Posted on 04/18/2016 11:58:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: This NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 62% Republican voters, new poll, say that the Republican presidential candidate with the most votes should be the party's nominee if no candidate wins a majority. So even if nobody gets to 1,237, 62% of Republicans, "Go ahead and give it to the guy who gets closest."
Fifty-five percent said that it is acceptable if Ted Cruz wins the nomination at a contested convention. And about 71% say that it is unacceptable for delegates to choose a nominee who has not run in the primaries. But there were a lot of people that ran in the primaries, and some of them would be ideal choices of the Republican establishment.
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RUSH: Mike in Pompano Beach, Florida, we start on the phones with you. Great to have you. Hello.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. It's a pleasure to be on with you. My question is, with Trump... Hypothetically speaking at the end of this, if he has millions and millions more votes, hundreds and hundreds more delegates, and has won the vast majority of states -- like 35 or some odd states -- how does Ted Cruz get that nomination, whether it be by a second vote or a third vote, and still have all Trump's voters not feel like they got robbed and support him? I don't see how it happens. I mean, logistically, how could it be done?
RUSH: See, there's a way that all of that can happen, and what Trump is doing here by going down the road that everything's rigged and that he's being cheated, Trump's philosophy is blowing up that potential strategy that the establishment has of somehow awarding this to somebody else on the second or third ballot. That's why Trump is... There was no canceled election in Colorado. Yet, Trump writes an op-ed on Friday talking about the election being cancelled.
Today on Drudge there's a story about the four Cruz guys that could cancel the election. There wasn't a canceled Election Day. There was no election planned in Colorado. But so the theme is being established by Trump that he's being cheated, that it's being rigged. The whole thing's rigged in favor of everybody but him, so that if something happens and he doesn't win it on the first ballot and somebody else does, then this is made to order for the Trump voters to skedaddle and get the hell out of there and just be fit to be tied.
CALLER: But my question again... I know that that's what he's trying to do, but I'm just saying: Let's say he does get to the end and he does have millions more votes. It's rare that anybody gets all the votes of all the states and all the delegates but doesn't get the nomination. Don't you think the voters -- regardless of what he's trying to do -- will dislike that?
RUSH: Look, you have... I've been this over and over and I'm catching hell from every direction it in explaining this. No matter how I explain it, the Trump or Cruz supporters think I'm endorsing what they're doing. It's amazing to see this. Let me just give you Pennsylvania as an example. The short answer to your question is, the millions and millions of voters do not choose the nominee. In many states they do, but in some states they don't. Let me give an example: Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, coming up soon, has 71 delegates available. By the way, you notice the nominee has to get 1,237 delegates. There's no mention of votes. It's the votes of 1,237 delegates. You with me so far out there, Mike?
CALLER: I am, but --
RUSH: Hang in there. Hang in. I just want to explain.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Look, Mike, I'm just explaining. I don't want you to assume I'm arguing or anything. I'm just explaining. So in the case of Pennsylvania, 71 delegates. But the winner of the popular vote is only gonna get 17 of them. The other 54 are up for grabs based on other criteria, but they are not bound to vote. On the first ballot, they are not bound to vote for the popular vote winner at the convention, and there have been some states with similar rules.
But Trump is also... He has been able to... He's actually benefited from this system. For example, in Florida... Get this: In Florida, he got all delegates. Despite not winning every vote, he got all the delegates. In Florida, do you know that on the first three ballots, the delegates have to vote for the popular vote winner -- in this case, Trump? So on the first three ballots, Florida delegates must vote for Trump. There is no second. Cruz cannot hope to get Florida no matter what he does -- Kasich cannot hope to -- unless it goes to a fourth ballot.
CALLER: I -- I'm not... Rush, I'm not trying to figure out what's right and wrong. I mean, parties by the tradition of our Constitution are able to pick their own candidate over the years. It's only recently that it's become voter based and primary based. But just in Realville, if we get to that spot and Trump has more votes, more states, and more delegates, and then Cruz -- who came in second -- gets the nomination, I just think we're gonna lose all those Trump voters 'cause the scenario's never happened. You can talk about rules and delegates and Florida giving all the delegates, too. But people are just gonna be like, "Man, this party screwed me! I'm not voting." I think we're giving it to Hillary if that happens.
RUSH: I don't mean to be changing the subject on you. Mary Matalin was on one of the Sunday shows yesterday, and she said the party's gonna blow up no matter what happens here because it's been blowing up for who-knows-how-many years because the GOP has been purposefully trying to subordinate and suppress conservatives. They've not been... They've been ignoring them. They've not been paying attention. They've been sabotaging conservatives. And it's gonna blow up on 'em! Look, I know what you're asking.
