Rush really goes back and forth, it seems from the little I’ve been able to listen to lately. Mostly positive statements about Cruz and Trump. Seems to be a little more negative on Trump, but maybe that’s how I perceive it.
Yes. This is because he is much more aligned with Cruz ideologically, but with Trump temperamentally. Rush knows that while Cruz has the more consistent conservative positions, in fact we may need someone of Trump’s caliber to actually get anything done.
I’ve sent him a couple of notes urging him to answer a pretty obvious question: why, in poll after poll, does Trump come close to (or in a couple of state polls, tie) Cruz among “very conservative” voters, while among “conservative” Trump leads big? And the answer is in part a reflection on Cruz’s very serious weak spots: his utter inability to get anything done in the senate, to build a coalition of ANYONE, to get ANY Republican (not one!) to attend his “global warming” hearings. Add to that his questionable voting record on TPP and Corker, well, there are problems with Cruz “in practice” as opposed to “in ideology.” Rush doesn’t want to go there yet, because it becomes a criticism of Cruz. But I don’t see how you can avoid dealing with those consistent poll numbers.