Posted on 02/02/2016 11:18:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that Donald Trump lost the Iowa caucus because his criticism of Ted Cruz made him sound "like a liberal Democrat."
"I don't think Trump skipping the debate had a thing to do with what happened last night," began Limbaugh. "This is a Republican primary. It's Iowa. Conservatives win in Iowa."
"Donald Trump, I don't know if you forgot - one thing that everyone remembers - he went out and tried to criticize Ted Cruz," explained the talk-show host.
"Ted Cruz isn't the enemy," he continued. "Hillary Clinton is the enemy. Ted Cruz is not a nasty guy. Ted Cruz is not a Canadian."
"Nobody is going to believe that, 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."
The righteous winners.
I just can’t get past the whole non NBC thing.
It seems like half of FR has abandoned conservatism to follow Trump. I don't understand it during the primary season. If Trump ends up the nominee, then support him over the Dem but until then support a conservative.
Apparently, they don't get out much there and see that the state is over run with illegals. Or maybe they do and they are just so cucked out, they don't care. Who knows. I just know IF I lived in Iowa and every third person I met was Mexican, I'd be a little freaked out because it's frikking Iowa.
Being a conservative does not mean I have to vote
for whoever the media tells me is a conservative.
Everyone of the Democrat and Republican candidates
has flaws, faults, and warts all over.
I like Dr. Carson but I will vote for Mr. Trump in
the primary and the general elections.
Being a conservative is defined in various ways,
social, fiscal, and everything in between.
I am pro-life, pro-family, and patriotic to a fault,
which means that I will never again vote for any
person who is GOPe, donor class, establishment,
RINO’s, and/or promoted by media with an axe to grind.
If the road was clear, the weather great, and I had plenty of gasoline, I’d cruise (Cruz) around in a Rolls Royce, but, with the highways crumbling, and the global warming fraud, and the economy in shambles, I’ll need a bulldozer (Trump).
It’s going to take some grit to undo eight years of the train wreck in office now. Cruz is too “nice” to do all that needs doing.
Once the road is clear, we can go back to the Rolls Royce.
Rush has been extraordinarily charitable to Trump. So, it's not appropriate to dump on Rush here on FR just because Rush is finally pointing out something about Trump that a huge percentage of FReepers, including many who had formerly supported Trump, have recognized as politically dangerous flaws.
Trump really is acting like a liberal Democrat, Kenny. Rush is correct in pointing out that this is the real reason why Trump LOST Iowa, just as many of us had also warned. Trump's over-the-top viciousness against genuinely conservative and generally very decent Republicans is counterproductive, to say the least, since it reveals that Trump has no very conspicuous scruples. (Heck, none other than Michael Savage tried to warn him about this even when Trump was delighting quite a few political jerks with his ad hominem attacks against Ben Carson.)
My point, Rush's point, is that Trump has actually lost many of his supporters (and alientated many of the undecideds) even while he was gaining a few supporters via his viciousness against conservative Republicans.
Nationally speaking, it appears that Trump has hit the ceiling of national popularity. He is overall the most unfavorable candidate in either party. He won't be able to break through that ceiling in the general election, IMO--especially if the Dems surprise us with a different candidate than Bernie or Hillary--because so many conservatives find Trump downright repugnant. Cruz, on the other hand, has the ability to reason even with Corn Belt farmers. He would do better in the general election, because he would pick up most of the Trump supporters without losing all of the more conservative supporters.
Cruz is Reaganesque. Trump is anything but Reaganesque. And the fact that Trump's supporters are turning against Rush, of all people, shows me that Trump's supporters are almost (!) as clueless as liberal Democrats are.
Nationalism counts, but integrity counts even more.
Typical bully, sits in his Ivory Tower and pretends to superior to all of us commoners.
I understand the Free Market far better than you ever will...
Bully.
bttt
It is true.
Confirmed by my Iowa midwest upbringing, and my numerous family and friends in the area.
You are arguing this from the standpoint of a typical politician as is Rush. Trump is a CEO who never cared about politics until recently and only cared about building his business in NYC. He should be making another billion rather than trying to save the country.
To find real solutions in DC you need someone with real world experience and he is the only one who has that. Is he abrasive and insulting, yes but he fights.
If he has to pass a purity test where are we going to find that since many here are ignoring the slivers in Cruz’s eye to pretend he is a conservative saint. Nobody answered his solution to Obamacare.
Some of us want to blow the entire system up and there is only one person who can.
As for most hated, when the entire establishment from both sides are firing what would you expect. Even at that he has the most crossover of any nominee. Wait til they go full blast on Cruz.
“Who said anything about the gummit?”
It’s implicit in your question. Otherwise the question makes no sense at all.
If it’s not the government’s job to insure people, then why do “we” need to figure out a way to insure the uninsurable? That’s their problem, not mine or yours, unless the government sticks its nose into it.
They shouldn’t have insurance if they can’t afford it. They will rely on charity and welfare.
Rush could barely contain his glee, the master plan is coming together. Did you hear? Rubio is NOT GOPe!
Great job cw, keep the infighting going, you’ll get your Rubio just as you wish. No more head fakes, the truth is out.
Trump has the ability and the guts to take out anyone who crosses him. If he’d do it with the adult sophistication that he must have somewhere in his person.. he’d attract voters instead of turning them away. His uncouth way of dishing out insults is getting old to a lot of people who don’t usually talk that way.
I was behind Trump.. and not so much now.. because he’s not gotten the hang of how to do what needed to be done.. with dignity. He can be charming.. he gave a good speech last night.. but then he goes off on his elementary language which is not helping him at this point.
You summed it up perfectly manc. It’s infuriating to sit through this!
You miss the point, it’s about getting the GOPe guy in there, which is exactly what is going to happen.
But hey, keep up the infighting, it’s great sport until the final event.
That may sound nice to you, but you do realize it's not actually true, don't you?
Huckabee accused Cruz of not being a real social conservative. So did Santorum. They both tried to attack him from the right, something liberal Democrats don't do.
They lost not so much because of anything they did or didn't do, but because voters assumed -- long before election day -- that they weren't serious prospects for the nomination.
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