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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Reagan had donors, you hated him too?
“Even Rush is beginning to wobble GOP-e in his futile attempt to prop up Cruz...”
Sorry to see Rush sliding down like this. He is really slipping.
He'll make it her fault.
It’s a total gotcha. He got both Cruz andRubes last night. They are toasteee.
It's possible.
Pray for a strong performance by Cruz on March 1.
More than the donations is the fact that Trump’s on tape saying Hillary Clinton would be a great senator, or sec of state or whatever it was. A clip like that can be played over and over. They played McCain’s clip saying he agreed with G.W. Bush over 90% of the time over and over the week before that election. It’ll either be that or some other gaffe that nails Trump. There are so many video clips of him out there saying ridiculous, stupid, offensive or contradictory things.
He has been since the race began.
The front runner is lacking in the one area Cruz excels...policy.
He actually succeeded in making it seem like Rubio had more command of policy than he did.
Cruz had an opportunity to rise above the fray but instead he climbed into the mud pit and started slinging.
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Sadly, as a supporter of Ted Cruz I must admit you are Dead on and deserve a big BINGO!
+1
Cruz is now the Great Conswervative.
(You might want to check my spelling.)
I do not recall that any of Reagan's donors were diametrically opposed to his campaign. Rubio/Cruz's donor are in a FACT the opposite of what these two yip/yapers are claiming they are going to do.
> “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.”
What nonsense.
First, the people watching the debate saw no fatal blows against Donald because a great majority of them have decided he won. They are not stupid, they are just as informed and intelligent in their judgment as any supporter.
Second, there is plenty for Trump to hang Hillary with starting with the emails and carrying through with her enabling Bill Clinton to escape scrutiny for his real and documented abuses of women.
Thirdly, Trump donated to both parties as any CEO would responsibly do to press his business ahead. Hillary cannot hang him for looking out for the best interests of his companies and employees. But he can certainly hang her for the traitorous corruption of her Clinton Foundation and for the classified emails on her private server.
So Rush is mixing apples and oranges here. He is really lowering himself several notches with this angle of ‘analysis’.
I love Rush but he’s been running with the swells too long to see a tidal wave when its coming from outside the beltway.
Donald Trump closed the deal today in Ft Worth with an assist from Christie and Pastor Jeffers. Its over Rush except for the weeping.
I’d like to extend a personal thanks to CW for doggedly posting anti Trump threads and helping him over the top. :-)
Cruz’s biggest weakness is that he won’t be in that election.
His input is worthless.
If I send money they sure do.
Did you ever think there would be so much hate for conservative god Rush Limbaugh on FREE REPUBLIC!?!?
RINO fraud Trump has certainly sullied the conservative media to the point where you can’t tell a Breitbart from a Huffpo.
I’ll bet Romney and McCain never donated to the Clintons. I have big problems with those two but even those slugs are preferable toa Trumpicrat.
Delusional Trump sophistry...tin foil birther cap on too tight.
Rule number one. Never correct your opponent (s)he’s making a mistake.
I thought Cruz dropped out after endorsing amnesty fruit boy Rubio?
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