Posted on 03/10/2016 12:09:42 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
If Ted Cruz is to come from behind and win the Republican nomination, it's "gonna take an entire unity effort" to win support from the establishment, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Thursday.
The comment from Limbaugh, who has not formally backed any candidate, is the latest indication that the iconoclastic Texas senator will have his work cut out for him as he seeks to cut off Donald Trump.
Limbaugh presented two theories, the first of which assumed that Cruz accepts the premise that he still has time to get to 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention, adding that "to essentially beat Trump by unifying everybody, there's a big part of this that also has to get behind Cruz."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“We lick the cheeto dust off our fingers before we touch the keyboard”
We do?
Damn. I was just licking the keyboard. Sure if I were in the lofty Cruz Almighty club I would have known differently.
I’m just a low life serf who helped to get King Cruz elected to the Senate.
“Cruz isn’t trying to pull support from Trump, he’s just petting his fans on the head telling them their “smart”.”
And they are loving every minute of it, aren’t they? Yes, yes they are. Good little pets.
107%???
I think your math is flawed.
Even worse than that, he’s going along with the fiction that the GOPe is trying to get Cruz the nomination.
Ain’t happening, but the more Rush pushes his audience in that direction, the more likely the GOPe will get a second ballot to pull their shenanigans.
I really don’t know how sincere and thought out his positions and motivations are on this stuff. Too often it appears that his Establishment ties are showing. It has seemed that his disparagement of Trump for the last two months has always been hidden behind hinting that Cruz is his man, but the real alternative pretty much all year has been Trump or the GOPe’s convention choice.
“Cruz didn’t support Corker.”
Doesn’t matter, he VOTED for it.
“...he voted for it as a procedural move so that he could bring it up and attack it later.”
That is a spin he put out on his website for low IQ supporters. The bill is law; he can attack it until he is blue in the face, like he does now, the bill is still law. Why do you think that he says he will get rid of it when he is president? It is the law. Iran got its money, etc., and the sanctions were lifted.
“Stop spreading inaccurate information.”
Cite the inaccuracies.
“So you are going to write off Cruz because of one vote you know nothing about?”
THREE votes that could end up destroying us as a nation. Plus those THREE votes were in support of the Obama/globalists agenda initiatives.
“...biggest freshman bull dog for the constitution.”
Except for the treaty protection clause in the Constitution, (Corker bill) and the natural born clause in the Constitution.
By the way, TPA was not a secret bill. TPP is the secret bill, which is what TPA makes possible. TPP ends our national sovereignty if it passes. Now, thanks to Cruz and his Establishment buddies, it only needs fifty-one votes to pass.
I have to wonder if that wall will ever get built. Even with Trump as president..
I know Obama has made it look like a dictatorship but congress writes the rules... And it is unlikely congress will allow a wall to be funded or built. Just like they have been doing for years already.
I’m sorry you cannot comprehend elementary mathematical percentages
Typed like a true Trump supporter.
If Cruz is so great, why oil not be win with 17 or 8 or 5 or 4 candidates? Why especially couldn’t he win the southern states? Why can’t he win the evangelical voters? Why in most states can’t he win the conservative vote? And importantly in southern states he couldn’t even win a district? That is who is great? Really? And of course when these are rarely pointed out, they are never answered. Not a single debate question about this. I think these are big red flags quite frankly.
He must be a Trump supporter then ... all undereducated.
exactly. The football. Rich guys can sit around worrying about football. I have no time for games.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/03/09/huffpos-grim-54-private-jets-at-meeting-to-stop-trump/
This establishment? Here are Trumps enemies, folks. Which if them are your friends?
Among those at that meeting:
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”
Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).
Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.
You know, Cruz could be part of stopping this.
If he does not he is part of it.
I know. The chances of me seeing a wall in my lifetime are slim, but it’s the only chance we have.
patlin wrote:
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Cruz is 31% behind where he should be to win the nomination. Trump is 7% above where he should be. The proof is in the pudding... Cruz = Establishment. Cruz’s bio speaks for itself, he is not an outsider, he has worked on the inside of the Establishment his entire career!!!
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Cruz has fought the Establishment every step of the way, just as Trump has passionately vowed to do. Bottom line, the Establishment HATES both of these candidates and that’s why I would proudly support either one who gets the GOP presidential nomination.
Quite frankly, I’m sick and tired of the ridiculous mudslinging from both camps.
You don’t like rich guys but you like Trump? What I like about Trump is he doesn’t apologize for being a rich guy. This is supposed to be the land of opportunity. And if you are not rich like I am not, you need to chill a little and enjoy life.
“It’s going to be pretty hard for the establishment to maneuver it so that neither Cruz or Trump gets half the delegates. Kasich and Rubio have almost none. For the establishment scheme to work, Cruz and Trump would both have just shy of 1237 delegates, a hundred or so each. Then they would have to be willing to open the convention and deny both of them the nomination.
More likely, they will make a deal with the devil. They will let Kasich and Rubio give their delegates to Cruz. (Kasich and Rubio have to stay in until the convention for this to work, otherwise their delegates are released). Cruz will have to agree to an establishment supervisor as his VP, and he will have to agree to certain conditions about what he will do as President (amnesty for starters).
I think that the addition of Neil Bush indicates that such a plan is in the works, and that Cruz is willing to go along with it. Cruz could be allying with Trump instead, and be guaranteed of VP. Instead, he is throwing in with the establishment. It is now Trump, and only Trump, against the GOPe and for the American people.”
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Concur. (Apologies to all forthe lengthy quote; but, I believe it is important enough to be worth repeating.)
You left out TPA, TPP.
I already explained on another post that I don’t mind the rich part, after listening to Rush for years, day after day of cigars, football, golf and stories of parties in the mansion bore me.
[Ain’t happening, but the more Rush pushes his audience in that direction...]
Someone should tell Rush that his subliminal support for Cruz ain’t working any better than it did Rubio.
His couple of weeks there pushing Rubio almost nonstop was embarrassing—and revealing.
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