Posted on 03/09/2016 12:58:08 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Here's the item that I referenced a moment ago as being important and serious. It is obvious, it is more than obvious that Marco Rubio and John Kasich do not have a chance at being the Republican nominee, no matter how the nominee is chosen. It's pretty obvious. So the question then becomes, 'Why are they still in the race?" Now, some people might say,
Well, Kasich, you gotta understand he's gotta stay until Ohio. It's his home state." Okay, so it's about him. You want to admit that it's about him?
Kasich is staying in because it's good for him. Yeah, we want to talk about sullying the process? Rubio? Why's he staying? He can't... He's not gonna win the delegate fight. Now, there might be a case that could be made that if we get to this so-called convention that the establishment could find a way to make Rubio the nominee. But I'm telling you: If they try that with a guy that has zero delegates (he had zero delegates yesterday), and if they try to put a guy on the ticket, the top of the ticket with zero delegates or 10 or 15 or whatever, there's gonna be utter chaos.
Yeah, I can't see that happening. So why is Rubio staying in? When there's no way he can win it, why is he staying in? Okay, is the reason he's staying in to harm Cruz because there's personal hatred, professional rivalry, personal dislike? You ask the question of both Kasich and Rubio: Why are they in? At this point in time, now. I'm talking about last week, the week before. Today, after yesterday's results, are they staying in just to hurt Ted Cruz? Well, I don't know, but if they are, is that what we want? (interruption)
You shaking your head no. Why are they staying in? If... (interruption) Wait just a second. (interruption) Wait just a second. (interruption) Wait just... (interruption) Snerdley just said, "Rubio can't quit before he faces the voters of Florida." There are a lot more people today than on Monday saying that Rubio could do real permanent damage to his political career if he stays in and gets schlonged. Well, not just quits. But if he quits and throws his support, like Fiorina, there's a way to salvage this, is the point. If he quits and goes home, yeah. But he's not gonna quit...
Look, I gotta take a break here because, as always, right when I'm getting to the payoff, we gotta take a break, so hang in there.
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RUSH: Folks, I was just telling Snerdley, 9:30, 10 o'clock this morning, I'm going through show prep and I'm putting this all together, and I'm just absorbing everything. I'm not making any calculations, and I'm not adding delegates or any of that. And, at the time I'm thinking about it, here's Kasich and Rubio and they're both hopeless in terms of their own chances to win. And the little, I don't know, flash in my mind that said Ted Cruz can win this.
The delegate spread right now is only a hundred delegates or something like it, and if you go to the delegate count for the last week, the delegate count for the last week, Cruz has won 125 and Trump has won 124. Now, don't misunderstand. It's a long shot, and I really can't... I've not studied it. I can't present to you or lay out a scenario by which it happens. It was just a gut reaction, instinct to everything I was absorbing at the time.
And it's why I started pondering this interesting aspect here that Rubio and Kasich have no prayer, yet they're staying in. And in both cases, you'd have to say they're both staying in for personal reasons. Kasich's staying in for his own state of Ohio, even though he knows he has no prayer. And, by the way, isn't it true that the only way anybody on the Republican side other than Trump has a chance is if there is unity on the anti-Trump side of this? If that doesn't happen -- and it's arguable that it will.
I mean, Cruz is a polarizing figure, as we all know. But if they're staying in just to hurt Cruz, if Rubio is staying in just to hurt Cruz, it wouldn't surprise me there's animosity there, and ditto Kasich. If the primary reason they're staying in is not just to get through their home states and do well so they have bragging rights or what have you, okay. But if they're in this specifically to hurt Cruz, doesn't that kind of argue against what we've all been told is the purpose of this whole process? Because if the party coalesces behind Cruz...
The Politico has a story today about how the party's tiptoeing and they're not really crazy about it. Carly Fiorina did it today, endorsed Cruz, a great stem-winder speech of an introduction for Cruz down in Miami. Cruz was not supposed to do anywhere near as well as he did in last night's or yesterday's elections. He actually expanded beyond his appeal to evangelicals. So, anyway, it's something to think about as to when these two guys get out and what they do.
'Cause, look, all of this is academic if Trump does win Florida and Ohio. Then it's pretty much it, isn't it? I mean, not officially, but Illinois... Yeah. So, anyway, it's pedal-to-the-metal.
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I suppose they will discuss a good time to drop out that the meeting that Cruz, Rubio and Kasich are having with JEB!.
But they won't. Not both of them.
because they can and it is legal.
Anyway Bush is about to sit down with Kasich, Cruz and Rubio to see how they can get rid of Trump.
Nothing like the gold old boys club coming together, Cruz is their newest member, how proud he must be.
