Rush: Establishment Support of Cruz Means Conservatism is Winning

On Wednesday during his radio program Rush Limbaugh responded to a caller claiming Ted Cruz is not an outsider and is “buddying up” with the establishment.

Limbaugh clarified to the caller that Cruz is not the hypocrite – the establishment is.

RUSH: I just saw there's a caller on line calling me delusional?

CALLER: I think, sadly, what you all fail to realize is that perpetually you're painting Ted Cruz as an outsider. He paints Ted Cruz as an outsider. The Tea Party tried to paint him as an outsider. Yet I'm gonna read you five names: Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Jeb exclamation, exclamation, exclamation point, Bush, Nikki Haley. How much more insider can you get than this, okay?

RUSH: . . .This is the same stuff that happened with Reagan. I have to tell you, Clay, it's exact same stuff that happened with Reagan. They didn't like Reagan in '76. They didn't like Reagan in 1980. They tried to stop Reagan in both campaigns.

When Reagan won in 1980 they had no choice, and then when Reagan proved to be two landslides popular, all of those people that supposedly hated him couldn't wait to be standing next to him every time a photo was taken. They were the hypocrites, not Reagan. And Cruz is not the hypocrite here. What's he supposed to do, stand up and say, "Sorry, Governor Bush, but I don't believe you. I don't believe you really want me to win. So I would appreciate it if you would endorse someone --" is that what you want him to do Clay?

Rush was pretty fair on Good Friday from what I heard. [First two hours.]

He even had to wade through astro-turf emails and noted that the tone of emails reversed during the course of his show.

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