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Do you follow Morning Joe faithfully, by chance? I DVR the program daily and fast forward the commercials. Amazing is the support TRUMP has on there, and the interest he has captured among almost all of Joe and Mika’s Lefty guests.

This morning Mark Halprin reports on both the Pensacola, FL rally, which he attended, and on his interview with TRUMP for his and John Heidleman’s own program, on Bloomberg TV:

Halprin says TRUMP and Cruz have enough Eastern seaboard ties to the Establishment Republicans, that the real side- fight going on is between these two guards of the Establishment, as to which of the two candidates (TRUMP or Cruz) they think they can work with.

Seems that some are courting Cruz, and others can appreciate TRUMP. Cruz has years of ties with Princeton, where he was educated, and has connections with that crowd and with Goldman Sachs, who are the nemesis of most Republican conservatives. All this, according to Halprin.

I’m thinking that TRUMP is independent and unmanageable, but certainly has ties to Eastern Democrats and Republican establishment, obviously for NY business deals, socially, and politically, but he’s too wealthy and powerful in his own right to be bought or sold, or made to carry water. TRUMP also has across-the-aisle appeal of the sort that Cruz could only dream of.

I believe Cruz, if he wants to rise, will deal. He can be bought by the Establishment to realize his own ambitions for the future and to establish himself for greater things, be it running for President of the United States, or some other high minded position of power that appeals to his interests.

GET this.. Joe and Mark discussed the stories of Cruz being a “hypocrite”. Stories report that Cruz was always a fit with all the Establishment types, Princeton and Goldman Sachs, and was right in the center of the establishment figures running George W. Bush’s inside campaign . Then along comes the Tea Party, and Cruz switches to conservatism and rides that TEA lane right into the US Senate, throwing off all establishment ties, and flogging the conservative movement instead, to prepare for a presidential run. Crafty, huh? Oh well, good for him.

This is why Geo W. Bush was overheard so harshly dissing Cruz.

This is why Alan Dershowitz called Cruz a hypocrite, when recalling him as a student— one who aced his course, argued with Dershowitz in class that the original intent of the Constitution was supreme and not a “living” document.

Then Dershowitz says Cruz came to Washington, DC and lobbied for resolutions to issues that made the Constitution a “living” document. Thus, the “hypocrite” label came from Alan, in this case.