Posted on 02/03/2016 12:26:22 PM PST by conservativejoy
In the aftermath of Monday's Iowa caucus results, political pundits have had plenty to ponder. One of the biggest headlines of the night was Ted Cruz's resounding defeat of Donald Trump, the unconventional front-runner widely expected to win in the state.
Some blamed Trump's second-place finish on his decision to skip last week's debate, which not only gave his competitors an extra chance to address voters but gave some Iowans the impression that they had been "snubbed" by the billionaire candidate.
Syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, however, had a different hypothesis, asserting Tuesday on his program that he does not think "skipping the debate had a thing to do with" the Iowa result.
The root cause of the Hawkeye State standings is much deeper, the host explained.
"This is a Republican primary," he said. "It's Iowa. Conservatives win in Iowa."
Specifically citing the negative barbs being hurled at Cruz, Limbaugh concluded that Trump has not been looking too conservative in the eyes of more and more GOP voters.
"Donald Trump ... went out and tried to criticize Ted Cruz," he said, reiterating that such intraparty squabbles are antithetical to the common mission of everyone in the Republican primary race.
"Ted Cruz isn't the enemy," Limbaugh insisted. "Hillary Clinton is not the enemy. Ted Cruz is not a nasty guy. Ted Cruz is not a Canadian."
Not only do Trump's allegations fall flat, the host concluded, they are also hopelessly unconvincing in their current packaging.
"Nobody is going to believe that," Limbaugh said, "especially when you offer that criticism sounding as though it could come with Bernie Sanders. In a Republican primary, you do not win if you're going to sound like a liberal Democrat criticizing Ted Cruz."
Wow. Looks like Rush has full-blown DTS.
Ted Cruz NOT a “nasty guy” and a “Canadian”? What flavor Kool-Aid are you drinking, Rush?
Sheesh.
In before Rush gets thrown under the bus. I thought Obama was bad about deep sixing his detractors but just you wait.
Anyone that thinks Rubio is a ,’Full throated Conservative’, is a “Full throated Rino Hack”. And that’s exactly what Rush is.
The common sense Kool-aid. Something is short supply around here. Trump sounds like Nancy Pelosi lately or John Boehner instead of conservative champion. Trump screwed up. He needs to own it or he’ll fade soon. His supporters need to own it, too. Attacking Cruz from the far left, celebrating universal healthcare on Sunday before Iowa and taking about working with the opposition to do deals is not the road to winning a Republican nomination.
Trump if he would have went a week early to campaign would have won. I mean Cruz won by 4 percent. Not exactly a huge amount. And with the Carson votes he took, that was 4 percent right there. So I don’t think going overboard on a win that Cruz was in the state for 2 years and spent a ton of money and had a decent ground game, but remember with all that, he only won by 4 percent.......not that great for how much he prepared.
1 delegate is all.
Like President Huckabee and President Santorum. May Cruz follow the same path.
A BOMB? Really? A BOMB?? And ALLCAPS BOMB?? Wow. How loud was the BOMB? Did it have an exclamation point? No, no exclamation points in the title. Just an ALLCAPS BOMB with no exclamation point. So a medium BOMB.
Retarded bloggers.
He's sidelined himself very effectively
We're gonn'a get so sick of winning .....
Cruz just went full LBJ v Goldwater, and said that Trump would "nuke Denmark."
“This is a Republican primary,” he said. “It’s Iowa. Conservatives win in Iowa.”
Bush, Dole, Dole, W., Huckabee, Santorum, Cruz. Conservatives win Iowa? 3 RINOs and 3 Holy Rollers won Iowa. Conservatives? LOL.
“There’s a big, big confusing fight developing .... and Trump ain’t IN it !
He’s sidelined himself very effectively”
I’m sorry... huh?
I think Rush nailed it
Reagan’s 11th Commandment
“widely expected to win in the state”
Only by folks who were political naive, or just have no long term memory.. Trump winning IA would have been a huge upset, anyone who understands the very nature of what and how a caucus works, and Iowa’s history could, and at least some did, tell you that Trump would likely not win IA.
Had Trump won IA it would have been an insanely huge upset, and basically mean the race was over. However anyone who’s lived through a few republican primaries could tell you polling in IA is notoriously bad, because the caucus format is not a private ballot, you wind up with a lot of odd results over the years coming out of the caucuses... and recent history is generally the candidate perceived as the most evangelical wins.
Trump did very well in IA, yes he didn’t win, but he did far better than a “loudmouth from new york, outsider” should do in a state like IA traditionally.
NH will be the real test of where Trump really falls, if he significantly under performs his polling there, then the entire optics of the campaign change drastically. If he doesn’t, and performs as he’s polling in NH and SC, he goes on to run the table.
Time will tell how it goes, but no one with any understanding of IA and history would have ever predicted Trump was the front runner, regardless of the poll numbers in IA.
No kidding.
Mostly, Ted Cruz really isn’t even half of ‘all that’ MINUS the irrational, dishonest, & corrupt things he does. What’s with the Big Chimpin?
Who is Ted Cruz that he warrants this kind of intervention?
:)
Last time I checked, Cruz was/is a US citizen.
He should trash his commie/socialist Dem opponents and start tootin' his own horn how he would be the best president...but stick to issues, issues, his business qualifications and more issues....not bragadocio and chest-thumping about himself as an Alpha Male.
Leni
{”Nobody is going to believe that”}
except apparently about half of Free Republic. The kool aid is strong with the local trumpeters.
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