. And you need a Republican House for that. In order to do that — well, what will happen is if we win, the Democrats will do something to help get health care.

I mean, they're gonna come along because they have no choice. They're gonna come along. They have no choice. I will say one thing. You know, we talk about unity 'cause I'd like to see the country come together. It's not as easy as people think. But just prior to the plague coming in from China, when the plague came in from China, we had the lowest unemployment we ever had, we had the greatest employment, we were up to million people employment, we never were even close. Everybody had a job —.

The President: That's right, Rush. So we had the best numbers ever. We had the highest stock market, although I tell you, we're inches away right now for people's k s if they held on to their stocks, they're very wealthy right now.

And our economy is doing really amazing considering that we're in this pandemic thing sent to us by China. But if you look at what we've done — and people were calling me, Rush, in terms of bringing our country together, that I really had never heard from before. In other words, they were not interested. And they were saying like, let's start getting together.

It was coming together. Success was bringing our country together. And then we got hit by the China plague. But success, Rush, even you might be surprised to hear that. People that you would have said "no way" were calling and saying, "Can we get together? Our military is strong. When I took over we had no ammunition. We had a case where a general, a certain general, highly overrated general told me, "We have no ammunition.

Limbaugh: I heard you say that. I was, frankly, surprised that we were low on ammo? I don't think I've ever heard that before. The President: He said, "Sir, we have no ammunition. And I said, "Keep that very quiet.

We have stuff the likes of which nobody — Russia dreams of the stuff that we have. China dreams of the stuff that we have, Rush, and we can't talk about it or we shouldn't talk about it.

We have things that — and I hope to God we never have to use it. Our nuclear is all tippy-top now. You don't want to even say it. You know, we have no choice but to say it. We were so far behind. If you look I call 'em Obiden. Obama and Biden, what they did to our military was — it just was horrible. Limbaugh: And economy. I mean, they were telling everybody that we need to adapt our expectations to a new era of decline.

Limbaugh: America's best days are behind us. I mean, it was outrageous. You know, GDP, one and a half percent max every year? The President: Right. But it was coming together, Rush. And I'm telling you — and you would be a skeptic maybe almost more than —.

Limbaugh: "Mr. This is our second most mentioned topic that people want to hear you address. President, it drives me crazy that the Democrats can call all of us out here racist and sexist just because we don't need with them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to call somebody racist because nobody wants to be racist or anti anything — and we aren't racist. We are tired of being called evil racists, when all we want is for all Americans to be free — ". Limbaugh: "— to have the blessed opportunity this Constitution and country offers everybody. We want a healthy and safe future and we love everybody.

How do we deal with this, Sir? How do we finally shut this down? The President: So, I've watched this for a long time. I've had it. I've probably been a victim of it — you and I and a couple of others — more than anybody, and we're just the opposite.

When they give up, when we're beating 'em, they have nothing else to fall back on but the word "racist. That means that when you're winning and you're just knocking the hell out of them, they have nothing else to say; they call you a racist. And this has been going on for decades. I don't know that you're gonna stop it, but people are wise to it and people are rolling their eyes now. They're rolling their eyes.

It is just an incredible thing. The way they use the race word, the racist word is just actually disgusting. I was asked by Chris Wallace — who's third-rate. I was asked by him He was protecting Biden the other night. It was pathetic. The President: Why did you say a billion dollars, unless you get rid of the prosecutor, and then you give him the billion dollars?

And Chris Wallace was — and he was choking like a dog. He wasn't able to answer, and Chris Wallace would go in and save him the whole time. That whole thing was disgraceful. Limbaugh: We're gonna give you a chance to actually respond to Joe Biden because, you're right.

The moderators of these debates are never asking Biden to explain himself. Limbaugh: "What did you mean by that, Sir? They're asking you to explain you. So I have some Joe Biden sound bites here that are anywhere from 13 to 17 seconds —.

Limbaugh: — that no moderator will ever ask you to respond to and, as such, the American people don't know that he has said these things. Limbaugh: Is from December 30th, , and he's in Derry, New Hampshire, telling coal miners to forget coal mining and learn how to code. Biden: Anybody that could do down to 3, feet in a mine, sure in hell could learn how to program as well. Give me a break! Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake.