“Let me encourage other members of the establishment: Keep supporting Donald Trump because every time you do it, what it is doing is telling conservatives all over the country is where you stand and who stands with you”.
- Ted Cruz, New Hampshire stump speech
Yes it is and they should be able to.
Dang Rush has been reduced to a blubbering all over the place crybaby.
Does your pet Cruz need help, Rushie? Why didn’t you man up and endorse him from the get go then big boy? Because your buddy Ailes at Fox wanted you to shill for Rubio? Now it’s rally behind Ted time hmm.
Too bad too sad.
“Let me encourage other members of the establishment: Keep supporting Donald Trump because every time you do it, what it is doing is telling conservatives all over the country is where you stand and who stands with you”.
- Ted Cruz, New Hampshire stump speech
Looks like CCC (Cuban Canadian Cruz) has not seen himself in the mirror lately.
It appears that Jeb! Is going to huddle with Rubio, Cruz, and Kasich, no doubt about that very issue. Does that make you feel better? If it does, do you have a pulse?!
Oh and Cruz “expanded” his appeal beyond evangelicals last night
Where, Idaho? And he is only the evangelicals second choice anyway.
Rush GOP/FNC stooge.
I’m shaking my head here. What kind of retard Kool-Aid are they feeding Rush? The idea that Rubio and Kasich are staying in out of some hatred for Ted Cruz is quite possibly the most ludicrous theory of this election cycle since the notion that Jeb Bush was a viable candidate.
Rubio and Kasich are doing whatever they’re told is the best plan to neuter Trump’s advance. The minute the guys in the smokey room say that their best bet is to drop out and get behind Cruz, they will. There are egos involved, so neither of them will do it of their own accord. But when the party bosses tell them to jump, they’ll fulfill their duties like good stooges.
He has changed his tune, it is now.
He needs to drop out and we can take out trump, no issues, no nothing , but it’s all about me beating him.
Cruz’s ego is that of the entitled elitist class.
Non eligible, not Natural Born Citizens, Cubans, Chihuahua Prespiration Marko and Pinocchio Desperation Ted attacking Big Donald at CNN freestyle match.
Cruz "character":
1. Phony summonses mailed out, scaring people to vote for Cruz.
2. Claiming Carson quit, presinc captains told voters "vote for Cruz"
3. Campaigning in the 800 churches, showing video "vote for me" with his preacher/father stomping for him. Rafael Cruz is a 7 Mountain Dominionist and believes his son is the anointed one.
4. "Brilliant" lawyer, did not know he was Canadian citizen and that he is not Natural Born Citizen, not eligible for office of P or VP.
5. Making phony video advertising with lies about opponents.
6. Phony video about Rubio - Obama.
7. 7 Mountain Dominionist Church = Christian???
Just enough to beat Trump in IA, apologize, rinse and repeat? Liar is the polite term for this Cuban. His father was pro-communist in Cuba, imprisoned by Batista, but now he is refugee?
IRREFUTABLE AUTHORITY HAS SPOKEN
(Oct. 18, 2009) The Post & Email has in several articles mentioned that the Supreme Court of the United States has given the definition of what a "natural born citizen" is. Since being a natural born citizen is an objective qualification and requirement of office for the U.S. President (and VP), it is important for all U.S. Citizens to understand what this term means.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/18/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/
Applies to Cruz and Rubio, both at the time not born to US citizens and on US soil.
Rush said Rubio was a conservative too.
He must be back on the drugs or something.
“He actually expanded beyond his appeal to evangelicals.”
Yeah. Now he appeals to Mormons, following Mutt Romney’s orders.
And, of course Rush wants Kasich and Rubio to drop out - that helps his “ideal conservative” Ted and hurts Trump.
They are under the delusion that they can steal enough delegates to keep Trump from 50%. They will then go on to bleat about how great democracy is and how Trump threatens to ruin it for us all, with absolutely no self-awareness existing on their ends.
OMG That is so funny but true
“Okay, is the reason he’s staying in to harm Cruz because there’s personal hatred, professional rivalry, personal dislike? You ask the question of both Kasich and Rubio: Why are they in? At this point in time, now.”
Rush they are in it so that Trump does not get the 1237 delegates he needs. Simple as that. They are looking toward a brokered convention. Not hard to understand at all.
He was in North Carolina and he said that he and trump are virtually tied since trump is only 11 points ahead. Cruz is something else.
Rush has joined the ranks of Beck and Levin. He is a slobbering Cruzbot. I love how he is always saying that the establishment despises Ted Cruz. LOL Cruz is an insider’s insider who played the conservative card to plan on running for POTUS. He was pushing increases in H1-Bs and TPP which was at the behest of his donors.
Why Are Rubio and Kasich Still in This?
I’m guessing the free cocktails and hors d’oeuvre before the debates.
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