Carly makes no difference whatsoever.
However, Rush let the cat out of the bag this morning regarding Cruz’ sure-fire strategy that he had planned out for winning the presidency.
Apparently, Cruz had lunch with Rush a couple two or three years ago where Cruz explained his plan. He figured that Romney lost in 2012 because five to six million evangelicals stayed home. So, Cruz figures he already has the conservative vote naturally locked-in, and can take the tea party and non-establishment vote, and the rest of the Republicans (even the establishment) have nowhere else to go, so all he has to do to win it is snare the evangelicals. Thus he comes out with a campaign custom tailored to woo and win the evangelical vote.
And it may have worked like a charm had Trump not exploded on the scene with a bold plan to build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all, secure the nation, Repeal Obamacare, straighten out the trade deals that have devastated our manufacturing industry and jobs, cut taxes with a Reaganesque tax plan, rebuild the economy, bring manufacturing, capital and jobs back, rebuild the military and make America great again. And as a last minute bonus, Trump throws in slapping a moratorium on Muslim immigration.
Surprise! It caught on like wildfire. But Cruz was not concerned. He continued on nonchalantly, smug in the knowledge that the evangelicals would never support Trump and that his plan was sure to lock them in. All Cruz had to do was lay low and wait for Trump to implode.
But something went wrong. Evangelicals (and other demographic groups you might think would never support a guy like Trump) are flocking to Trump like crazy. Cruz can’t figure it out. The consultants can’t figure it out. The media, the pundits, the democrats, the establishment—no one can figure it out.
Rush explains that like all demographic groups, evangelicals are not monolithic single issue voters. Not even on abortion.
It turns out that evangelicals are also concerned about securing the borders, rebuilding the economy, bringing back manufacturing and jobs, cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting government, building a strong military and (not surprisingly) taking a tough stand against Muslims who are chopping the heads off Christians.
Rush may not have directly said it, built I believe he may be thinking that Cruz blew it trying such a narrowly focused campaign.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/03/02/the_flaw_in_the_cruz_campaign
I was an early Cruz supporter who drifted over to Trump, surprising even myself.
What you wrote is truth, the muslim moratorium is what finally brought me over.
Some of what Cruz did to appeal to that demographic had the exact opposite effect on others.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
We evangelicals, including Ted Cruz, are the people of the "Good News" but what we always easily forget is that Christ's Good News is in constant contrast to the pervasive bad news of our sin and delusion.
Excellent synopsis. That nails the Cruz campaign perfectly.