Limbaugh: There he's putting down coal miners. You never get asked about it. You never hear these sound bites anywhere in the media. What do you think of that? The President: Well, I think it's terrible, and you can look at so many other things. Look at fracking. He went for a whole year saying, "No way there will be fracking.

Mark my words. There will not be fracking," and so did Kamala. You know, Kamala. She's another great one, and they talk about fracking —. Limbaugh: She should have listened to Willie Brown. Willie Brown told her not to accept this job and she did it anyway. She shouldn't have. The President: I thought she was so Mike beat her so bad the other night. But she's just not good at what she did. Hey, don't forget, she started out She went down in the polls.

That's usually not the person you want to pick for vice president. But, anyway, the both of them, they talk about fracking like it was the greatest sin on earth; then they get the nomination, and now they're talking about they want to do fracking. But, you know, I find in politics, always follow their first words, because that's where they're going.

They agreed with Bernie Sanders and all the people on the manifesto. And if you read that manifesto, that manifesto is further left than Bernie Sanders. Much further left than Bernie Sanders. You know, usually you think they take 'em right. Bernie took 'em left. He took 'em left of where he was.

But if you look at the fracking, the coal You could say the coal. Remember Hillary, three weeks before she went to West Virginia, she was knocking the hell out of coal, and then she forgot she had to go to West Virginia. The President: What they do with coal now — with clean coal — is amazing.

We have more than anybody. What they do with clean coal is amazing. We have more energy than anybody, and these other countries who want to take it away with the Paris Accord and all of this. They want to take away our wealth. They want to take away our jobs, our companies. It is disgraceful. Limbaugh: You know, explain fracking to people, Sir, because it's a term that's thrown out there and I know what it is. I can explain it. A lot of people can but a lot of people don't know what it is and why it's so outrageous that they will not commit, and they will not get their story straight, on whether or not they're gonna ban it.

What is it? The President: Well, basically it's getting energy out of the ground really efficiently and getting every drop of it, and it's created wealth for our country like you wouldn't believe. And it's really been over the last small number of years that that's really become You know, you used to see these massive oil wells and, you know —. The President: They drill sideways. It's unbelievable, if you ever watched this process, and they just suck stuff out of the ground that is It's just incredible the technology, and for whatever reason, for our country You know, we've become the biggest oil producer in the world right now, by far.

Not even a contest. We're bigger than Russia, bigger than Saudi Arabia, and to a level that nobody can believe — and I saved the industry. Six, seven months ago when our oil dropped because of the pandemic, I got Russia and Saudi Arabia together — you know, it's good to get along with countries, not necessarily a bad thing, Rush; you understand that — and they cut 10 million barrels a day.

It is actually more than that, but they cut, and we saved the oil. We saved 10 million jobs in this country, and yet everybody has cheap gasoline. Nobody thought that would be possible. That's better than a tax cut. So, you know, if you want to know the truth You know, when gas used to go up to five, six dollars and people would say, "Oh, our country," and people would They couldn't buy cars. They didn't do anything. We have very inexpensive gasoline, and yet it's high enough that we have our energy jobs.

We have millions and millions of energy jobs in Texas and North Dakota and Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. So, Biden goes in. Do you notice they never talk about fracking?

So, he said no fracking, and he's in Pennsylvania —. Limbaugh: Just like they're gonna stack the court. They will not confirm it. You know what you ought to tell Amy Coney Barrett? That she's not gonna answer any questions about how she'll rule until after she's confirmed. The President: No. I know. It's incredible what he said yesterday. I couldn't believe it, and that's such a big thing. He's in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's a big, big fracking thing.

It's a million jobs. It's tremendous energy. They have low-energy cars —. The President: He said just the opposite. He said, "There will be no fracking," and then once he gets to Pennsylvania, he said, "No, there will be fracking. Nobody could get away with that! But they let him. They don't even ask him a question about fracking. I mean, they don't say to him, "Well, wait a minute.

You said you won't frack and now you're saying you're gonna frack," because if Pennsylvania believed that, they couldn't vote for him because he'd put Pennsylvania out of business, along with Ohio and other places.

Limbaugh: Exactly. Let's go to another Biden sound bite. This is from May of this year. He was on radio program called The Breakfast Club with my old buddy Charlamagne tha God, and he said to Biden, "You gotta come back and see us. It's a long way 'til November. We got more questions for you. Biden: You got more questions?

