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Limbaugh: Establishment has to be 'all-in' for Cruz to win
Politico ^ | 3/10/2016 | Nick Gass

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."

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To: uncitizen

“Unless that was all a scam to set him up to run for president...”

That is all it was. He new he never stood a chance.


41 posted on 03/10/2016 12:25:04 PM PST by odawg
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To: GilGil

I listen to rush every day and don’t feel that at all an I’m all in for trump


42 posted on 03/10/2016 12:25:41 PM PST by remaxagnt (`)
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To: McGruff

Cruz is so desperate at this point that he will believe anything.


43 posted on 03/10/2016 12:25:46 PM PST by GilGil
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL!

“Please sir, can you spare another lashing?”


44 posted on 03/10/2016 12:26:22 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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To: The Toll

The Toll wrote:
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He’s having a My Little Pony Party with Jeb, Rubio, and Kasich.

It’s not hard to see.
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Ummm... OK, whatever that means. Not really seeing how that ties in to the previous comment I was responding to... But whatever.


45 posted on 03/10/2016 12:26:32 PM PST by DestroyLiberalism
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To: for-q-clinton

Trump is a conservative,

sometimes (and definitely during the primaries).


46 posted on 03/10/2016 12:26:36 PM PST by conejo99
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To: TexasCajun

Trump supported Ronnie before Cruz could vote lol


47 posted on 03/10/2016 12:26:48 PM PST by remaxagnt (`)
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To: GilGil

I think the reason why low- information voters such as myself are so angry is because we lack basic toiletries.


48 posted on 03/10/2016 12:26:48 PM PST by ghosthost
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To: Uncle Miltie

I think Ted has already accepted that deal. Has’t he?


49 posted on 03/10/2016 12:27:29 PM PST by TheConservativeBanker
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To: conejo99

Yes, definitely a conservative when he’s not taking liberal positions or giving money to democrats. Other than that he’s 100% conservative. or as Trump says a conservative with common sense.


50 posted on 03/10/2016 12:27:42 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

If they do it, it’s a sure sign they have him, bought and paid-for.


51 posted on 03/10/2016 12:28:01 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: odawg

The establishment will go all in for Cruz for sure. If that fails, they will go all in for Hillary to prevent Trump from winning.


52 posted on 03/10/2016 12:28:14 PM PST by austinaero
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To: remaxagnt

Thank you!


53 posted on 03/10/2016 12:28:47 PM PST by AuntB (Trump right on Trade, Immigration, Terrorism,Economy, 2nd amend. Without them, we are lost.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Wouldn’t matter. Establishment is not running The Show this time.


54 posted on 03/10/2016 12:28:56 PM PST by CharleysPride
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To: for-q-clinton

so if they broker a deal using Cruz (whether they follow through on promises they make to him or not) - just what do you think tens of millions of Trump supporters are going to do to the GOP when it comes time for reelection to those cush Senate and House seats?

A sleeping giant has been awakened
I don’t think people are going to forgive and forget


55 posted on 03/10/2016 12:30:02 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Bratch
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.

56 posted on 03/10/2016 12:30:23 PM PST by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change!!)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Teddy is the Establishment’s, “Anti-Establishment”, candidate.


57 posted on 03/10/2016 12:30:44 PM PST by heights
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To: remaxagnt
He wasn’t endorsing anyone just analyzing

You're correct but it doesn't matter to the Trumpers.

Any slight reference by anyone against their candidate must immediately be met with derision and self-righteous outrage.

Sad to watch.

58 posted on 03/10/2016 12:31:05 PM PST by PROCON
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To: DestroyLiberalism
Arthur McGowan wrote:
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Cruz is the Bushie NWO Neocon globalist candidate.

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Ummm... Hardly.

Um, yes he is...

Cruz graduated from Princeton University in 1992, and from Harvard Law School in 1995. Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush on the 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving solicitor general, in Texas history. From 2004 to 2009, Cruz was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

59 posted on 03/10/2016 12:31:23 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: heights

I lost all respect for Rush after the day he declared old Rubes a conservative, in the same vein as Reagan. Spit

He can take his operation screw ball idiocy and keep filling heads full of mush, he revealed himself for the lame establishment player that he is - sickening, really truly sickening. Hope it backfires on him, and he gets to go hang out with Chuckie and company and talk about making illegals palatable to us uneducated masses.


60 posted on 03/10/2016 12:31:25 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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