Posted on 01/18/2016 2:35:08 PM PST by Kaslin
SCHMIDT: Look, right now you look at Trump’s strength across the country and the national polls, all these establishment candidates — Kasich, Rubio, Bush, Christie — they need Ted Cruz to beat Donald Trump in Iowa. If Ted Cruz doesn’t win the state of Iowa, Donald Trump is gone. He’s gonna win New Hampshire. He’s gonna be very, very tough to catch as this race moves south and moves into the bigger states.
Rush Limbaugh is a RINO!
Hardly, they have fought Trump since he announced. I think they have been getting cozy with Cruz.
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Rush Limbaugh nailed this one perfectly ...
Rush wants a TRUE conservative, and Ted Cruz is the ONLY GOP 2016 candidate to receive that accolade from Rush Limbaugh ...
No.Body.Else.
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I didn't know he was in the Senate or the House of Reps, because this is what RINOs do.
THe GOPe will never support Cruz. They will not support Trump either, but they have less control over him because in the end, he can go all the way without a nickel from them, and Cruz can’t.
Once Jeb is out I look for the GOPe to pile on behind Rubio like there’s no tomorrow. We’ll see....
Trump has put them in uncharted waters, this is the black swan event they had no idea could happen - a candidate who doesn’t need their money or machinery and could care less what they think.
Rush Limbaugh is a sell-out to GOPe and Goldman Sachs. He’s obviously pro-Amnesty.
Limbaugh’s a flip-flopper. Very nasty. Hates New Yorkers and hates the heroes of 911. I’ll bet he’s even Canadian!
/sarc
Exactly and Trump is nothing but a flip-flopper
You do understand that I was being facetious.
I suppose I should start [S] tagging as it’s beginning to get difficult to tell with some of the whackadoodles posting here of late.
Rush has also said something like he only spends time with the people who are the best at what they do... eltonjon... Hypocrisy is the menu for these times.
Cruz IS NOT a Conservative. He is a card carrying RINO.
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.â€
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin
I quit listening to Rush many years ago. I did not need him or anyone else to tell me how to think or what to think. I do my own research and make up my own mind and, you know what? I am right. I learned to do that when Gov. Perry was running. I thought he was great until I researched him. Changed my mind very quickly. Now, I do that for any candidate.
Rush doesn’t want a true conservative, he wants an establishment candidate. I’m not sure which one, I’m guessing Rubio. But he knows that’s not acceptable right now so he’s pushing Cruz because Cruz has zero chance of winning the nomination and Rush knows it.
If Cruz surpassed Trump, Cruz would disappear instantly. He’s only at the top because he’s got a death grip on Trump’s coattails, the press, getting his name out there is all because he’s tied to Cruz. The mainstream media and GOPe would shut that down asap and Cruz doesn’t have a megaphone to talk over them.
I know many don’t see this but it’s the absolute fact. And it wouldn’t be the first time Rush has backed establishment.
I caught about 15min of Rush at lunch today. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now. Rush is in the tank for Cruz. He’s an American and free to make that choice. But he should be honest about it, otherwise it just appears that he think his audience isn’t smart enough to know what he is doing.
I heard quite a bit of Rush today, although apparently I missed this particular bit. Rush made a whole lot of very interesting, very sharp observations.
Hard to imagine the “establishment” truly going for either of these guys. But sometimes I believe there might be two different tiers to the establishment. I think the upper-tier, uber-elite, banker-globalist crowd is probably more worried about Trump, due to his trade/border talk. Yet, the lower-tier, the more broad establishment of the beltway and northeastern media elites really, really despise Cruz more, due to his cultural/social conservatism.
It’s an interesting notion, though, that with Trump’s incessant emphasis on ‘deal-making,’ that he’s somewhat giving the signal to the entrenched elite not to worry, that he’s going to be a big compromiser. That’s why that whole angle of Trump’s, regarding ‘deals,’ is a bit of a turn-off for me.
Birds of a feather!
Being from California...your judgment is certainly in question. Cruz is quite popular in the great state of Texas. You know, the most conservative state in the nation.
They want Cruz to take out Trump and then they’ll take out Cruz...won’t be hard to do...birther, flip flopping..not enough experience...wierd religion. I’m sure he’ll get some promises like attorney general for Jeb or something for his efforts.
And the GOPe will remain in charge...just like they are predicting. Money talks...expecially donors money.
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