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RUSH LIMBAUGH: Rubio Is Not an Establishment Moderate
rushlimbaugh.com ^ | February 02, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 02/02/2016 3:10:43 PM PST by presidio9

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RUSH: I have to say one thing, one more thing, one more time. I do not like -- and I've got a Reuters story: "Marco Rubio Emerges Champion of Battered Republican Establishment." Another Reuters story, headline: "Republican Cruz Calls Iowa Win a Victory for Conservative Grassroots." I do not like, speaking for myself, I don't like this idea that Marco Rubio is all of a sudden being labeled as an establishment candidate.

I know that Rubio's got the baggage of that Gang of Eight bill and I know that in many people's minds he's got the baggage of wanting to grant the current number of illegals citizenship. I understand that. But Marco Rubio is no moderate Republican centrist. I could sit here like anybody else could and try to make explanations for you for why he did the Gang of Eight. I'm not even gonna try to put words into his mouth. I don't want to be seen as making excuses. I'm just telling you, I don't see Marco Rubio as anything other than a legitimate, full-throated conservative. Nobody's pure, and nobody is ever free of making mistakes.

I know Senator Rubio. It's like I was telling you last week: I know these people. I know that Senator Rubio in the Senate... In many ways, he agrees with Cruz about things. He's worn out with the Senate. The Senate... I heard this from Allen West when he left the House. I've heard, "The incumbents, that's all they care about is being reelected. You go there to make a difference and you run into brick wall after brick wall after brick wall." I don't think... You know, Rubio, I don't think he wants to stay there 30 years to break through the wall to get a committee chairmanship or whatever.

I just don't like this idea that all of a sudden we're gonna make Rubio the establishment bad guy, as though Rubio is no different than the McCains and the Bob Doles and the Romneys and the others that have come along and been nominated by the establishment. He just isn't. He has not been talked out of his conservatism. He does not abandon it. He had the best end-of-the-evening speech of anybody last night. He had the best end-of-the-evening speech of anybody. And even the media was dazzled by the fact that he did it without a teleprompter.

They continue to be dazzled by that. (chuckling) Of course, Barack Hussein O can't do anything without a teleprompter. I just don't want to... We had three genuine Reaganites triumph last night, and Rubio did better than a lot of people thought he was gonna do -- and to me, that is very important. It is crucially important for conservatism, for Reaganism, for the future of the Republican Party. I'm just not comfortable here sitting and watching somebody end up maybe being destroyed because of a characterization of being "establishment."

Yeah, the establishment may embrace him because they hate Cruz and they're not gonna embrace Trump, and their real preferences can't get any traction. (That would be Jeb and Kasich and Christie.) So they've gotta go with somebody. But I'm never gonna be one that sees Marco Rubio as the establishment, as we talk about it every day here on this program.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Iowa; US: New Jersey; US: Ohio; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; allenwest; amnesty; chrischristie; election2016; florida; gangofeight; gop; gope; gopestablishment; iowa; johnkasich; littlemarco; marcorubio; newjersey; ohio; plannedparenthood; rubio; rushlimbaugh; stemexpress; tedcruz; texas
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To: Cats Pajamas

I saw last night the exit polls from Iowa rated Rubio with a Pityful 11% on trust on dealing with Immigration.

Expect to to see him pummeled with that and flip/flopping trust issue.

Dondi will be bruised come Sunday. Maybe Chris Wallace can give him an on air peticure and face massage while Charles Krauthammer
Tries to build his self esteem back up.


201 posted on 02/02/2016 4:53:55 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Theophilus

Amnesty is not conservative.
It is insanity.


202 posted on 02/02/2016 4:55:24 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Bratch
(DACA)- is "important" and he won't reverse it himself if elected president.

Come on now, that was a mistake. By the way, a mistake he maintained until fairly recently when he realized being pro-amnesty would hurt his presidential aspirations.

203 posted on 02/02/2016 4:55:30 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Arm_Bears

Cruz ran an ad on WBAP today during Rush’s program. In it an excerpt of one of his interviews was played were he basically endorsed Cruz.

I think he really favored Cruz from the beginning but for some mysterious reason (Money?) his show has been a three hour commercial for Trump since last summer. I think he still favors Cruz but listening today I would say Rubio is his second choice..

It never made sense that Trump was his real choice.


204 posted on 02/02/2016 4:57:46 PM PST by Oklahoma
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To: shoedog

Good grief....with that logic, America is doomed.


