Very close to true....I wrote an article MONTHS ago - one in Breitbart and one in American Thinker....similar articles....that the only way a conservative gets the nomination is by winning the "Limbaugh Levin Drudge Breitbart Hannity Beck talk radio" primary....that is to say.....be the candidate who gets the most love over all from those outlets.
Clearly that has been Trump to date....over all. But clearly, over 20-30 years of knowing what Rush and Levin and Hannity stand for....Cruz is the most common sense place they would land.
Now you're right, so far only Levin has been grown enough to put personal friendship aside and be reasonable. Rush is still the fat kid from high school desperate to sit at the cool kids table....which is why he was SLOOOOW to understand Karl Rove and W Bush. As big as he is, his head is still turned by celebrity.
And she has said many good things about Trump, nothing negative that I can see. Would Palin act that way if Trump was a fraud? Is Palin just missing something?
Absolutely. The conservative media sphere is currently split between Cruz and Trump and I give the advantage to Trump. Rush and Hannity will try to push people towards Cruz, but I highly doubt they will throw Trump under the bus... He’s too good for their bottom line, and Trump is very good to his friends and ruthless to his enemies.
As a Breitbart writer you know Trump drives clicks/ratings/views and that means $$$. Cruz doesn’t have the same star appeal, and that means less support.
My guess: Trump is downing Cruz right now but a week before Iowa he will most likely switch to attacking the Clintons again sucking all the oxygen out of the media and making everything about Trump vs Clinton.