Posted on 02/26/2016 1:13:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
RUSH: In terms of substance? I disagree with Chris Wallace. I think there was substance in this debate last night, and depending on what you want -- depending on what you were hoping to see and then what you think going forward -- there's really only one candidate in this debate last night which was chock-full of genuine policy-oriented substance, and that was Cruz. And I happen to know, folks...
I hear from people constantly, as you can imagine, and I hear from you even on the phones. But there have been people during the entirety of this campaign who think that Trump is a pretender, that he really doesn't know much about what all this is about, that he's getting by on the cult of celebrity and other things in our pop culture that people get excited by and attach to. There have been people who say, "We've gotta expose Trump. Trump's gotta be exposed. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't know conservatism.
"He doesn't know policy. He's just up there saying things that sound good in a populist sense." So what Cruz did last night was essentially expose that. If that's what you think needs and has needed to happen, Cruz did it last night. And probably the best way to illustrate how it happened is, one of the fears that a lot of anti-Trump people have is he's not really even a Republican. And they keep talking about all of his donations to people like Chuck Schumer and the Clintons.
Trump's response was, "Hey, look, you know, I live in New York City and they run the show there, and I'm in business, and there are certain things you have to do to get things done. You have to work with these people. But I'm a Republican." And he's made it clear, and he's tried to make that point over and over again. But Trump found last night Ted Cruz illustrating that. (summarized) "Look, if you think we have to beat Hillary Clinton, Trump's not the guy to do it. Trump cannot go out and hit Hillary Clinton on any of the things that she has done, any of her corruption, because he has contributed to her.
"He has donated. All that would have to happen," Cruz says, "is for Trump to hit Hillary in the debate and Hillary, and all she's gotta do is say, 'Donald, I don't know what your problem is. You donated to me to do this exact thing. So I don't know what your problem is now.'" And Cruz said, "We can't nominate somebody who donated to her." It's akin to the people that said we shouldn't nominate Romney. "If we nominate Romney, there's no way we can get Obama on Obamacare because Romney invented it in Massachusetts.
"Romney gave us Romneycare, and the guy that wrote Romneycare then turned around and wrote Obamacare," and it took Obamacare off the table as far as Romney's concerned. He couldn't hit it because there's a retort, "What do you mean you don't like Obamacare? You wrote its father. You implemented and signed into law its father, Romneycare. What are you?" And Cruz's point was that same set of circumstances with Hillary are going to occur.
Because it can be demonstrated that Trump's donations to the Clintons over the years -- including to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation -- have facilitated political move that Hillary Clinton has made. So the people who have wanted Trump exposed, that was pretty substantively done by Cruz. On the Rubio side, what Rubio did was literally just laugh at Trump all night, literally made fun of him, mock him. Not act frightened or afraid of him, and not be worried about ticking off his supporters, either.
A first for both.
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You are being deliberately naive about the nature of Trump’s business, and why he needs cooperation from local politicos.
Of course, your tiddlywink thinking & Trump's 3-D chess thinking don't even use the same playing board... :)
Huh? It’s the truth and anyone with an open mind can see it coming.
eff rush....period...so sick of that rich mouthy bastard....I wouldn’t drink a beer with him...and that is the ultimate from me.
It that's because your from the DU ?..
Dumb argument by Cruz. Trump has admitted that already and all he has said and ever has to say is I was buying politicians because that’s what you do when you’re rich. That’s why you need me because I CAN’T be bought. On the Rubio side of things, if his new plan is to act like Trump then I guess we may as well just vote Trump. This is the same thing they do with the democrats, they think acting like democrats will win them democrat voters but in reality the Democrat voters and everyone else just say, “may as well go for the real deal”. The same is true for Trump here.
This is Free Republic, founded over 18 yrs ago as a forum for conservative thought.
Who was and is more important to the conservative cause...(ROFLMAO!!! waitaminute, let me catch my breath!)...Duh Duh Duh Donald or Rush Limbaugh?
Of course being a poor benighted Trump myrmidon, you probably are unaware that this is a rhetorical question.
Classic!
I guess, according to you tRumpsters, that would make the Donald not a very good judge of character, since Cruz is such a creepy liar and crazy.
Cruz should give him his money back. It’s tainted.
Refusing to look at truth and the evidence of said truth is inevitably regrettable. So-called conservatives will regret shunning Cruz for Trump.
“so sick of that rich mouthy bastard”. I’m tired of the Donald too.
Cruz has already released most of his and was releasing the rest by March 1st.
These two Cuban amnesty DC call boys are part of the Uniparty as Comrade Hillary.
Good grief .
Yeah, it was easy money for a while there.
I'm surprised it came out in the day - it must see the caboose of the gravy train down the track... :)
it’s not an issue from here forward.
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So anybody can be President?
Let’s get Netanyahu
Disgusting.
Shut up or sue.....
Is Trump gonna sue mexico when they tell him to eff off when he send them the bill for his wall? China when they raise tariffs on US goods because Trump did it to their goods?
You realize how difficult it is to pry a politician's treble hooks out of wad of cash that he's landed? :)
LOL - BINGO!
Conservative = God, Family, and Country... AND personal individual responsibility... I am NOT giving up my personal individual responsibility. And The Creator will always come first... Perhaps you are a rapture believer... IF that be the case I prefer to have a president that is here for the long haul... NOT somebody that has their bags packed ready to take the first trip out of here before the really bad stuff happens.
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