But I tell you Limbaugh: And there you go. You try that. The President: No, he doesn't get called. I will say this, though. The black community gets it. They don't dig him. They don't like him. They don't like him, and I'm getting numbers. But, you know, if you look at what I've done for criminal justice reform. Obama couldn't get criminal justice reform done. I did prison reform. The small colleges and universities, historically black, what I've done. I got them funded. They were coming back every year, hat in hand every year begging for money, and I got 'em taken care of for a year period — all funded, fully funded.

What I've done is And then with Tim Scott, we did the opportunity zones which is the greatest — I mean, the most incredible — thing for the black community, the African-American community, with jobs and everything else. I've done more — and I say it. And, you know, at first people said, "Oh, it's too much to say.

Nobody's done what I've done. The President: But, you know, they don't like Biden. They don't like Biden. He did the super predator stuff, you know, he was the super predator king. Limbaugh: This is eight years ago. He's vice president. It's a campaign event. He's talking about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan here. Biden: He's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street! They're gonna put y'all back in chains! Limbaugh: "They're gonna put y'all back in chains!

Limbaugh: I don't understand why it's even a contest. These kinds of things ought to be automatic disqualifiers. The President: But he's a different guy there. You know, you could hear by the way he talks. He's out of it. Now, we can't have a president that's out of it because I meet with Xi and I meet with Putin.

I meet with all of them. Limbaugh: He wasn't out of it there. He knew exactly what he was saying there. That's your point. He's a different guy.

He's in a daze. I look at the things he says. I look at what he says. I look at how he says it. He's in a daze — and it's not because he's 78 or whatever he is. Bernie Marcus from Home Depot, he's a hundred percent sharp. But Joe is There's something wrong.

We can't have that. Limbaugh: He made it through the debate. He made it through 90 minutes of that debate without betraying any of the mental, umm, limitations, shall we say.

The President: I agree, but he was not able to answer the Russia thing, and he was choking and he was not able to answer the billion-dollar prosecutor thing.

Limbaugh: Well, you did kind of bail him out, by the way. He started to fade and you kept talking at him. I think he was —. Limbaugh: Now, Mr. President, something you tweeted about. When I saw this, this blew my mind. It literally blew my mind. This is a Gallup poll. Limbaugh: — than they were four years ago. That's stunning to me. That's the highest number on record. The President: I know. Highest number ever recorded that they're better off today than they were at any time before — during a pandemic — and that's what I've built.

We've built this, and the only reason we're doing well is because the foundation was so strong, Rush. The foundation. If we didn't have a strong foundation, you'd be — and if he got in, you'll be , because he's gonna raise everybody's taxes. They don't talk about that, either. He's gonna raise everybody's taxes, and you know what else they never talk about? Something that I think is a very important thing: The Second Amendment.

They don't say he's gonna take away your guns. Limbaugh: It never comes up in a debate. That and immigration, those two subjects never come up. That's right. So, you know, it's pretty crazy. It's amazing that when we sit in the White House Every once in a while, I'll say, "It's not fair the way I get treated. The President: So, it's pretty amazing, and it's because the people get it.

The people of this country are really smart, and they do get it, and they can do everything they can — and, again, the only thing is, I don't know why they do it, but they do it. They're very dishonest and evil in many ways. Limbaugh: They do. But they also They love you. President, seriously, now: They know that you are the only person standing in the way of the left's efforts to undermine America —.

Limbaugh: — and turn it into something it was They're scared to death, scared to death of what's gonna happen if you lose. They're scared to death of what's gonna happen if somehow these people can harm you. They want you to have a deep understanding of how much you mean to them, how important you are to them in preserving the American way of life. It is more important because it's at risk. Limbaugh: The American way of life is at risk — and you, Sir, are the only man standing in the way of people destroying that.

Limbaugh: This is what millions and millions and millions of Americans think. It's got to be a big burden on you, but —. The President: Well, I'm glad you said it, because if I say it — and you said before something. You know, I tell that to people, "You might as well say it yourself because nobody else is going to say it. I wish other people would say it, and I love that you can say it. But the truth is, I am a wall. We have something with such potential, you have no idea. Even you might not understand.

