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Rush: Establishment Support of Cruz Means Conservatism is Winning
Conservative Review ^ | March 24, 2016

Posted on 03/24/2016 1:05:55 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

On Wednesday during his radio program Rush Limbaugh responded to a caller claiming Ted Cruz is not an outsider and is “buddying up” with the establishment.

Limbaugh clarified to the caller that Cruz is not the hypocrite – the establishment is.

Listen to the full clip here:

Below are some excerpts from the transcript:

RUSH: I just saw there's a caller on line calling me delusional?  

CALLER:  I think, sadly, what you all fail to realize is that perpetually you're painting Ted Cruz as an outsider.  He paints Ted Cruz as an outsider.  The Tea Party tried to paint him as an outsider.  Yet I'm gonna read you five names:  Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Jeb exclamation, exclamation, exclamation point, Bush, Nikki Haley.  How much more insider can you get than this, okay?

RUSH: . . .This is the same stuff that happened with Reagan.  I have to tell you, Clay, it's exact same stuff that happened with Reagan.  They didn't like Reagan in '76. They didn't like Reagan in 1980.  They tried to stop Reagan in both campaigns. 

When Reagan won in 1980 they had no choice, and then when Reagan proved to be two landslides popular, all of those people that supposedly hated him couldn't wait to be standing next to him every time a photo was taken.  They were the hypocrites, not Reagan.  And Cruz is not the hypocrite here.  What's he supposed to do, stand up and say, "Sorry, Governor Bush, but I don't believe you.  I don't believe you really want me to win.  So I would appreciate it if you would endorse someone --" is that what you want him to do Clay?


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To: GodGunsGuts

Or it means that Ted Bush has been a high level GOP establishment insider for the last 20 years, his wife too. That is my theory.


21 posted on 03/24/2016 1:18:55 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: bray

That is what is a real takeaway from this campaign.


22 posted on 03/24/2016 1:19:13 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: pgkdan; VanDeKoik
Good old Rush Limbaugh...


23 posted on 03/24/2016 1:19:43 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I heard the show yesterday when Clay called and you could tell Rush was getting defensive and he was stumbling over himself for a response. Conservatism isn’t winning. It’s on life support in the GOP. Rush sounds like that football coach whose team is down 42-0 at halftime, and when he’s being interviewed going to the locker room he’s trying to sound hopeful even when he knows it’s a lost cause.


24 posted on 03/24/2016 1:21:41 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: GodGunsGuts

The ‘Golden Microphone’ has turned to Stool


25 posted on 03/24/2016 1:22:31 PM PDT by heights
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To: pgkdan

Rush is really stretching and spinning it today. He’s just desperate to hang onto Cruz is a conservative. And talk us into believing it. LOL!


26 posted on 03/24/2016 1:23:30 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: pgkdan

Rush is really stretching and spinning it today. He’s just desperate to hang onto Cruz is a conservative. And talk us into believing it. LOL!


27 posted on 03/24/2016 1:23:30 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GodGunsGuts

No, it means that Cruz is a Bush establishment stooge, who is willing to do their dirty work for them. Anyone doubting that should take a look at Neil Bush welcomed into the campaign, along with Jeb’s entire finance team, the Jeb Bush endorsement, the Romney endorsement, the Miss Graham endorsement, Bush and Stealth Bushes all.

If he succeeds in keeping Trump under 1237, they will give Cruz a ton of money for his Senate reelection campaign in 2018, but they won’t give him the presidential nomination.


28 posted on 03/24/2016 1:24:18 PM PDT by euram
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To: Cboldt

“Cruz is landslide popular”

Just not with Republicans I guess.


29 posted on 03/24/2016 1:24:21 PM PDT by heights
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To: GodGunsGuts

No, Rush, it just means that the Wizards of Smart managed to back themselves into a corner with no other alternatives. At least in the short-term.


30 posted on 03/24/2016 1:24:26 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yes the GOPe after all these years has “seen the light” in just a few months vs GOPe using “Ted The Tool” to “Fool the Fools”

if you believe that I got a few Bridges I want to sell you


31 posted on 03/24/2016 1:25:17 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: tophat9000

Rush you delusional


32 posted on 03/24/2016 1:26:32 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: BlackAdderess
No... it just means that Conservatives are fooled.

I'm thinking Cruz was always on a mission for the GOPe to fetch the grass-root votes and hand them off to Jeb! at the convention.

Trump came along and now the GOPe will substitute Jeb! for someone else, or even accept Cruz.

You know, McCain used to come home to Arizona for years and fool us all into thinking he was fighting the GOPe on our behalf. Cruz could be the new McCain.

33 posted on 03/24/2016 1:26:58 PM PDT by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: DonaldC; All

It means they are using Cruz to block Trump.

The. Cruz will be cast aside at the convention for the RINO hack they actually want.

No way will the GOPe back Cruz. He’s delusional to think they would.


34 posted on 03/24/2016 1:27:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: pgkdan

You got that right! FURL!!!! (The R stands for Rush)


35 posted on 03/24/2016 1:27:22 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist
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To: GodGunsGuts

GOPe props him up in the primaries to block 1237.
Then the long knives come out on the second ballot.


36 posted on 03/24/2016 1:28:00 PM PDT by Macoozie ("Estoy votando por Ted 2016!" bumper stickers available)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Rush is a duplicitous , lying sack of ——. He says the Base anger started seven years ago, and we are mad at the Democrats, and Republicans that didn’t pass Tax Cuts. The Man is clueless.


37 posted on 03/24/2016 1:28:46 PM PDT by heights
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To: pgkdan

I can’t imagine what is up with Rush. It’s bizarre.


38 posted on 03/24/2016 1:29:26 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Rush is America’s own Bagdad Bob!


39 posted on 03/24/2016 1:32:16 PM PDT by mouse1 (Je Suis Trump)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

He has to know that they can’t get away with stripping the front runner at the convention and still have a prayer of winning the general. It simply doesn’t work that way.


40 posted on 03/24/2016 1:32:16 PM PDT by The Toll
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