205 posted on 02/02/2016 4:57:59 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: windsorknot

Now, if it’s Yeb......I won’t make any promises

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Rubio is Young Yeb!


206 posted on 02/02/2016 4:58:41 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
it is THE defining issue of our time. We've got to secure our borders and overhaul our immigration process, or there won't be an America.

3E, you said it. Spot on. No other issue will matter if we don't have a country, and we won't have a country if we don't have borders and if we admit millions of people, like the (so far) one half million MORE H1-B visa immigrants that Cruz supports as part of the Gang Of 8 amnesty bill. H1-B visas are for the GOOD jobs, technical, engineering, computers, business professionals. Every city in America has thousands and thousands of unemployed Americans who are qualified to do these jobs---they've done the jobs before, or they are young college grads educated and trained in the field. These are the jobs where the corporation terminates the American but requires that the American train his Indian replacement to do the job or else lose his severance pay or even his pension.

The millions of muslims---Obama brings them in stealthily, in the middle of the night, not going through customs, jumbo jets full of them, then swiftly sends them out into flyover country and destroy small towns and plant the seeds for the death of middle-sized cities. These people are at the very least SLEEPERS---waiting for the high-sign from Obama or the ayatollah or whoever, to attack.

Recently I read an article which told of how they'd placed a few thousand muslims in a town where the big employer was a yogurt manufacturer, who gave all the muzzies jobs. Now, these are people who don't use toilet paper; they use their left hands. And we are placing them in our food chain?

NO Washington Political Class Professional Politician candidate is going to do a damn thing about invaders, because these candidates are owned by the open borders, Globalist crowd---Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley, Koch Bros, Soros, etc.

207 posted on 02/02/2016 4:59:25 PM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: wally_bert
Get yourself an audiobook copy of this if you want to send him postal:


208 posted on 02/02/2016 4:59:59 PM PST by Darth Reardon (During the Great Depression, World War I was referred to as the Great War)
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To: presidio9
Rubio's got the baggage of that Gang of Eight bill

Oh, really?

209 posted on 02/02/2016 5:01:14 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Populism is what Populism does.)
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To: shoedog

Rubio conned the people of Florida then pretty much never did the job. From the beginning he was missing meetings, votes etc. When asked, his campaign mgr said he had family obligations.

It was a stepping stone because Rubio is a career politician and like Cruz, their only goal is that big white bldg on Pennsylvania Ave


210 posted on 02/02/2016 5:02:13 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: ground_fog

Limbaugh pimped Arlen Specter.


211 posted on 02/02/2016 5:03:21 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: rrrod

I wonder what Rush’s advertisers think of him getting in bed with Rubio?


212 posted on 02/02/2016 5:04:17 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: presidio9

Rush is on a leash. He hasn’t expressed a non-approved opinion since 2003.


213 posted on 02/02/2016 5:06:21 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You are a total fool. I will never vote for Rubio or any of the Republicans besides Trump or Cruz under any circumstances!

Really? What if there was an asteroid hurtling through space, and it was going to strike the earth and destroy all life unless you cast your vote for Rubio. Would you do it?

What if all the puppies in the world would be dropped into a giant blender and chopped into tiny bits unless you voted for Ben Carson? Would you do it then?

214 posted on 02/02/2016 5:06:31 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Cboldt

DING DING DING
Rush says what gets him ratings

He’s an entertainer.


215 posted on 02/02/2016 5:09:22 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: ground_fog
Bye Bye Limbaugh! I’ll never listen again sellout

Let me guess, it was this statement that turned you off:

"Nobody's pure, ".........

And you're gonna be one of those "purists" who stays home on election day simply because YOUR GUY didn't get the nomination...........Maybe you won't stay home but it was those very "Purists" who DID stay home and gave us Obama while blaming the 60+ millions of us who DID vote against Obama for his election.........Talk about a disconnect from reality.

216 posted on 02/02/2016 5:13:20 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Amnesty is not conservative. It is insanity.

That rhymes: amnesty is insanity.

217 posted on 02/02/2016 5:13:59 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ground_fog

As a side note, Rush won’t miss you.........LOL!


218 posted on 02/02/2016 5:15:20 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
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To: Darth Reardon

I’ll have to look into that. Thank you.


219 posted on 02/02/2016 5:16:50 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: presidio9

Now we know Rush is.


220 posted on 02/02/2016 5:32:30 PM PST by Company Man (Keep Calm and Carry.)
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