We've got the poll here from NBC. The answer to your question is 62% of Republicans -- not delegates, not attendees at the convention, 62% of Republicans coast to coast -- think exactly what you think. Whoever shows up there with the most votes in these primaries should get the nomination; to hell with 1,237. By the same token, 55% of the same sample think it'd be perfectly fine if Cruz got the nomination on the second ballot. So you could say almost two-thirds agree with you. You're concerned that if Trump is denied the nomination, and he...
Look, that's another word-play game. I'm sure that got me in deep doo-doo, too. Will you keep track of all this stuff out there that people saying? Because I don't. My instincts are just telling me here. I made the point: You can't be denied something until you've won it. But the Trumpsters think that that process has begun. Look, there's a headline here. This is from Politico. This is not gonna please you Trumpists. Ready for this?
"Trump Massacred..." "Trump Massacred in Delegate Fights Once More --More than 90 delegates were up for grabs Saturday. And Ted Cruz grabbed most of them. Again." And your question still stands, Mike. I know. "Well, how can that be? Wha...? Wha...? What...?" I've been trying to explain it. You know what? You're on your own. I've explained it; I've been explaining it since September. I can't be any more crystal clear than I have been.
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RUSH: Because I can read the stitches on a curveball -- because I see the pitch before it's coming -- I'm able to tell people what Trump's strategy is gonna be. The problem is when I do that, people think I'm advocating for it. By the same token, I can tell people what Cruz's strategy is. When I do that, people think I'm advocating for it, or not advocating for it enough, or whatever. But I'm gonna persevere out there, folks, because that's the only way I know to be -- or some such drivel.
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Rush Limbaugh is a worthless hump!
“We Did It” #nevertrump /s
RUsh can shove his curveball up his fat arse, he can’t even read the handwriting on the wall in 200 point type: NO MORE BUSHES, GLOBALISTS, or DC POLITICIANS!
“Shut up!” he explained.
The “rule” is win elections. Or go home. Loser Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to get that. He’s won exactly 2 of the 20 biggest states and after next week Trump will have won 13. At some point, Cruz had to win the important states and he never did. Game. Set. Match. Trump. This race is over.
Rush not answering the big question is not only awkward by quite revealing.
Who is Rush Limaugh, anyone at FR really know anymore?
As Rush continues will anyone care?
I will never vote for a GOPe candidate again. And I am about to drop my support for any republicrat anywhere for anything ever again. They better straighten up their mess PDQ. I am “every man” .
Not if the GOPe rigs the vote at the convention. So far, thy have no problem doing that with the states delegates.
“RUsh can shove his curveball up his fat arse, he can’t even read the handwriting on the wall in 200 point type: NO MORE BUSHES, GLOBALISTS, or DC POLITICIANS!”
Yeah, Seriously, Donald Trump has given the “political process” the biggest enema of my lifetime. Reminds me of the scene in “Porkys” where Porky gives his whorehouse and “enema” and dumps the guys from Angel Beach into the river!
Hear, Hear! I hope Trump goes 3rd party and smokes the establishment
drivel. 3 hours a day, that’s all , folks.
Spot on, Rush.
This is the fruit of the seeds John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour, Karl Rove, among others have sown. McConnell begged us to give him the majority and promised repeal of ObamaCare among other things. Once elected, Boehner, McConnell, et. al., told Conservatives to "Get lost, we don't need you anymore. We're going to demonstrate how we can govern and be bipartisan." In the process, they gave Democrats everything they ever wanted, and more in the budget.
So now the GOPe is going to reap the whirlwind they have deliberately and arrogantly sown. They assumed there would be no consequences, that Conservatives would simply fall into line because there was no alternative. So here we are.
“Shut up!” he explained.
Exactly correct. Why do you think Cruz is running around with his Alinyskite “Trump is whining” campaign? To shut up Trump and his supporters obviously.
LOL!!!!
Not if the GOPe rigs the vote at the convention. So far, thy have no problem doing that with the states delegates.
They can’t. Trump has the voters and nobody else does. It’s all psywar BS. Rigging the convention is suicide for the GOPe and unemployment for piles of them. That won’t be happening.
Did Rush ever explain why Cruz gave Carley the half million dollars?
Pray America wakes
He's a waste of good sound waves. He can go. Now he's sarcastically pushing the stupid Cruzian line that it's unfair that Trump has a larger share of delegates than votes won.
So by his ridiculous logic since Gore and Bush were so close in the popular vote they should have shared the White House. Rush has lost all credibility with me.
I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt but no more.
Rush is now, and has always been a GOPe sleazeball. He doesn’t have the slightest clue why the base is in war footing against the party. A few months ago I heard him say it was about America having the highest corporate tax or some other such BS.
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