The level of potential of this country is incredible. The people are incredible. The resources. You know, we have wealthy land.

We're on top of land. They want to take it away from us. They want to take our wealth away. They want to take our jobs away, our factories away. They want us to be in the same position You know, we're born on very, very energy You look at the energy we have, more than anybody in the world. You look. They want to take all of these advantages that we have over other countries and throw 'em away. And, you know, we have such incredible potential, and they want to I am a wall between the potential of this country to be better than ever before, and a country that will become a Third World country, a Venezuela.

You know, I used to say we could be Venezuela. I used to say it halfheartedly. It's true. It will be just a massive version. If you look at Venezuela, it's a massive version of Venezuela. Venezuela was You remember Venezuela 20 years ago? The President: Venezuela has gotten so bad, it's unbelievable. They don't have food. They don't have water. They don't have medicine. They have lots of wealth too.

They have oil. But they have lots of wealth. But they have nothing. They've gone socialist and probably more. If you look at Kamala, that's more than socialist. You know, she's further left than Crazy Bernie, and this is what they want. They wanted her. I don't know why. I don't know if they're happy with her. I think she's a —. Limbaugh: Because she couldn't win on her own, Sir. They had to do this to get her. You nailed it earlier when you said Pelosi's 25th Amendment gambit —.

She couldn't She got out of the Democrat primaries before a single vote was cast! She was so bad, she left before Iowa — and look at Iowa, by the way! You remember the Iowa? Nobody even knows to this day who won Iowa, right?

They went with this scheme that now they want to multiply times a thousand on the voting stuff, and wait 'til you see. I'm sure that you'll have a question about that. But wait 'til you see how bad the ballot thing We saw this with the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. According to a Morning Consult poll from January , 77 percent of Republicans distrust the media, and a Pew poll showed that Limbaugh was the third-most-trusted media source among conservative Republicans.

But that bloc certainly had — and still has — a lot of power: power to stop the GOP from moving to the left on immigration in both and , power to help elevate Trump in and power to keep the party base from ever breaking with Trump, even after the Capitol riot. He repeatedly demonized liberals and pushed GOP politicians further to the right on issues such as immigration, government spending and climate change. But with Trump that changed. Keep in mind, too, that this was less than 24 hours after Trump trashed Mitch McConnell, who actually pushed his agenda through Congress.

But you can still have a Cruz or a Rubio where media figures like Limbaugh exist. Limbaugh was perhaps the biggest figure in that system, too. Perhaps not as relevant now, but that ecosystem has mattered so much in the s to now. And it is that ecosystem that pushed the Republicans more generally into a non-policy, identity-obsessed, own-the-libs direction. Conservative media personalities Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter had their own versions of this, but neither were as influential as Limbaugh.

Instead, it was the issue of immigration. The things we now think of as particularly Trumpian features of conservatism — the insults, the conspiracies, the blend of entertainment and politics and anger — Limbaugh had been doing it for a quarter-century before Trump showed up to the party. Romney, however, declined to don the distinctive red cap that Beck came to embrace. In fact, he voted twice to convict Trump, becoming the first senator to break with his party in an impeachment vote.

Romney, 74, came of age politically at a time when old-school restraint and across-the-aisle deal-making was valued; Beck, 57, when bombastic talk-radio hosts who used mockery as a weapon could become opinion leaders in conservative thought. These competing styles now do battle on the larger field of conservatism, which has splintered into opposing factions that George Washington warned of in that farewell address.

With an estimated 4. But with , subscribers to his YouTube channel and more than 4 million followers on Facebook and Twitter, Beck is still a powerful voice in conservative media. Beck did not respond to interview requests, and Romney, through a spokeswoman, declined to speak about his relationship with Beck. But Kirk Jowers, former director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah and a longtime friend and associate of Romney, said that if there is animosity between the men, it seems one-sided.

There is nothing to gain by him telling me that. Nothing to gain. That reaction, in itself, was statesmanship: acknowledging differences while conveying respect.

So how did we get to , where Beck seems to use every opportunity to mock the man he once praised? Although Beck does the finger-pointing, both men are known for changing their positions, said Donna Halper, a media historian who teaches communication and media studies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

And he had to walk away from Romneycare health care reform Massachusetts adopted in , the signature thing he had given us.